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qazwsxedc34
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We created a year by the idea that a sphere circles around a star. Now the universe is 13.8 billion years old, how can it be 13.8 billion years old when a year is the total time is takes the earth to travel around the sun, which wouldn’t of existed when the solar system wasn’t formulated into its present day configuration. So the concept of a year is contingent on a very specific formation. Thus the concept of a year can’t exist at the beginning of time. It seems quite random. I mean do we really no anything?

I scored low on my SAT’s and I am not an astronomer.
Mar 24 2014 3:02PM
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goodnoooo
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read the first sentence then stopped....sorry
Mar 24 2014 3:03PM
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theBearJew
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^He will tell you how.
Mar 24 2014 3:03PM
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.Rybak.
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The answer is yes
Mar 24 2014 3:04PM
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CaptainObvious.
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Mar 24 2014 3:05PM
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SkiThe603
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this thread
Mar 24 2014 3:05PM
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qazwsxedc34
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Yes, I already commented on this. Please give me an answer almighty ElGato.
Mar 24 2014 3:05PM
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qazwsxedc34
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What’s a sphere? Is a sphere an a appearance? Can a sphere actually be a sphere? Can a sphere be true? And yes a year is an idea?
Mar 24 2014 3:07PM
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CaptainObvious.
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OP, you should post the most offensive thing you can think of. Do it quick.
Mar 24 2014 3:11PM
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goodnoooo
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i don't like sphere's anymore because of you.
Mar 24 2014 4:24PM
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stickski
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No wonder you're on welfare...
Mar 24 2014 4:31PM
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qazwsxedc34
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Time is our perception of change.

Next question, Does matter move through space or is movement simply an illusion?
Mar 24 2014 4:53PM
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.Hugo.
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I can confirm that your mom's fine ass aint an illusion
Mar 24 2014 4:59PM
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qazwsxedc34
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I would bang her before I let you bang her.
Mar 24 2014 5:01PM
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theabortionator
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It's the past bro. We could measure the ocean in buckets of water even before people had buckets. Buckets existing back then is irrelevant because there is still water and we have a bucket as a measuring tool in the present.
Mar 24 2014 5:07PM
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Wallisch_pl
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An astronomy book I read says some scientists think the universe has always been around, at its early ages nothing but hydrogen. It's so hard to even fathom before time, also the concept of zero, just nothing of something
Mar 24 2014 7:35PM
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soulskier
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I just had a thought, better post it online
Mar 24 2014 7:54PM
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cool_name
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ya i dont need your permission
Mar 24 2014 8:23PM
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GayWolf420
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Mar 24 2014 8:26PM
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qazwsxedc34
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Debbie isn't swimming in the mountains at present. Debbie owns a beautiful hammer. I’m a big old man.
Mar 24 2014 8:44PM
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.undetected
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Nothing is real, space is an illusion. "Nasa" says we have been to space, we are a part of a 4th grader alien science experiment.
Mar 24 2014 8:50PM
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qazwsxedc34
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Spheres don’t exist in reality. The existence of a form is pretty much dependent on something of which it is a form. So, form has no reality of its own. Likewise, the world is not real and exists from mind-dependent ideas so its an appearance.
Mar 24 2014 9:48PM
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qazwsxedc34
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The holographic principle is very interesting.
Mar 24 2014 9:50PM
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Mar 24 2014 10:11PM
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.undetected
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Yes, as in every single person creates their own reality, and nobody even knows. All of the people you know are a figment of your imagination and are not real. Its like your brain is watching a movie that it is creating right before your own eyes. Such reality can only be faltered by destroying the brain. This is why, when you die, provided your brain stays intact, then you will live on within another reality. Reincarnation in a way, just not like coming back as a tree, always as a human.
Mar 24 2014 11:48PM
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qazwsxedc34
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The world exists but it is not real. Exactly. You must be a Buddhist.
Mar 24 2014 11:55PM
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.undetected
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Yea I make up scenarios like that in my head all the time. I think I might actually be an alien controlled by another alien or some shit. Sometimes I think that the film industry is trying to send messages to the people about like conspiracies and stuff like that. But then I realize how irrelevant anything in life is anyway so I stop caring. Thank you for saying that my viewpoint is interesting, it really helped me believe in what is truly right.
Mar 24 2014 11:57PM
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qazwsxedc34
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It’s Shankara’s definition of Advaitavedanta where the changing world you perceive is merely an appearance.
Mar 24 2014 11:58PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Mar 25 2014 12:02AM
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.undetected
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No one has any hesitation, obviously, in taking the dream world as an illusion; for, when they wake up to this familiar world, the dream world disappears. But all of us find it hard to believe that this familiar world, which we all actually perceive and experience, is an illusion. If I jump down from an upper floor, I will certainly be fatally injured. This difficulty is because we are all part of this world and are attached to it in some way.

But a spiritual aspirant may ask, "Is there a higher state to which I can wake up, so that this waking world will disappear, just like the dream world?"

The answer is a resounding "yes." What that higher state is no one can precisely describe. But Sri Shankaracharya was an intellectual and spiritual prodigy. He could experience that sublime, transcendental state (turiya, wherein the jiva is in a state of complete identification with Brahman), just like the Upanishadic seers. Thus, the great Acharya could confirm and authoritatively summarise the vision of the ancient seers of Sanatana Dharma — the truth of Advaita. Before he left his mortal coil, he firmly established this philosophy by his masterly commentaries on the prasthanatraya (the three basic texts on Vedanta, viz., Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Sutras).

Mar 25 2014 12:02AM
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qazwsxedc34
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The world exists however it is not real. So If the effect preexists in the cause, there is no real change. For example, you create a jar out of clay, however there was already a jar in that clay. So i guess you could say change is merely an appearance.

But you may say that a a jar has a certain form. However, form is not real because form is real and new and something can’t be made or come out of nothing, that is impossible. So form has no reality of its own.
Mar 25 2014 12:10AM
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.undetected
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Except within the reality of itself. Because it was created by the mere existence of the mind. Not physically.
Mar 25 2014 12:14AM
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qazwsxedc34
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Well the form has no reality of its own. So it is simply an appearance. it can not be made out of nothing. Like the big bang, something can’t be made out of nothing, thus it is only an appearance. Like you said it is our minds reality.
Mar 25 2014 12:21AM
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qazwsxedc34
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Your dreams exist however they are not real. Is the changing world we perceive everything there is in reality?
Mar 25 2014 12:31AM
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JAHpow
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Ain't nobody got time fo dat
Mar 25 2014 12:33AM
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Abu_Hajaar
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Because science bitch. Go home to your carrot house op
Mar 25 2014 12:38AM
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Dr.Dickless
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I love this part, its like your giving up before anybody even said anything
Mar 25 2014 1:21AM
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bighooch
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haha fuckin nerds
Mar 25 2014 10:58AM
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FuckAllOfYou
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You're fucking defective OP. A year is just a unit of time, it doesn't matter when it came into existence. I don't even understand why you would say this
Mar 25 2014 11:11AM
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qazwsxedc34
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My question was worded very badly and what I really meant to say was how can time be real if it was created to measure change when change is just an appearance.

The world exists however it is not real. So If the effect preexists in the cause, there is no real change. For example, you create a jar out of clay, however there was already a jar in that clay. So i guess you could say change is merely an appearance. So time is our perception of change. So time exists however it is not real.

Mar 25 2014 11:24AM
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qazwsxedc34
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It was more a plead for help.
Mar 25 2014 11:25AM
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SquattingDog
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OP is on that good good, and welfare.
Mar 25 2014 11:38AM
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.undetected
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You are ignorant. You are the NERD
Mar 25 2014 11:46AM
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deleted5
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Time is real, and it existed way before we started logging calendar years.
Mar 25 2014 11:49AM
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Mar 25 2014 12:30PM
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qazwsxedc34
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Get bent.
Mar 25 2014 2:44PM
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bighooch
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well shit
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