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Hey Jiz, let's get some Retro updates in here.
Well, you're the go-to guy now to find out which JC users are dead at any given point in time*.
(The phrase "point in time" is both redundant and nonsensical, since time is a mental construct only, and does not exist -- there are no "points in time", as there is no continuum of time in which there could exist any individual points. There is only the timeless now, ever-changing, ever-still, whole and inseparable.)
(The phrase "point in time" is both redundant and nonsensical, since time is a mental construct only, and does not exist -- there are no "points in time", as there is no continuum of time in which there could exist any individual points. There is only the timeless now, ever-changing, ever-still, whole and inseparable.)
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Re: Hey Jiz, let's get some Retro updates in here.
It is neither. It is a reasonable concept and has a well-known and established meaning.pinback wrote:(The phrase "point in time" is both redundant and nonsensical,
Wrong.pinback wrote:since time is a mental construct only, and does not exist -- there are no "points in time", as there is no continuum of time in which there could exist any individual points.
We are beings having consciousness and do have the capacity to perceive time and the passing thereof of ourselves through it.pinback wrote:There is only the timeless now, ever-changing, ever-still, whole and inseparable.)
In a highly technical and theoretical sense you may, to some extent be partially correct, however in the real world we often simplify concepts and some people do it without realizing it. And as a reasonably educated person you should know this. What the usual person means when they refer to "time" is not the concept of the fourth dimension, but the measurement of time conducted either as "duration" or "interval."
A "point in time" is an identification of a specific reference to the end of an interval expressed in hours, minutes and seconds from the zero value at the last occurrence of the event identified by the name "midnight," where the clock is presumed to reset all values less than a day to the value zero.
Time is a relative concept, for most of us, expressed as the interval or duration since the last event of midnight for the region we live in, or, if they choose, the local time at Greenwich, England, which is known as Universal Coordinated Time.
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Re: Hey Jiz, let's get some Retro updates in here.
We are beings having consciousness and do have the capacity to perceive time and the passing thereof of ourselves through it.
In a highly technical and theoretical sense you may, to some extent be partially correct, however in the real world we often simplify concepts and some people do it without realizing it. And as a reasonably educated person you should know this. What the usual person means when they refer to "time" is not the concept of the fourth dimension, but the measurement of time conducted either as "duration" or "interval."
A "point in time" is an identification of a specific reference to the end of an interval expressed in hours, minutes and seconds from the zero value at the last occurrence of the event identified by the name "midnight," where the clock is presumed to reset all values less than a day to the value zero.
Time is a relative concept, for most of us, expressed as the interval or duration since the last event of midnight for the region we live in, or, if they choose, the local time at Greenwich, England, which is known as Universal Coordinated Time.[/quote]
Agreed.
In a highly technical and theoretical sense you may, to some extent be partially correct, however in the real world we often simplify concepts and some people do it without realizing it. And as a reasonably educated person you should know this. What the usual person means when they refer to "time" is not the concept of the fourth dimension, but the measurement of time conducted either as "duration" or "interval."
A "point in time" is an identification of a specific reference to the end of an interval expressed in hours, minutes and seconds from the zero value at the last occurrence of the event identified by the name "midnight," where the clock is presumed to reset all values less than a day to the value zero.
Time is a relative concept, for most of us, expressed as the interval or duration since the last event of midnight for the region we live in, or, if they choose, the local time at Greenwich, England, which is known as Universal Coordinated Time.[/quote]
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Re: Hey Jiz, let's get some Retro updates in here.
I disagree, but let's focus on Retro here.Jizaboz wrote:We are beings having consciousness and do have the capacity to perceive time and the passing thereof of ourselves through it.
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