03-05-2009, 04:49 PM
(03-05-2009, 03:36 PM)MisterRabbit Wrote: Hey, yeah that pencil thing does help, although I'll have to think about it some more as to how it could apply to s/t and t/s.
So...what I think you're saying is that in t/s there is some sort of a 3time all-that-I-am-and-will-be, in a sense. But of course that can't be quite right, because the primal distortion is free will. So how am I to understand time, here? I mean...we normally think of time as the canvas on which history unfolds, which implies that future times are either set or branch off into infinite universes (I doubt it), but if time is being spoken of like some sort of active principle, and if we are to have free will and time is not "already" somewhere else, ie not set in stone, then how are we to begin understanding this?
Good thinking MisterRabbit. It made me wonder about this:
Free will is possible in our s/t because we cannot experience/influence more of time than the "now" of our linear time. So maybe in t/s free will is guaranteed because space is linear and can not be influenced other than in the "here". So even when you have every freedom to move in time, the linearity of space prevents you from actually doing something. (Can anybody follow this?)
Long ago I read Ouspensky, he also thought of the 3 dimensions of time. Our linear time was expanded perpendicularly in one direction to "all possibilities" and in the other perpendicular direction into "eternity". This is what I remember of it, I'd have to look up what he said exactly...
But I am beginning to like this reciprocal thinking.

Thank you all for the teach/learning experience.
gerards regards