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| 06:37pm 02/01/2004 |
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I just saw Paycheck(good movie) which brings me to some of my random ideas...
What are "past, present, and future"?
I will being by trying to define "present." Typically, people use the word "present" in a sentence they usually mean something like "contemporary" (Example: present times), but "present" is usually defined as "now." When is "now?" "Now" could be defined as the current moment of time, but since time never stops a moment in time has to be exactly 0 seconds. I believe that one could say that "now" is merely a word. If "now" is the current "moment," and a "moment" is no amount of time(if it was any amount of time it would be a "period of time") I say since "now" is no period of time then it has no definition. "Present" is not, for lack of a better phrase, happening in the present.
But I do know that "present" isn't past or future. Past decribes events that have already happened. Future describes events that have yet to happen. So what word decribes events in the process of happening? I think we should forget about trying to separate the vague ideas of "past, present, and future" and focus on something else. Time. Time never stops; time has already happened, time is in the process of happening, time has yet to happen. Time will go on until the end of the universe. By "time" I don't mean the passing of the hours; I mean the decaying of the universe that slowly happens, the end we are slowly headed towards. |
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