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

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 00:26 (4971 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Tell you what, I can do one better. I can give you a practical example of how we are each correct. Study the way an old movie film works. Then, imagine having the same movie(i.e. locations, actors,scenes,etc) recorded from a million different camera angles, maybe even a few cameras that are recording something completely unrelated. Then ask yourself a couple of questions.
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• Are all of these movies real?
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• Do the events in them exist anymore?
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• Are the films one continues stream, or a million instances strung together by the something we can not see within the framework of the movie?
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• Do each of the different camera angles reflect reality?
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• How can each of the different perspectives be real if they are all different?
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• etc etc etc
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> I am not implying that one 'now' to the next is not strung together, simply that I do not think that the framework for this mechanism is human's conception of 'Time'.-I don't see how the question of "framework" plays in. We are humans. We only have a "human" conception of time. We have no knowledge of any other; and moreso, our conception of time is false. Remember the last great experience you had? Maybe it was a roller coaster, or the thrill of a kiss. But that event is only in your mind, and as much as you will it to be, that moment cannot be revisted in actuality; the past is the past, and is gone. The future is forever uncertain; but at all times, we have "now." I will repeat and answer your questions here:-> [*]Are all of these movies real?
Yes. 
> [*]Do the events in them exist anymore?
No. 
> [*]Are the films one continues stream, or a million instances strung together by the something we can not see within the framework of the movie?-They are a million instances strung together by the editor and director, and our brains interpret them as a continuous stream. -> [*]Do each of the different camera angles reflect reality?
They are a recording of different angles of the same reality. 
> [*]How can each of the different perspectives be real if they are all different?
I don't see why this question is here; each camera captured a different angle of the same events.

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