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What is "now"

Now is the ever present discomfort of remembering everything and not knowing what's coming next. We breathe to break up the tension, but there's a ridiculous life-span between each breath.
I think I'm kinda on the same vibe as Lost Ego in this thread.

There's the argument that we're all in the past because of the time delay between light and information traveling from point A to B, but our minds can also be far into the future as well. "Now" is like a strangely imperfect compromise. Little vortices caused by the canoe paddle stretching into liquid eternity.

It's always slightly unsatisfying, always getting hungry, fucked, cut up, broken, healed, relieved, and thrown back out for the next go around a little warier or wilier perhaps.
 
time is just a tool/concept created by humans, it doesnt really exist, now is all there is and ever will be.
 
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Lost Ego said:
time is just a tool/concept created by humans, it doesnt really exist, now is all there is and ever will be.
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No, that is wrong. That is as invalid as saying the only real spatial position is "here". For one thing, just as "here" is relative to the observer, is the concept of simultaneity. Observers at different inertial frames of reference will always disagree about when "now" is.
 
"Now" is the point in time at which you read this sentence.

In the Western tradition, it would be measured as a discrete number of years, months, days, hours, minutes, and possibly seconds past the supposed birthdate of Jesus Christ. For instance, "now" for me, as I write this sentence, is 6:41 P.M., the 2nd of June, 2012.
 
now is a combination of the actions you partake in at the moment and the people/things that you associate yourself with at a given time.
 
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"Now" is the membrane at which the world within presses against the world without.
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I really like this definition. I would add, though, that it is really from the structure of this membrane that the world within and the world without as we know them follow. It is to the extent that experience follows from this membrane that we live in the moment. It is to the extent that experience draws from outside of this membrane that we live in the past, future, or extra-experiential generalization.

ebola
 
Now is that current moment that is always being defined & redefined to make it all make sense until the next now.
 
I think "now" is the product of the mind. In reality there is no "now" because everything is happening in the now. It is Eternal Continuum.
 
now is all that there is, and all that'll ever be

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6531720/Ram-Dassbe-Here-Now

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ebola? said:
I really like this definition. I would add, though, that it is really from the structure of this membrane that the world within and the world without as we know them follow. It is to the extent that experience follows from this membrane that we live in the moment. It is to the extent that experience draws from outside of this membrane that we live in the past, future, or extra-experiential generalization.

ebola
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^ this.

so what exactly defines this moment? it's just a collection of thoughts and feelings associated with the world within and without right? i often associate my first day of kindergarten with a certain feeling that i dont associate with any other day i've had in my life. same with today, if i do store it in my long term memory it's probably gonna be marked with strong emotions. the more emotions, the more significant of a moment it is? emotions define the now?

edit: ^ this is how internal stimuli affect the now. this quote is the external. "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein.
 
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everything is now. When you look into the sky you are seeing light that is NOW reaching you but this light comes from every single time that ever has been.
 
As sober, conscious human beings, we are compelled to live into the future. The now is already gone.
MDMA can hold the now here for a little longer, I find.
 
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