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Old Jun 14, 2007, 03:30 am   #36 (permalink) (top)
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We don't live in the present... we are the present.

The "present" is nothing more than an instantaneous moment. There is no such thing as "now," because when you specify it it's already gone.

Time is a measure of how many instantaneous moments are between the current one and the one being referenced in the past.
If anything, the concept of "now" is typically a misrepresentation that there is a "now". We've grown into the habit of living in time frames, such as "now" being anything from this day, this hour, or this minutes, yet "now" is just a cheap way of attempting to describe the feeling of being caught between past and present. What the word "now" would describe would be so instantaneous I wonder if it's even worth having a label for?


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