02-22-2011, 12:00 AM
Hi Nu Lang and Enchantra,
I just woke up with another view of time. I've never really looked at it quite like this.
Back to the idea of Allegory.
Time is an allegory. This does not mean that it is not real being that all things here below are allegories that tell us of things above.
Just as there is a point, let's call it the beginning of Time, where our minds cannot go, reason and logic fail. As they are both dependant upon cause and effect. Reason and logic must necessarily use things to compare to other things.
So just as we cannot define a world without Time
So also there is a point we cannot define God. The "Causeless Cause."
Just as we can see the effects of Time; erosion, age, growth, movement of planets, Sun and Moon, etc. We can measure these effects of Time but not really understand what Time is.
So also we can see the "effects of God", or His Creations. We can hold them in our hand, eat them stare at them measure them but not know what they are really, without explaining them in terms of other smaller creations, ie. atoms, molecules, sub atomic particles etc. Science can only explain things in terms of other things.
Now we have discussed the phenomena of Time not acting in "normal" ways in dreams and seeing future or past events, etc. Time as everything else acts differently on different planes. But appropriate to those planes. When we experience those things for the first time they seem very strange indeed. Being somewhere else in an instant. Knowing something you were not taught, etc.
But the same thing applies to Science in the last 50 years with the discovery of sub-atomic particles.
They are bordering on Mind now and it is effecting their experiements. Things are not behaving according to Newton's Laws anymore.
And though our minds cannot define or explain either Timelessness or God, I believe we can experience both.
Because not only is the difference between Time and Timelessness an allegory to teach us about our Source.
Timelessness is one of His/It's attributes. An unexplainable one.
Joh 3:8
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
I just woke up with another view of time. I've never really looked at it quite like this.
Back to the idea of Allegory.
Time is an allegory. This does not mean that it is not real being that all things here below are allegories that tell us of things above.
Just as there is a point, let's call it the beginning of Time, where our minds cannot go, reason and logic fail. As they are both dependant upon cause and effect. Reason and logic must necessarily use things to compare to other things.
So just as we cannot define a world without Time
So also there is a point we cannot define God. The "Causeless Cause."
Just as we can see the effects of Time; erosion, age, growth, movement of planets, Sun and Moon, etc. We can measure these effects of Time but not really understand what Time is.
So also we can see the "effects of God", or His Creations. We can hold them in our hand, eat them stare at them measure them but not know what they are really, without explaining them in terms of other smaller creations, ie. atoms, molecules, sub atomic particles etc. Science can only explain things in terms of other things.
Now we have discussed the phenomena of Time not acting in "normal" ways in dreams and seeing future or past events, etc. Time as everything else acts differently on different planes. But appropriate to those planes. When we experience those things for the first time they seem very strange indeed. Being somewhere else in an instant. Knowing something you were not taught, etc.
But the same thing applies to Science in the last 50 years with the discovery of sub-atomic particles.
They are bordering on Mind now and it is effecting their experiements. Things are not behaving according to Newton's Laws anymore.
And though our minds cannot define or explain either Timelessness or God, I believe we can experience both.
Because not only is the difference between Time and Timelessness an allegory to teach us about our Source.
Timelessness is one of His/It's attributes. An unexplainable one.
Joh 3:8
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.