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To: James C. Bennett
Yes, good old Zeno’s paradox. That was not what my question relates to, however.
Without a temporal past, how can any moment be begun?

Imagine a line segment, let's call it a timeline... now does the non-existence of the line past its endpoints invalidate the timeline itself?

62 posted on 10/29/2012 10:24:03 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

For the analogy to apply, imagine you have an infinitely large sheet of paper, with its edges at infinity.

If I asked you to draw the line segment with its first of two end points (one being the “origin” of Time, “Big Bang”, etc., and the other representing the present moment) at the centre of the page (the other end point being radially away from the centre) how would you find this centre?


65 posted on 10/29/2012 10:15:19 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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