How do you perceive time?

[ayuri]

2 forms of time travel that I have come up with
1. the universe repeats and you travel through stasis(the whole end of the world back to big bang thing)
2. alternate universes and you travel through space(for every choice and every millisecond is a new universe. think of it like evolution the same animal can evolve differently depending on influence.)
I don't really believe in fate what I do is what I do even if it is set for me to happen it is still my choice.
and in more of a joking matter I kinda believe in fate and that it has a cruel sense of humor.

 

[eggy32]

Time is that thing that isn't really there. Nobody's ever seen it or even properly studied it. I don't care about it because it'll be the same all the time and i won't care about it until someone invests a way to travel backwards and forward (at a different pace than current) through it.

 

[Manicotti]

Time is linear, and fate is a bullshit excuse for poor/nonexistent personal accountability.

 

[ioxles]

Time is a word we use to describe the perception of change from one moment to the next. Time, does not exsist as a force or law like gravity or motion, but is closer in many ways to a belief.

Science would disagree with you.

.... Science would disagree? Pshaw and waffle, Science would strive to test and prove through experimentation and through a constant process of application and discovery construct a view and ultimately, a truth.

Where there is a misunderstanding about time, is that it is a measurement, like a ruler.

 

[Simskiller]

Think for a second. If someone invented time travel, wouldn't they have come back to at least this time?

What's so great about this time anyway? Besides there is no such thing as the "past" only memories of such things that have happened. If time travel is invented one day anyway, we would only be able to move FORWARD in time due to Suspended animation or freezing (to our perception) so we would "jump" through time, while the rest of the world continues on around us.

OT: Time is constantly moving forward at a rate of 1 minute per 60 seconds. Make of that what you will.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Ok this doesn't make sense. The title state about time and yet the Op is talking about destiny?

If this is about fate then yes I believe in fate. I not sure what to say about the whole time or time travel (there are too many different theories for me to choose).

Oh you can just click on "edit" to edit it again and word of advice copy and paste your text into ms word or something (even though you should proof read again).

 

[eggy32]

Was I supposed to mention fate too? damn.

Fate: Pointless to think about. If my path is predetermined then who cares? I'll make choices but I won't know they've been determined.
If fate doesn't exist, nothing changes. I will make choices knowing they weren't previously determined and I'll never know the difference that would have existed if fate did or did not exist.

 

[Thespian]

Fate is a human invention to remind us that we are so god damn important all manner of deities need to sit down and think damn hard about what's going to happen in our lives and when, and you can't change it because these things are about us, and thus far too important to be changed.

And Time... To be hones,t in my thoroughly unqualified opinion, I don't think time moves at all. It's more like a stationary length. It's not moving forward, because it's already there. It's everywhere. We occupy different sections of it, however small, and we don't move either. And because Time as a huge, ever present thing that spans from one end of eternity to the other, it is completely irrelevant to our day to day lives. Thus, we break it up into small little bite-size chunks that we say are "running out", so that we may get a grip on what it is. It's doing this that gives the illusion that Time is something that can be traveled through.

Thinks me, anywho.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly, wobbly, timey-wimey...stuff.

What do I win?

A gif!

... Probably. I can't find it right now.

 

[Geekiest]

Time is simultaneous. We perceive it as linear only because of the limitations of our biology.

 

[Hatchet90]

It's 7:10. What else do you want from me?

OT: Did you know that time moves faster when you're at a higher altitude?

 

[Jroo wuz heer]

Think for a second. If someone invented time travel, wouldn't they have come back to at least this time?

why do you think insane asylums are so crowded?

 

[zehydra]

I believe that we may not have free will, and that everything we do is predetermined, but that shouldn't affect how we live our lives. I guess you could call that fate; but it is impossible to predict.

 

[blackhunt40]

According to my physics teacher, time is something that clocks measure, because its such an arbitrary unit, its more or less impossible to define it any other way.

 

[Hatchet90]

Think for a second. If someone invented time travel, wouldn't they have come back to at least this time?

why do you think insane asylums are so crowded?

1. There are no insane asylums any more (but I do love 12 Monkeys)
2. There is no palpable future, we are creating it right now at this moment. Time is passing, another second created, people can't come back from the future because it hasn't happened yet. We may discover time travel one day, but only in the non-existant future will we come back.

 

[TWRule]

The OP seems to be asking whether we believe in free will in a round-a-bout sort of way. Yes, I believe in free will, and not in "fate" in the traditional sense. Not everything that happens to me is "luck." It's the result of: my spontaneous choices + the spontaneous choices of all other sentient beings + the facticity of nature = what happens to me.

Time is a construct of perception; a sensibility of the human mind. I use it as a linear function like everyone else to measure calendar time, but I realize that such a model is not an accurate representation of the phenomenon of time.

 

[FrostyChick]

W-what? I would answer this but that was so poorly written, it's unbelievable.

God... even the last drunken news post I did in the Hugs user-group was more focused than the OP. >.>

OT: Well in my experience one thing happens, then another, then another.
In 100% of cases things that I have experienced happen rely on things that happened before.
So therefore I perceive time as linear. How we perceive time does not matter. All that matters is what we do with that time.

 

[Jroo wuz heer]

Think for a second. If someone invented time travel, wouldn't they have come back to at least this time?

why do you think insane asylums are so crowded?

1. There are no insane asylums any more (but I do love 12 Monkeys)
2. There is no palpable future, we are creating it right now at this moment. Time is passing, another second created, people can't come back from the future because it hasn't happened yet. We may discover time travel one day, but only in the non-existant future will we come back.

there are insane asylums in most places, but they are never called that officialy

and that was more to say "would anyone believe a time traveller?" than to explain a crowded insane asylum

 

[King Crab]

time is a dimension, not a measurement.

fate is bollocks.

I could write more, but minecraft