THE SEVENTH ISSUE - REGARDING THE PAST,
THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE
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Which is more real, the past, the present, or the future? (This is correlative
to the point about history.)
The past has already happened and is gone, therefore, it is not real,
in the sense that it exists.
The present is constantly changing, and indeed, by the time one becomes
aware of the moment, it has already happened and becomes relegated to the
past. Thus, the present is happening, but it is not very real.
The future has not happened but will and one can hold a fixed idea about
what the future will or should be and attempt to make it actually happen.
Thus, the future (which is a set of conditions that has not yet happened)
is, in a way, more real than either the present or past because one has
some control over its eventuality.
But all three are just conceptions about the places of moving things.
It has already been demonstrated that there is no space or time, per
se, but rather locations of things which move. Consequently, the past was
a particular arrangement of moving things, the present is a current arrangement
of moving things, and the future will be a forth-coming arrangement of moving
things. Thus, the linear notions of past -> present -> future is incorrect.
We may construct a linear perspective about the rearrangement of moving
things, but in reality they are just rearranging locations in a 3 dimensional
matrix. Reality is like a large, colloidal solid, peppered with loci of
varying densities called entities which move.
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