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But our consciousness of time, becomes the most distinguishing feature of mankind. Though we are mostly obsessed with objective time, - As the rotation of our Earth separates day from night. With the swing of the pendulum and the ticking of clocks, Which regulates our movements, while we try to beat the clock! But the ancient theologians and philosophers of India and Greece, Who were among the first to ponder about the true nature of all things, Had wondered about the subjective nature of time; Was time linear or cyclic, was time endless or finite?
He claimed that everything around us, is in a constant state of change and flux. You cannot step into the same river twice Heraclitus had claimed, Since water keeps flowing down the river all the while and never remains the same.
This flow and change in Nature is a process which is ceaseless. The only thing which remains permanent is impermanence! Parmenides said that our senses deceive us, since all changes are mere illusory!
Now the Greeks were never comfortable with the Concept of Infinity. Thus from the above examples it becomes easy for us to derive, How those Ancient Greeks had viewed Time. Time has been viewed as a forward moving changing entity; And also as an illusory, continuous and indivisible Being! When Plato speaks of creation, he imagines a primitive matter, to which God gives form as an artificer. Therefore, time here becomes the change which we see and experience.
