Diana McPartlin (diana@asiantravel.com)
Wed, 29 Oct 1997 09:00:45 +0100
Hi Martin, welcome to the squad
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Martin Striz wrote:
> 2) Upon further reflection, I noticed that time is dependent on matter.
> A singularity can exist for an infinite amount of time, but time is
> meaningless without something to notice time by. If two objects move
> past each other, you can notice that it happens over an interval of
> time, but if you're staring at black space (and there wasn't any space
> before the Bang, either!), you might as well be staring at a photograph
> taken instantaneously. And since Dynamic Quality is the 'now,' this
> moment in time, it seems that DQ is dependent on time. Whatever is in
> the past and whatever we hope in the future is part of SQ, but only a
> continually progressing 'nowness' gives any meaning to Dynamic Quality.
> Where was Dynamic Quality and what was it doing before the Bang?? In
> creationary terms, the question is practically the same. What was God,
> our DQ, doing for all the 'time' before existence?? For all practical
> purposes, there was no time, and consequently there was no 'now,' and
> the concept of a singularity, or god, or DQ, is meaningless
I think you've already answered your own question. There can be no such
thing as "before" time so the question is meaningless.
> (This can also be compared to the 'train' of existence. The leading
> edge is DQ, but start taking away the sections of the train, one by one,
> until you take away the last section. Now there is no train left, so
> there is no leading edge and no place for DQ.)
>
> It's quite a conundrum. Your thoughts?
It's a conundrum but I think that's only because our humble brains cannot
conceive nothingness, or because we are so hypnotised by our intellectual
patterns of value that we insist that everything must behave according to
cause and effect relationships. Dynamic quality began with space-time and
that's all there is to it. There was no "cause" and no "before".
Diana
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