What is Time?

[Sempiternity]

To answer what is Time, one must answer "what is Now?" and "what is God?". 

What is God?  God is a singular infinite sentient field of Consciousness.  God is infinite intelligence, eternal Consciousness. God creates itself to be Reality. 

God is completely sovereign.  Everything has to be present within God's consciousness. There can't be anything outside of God's mind, or outside of God's consciousness, because God's mind is infinite and everything. It's complete self-knowing and self-understanding. If it is not being experienced in God’s consciousness, it can not exist. God has 100 percent direct access to the all of Consciousness. And the only thing in God’s consciousness is this, this right Now. Absolute experience. Absolute Being.

What is Now? Now is God, which is infinite intelligence. It's creating the all of reality right Now, the story of what this first person perspective (human) is, what it's thinking, what it's feeling, the story of how it got here, the story of what it's doing and why, the story of what it did 10 minutes ago or 1 day ago or 1 year ago, all right Now. Stories upon stories upon stories, backstories to the backstories, all created Now.

How can it create all that all right Now? It is Infinite Intelligence, of course it can create all that, all of existence, right Now. It doesn't need infinite "thens" (history/the past), when it can create it all right Now.

And that's irrelevant, because God cannot be two things. Nothing can exist outside of God, because God is everything. So God cannot be then and now. God can only be Now. If God was then, then would be now. So it can only be Now. Time is "other". Then and someday, are concepts created Now.

God has to be something, as it is all that there is. It can be infinite formless consciousness, or it can make itself into form (Reality), make itself forget what it is and that it created it, so it can get lost in the dream, thinking it's real, so it can experience what "other" is like. This right Now, this is what it is creating. It can be anything, but this is what it is. God has to exist precisely as it exists right now. And if it existed as something else, it would exist that way, not this way, and it would have to be that way, rather than this way. This right Now is the only thing that exists. As this right Now is God. 

Now will always be Now, the eternal Now. When God is "awake", being infinite Being, omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, there is no "Time". "Time" is a construct of the illusion of reality, so reality seems real. When God is awake from being lost in the dream of reality, Infinite Consciousness experiences itself as Eternal. 

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What are the benefits of Now being all that there is? 

This brings your world down to just this, what is in Direct Experience. Just what is Now. No Past, No Future, only Now. You don’t have to worry about anything outside of Now.

Sure, there is still your life, and everything in it. The people in your life, your relationships, your work, your passions, you may still have struggles. You still will be working towards a future. But, bringing your world down to just Now, whatever it is Now, is now more manageable, yes?

There is no Past that dictates Now. You can be completely free from your Past. The entirety of your Past is fantasy, is concept. Your Past can only exist Now, as a thought, and can you choose your thoughts, so you can choose your Past. You can create the stories that serve you best. Who you are Now is completely independent, as Now is all that there is.

Experience this present moment as though it's existed, by itself, independent of any prior moments that you might be imagining, because prior moments are fantasy. There are no prior moments. Just this, as it right Now.  

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Awareness can only happen Now. Being can only happen Now. Consciousness can only happen Now. 

Direct experience is equal to Being, is equal to Awareness, is equal to Consciousness, is equal to Reality, is equal to God, is equal to Now, is equal to All that there is.

It's all One, it's all synonymous for God.

God = Now.

So Now is all that there is. 

[PurpleTree]

Time is money, boiii

[PurpleTree]

Otherwise i agree with you.

But instead of Now you could call it *immediacy* Which i’ve heard speakers say and i think it’s more fitting than Now

[Breakingthewall]

Time is the measure of change, and change is existence

[Behind20]

Calculation. Time is a calculation. 

Edited August 15 by Behind20

[Florian]

The concept that divides states 

[Sempiternity]

14 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

Time is the measure of change, and change is existence

Change implies then and now. Reality can have the appearance of things moving, but it's still only Now. To have change, there needs to be a past for which you're comparing to Now (*see detailed explanation above). That past can only exist as a thought, and that thought can only exist Now. 

[Sempiternity]

Look at a TV screen. There's only what is currently on the screen. There is no past or future to what's on the screen, there's just what's rendered on the screen Now. The only way there can be a "past" to what's on the screen, is if you imagine it as a thought. Reality is like this, just what's being rendered Now.  

[Elliott]

1 minute ago, Sempiternity said:

Look at a TV screen. There's only what is currently on the screen. There is no past or future to what's on the screen, there's just what's rendered on the screen Now. The only way there can be a "past" to what's on the screen, is if you imagine it as a thought. Reality is like this, just what's being rendered Now.  

Everything is already rendered. Infinity is.

[Sempiternity]

9 minutes ago, Elliott said:

Everything is already rendered. Infinity is.

Well, yes, everything Now is already rendered and is infinity. 

From above: Everything has to be present within God's consciousness. There can't be anything outside of God's mind, or outside of God's consciousness, because God's mind is infinite and everything. It's complete self-knowing and self-understanding. If it is not being experienced in God’s consciousness, it does not exist. God has 100 percent direct access to the all of Consciousness. And the only thing in God’s consciousness is this, this right Now.

[Elliott]

14 minutes ago, Sempiternity said:

Well, yes, everything Now is already rendered and is infinity. 

From above: Everything has to be present within God's consciousness. There can't be anything outside of God's mind, or outside of God's consciousness, because God's mind is infinite and everything. It's complete self-knowing and self-understanding. If it is not being experienced in God’s consciousness, it does not exist. God has 100 percent direct access to the all of Consciousness. And the only thing in God’s consciousness is this, this right Now.

Think of it like this

Is there a beginning and end, to time, to everything? Of course not, right? Logically, no, if anything exists then it doesn't make sense nothing will exist one day.

Therefore, if there is no end, then infinity is obviously the case, but also, there's obviously no time, so infinity is right now, Every combination, forward and back, every scenario, every multi-verse, and the inverse of all of that, exists(and doesn't exist)

[Sempiternity]

39 minutes ago, Elliott said:

Think of it like this

Is there a beginning and end, to time, to everything? Of course not, right? Logically, no, if anything exists then it doesn't make sense nothing will exist one day.

Therefore, if there is no end, then infinity is obviously the case, but also, there's obviously no time, so infinity is right now, 

 

I agree with everything here.

 

40 minutes ago, Elliott said:

Every combination, forward and back, every scenario, every multi-verse, and the inverse of all of that, exists(and doesn't exist)

But don't necessarily agree with this part. God is Consciousness, and Consciousness is the same as Being, and being is what is Now. Being =Awareness=Consciousness=Direct experience=Reality= God=All that there is=Now. Anything is possible. God can create itself to be anything. But if it's not within Consciousness (which is God), those possibilities remain possibilities, and not God creating itself to be that possibility. 

[samijiben]

Time is an illusion. 

Time is obligation, the notion of need, of having to be somewhere, someone, some time, at the expense of something else.

Time is the memory of what did definitely happen, the expectation that something more is to come, something that will happen!

Time is the clock tick-ticking away, your death rapidly approaching. Time is the antithesis of being true to your absolute nature, that is, by resorting to your clumsy thoughts that tell of something else, a story that is not real and happening about.

Time is the consequence of having entered this damned superstition of a world in the first place, this circus of many sorts, a clownshow, to be sure:

 

Stop and look at what is beyond time, and so shall you realize the groundless illusion that is Time, that is your mind doing its imaginary business, its ceaseless projection of self onto other and other onto self, and around in circles if goes:

 

Past, present, and Future!

[PurpleTree]

1 hour ago, samijiben said:

Time is an illusion. 

Time is obligation, the notion of need, of having to be somewhere, someone, some time, at the expense of something else.

Time is the memory of what did definitely happen, the expectation that something more is to come, something that will happen!

Time is the clock tick-ticking away, your death rapidly approaching. Time is the antithesis of being true to your absolute nature, that is, by resorting to your clumsy thoughts that tell of something else, a story that is not real and happening about.

Time is the consequence of having entered this damned superstition of a world in the first place, this circus of many sorts, a clownshow, to be sure:

 

Stop and look at what is beyond time, and so shall you realize the groundless illusion that is Time, that is your mind doing its imaginary business, its ceaseless projection of self onto other and other onto self, and around in circles if goes:

 

Past, present, and Future!

Now is still kind of in time.

Like here needs a there.

That’s why immediacy fits better imo.

[Elliott]

7 hours ago, Sempiternity said:

But don't necessarily agree with this part. God is Consciousness, and Consciousness is the same as Being, and being is what is Now. Being =Awareness=Consciousness=Direct experience=Reality= God=All that there is=Now. Anything is possible. God can create itself to be anything. But if it's not within Consciousness (which is God), those possibilities remain possibilities, and not God creating itself to be that possibility. 

Think of time being a concept, that it doesn't actually exist. Now, consider infinity IS. If there is no end, then obviously every scenario forward and back, in every different color and mood, will happen right, it's infinity, but consider time just being illusion, that means everything already is.

There is no creating, that would be time.

Consider your 'creator' creating everything you can think of,  would he then just quit and never do anything ever again, no, there's no end, he would do infinity, absolutely everything, forward and back. But, it already is, because time is obviously an illusion, infinity IS. It's hard to grasp.

It's illusory to think what you're experiencing 'now' and 'later' or 'before' are at different instances.

Edited August 15 by Elliott