Time as now and nothing else

What do we know about time apart from the ever changing now?

We think of time as linear progression, but is it? There is an underlying current to reality, the potential, the release of the potential, and the expression that shapes further potential.

Time is an illusion. We measure cycles, which are an inherent expression of reality, but are the cycles everything?

Potential, Release and Expression are inversely proportional and happening always in the background. It is not a cycle, it’s a balance. The balance leads to coherence, and coherence is everything of distinction that we observe.

Distinction is in the eye of the beholder. There is no indistinction, only that which we consider indistict. The universe cares not about indistinction, everything is distinct. There is no chaos, only unrealised order.

Discuss.

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@niallm

There is a single constant stream of infinite or eternity, everything is merely expressions out of that. Infinity or eternity is just a constant reoccurring feedback loop.

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The future given to prophets that aren’t false prophets.

It is the whole cycle that has no beginning and no end. They subsume all the cycles that have a beginning.

If you think it is balance, what knocked it off balance to where all these other cycles are happening? That’s not very whole.

Restless until we rest in them.

Like how they say it all began with a gradual well intended set up but will END with a big bang because “now” is always taken the wrong way.

Let there be light… and that was before there were actually lights (or eyeballs).

How do you communicate stuff to people who don’t have the language for it yet?

Quote where the “end”ing is characterized such as you have presented it.

Not understood presently but understood in retrospect for those yet to come.

Do you accept that there are portions of time within an unconfined cycle where some eras have a beginning and an end?

Yes.

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Thanks for coming down to earth by mentioning this. Do we exist in a reality of the universe or in the universe of a reality?

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As do I. And I propose there is no indistinction with the matter. And that we furthermore currently exist in a more favorable “now” in the present era partly due to the belief we have that people in general always are given the opportunity to align their minds with the concept “the whole cycle that has no beginning and no end.” And the opportunity is ubiquitous.

May the end wonderfully come to you. Maybe it’ll be tomorrow. (I’m feeling the Foo Fighters for a second)

which… means… what exactly?

Are you saying everything has configuration? By whom or in the image of whom?

Well, name something which is indistinct.

Same thing. Reality is the universe and the universe is reality. I don’t believe there are “parallel” universes, only this one.

Can’t if I agree with you. You first.

But if we agree, what do you do with:

If nothing is indistinct, the whole cycle has no potential—it is pure act/expression—and “further” it cannot go. (Aquinas—NOT a reduction/collapse—the maximally greatest irreducible complexity.)

Potential is a distinction.

So you don’t think of the whole ontologically prior to what we experience changing as an undifferentiated blob.

So NOW is not all there is (for beings subject to time), because our limited now has potential.

You’re not an A Theorist anymore.

(Sorry.,.you said you didn’t want to talk about omnitemporality.)

Yeah, keep me out of your c-series Ichthus, I’ve already explained why. What God does is none of my business. I can only attempt to define reality as experienced by us mortals.

Not and hold on to the stuff I just highlighted in your brain.

Nope. I have safety mechanisms to shield from that.

Tinfoil hat? Good luck with that.