It
is necessary for you to come to know equally of all things,
both the unchanging truth behind all that which only seemingly comes and goes from being, and the opinions and perceptions of Man about this in which there cannot be found truth, but nevertheless, these things too of which you also must learn, for it is necessary for you to see how untruths and misconceptions come to be seen as truth, both(the unchanging truth and our interpretations/changing perceptions of things/subjectivity)together create all experiences. Parmenides (more or less) - On Nature - 2555 years ago (more or less) |
Basic
Parmenides -
that there is both an objective truth to events which causes things to
be or seem to be which is the cause of perception, and that all times and
points in existence are equal (in relation) toward this objective truth
(it is always equally close at hand or an equal distance away from all
other times and points in your life and others) like all points on the
surface of a circle or sphere are equally away from a central point, always
the same equal distance from a true perspective. The non-subjectivity and
completeness of all parts, those seen and experienced and those not seen
and experienced currently, are equally important for defining (the spherical)
its overall shape, which cannot be completely spherical and whole if missing
any of them. They are each part integral to (the shape of) the whole, and
time is only experiencing them parts at a time, and consciousness, only
experience perspectives or viewpoints at a time. The truth is not subjective,
yet all we see, know, and experience always is *ONLY* subjective, false,
limited, and must always be that way while in existence. When something
happens or seems to happen, there is both an objective truth about what
did occur, what actually happened, yet that truth is shattered into perceptions
viewable to only different parts or perspectives at once, and while limiting
oneself to only what you and even all others combined can see or know of
that truth by yours and their perceptions, it will only ever at best approximate
a shadow of that truth, never coming close to the completeness enough to
discern its true shape or form, and for that reason all perceptions are
false when compared to an overall overarching truth behind events we think
we know, and being which we think we experience.
I was
already writing about time balls before reading about Parmenides. That
all points and experiences in a person's life are at equal points away
from a center, and that experience, or what does occur from what seems
not to occur, is like where a needle scratches the surface of a marble
while spinning it (time) and turning it left and right (choice). All points
it passes through, the events, all are pre-existent and equally existing
away from a central point at once. That is really the only way to organize
my perceptions of how what does and what does not occur are both equally
real (in a greater sense) and viable and knowable. However, using more
dimensions, more marbles, touching the same point or needle at once, their
turnings combining and affecting the other possible movements and turnings
of other of the other marbles all around the same point (to visualize this
in 3D you have to be able to see through the "balls" as invisible and hologram-like
passing through each other) and that central point where all their spinnings
meet, that needle scratches them all the same way at the same time, though
in different directions. That is the objective truth of what is occurring
which is only the truth to all of them at that time and place only, and
a second later, each's orientation of how they see events will never be
the same again. Each moment later they are all spun in different directions,
though all points each moves on to is no further away from each's own center
of all their potential events in their own lives from their own points
of view. This is (analogous) of a single consciousness fractured. Add one
more dimension to this example and you can also combine all those individual
centers away from their spherical surfaces touching a needle of common
reality, with one more dimension to conceptually organize this example,
you can also pull all of those centers together in the middle at once.
Circle spinning against circle rotating (view) around it in 2D and 3D. Ball spinning against ball rotating around it in 3D and 4D, its rotation around itselves, internal fulcrums as well, always opposite. Ball against ball rotation while turning left and right. Any movement at all is sideways in space and time from any other point in space and time while moving through space and time itself. Equatorial plotting of time on balls of 2D worlds (spinning against each other) makes points furthest away seem like points where the Universe spins around in time and all matter must pass through, all must coming from or going to (can't read it, basically, when going sideways) going around the curvature to the same spot in space and (or?) time, would seemingly require passing through the beginning or end of time (from the perspective of that which is at where began). (From each new position in space and time, the beginning and end of time seem at other points away from new position). Equatorial time cone plotting (on spinning balls representing 3D worlds plus time (omitted from 2D, 3D, 4D, mapping 4D worlds on spinning balls)), with shading darker closer to the equator signifying greater depth or width of time cone at that point where object plotted is never moves from that point and can be the longest in its timespan, or straight across its time cone viewed head on. Since the V (is) spread across the surface of the globe away from the equator marking the thinning regions of where it could be with thinning colors marking the parts of the time cone (with less depth) from a head on view. (Same idea as Universe Inc's Paradoxes and Probability Waves where an object can be longest (thicker in probability) at center but shown even flatter than a time cone is, and in color.) Overlapping chains of causality away from any two points in space and time, (needing to be conceived as) cascading into (yet another) extra dimension fuller or new cone or globe (to account for the) of inter-effects and inter-causation's. In some of your potential realities, I will die tomorrow or in the next hour, minute, etc. In some of my potential realities, you will. In the ones which neither happens, a new common reality forms of the interaction of separate potentials. It is not that neither deaths actually occurred, just not from that common perspective. Everything is always dead from another point of view at the same moment in time it is alive from a different point of view. Future transparencies and U-bend - seeing points and states (in the) future further away from the present overlapping further away in the past, bending perception so that further away from you into the past is in the same direction as further away from you into the future like overhead projector transparencies overlapping each other (seeing through both simultaneously) and understanding the future is like adding a depth perception to be able to tell the overlapping transparencies apart from each other. (Also like combining a forward view and rearview mirror view at same time of events.) Seeing objects and events (seemingly) moving toward you in space and time (in sequential frames by comparisons of the past further away from your present) simultaneously with moving away from you in space and time in the same direction at once like turning a camera and seeing the away direction into the future replayed over the toward direction of the past as if 1-dimensional, that objects must move away in the same direction as they came and there is nothing that can go "by" you or "past" you without hitting or affecting you. Trying to create a bridge between 2 different times, states, and views of two different Universes (balls rotating against each other above, where balls represent all points in time of each) creates a new third Universe of the circular causality going back and forth between the two and paradoxical outside the third but new rules within it. Like outside view always needed to encompass any sets of interactions between any groups of numbers, always a view outside it. [Just before this point is when I came across Parmenides in a book] (Parmenides views quite similar, I came across at right time to compare with my own recent ideas of balls of pre-existant points in time away from central points, to see how they are much the same view. Not all ancients were idiots but that doesn't mean they were smarter either. Same ideas always get recycled ahead and/or behind but more focused on or relevant to each's present circumstances.) Turning the future inside out in all 3 dimensions, not that it doesn't itself from another point of view you just can't visualize yet (within it?) and within time. Trying to create a bridge between 2 different times, states, and views of two different Universes (balls rotating against each other above, where balls represent all points in time of each) creates a new third Universe of the circular causality going back and forth between the two and paradoxical outside the third but new rules within it. Like outside view always needed to encompass any sets of interactions between any groups of numbers, always a view outside it. After
being reacquainted in what is now this future in regards to those thens,
the philosophy of Parmenides which (I believe) I had not read before, yet
an undeniable Parmendian streak is plain to see in many of my earliest
writings to my most recent, and is key to how I now I interpret my and
others perceptions, all events, thoughts, experiences, and feelings as
pre-existent points on a ball, much higher circle or ball by my abilities
in understanding hyperspheres and beyond, but as individual points away
from a center seeming strung together by from the direction it spins in,
how you turn it and how it turns in reaction to others it joins against.
Simply increasing your momentum can force others to react to your spinning,
but for some that is too easy to do and makes life too boring. The most
obvious Parmenides-like is
Beyond
Thought and For No One of
the earliest, was influenced by the concept of nothingness as something,
and existence, something and nothing, creating a whole between them both.
The most stark later comparison is in Deconstructing the Universe's real
starting point for explaining everything else in the Universe, Impossible
to Not Exist, Parmenides centermost key idea verbatim, how once
anything is in any timeline of any Universe, it is potentially existent
in all (other points and times) and beyond these more inclusive potentials
all of which *EQUALLY* exist, nothing else can possibly exist. Addendum
4, Measure All Things Together, puts that concept
front and center with corks of potential floating on a lesser limited plane
of surface common experiences. All of the first three addendums state that
in various degrees using time and experience (as examples), but Measure
All Things Together really brought the strands together. As Parmenides
would say, the goddess was certainly present when writing it. (You would
have to read his On Nature to get the reference.)
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