[MD] Reality Lies Outside Linear Time

[Platt Holden]

> Hi Platt
> 
> I used to say that the past and the future are figments of the
> imagination.
> I still say it today; there is only the eternal present.
> 
> Alas, I bound by time have to go sleep now for an early appointment
> tomorrow. Does it not seem that those who live by the clock will die by
> the
> clock ?
> 
> Thanks

Hi Khoo, 

Yes. That's the paradox. Now is eternal, but you and I, individuals, must 
change -- from awake to asleep, from life to death. For each of us, 
individually, the day will come when the day won't come. But now is 
forever.

Best,
Platt 


> 
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Platt Holden
> <plattholden at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hi Khoo,
> >
> > Reality is a paradox. The present never changes, but everything that
> > changes changes in the present.
> >
> > So long as there are changes there are individuals changing.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Platt
> >
> > > I would like to reply to at least two threads this weekend, when I
> get
> > > past
> > > some meetings tomorrow and some work laid out for me.
> > >
> > > But before then I want to catch this thought before it flies away.
> > >
> > > Take Time. Time is percieved as linear because we have clocks
> constructed
> > > to
> > > measure it. We have it around us everyday, embedded in our
> computers,
> > > our
> > > phones, every manmade device around us.
> > >
> > > Yet it is the approximation of changes that we observe around us when
> we
> > > look at the world in an empirical sense. The seasons change, the day
> > > transforms into night, the world around us manifests changes every
> > > moment,
> > > every second and we try to capture the change through our invention
> of
> > > time.
> > >
> > >
> > > Since we think we percieve change as linear, as a chain of cause and
> > > effect,
> > > particularly when in isolation, we think therefore that time is
> linear.
> > > But
> > > it is a construct of time that we have invented ourselves, manmade
> so
> > > that
> > > we think through this device, we can control the environment aorund
> us.
> > >
> > > The reality is that Time is an artificial manmade pattern that is a
> > > result
> > > of our empiricism; our objective worldview; where we as the subject
> view
> > > the
> > > world around us as the object.
> > > The reality is that cause and effect is only linear when viewed in
> > > isolation, when we have taken a laboratory experiment and suspended
> all
> > > other causes and effects, save the one we choose to observe. The
> reality
> > > is
> > > that cause and effect, and "Time" itself spreads out as would a
> ripple
> > > affecting everything in its path, every molecule in its lattice at
> the
> > > same
> > > time.
> > >
> > > In reality, time is only linear but multilinear and omnilinear and
> > > happening
> > > all at once and everywhere. When we have mastered what time really
> is,
> > > we
> > > have then mastered the universe. Which then opens up what others
> regard
> > > as
> > > mysticism.
> > >
> > > Subject Object Metaphysics has its roots in this framework of linear
> > > time.
> > > The Reality, the Metaphysics of Quality if you like,  that lies
> outside
> > > this
> > > worldview shows us an interlocked and interrelated uinverse where we
> are
> > > all
> > > connected and all the same at the same time. And the secret to the
> time
> > > machine; or a machine that transcends Time.
> > >
> > > The idea of an individual has no meaning or sense in such a world
> view.
> > >
> > > Khoo Hock Aun
> 

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