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Thread: Past, present or future..?

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    Default Past, present or future..?

    If there is no such thing as the future because it hasn't happened yet, how can someone travel back in time to where we are..? How could we travel forward in time when that time doesn't exist..? It hasn't happened yet. On top of that, there is no past either and we could never travel there because of that very reason. We only think of the past because our brains remember what was the present. There is no past and there is no future. The Sex Pistols said it so well


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    Perhaps there is no time and everything is happening at once. Anyway, how can we say we are travelling forward, nothing indicates a direction? Time on the human level is just our yardstick for perceived passing of events.

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    Yep, it is simply the interval between events on our human level. Regarding direction though, current thinking is why does time only move forward..? One day moves to the next and we get older as does everything else. None of us get younger so the only direction appears to be forward. Why..?

    Current thinking also indicates that all we have is what is happening right now which brought me to my original thought.

    What the hell.

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    Geoff, I also get your point. Nothing indicates a direction except a clock ticking away. Without a clock how would time have a direction..? Very good point.

    A few thousand years ago human time would have had no direction.

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    There is no present that can be experienced. By the time anything registers, it has already passed.

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    Surely the only way to travel into the future would be to travel faster than the speed of light, therefore arriving before you set off.

    I think the only likely destination is insanity, as our feeble human brains need this 'time construct' in order to make sense of our world.

    I don't know why I'm bothering to type this, as the recipients don't exist, and this post comes from your past, which doesn't exist either. I'm more inclined to believe that everything is happening everywhere, all the time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    There is no present that can be experienced. By the time anything registers, it has already passed.
    But there is no past as it only exists as a memory in our heads and our concept of the future only exists through anticipation. In real terms the future does not exist and neither does the past. That can only leave us with about three seconds of reality..?

    Travel to the past cannot happen for that very reason. It is not real. Travel to the future cannot happen because it is not real either. It hasn't happened and when it does it is the present.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    I think the only likely destination is insanity, as our feeble human brains need this 'time construct' in order to make sense of our world.
    Maybe why some of us cling on to religion, to make sense of the World and its finality..?

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