The Illusion of Time (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, June 18, 2010, 22:02 (5059 days ago) @ dhw

dhw, -You gave me something to think about, but I'll counter the argument with something that I bet you've already considered. -In discussing stars--you (unwittingly) allow for the exact fallacy I was worried about in the original post. You can look at a star through a telescope and see it as it was only an hour previously. But the light you see even then is not reality. The reality for however long ago the light was emitted, but even with that; a star is much more than just light. So even in your example you're not getting the star in itself, are you?-We can even take another tact here; every photon emitted is itself--a measurement. As each successive photon hits your eye, either naked or via telescope--is a measurement of something that once was, long ago. The past--does not exist. Only our measurements of the past exist. To illustrate this further, ask yourself this question: "What does that bit of light actually tell me?"-Reality--for each of us--is ONLY where we are at this very moment in time.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"