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How "normal" do you think you are?
Cernunnos:
--- Quote from: Sox on 03 Jul 2008, 11:50 ---Every single person is different!
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Exactly! Normal is a setting on the dishwasher.
yelley:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 03 Jul 2008, 18:32 ---If it provides any comfort at all, you are a biological marvel. Your inner workings and functions are astounding. The fact that you are alive to read this makes you absolutely incredible. Don't fuck it up, you have a finite amount of time to enjoy this preposterously unlikely scenario we call life.
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. . . i'm kind of depressed now. i am spending my finite amount of time pipetting small amounts of liquid back and forth and talking to people in my computer. i should travel more.
IronOxide:
What about working towards a non-viable career?
I'm going to be a fucking dragonslayer.
fatty:
OFF-TOPIC
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 03 Jul 2008, 08:45 ---
--- Quote from: Slick on 03 Jul 2008, 05:18 ---
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 02 Jul 2008, 23:16 ---I don't believe in time. No, seriously.
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Pardon me, but what the hell do you mean?
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Certainly the earth continues to turn with out us having a way to mark it. The sun rises every day and I am getting older. It's not that I refuse to admit that, it's just our system of dividing it is arbitrary and I feel like the people around me don't understand that.
The thing is, all of this would be ok, if people still treated it like a useful tool, but people run their lives around it. Now we all have precise clocks and we all use them to gauge our lives.
I liken it to someone believing that there is a God, because that can be a useful way to try and make sense of the big abstract concepts in the world. But then compare that with someone who lets their religion rule their life (which some would argue is what a religion should do). It seems silly to someone on the outside that people don't eat meat and milk in the same meal, or won't eat pork, or wouldn't get married on a certain day because it is not an auspicious day according to the charts or would torture and kill people for not following the same arbitrary rules.
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I'm sorry, but this is just stupid. Likening the existence of Time to God is not really suitable. Time exists and it is considered a 'fundamental quantity'. God is a belief, an act of faith in believing in something that can not be proven.
What you are referring to is not time itself, but the metric quanitifcation of time being arbitary and 'meaningless'. In which case, the comparison to belief in God is slightly more appropriate. But when one person says they do not believe in God, it is assumed they do not believe in a higher 'spiritual' being. By admitting that you actually do think the measurement of time exists, you can not say you don't believe in it.
Furthermore, Slick's assertion is completely accurate, every form of measurement and communication is arbitary. Just because you don't like the effect of exact measurement of time, doesn't mean you can say it ceases to exist in your reality.
The way you have distinguished measurements of time such as seasons/years and hours/minutes has no grounds. If you eat when you are hungry and not because it's noon, that is still obviously affected by the time it takes for your body to have digested the last meal and let your brain know it's hungry.
If time actually does not exist in your reality, and my interpretation is completely wrong, I love to read an elaboration of what your alternative concept is.
Caspian:
I like to think that I'm relatively krazy (not the K instead of a C, thus showing just how unusual I am). But chances are I'm probably not that weird. I like some relatively weird music; I'm pretty antisocial and I guess a bit unfriendly, much of my value system is stuck in the 50s, and when I'm not working I tend to just go down south and spend my week off (I work in the mines on a fly in fly out thing, see) surfing by myself. I like to think I'm a weird dude, but fact is that I'm mostly likely just another faceless automaton (as we all are) consuming products like a bunch of sheep sitting around in a paddock chewing grass.
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