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| Apr 27, 2015 at 11:01 | comment | added | Nai | It's so perfect!! I love this sentence more : The two siblings of the present moment is the past and the future | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 1:21 | comment | added | Michael Rize | Young children make plans? LOL. You don't know young children very well. | |
| Feb 25, 2015 at 10:49 | comment | added | Narmer | I really don't like this answer. I find a lot of inconsistencies and ad hoc or personally intepreted formulations (the infinity of present is a easily debatable concept; God being in the present is a religious driven theory; a young child can and obviously make plans on what he want to do, e.g. its plan is to play in the afternoon it is always in the future; and so on...). All of this ring a bell of a too broad question. | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 0:00 | comment | added | Michael Rize | Also, if I may add: The past has an end. The future has a beginning. The present has neither of those. It is boundless and in that perspective can be regarded as infinite. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 18:58 | comment | added | BobRodes | So, how is a single point not finite? When the single point is a single instance of infinity. If all that is is infinite (which it may or may not be, of course), and the single point is the singularity "all that is", then that point is infinite. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 18:57 | comment | added | BobRodes | We very often find evidence in the present that our memories were "wrong". Therefore, we do not really have irrefutable evidence that phenomena occur along a timeline. Something else is going on, and it's entirely reasonable to postulate that the whole concept of past/present/future timeline is some sort of illusion that masks our ability to perceive the infinite in every so-called moment. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 18:53 | comment | added | BobRodes | I don't pretend that, no. And I thought I already had made my metaphysical/philosophical argument. But I will attempt to elaborate. The present is not defined by its place in time, unless one chooses to do so. What we express in terms of a point in time as the present, moving along a timeline from past to future, is really a conglomeration of past experience and future plans, rather than itself. We take the experience of what is now the past as evidence of the present, when we have a good deal of evidence that what we call the past isn't a fully accurate representation of what "happened". | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 17:59 | comment | added | Nick2253 | @BobRodes How is a single point not finite? The point is the fundamental building block. If you want to make some metaphysical/philosophical argument, then be my guest, but don't pretend there is something more to a point than exactly what it is: a point. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 17:53 | comment | added | BobRodes | @Nick2253 Interesting. I will grant that the present is by definition a single point in a timeline, but I will disagree that a single point in a timeline is by definition finite as you imply. :) | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 17:45 | comment | added | xnor | Even with the added lines, I do not find this answer to fit better than Josh's. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 17:33 | comment | added | Nick2253 | I will disagree that the present is infinite. By its very definition, the present is a single point in the timeline, not a limitless expanse. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 17:26 | comment | added | Michael Rize | In the bible it says "Be still and know that I am God." I am God, means he is God right now, in the Present. "Be Still" is a form of meditation, stilling not only the body, but the mind. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 12:27 | comment | added | Nathan Long | "God must live here" - FWIW, Christian theology wouldn't assert this; time may be a property of the universe God created and hence not essential to God's being. reasonablefaith.org/god-time-and-eternity-2 | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 4:50 | comment | added | Michael Rize | Also, the object of meditation is to be more conscious of the present. Indeed the very act of meditation is to be Present. So it is a metaphysical riddle with a deeper meaning. According to many ancient writings, the more you can be Present, the closer you are to God. This is according to both Yogic and Buddhist philosophy, as well as Zen Buddhism and Taoism. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 4:47 | vote | accept | Michael Rize | ||
| Feb 17, 2015 at 4:47 | comment | added | Michael Rize | Bravo, you got it. You were not the first one with the correct answer, but since the other member did not explain, you get the award! Well done. One more explanation: Most adults spend much time everyday thinking about the past or future but not staying in the Now (the Present moment). However children naturally stay in the present more often, especially younger children. | |
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