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[bassplaya]

A while ago I got drunk. Not real drunk, just drunk. I was at a party, and I dont remember how my mind got on the topic, but I suddenly saw a line in my mind, which I knew to be a side view of a plane (geometric plane, that is). On this plane were all sorts of figures moving. And I realized that time is an illusion

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[neomancer]

I remember reading a short story or something that arrived at the same conclusion. Actually, it was probably a book. Anyway, the idea was that to stop time would be to destroy the universe, and to destroy the universe would be to stop time. Some guy was experimenting with time dilation and was trying to actually halt time for...a...time. I didn't entirely understand that part

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[bassplaya]

Yeah, I was aware of that. A source of much mental frustartion, I assure you.

[yewknight]

The declaration that time or space or chicken pox is an illusion facinates me. Because no matter what the rationale that led the thinker to the realization that such and such was an illusion, the listener is left to wonder what is real then anyways? When we start to swear away time and space as an illusion there is not much left to base any form of understanding about the world around us. Infact it is hard to argue that any of the basics of logic, reason, or abstract thought that we use to argue that blah blah blah is an illusion could remain in tact if the medium in which they were discovered was just a wishy washy illusion (perhaps this is why alternative states of mind are useful in such meditations). Anyone else in the mood for some chicken or eggs or chicken or eggs

[stonerjen]

Because I have early class tomorrow, I cannot sleep, And have been thinking about this.

So I kind of have a thought, but I am not sure how to word it.
Time seems to be a measurement of age moreso than movement. Evan brings up a good point, if everthing stopped, the universe would stop and never start again. But if for some reason that happened, however impossible it is to stop everything, would we still be aging? Would there be a way to measure how long time had stopped because we would all be x older because time "stopped" for x time. So time seems to be more a measure of how long something has existed.
(I am tired, that may not make any sense)