[logos]

The only time you or I, or anyone else, has available to us is now...oops, I mean now...no, now... Oh, the heck with it.

There is no past nor future, only now, and now is fleeting, indeed.

;^)

[WVNan]

MY FRIEND! Imagine us meeting on a thread such as this after so long a time.........

[Nebullis]

So, what does this do to the "outside of space and time" idea?

[Hebrews 11:6]

There is no past nor future, only now, and now is fleeting, indeed.

"...now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation." Paul, 2 Cor. 6:2

"...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett, Gone with the Wind

[cc2k]

The only time you or I, or anyone else, has available to us is now...oops, I mean now...no, now... Oh, the heck with it.

There is no past nor future, only now, and now is fleeting, indeed.

;^)

Actually, if I understand what this article says about Lynds' paper, Lynds is saying that there is no now. There is only a continuous progression from the past to the future. There are no fixed reference points in the continuity of time. No matter how small you "slice" time, there's still an infinite and continuous stream from the beginning of your "slice" to the end of your "slice." There is no discreet "quantum" of time.

[cornelis]

There is no past nor future, only now, and now is fleeting, indeed.

Sounds like a lift out of Augustine's Confessions bk 11. Neither past nor future exist, and if they do exist, they exist in the present. And the present is a function of mind.

What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to someone who does ask me, I do not know . . . it is not properly stated that there are three times, past, present, and future. But perhaps it might properly be said that there are three times, the present of things past, the present of things present, and the present of things future . . . I have heard from a certain learned man that the movements of the sun, moon, and stars constitute time, but I did not agree with him. Why should not rather the movement of all bodies be times? . . . Therefore I see that time is a kind of distention. . . time is nothing more than distention . . . we measure, in fact, the interval . . . it is in you, O my mind, that I measure my times. Do not interrupt yourself with the noisy mobs of your prejudices. It is in you, I say, that I measure tracts of time. The impression that passing things make upon you remains, even after those things have passed. That present state is what I measure, not the things which pass away so that it be made. That is what I measure when I measure tracts of time. Therefore, either this is time, or I do not measure time.

[jennyp]

The only time you or I, or anyone else, has available to us is now...oops, I mean now...no, now... Oh, the heck with it.

You're older than you've ever been
And now you're even older
And now you're even older
And now you're even older
You're older than you've ever been
And now you're even older
And now you're older still

Time is marching on
And time is still marching on

This day will soon be at an end
And now it's even sooner
And now it's even sooner
And now it's even sooner
This day will soon be at an end
And now it's even sooner
And now it's sooner still

You're older than you've ever been
And now you're even older
And now you're even older
And now you're even older
You're older than you've ever been
And now you're even older
And now you're older still

- They Might Be Giants

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

There is no past nor future, only now, and now is fleeting, indeed.

Past and future co-exist only with in the mind of Man...and G-d.

[Oberon]

There is no past nor future, only now, and now is fleeting, indeed.

Oh, I don't know. I don't remember ever being without a now.

[Oberon]

There is no past nor future, only now, and now is fleeting, indeed.

Oh, I don't know. I don't remember ever being without a now.