Scott Mayers wrote: ↑Sun Nov 29, 2020 5:46 pm
But my prior post stands about what you were meaning to point out.?
Sorry Scott, don't mind me, but my mind goes way to deep even for myself to be able to grasp what it's actually trying to inform me. And sometimes it's difficult for me to put into words what comes up from within those dark mental caverns.
...but I'll try my best....here goes...
For me, I see that I am an awareness of all time events. For example: I can think about a time when the dinosaurs lived on earth for 165 million years. I can think about that time right here and now in the immediate present time with my awareness, and when I think about that time, I see that the awareness I am hasn't moved or changed, it's always perfectly STILL / UNCHANGING / & MOTIONLESS ...which tells me that time is only an illusion, and that 3.5 billions years ago is the same time as the nanosecond it took to think about 3.5 billion years ago, and that both timelines (past) and (present) are always right here and NOW as this aware knowingness.
Now I do not know what this ''aware knowingness'' is exactly, apart from a mechanical neuron function of the brain, but I am aware it can appear and disappear instantaneously within that mechanical instrument known as the brain.
So imagine if a humongous gamma-ray was to strike the earth right now, although rare and unlikely, that would mean everything that has taken billions of years to evolve on earth would probably be wiped out forever. So it would be like EVOLUTION NEVER HAPPENED...for there would be no knowledgable observer left to observe and report an evolution of sentient lifeforms from ever having happened at all. And so any report of TIME events of past and present ever happening, is always, and can only be known in the immediate NOW
That's what I meant by extinctions are happening all the time, because as soon as there is no awareness of anything, and nothing to report, then nothing ever happened did it. So all these what we call ''known happenings'', can only happen now. In other words, extinctions are only ever in TIME, which is an illusion, because there is only the ever-present now.
Also, if the dinosaurs hadn't have GONE extinct, these ''knowing human awarenesses'' wouldn't be here at all. And nothing really wouldn't have happened for absolute certain then. So it's like humans only exist because dinosaurs do not. And then going even deeper, we can even report that humans only exist because primate apes or monkey's existed, so it's like we owe all our capacity to know knowledge to the dinosaurs demise, those creatures that are thought to have roamed the earth for millions of years, and yet we only showed up a few seconds ago in comparison.
It just boggles my mind to think that even we the purveyors of knowledge can be GONE in an instant, just like those dinosaurs.
What's even more bizzare is to imagine HUMANS living on earth for 165 million years just as the dinosaurs did.
Can you imagine that scenario?
That's all I'm trying to talk about.
PS, I used to think about things like there is a God ...but I've now moved away from all that mushy thinking.