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    Of course time is provable. It's the fourth dimension. Everything exists in four dimensions- height, length, breadth, and duration. You see, even if you have a cube, it does not exist unless it occurs for some length of time. An instantaneous cube is just as unreal as a line.
    Its a fourth dimension. The other fourth dimension is Euclidean.

    No, you can't prove that "time" exists. Everything lasts for a certain while and time is the attempt to measure that. Therefor, time is an abstract state, not a tangible force.
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    morality is your values. Everyone's morals are diffrent

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    Morality is that annoying thing in everyone's minds telling them what's right and wrong, according to them.

    It can be ignored, but then you're a complete moron.

    *cough*

    As I was saying, morality is that sense of right and wrong within each of our minds.

    *cough*

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sigilstone17 View Post
    No, you can't prove that "time" exists. Everything lasts for a certain while and time is the attempt to measure that. Therefor, time is an abstract state, not a tangible force.
    Think about it this way: the universe as it exists now is vastly different from the one that existed only a millisecond ago. On a human scale, perhaps not much has changed, but on the universal or microscopic levels, everything is different. Blink, and when you open your eyes again, a few more molecules of paint will have drifted off the walls of the room you are in. Inside your body, cells have died, cells have split, enzymes have reacted, and energy has been burned. The building you are in has just become a tiny bit more structurally unsound. A few billion more blinks, and it'll come crashing down around you. Not only that, but everything everywhere is ten or a thousand or a hundred thousand miles away from where it was before your eyes closed. You have travelled farther with a blink than you will would circumnavigating the globe.

    You see, THAT is time. It is the force which creates infinite, fundamentally different universes that are all inextricably linked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Axer NZ View Post
    Think about it this way: the universe as it exists now is vastly different from the one that existed only a millisecond ago. On a human scale, perhaps not much has changed, but on the universal or microscopic levels, everything is different. Blink, and when you open your eyes again, a few more molecules of paint will have drifted off the walls of the room you are in. Inside your body, cells have died, cells have split, enzymes have reacted, and energy has been burned. The building you are in has just become a tiny bit more structurally unsound. A few billion more blinks, and it'll come crashing down around you. Not only that, but everything everywhere is ten or a thousand or a hundred thousand miles away from where it was before your eyes closed. You have travelled farther with a blink than you will would circumnavigating the globe.

    You see, THAT is time. It is the force which creates infinite, fundamentally different universes that are all inextricably linked.
    But you see, we call it TIME. It's theoretically and verbally known as TIME but there's no proof that the force which creates different universes is known as TIME.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Axer NZ View Post
    The universe is composed of four things: matter, energy, space, and time.* Now, to be said to truly exist, something must be made of at least one of these components and interact with the others. You yourself are a collection of matter which functions using energy, occupies space, and passes through time. So, congratulations are in order: you exist.

    However, what is morality? It is not matter; you cannot see, touch, hear, taste, smell, or otherwise sense it. It is not energy; you can't use it to heat your house. It is not space; you can't put anything inside it. And lastly, it is not time.

    Thus, morality (and any other abstract concept) cannot be said to exist in any way. However, it has a noticeable and meaningful effect on the world at large. It is the reason that you are not being robbed blind by a mugger right now, that you can go about your life with a reasonable sense of security. Yet this thing that protects you and controls you is not part of reality.
    I'll try really hard not to be religious...
    Your assuming that those four (matter, energy, space, and time) are the only four aspects of reality. So does that mean that thought or memory doesn't exist? How do we know for sure that that's all there is?
    Just because something is abstract doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Morality is like thought, memory, or emotion. It may not be a physical, measurable quantity but it obviously has an impact on the real world. It gives people a certain sense of right and wrong. If you do something that is completely against your moral code, you feel guilty. And emotions are proven to have an impact, even a small one, on your physical and mental health.
    Morality itself may not be the fifth aspect, but there has to be something else beyond matter, space, energy and time. And whatever that something is, morality either results from it or exists within it.
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