tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367161100956691682.post7071017002853703003..comments2024-01-28T09:52:30.550-08:00Comments on Arash's World: Trapped and Caught in the Loops of TimeArash Farzanehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000344680925876563noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367161100956691682.post-15341145740816935962013-04-01T08:17:35.575-07:002013-04-01T08:17:35.575-07:00Yes, Vincent, I have no problems with tautology he...Yes, Vincent, I have no problems with tautology here to drive home a point that many, both young or old, tend to overlook or ignore.<br /><br />Sure, we can approach time, life and death by eliminating or dissolving the fundamental culprit, the so-called ego. However, that would also take away our relations to and the stages of the past. <br /><br />Regarding the past I think that we are simply recreating images of its moments in our heads yet within the present; so the content of the past ends up being speculative. On that I agree with the idea of Platonia. It is the ego that sees and remembers the past embellishing or changing it, adding or subtracting from the overall picture.<br /><br />However, there is also another way of approaching time, in Kierkegaardian fashion. Then we have different and separate layers of time: The time we experience and the eternal segment outside of time. <br /><br />That is where Gods, angels, souls and dreams would live happily ever after. I have no problems accepting such a dimension where time is not invited, but my post dealt with the purely physical experience of time. Arash Farzanehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12000344680925876563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367161100956691682.post-41700930748810831222013-03-31T13:14:59.075-07:002013-03-31T13:14:59.075-07:00What you’ve done here is point out the tautology t...What you’ve done here is point out the tautology that everyone (or everything) mortal is mortal. It’s a reminder to the young perhaps.<br /><br />But I do see things differently, especially when you say “I see also very little connection between the teen and the adult, and my past does seem like a distant and vague dream.”<br /><br />Whether this is a difference between our ages, life-experiences or even our DNA I cannot tell. I’m 71, and yet I connect with all the ages I’ve passed through, as if I can time-travel and go back there, not just in memory of events but states of consciousness as well; though as I said in my latest post, such time-travel when it’s in-depth may not always be good for the health, for it can disconnect you from now.<br /><br />Your points about time’s inexorability are well made, but still I demur. It’s possible to dwell in eternity, where time does not rule. It can be done by disconnecting from the “I”, or rather, if I may attempt to use Sanskrit terms correctly, recognizing that the Atman (self) is actually part of Brahman (All).<br /><br />I doubt if one can stay as an actor on the world’s stage without an ego, because this sense of “I” is essential for our daily interactions, to survive every kind of danger and retain a sense of identity. <br /><br />Nevertheless, we can have moments outside time, wherein we are no longer subject to its dictatorial rule, even though aging continues. Death of the body (and mind too, for it is tied to the body) draws ever closer. My cheeks have gone hollow, my hair is falling out, various joints are starting to fail, energy and short-term memory too. But timeless consciousness says, “So what?” I’ve partaken of life, participated in the infinite creativity which brought into being all the productions of time. “Eternity is in love with the productions of time”, said William Blake.<br />Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.com