Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

Does anybody really care?

The idea of time may mean different things to different people, depending on their perspectives or other variables of circumstance.

time or atleast what we call time is something we created

Well, here it's 11:36 PM 😕

hehe

Time is something that is only measurable to those who pay attention to it.

1:45 PM 🙂

I don't like watches...I like sundials...😄

Our lives seem to take place in the perpetual present. Life can be viewed as a dynamic activity that disappears as it happens. From that point of view, you could say that there is no time like the present, no present at all, merely the memory of one. In the course of our lives we invent the past as a source of the now. We invent time as a background in which the past, present and predicted future take place.

Time exists at least partially within the context of our cognition.

ooh nice

This is why we need a philosophy forum.... ✅

Originally posted by Storm
Our lives seem to take place in the perpetual present. Life can be viewed as a dynamic activity that disappears as it happens. From that point of view, you could say that there is no time like the present, no present at all, merely the memory of one. In the course of our lives we invent the past as a source of the now. We invent time as a background in which the past, present and predicted future take place.

Time exists at least partially within the context of our cognition.

<~~~~~~~~~Short attention span.

* Points up * Oooh a birdie, tweet tweet.

Originally posted by Storm
Our lives seem to take place in the perpetual present ... you could say that there is no time like the present, no present at all

I admit to being a little confused by these statements. Don't they contradict each other?

And we do need a philosophy forum.

Originally posted by Storm
Our lives seem to take place in the perpetual present. Life can be viewed as a dynamic activity that disappears as it happens. From that point of view, you could say that there is no time like the present, no present at all, merely the memory of one. In the course of our lives we invent the past as a source of the now. We invent time as a background in which the past, present and predicted future take place.

Time exists at least partially within the context of our cognition.

Life is a series of moments that occur in the PRESENT. We look to the future only because we can. We can peer into the past by recreating events in history. However, the only thing that should matter to a person is the present, hence my previous post.

Time exists to those who acknowledge it.

Originally posted by TheProgramSmith
However, the only thing that should matter to a person is the present, hence my previous post.

That seems like a destructive philosophy. Those who don't consider the future are doomed to regret it, and those who do not consider the past cannot learn.

hehe

Originally posted by Gregory
That seems like a destructive philosophy. Those who don't consider the future are doomed to regret it, and those who do not consider the past cannot learn.

You cannot move forward if you are to busy focussing on the past.

sure you can, historians do it all the time

Well, time is relative, and there is no such thing as absolute time, so no, nobody really knows what time it is.

Originally posted by TheProgramSmith
You cannot move forward if you are to busy focussing on the past.

The present and future are meaningless without the past. Every thing you do, you do because of something you did in the pase. A trivial example: This semester, I took a religion course with Dr. Johnson and enjoyed it emensely. So next semester, I am taking another religion course with him. If I had not taken the first course in the past, I would not be taking the second course in the future.