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Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
The real is not made of thought, thought is an abstraction. It is as though the real has to be translated so us humans understand what is seen. What is seen is real, it does not have to be translated into words to be experienced. Life is not made of thought. However, the insanity that is seen in the 'world' is because humans believe they are their thoughts.
Reality is here but people are living in the past and future or somewhere else. They don't know they are here, they are lost.
Your life maybe what if? Mine is this is.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
The best way to tell if you are on the right track is how life feels and how you treat 'apparent' others.
How you feel is written all over your posts.
Are you happy, peaceful and content?
Life is sensation appearing as form. It is not what you know, it is how it feels.
Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
Originally posted by kisharninmah
reply to post by smithjustinb
I think whenever someone ponders these things that is an amazing and wonderful experience in and of itself. It's always good to question and wonder. I think that is part of the beauty, for me, of being alive. A few things though...
I don't think it's really time moving us forward but rather our perception of time. Time only seems linear to us. It is the fourth dimension...can we visualize the fourth dimension? We cannot. We can only see how it progresses.
I think we are apart of something divine or greater than ourselves, something to hard to conceive because of the abstract nature of it.
I don't think space manifests anything. What is space? We know that a small percentage of the universe is made up of what we know as visible matter, i.e. gas, dust, planets, stars, etc. The rest of the universe is made up dark matter and dark energy. What the heck does is that! Mind boggling isn't . I love this stuff.
Lastly, it is not space and time but rather space-time. The two are connected to each other as shown by Einstein and how light follows the curvature of space-time. Everything is energy, omnipresence...well by who (whom?) or by what..the collective unconscious, God, the universe itself. I read somewhere (and I can't remember where or maybe someone said it to me) that we are the Universe made manifest (now that I think it about, I could have seen that on a television show).
Time isn't the 4th Dimension, it's the 3rd of three dimensions, separate of the two other dimensions of Space, therefore, it is kNot Space-Time, it is Space & Time. However, when referring to that which occupies space-time, you can use that combination together but when speaking of Source, they are kNot bundled up together as one in the same.
You repeatedly say the werd "think" so how dew you think you can think without Time?
If you want to see Time, just think about it, since the Source of Time is Thought.
Ribbit
Originally posted by kisharninmah
You are either trying to get me to argue with you because, for some perverted reason, you get off on it. Or, you are just plain ignorant. Either way...yawn.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
In absolute reality there is no time or space.
The reality is that you are always here and now, it is impossible for you to move out of here or away from now. So where is time?
There are only ever appearances appearing presently. It's as though everything comes to the here and now, but they don't come from anywhere else.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
It is impossible for me to be in the now because I am the now.
Now is all there is and i am inseparable from it.
Now is one side of the coin and i am the other.
One coin.
Whatever appears here and now, whether it is a thought of the past or of the future, it can only ever appear now.
All thought, all everything appears now.
All 'things' that appear, appear and disappear presently.edit on 30-10-2011 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
"Hope is looking forward to the Illusion of Tomorrow in every moment of the Now." - Old Toad Proverb
Hope is what keeps unhappiness alive.
Hope says this is not enough, i want more.
Hope is the the mother of disatisfaction.
Hope says i am not happy.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
I would love to see you try to escape now. If you really believe you can then you are delusional. Not only delusional but it would mean that you haven't even tried to do it. Go on really, really try to step 2 seconds into the past.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
Pandora was told not to open the box under any circumstance. What she had been given was not enough for her, she WANTED more!!! Because she wanted more and opened the box, her prize was HOPE.
Forever now she can have hope, hope for more.
She will never be satisfied.
She will never be happy.
Happiness for her is somewhere or somewhen else.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
Ok, you stay there in your delusional past.
Happiness is now.