Are you taking a roundabout route to talking about determinism? — DingoJones
Some things by their nature cannot exist prior to our Ability to “see” it. — DingoJones
If our fate already exists out there, waiting for us, then does everything exist at once? And if so does that mean no time?
Can the past affect the present, can individuals be affected by those from what we regard as the past, can the present have an affect on the past? Or is there nothing? — Brett
Really, I’m just going on a journey — Brett
What sort of things? — Brett
Sounds like you are talking about the notion of Eternalism, which is a modern version of Fatalism. Its scientific justification is based on the concept of Block Time, which is an inference from Einstein's Theory of Relativity. All I can say about that hypothetical possibility is, if you experience change (flowing time) in your world, and don't experience Stasis, then Eternalism is not real for you.If our fate already exists out there, waiting for us, then does everything exist at once? And if so does that mean no time? — Brett
If our fate already exists out there, waiting for us, then does everything exist at once? And if so does that mean no time? — Brett
Things that are created, like ideas or an iphone. It depends on what catagory of things you are getting at. — DingoJones
t I am unclear how you are getting from the fact that we seem to have some information about reality imprinted on our souls, to the conclusion that therefore everything exists at once. That doesn't seem to follow at all - it's a crazy leap. — Bartricks
So in summary, two people in the same spacetime location have different interpretations of what 'now' is. This is clearly contrary to presentism and is therefore supportive of an eternalist / 4d spacetime interpretation of time. — Devans99
:up:Why, then, do we experience 'becoming'? Somehow, we are traveling through the Everything Block along some particular path. — PoeticUniverse
Why, then, do we experience 'becoming'? Somehow, we are traveling through the Everything Block along some particular path. — PoeticUniverse
Reality is a space-time world. But Archetypes and Forms are "things" (ideas) that are assumed to have always existed. Yet we only have access to them in imagination. Real things are temporal. So they couldn't have always existed. Only unreal things can exist eternally.I’m not sure what you mean in relation to that post. — Brett
But Archetypes and Forms are "things" (ideas) that are assumed to have always existed. Yet we only have access to them in imagination. — Gnomon
Savonarola.an economy with at the core a usury-infested fiat bankstering system (run by depraved pagans -- ed) — alcontali
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