joya250
I initially started posting this under the Talking Tarot thread about distant future and reading tarot.... but I thought it kinda deviated into something else... so I figured I'd post it here.
is all time considered a circle because we can THINK about past, present, and future all at once?
Because I'm having a real hard time believing that everything is happening now. As Silencedogood said in another thread, if that were so, then Alexander the Great would still be out there somewhere conquering the world. Well, that can't possibly happen... I mean, he couldn't be doing it NOW --- because after it was done, there was a certain outcome that affected history and as a result, has shaped in some way, our current lives.
so, obviously an event occurred and then the event ended. One could argue that the repercussions of the event are still being felt, and in that sense the event is still "happening"..... one could also argue that because we are aware that the event happened and we can think about it, we can imagine what it must have been like, we can meditate on it.... because it is "accessible", then it still exists. BUT ..... There is a hard reality to time. You cannot deny that. .... and I think when people say that time is a circle, or rather, non-linear, it's kind of a metaphor for the ability to reflect and project on past, present, and future events.
..... and, the same could be said for death. Supposedly we live "forever".... and that may be so, but everyone has a concieved notion of how that will be... well, why can't it simply be that we will "turn to dust" and nourish the ground, that in-turn nourishes a sprouting plant, which feeds an animal, which feeds a man... etc., the entire cycle of life. What if all of the "ancient teachings" on this subject that say live is immortal were trying to make THAT point, the circle of life point...
..... but us humans have clung to it and inflated it to something more.... into afterlife, and angels, and reincarnation, etc. I am not denying people's remembrances of previous lives, or whatnot, but who is to say those are their memories -- and not cellular memories of someone or something else, which had been recomposited over and over..... this process of each life as a lesson to be learned, from which we evolve higher and higher as "spiritual beings" ..... where did THAT idea come from?
so, what are you thoughts about this? I can't wait to hear! joy
is all time considered a circle because we can THINK about past, present, and future all at once?
Because I'm having a real hard time believing that everything is happening now. As Silencedogood said in another thread, if that were so, then Alexander the Great would still be out there somewhere conquering the world. Well, that can't possibly happen... I mean, he couldn't be doing it NOW --- because after it was done, there was a certain outcome that affected history and as a result, has shaped in some way, our current lives.
so, obviously an event occurred and then the event ended. One could argue that the repercussions of the event are still being felt, and in that sense the event is still "happening"..... one could also argue that because we are aware that the event happened and we can think about it, we can imagine what it must have been like, we can meditate on it.... because it is "accessible", then it still exists. BUT ..... There is a hard reality to time. You cannot deny that. .... and I think when people say that time is a circle, or rather, non-linear, it's kind of a metaphor for the ability to reflect and project on past, present, and future events.
..... and, the same could be said for death. Supposedly we live "forever".... and that may be so, but everyone has a concieved notion of how that will be... well, why can't it simply be that we will "turn to dust" and nourish the ground, that in-turn nourishes a sprouting plant, which feeds an animal, which feeds a man... etc., the entire cycle of life. What if all of the "ancient teachings" on this subject that say live is immortal were trying to make THAT point, the circle of life point...
..... but us humans have clung to it and inflated it to something more.... into afterlife, and angels, and reincarnation, etc. I am not denying people's remembrances of previous lives, or whatnot, but who is to say those are their memories -- and not cellular memories of someone or something else, which had been recomposited over and over..... this process of each life as a lesson to be learned, from which we evolve higher and higher as "spiritual beings" ..... where did THAT idea come from?
so, what are you thoughts about this? I can't wait to hear! joy