Tomorrow never comes, only today. The past and the future don't exist, only the present. Your thoughts?
The only moment is the present moment, just like the only you is the present you. You are not the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, maybe even a week ago. Just like the person you will become in a year will be different from who you are now...
If your not busy being born, your busy dying.
Pocket Protecktor
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We live moment to moment, but because we have a long-term memory, we make long-term plans while we live moment to moment.
Retirement is just another way to say we Giant Squirrel Humans store and hide away our nuts for the coming winter, just like the tree squirrels do, so...
When you get a 401k plan and a retirement savings plan, you're not just saving for the future, your expressing confidence you'll live to be 65 and more, and promising yourself you'll do your best to get there alive to spend it, so...
The future you will like you more the more nuts you store up for him. And to him, as it was to your younger self, it is always...
...right now.
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The concept of the future has always been just that a concept. However, when we think about the future and plan, it becomes more solid and real in my mind. As far as I am concerned I exist. Yes, I travel through time, and as Steve Miller says "we all are slipping, into future." The future becomes the now, momentarily and then it is the past, yet I remain, I persist. The person I become in the future is still me, the who Robert is still essentially the same, however the WHAT that I am changes. The adjectives used to describe me change, older, wiser, father, and husband all change but the WHO is the same.
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Actually time is "one". Everything exists in time, yet there are different phases of the time factor—present, past and future. Present, past and future are one. Every day we can experience the time factor as morning, noon and evening, and although morning is different from noon, which is different from evening, all of them taken together are one. Still, we spend our lives thinking in the past and making plans for the future. If tomorrow never comes, why so many plans for the future?
Only for God there is not past and future, He always lives in the present, therefore all His activities are always fresh even they are going on eternally. He is not between past and present, but we are. We are experiencing time by the changing of our body, I was a child, I was a boy, I was a young man, now I am old man, so there was past and future in every stage. I am the same person in different bodies (child, young and old).
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>>"The past and future must exist. Otherwise the entire universe would have to be recreated every instant ,and there would be no future to go into."
Actually, this is how a video game works. The entire universe is redrawn every instant, generally about 30 times per second (so that the motion looks smooth to the human eye).
So if our universe is a construct, this is probably true.
oldemystic
It's a pretty common concept within Eastern philosophies to be "in the present" so what you're saying is not exactly novel.
Perhaps you may think about what exactly is this "present" that you say exists. As soon as you say 'this is the present" - it's gone into the 'past'. Is life lineal, being made up of millions of 'present' mille-seconds?