There’s no Tuesday

[PurpleTree]

You know it’s wild.

Obviously we know that the word Tuesday was made up at some point.

Allegedly the seven day week was made up in Mesopotamia b.c.

And the word Tuesday comes from norse god Tiw, which was an equivalent of Roman god Mars. And In Latin language there’s also still Mars used in Tuesday. Like in French Mercredi.

But that’s all a total story.

I used to hate Tuesday because it was the longest day in school early on and there were many days away from the weekend.

Oh no it’s Tuesday again.

It gives you the sense of repetition.

But there was never a Tuesday and there will never be a Tuesday. It’s just a concept.

 

 

There’s just this and there’s no word for it really.

[UnbornTao]

You're essentially asking what time is.

Edited Monday at 05:05 PM by UnbornTao

[PurpleTree]

7 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

You're asking what's time. 

I’m not asking anything 

[UnbornTao]

13 minutes ago, PurpleTree said:

I’m not asking anything 

Right.

We could ask: What is Now?

Edited Monday at 05:08 PM by UnbornTao

[PurpleTree]

3 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Right.

We could ask: What is Now?

No thanks 

Also no advice pls.

[Elliott]

I just want to know who was etching days into their wall like a prisoner for 5,000 years for us to know which day is the sabbath, Conservatives? Holy Day? Ugh priest-of-the-Chaldeans really could've destined us all to hell by reading one too many tick marks than he actually had in the wall of his mud-hut.

Edited Monday at 07:42 PM by Elliott

[Jehovah increases]

3 hours ago, PurpleTree said:

You know it’s wild.

Obviously we know that the word Tuesday was made up at some point.

Allegedly the seven day week was made up in Mesopotamia b.c.

And the word Tuesday comes from norse god Tiw, which was an equivalent of Roman god Mars. And In Latin language there’s also still Mars used in Tuesday. Like in French Mercredi.

But that’s all a total story.

I used to hate Tuesday because it was the longest day in school early on and there were many days away from the weekend.

Oh no it’s Tuesday again.

It gives you the sense of repetition.

But there was never a Tuesday and there will never be a Tuesday. It’s just a concept.

 

 

There’s just this and there’s no word for it really.

Exactly

[UnbornTao]

2 hours ago, PurpleTree said:

No thanks 

Also no advice pls.

Figured it could be looked at even more deeply.

How can it exist without the memory of a past? This takes us into the nature of time and the Now.

Anyway, branching off from your main assertion…

Edited Monday at 07:56 PM by UnbornTao

[PurpleTree]

30 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Figured it could be looked at even more deeply.

How can it exist without the memory of a past? This takes us into the nature of time and the Now.

Anyway, branching out from your main assertion…

I mean yea obviously saying Tuesday is a concept is the same as saying time and date is a concept. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Halp

[Eskilon]

How do you know？

[Nemra]

I was contemplating about the 'I' while walking in a park a few days ago and was trying to understand what it means to have had an experience of 'I' in the past, and it really hit me that people think of the past backwards, because the past is always based on the present, no matter how complicated our past is.

The past, as a reference to some present moment that supposedly happened, could not exist without the present.

The present and the past are qualitatively different. The present points to what's happening now, but the past points to an idea of an experience that doesn't exist now.

To say that something happened in the past tricks us into thinking that the past exists as an event alongside the present moment, as if it is its own thing.

However, the present happens before the past of that present moment could even be thought of.

Edited Monday at 08:50 PM by Nemra

[How to be wise]

This reminds me of the philosophical dilemma of "Last Thursday", which says that the entire universe was created last Thursday, along with all your memories and everybody else's memories. How can you disprove this? And of course you can't! 

[Mellowmarsh]

@PurpleTree The OP is correct there’s no Tuesday.

 

No thing can describe “what is”, or, every thing describes “ what is”

Same difference where there IS/ None.

 

 

[gettoefl]

So go ahead

choose day then.

Edited yesterday at 10:49 AM by gettoefl

[Mellowmarsh]

20 hours ago, PurpleTree said:

You know it’s wild.

Obviously we know that the word Tuesday was made up at some point.

Allegedly the seven day week was made up in Mesopotamia b.c.

And the word Tuesday comes from norse god Tiw, which was an equivalent of Roman god Mars. And In Latin language there’s also still Mars used in Tuesday. Like in French Mercredi.

But that’s all a total story.

I used to hate Tuesday because it was the longest day in school early on and there were many days away from the weekend.

Oh no it’s Tuesday again.

It gives you the sense of repetition.

But there was never a Tuesday and there will never be a Tuesday. It’s just a concept.

 

 

There’s just this and there’s no word for it really.

There’s no “real” Tuesday. And yet it’ll seem real within a conceptual framework. 

There is no access to “real-in-itself” because to even say “Tuesday exists” requires language, concepts, and cognition.

All human-conditioned.

You are not denying experience. You are denying unmediated access to ontology. 
 

[PurpleTree]

31 minutes ago, gettoefl said:

So go ahead

choose day then.

Every day is a PurpleTree Day 💜🌲

you know what i mean? 

[PurpleTree]

12 minutes ago, Mellowmarsh said:

There’s no “real” Tuesday. And yet it’ll seem real within a conceptual framework. 

There is no access to “real-in-itself” because to even say “Tuesday exists” requires language, concepts, and cognition.

All human-conditioned.

You are not denying experience. You are denying unmediated access to ontology. 
 

Obviously it’s useful to say we have an appointment on Tuesday or whatever.

 

But it then easily becomes stale and repetitive.

God fuccn Tuesday again and i hate my dumb job and my fat boss.

And god my dumb fat boss NEVER respects me.

and so on.

But it’s not true everything is not repetitive.

Everything is kind of new.

There‘s no real Tuesday and there has never been and there will never be.

[PurpleTree]

The 7 day week here and Tuesday could be seen as a metaphor for the Samsaric wheel.

A loop.

But it’s already illusory.

[UnbornTao]

18 hours ago, PurpleTree said:

I mean yea obviously saying Tuesday is a concept is the same as saying time and date is a concept. 

Do we actually grasp the significance of that, though? That's the key question.

Intellectually, we can understand it. It's relatively straightforward if one understands English. But what does our experience say in the matter? 

It's a fascinating contemplation. For example, we likely keep holding the present as a moment in time, and don't quite perceive the Now. Anything we point to - whether it happened years ago or a millisecond ago - seems to be process-based, which isn't the same as an experience of now. Now it's an absolute, and naming things is one of the functions of language, so things can be named; another thing is whether that is an accurate representation of what's so. It's still a representation and not the thing itself. 

Some food for thought, sorry if I sidetracked the thread.