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April 14, 2008 at 11:06 pm (Uncategorized)

Eternity is the state of things at this very moment  (p 18)

This is both completely backwards and completely correct… maybe the point of the book is that backwards is forwards is sideways is whatever you see at that moment is ever-changing. I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together…
At this very moment, the idea of anything being different from what it is right now seems strange, because it hasn’t ever existed like that before. I’m sure that a world without telephones seemed perfectly logical to the people who had never had telephones before. Eternity isn’t a matter of time and space to people, or at least, most people. Certainly there are the Einsteins and Thoreaus in the world who consider existence in terms of existentialism and fourth dimensions, but as people we are commonly limited to the moment, as is. And at this moment, though we can obviously imagine and consider the future–we’re not blind in terms of thought–what we see is what is, and what is feels like what will always be. To a certain extent. So in that way, yes, eternity is the state of things at this very moment.

I’d like to think that we’ll be able to change that one day. There are a lot of things about this very moment that should never be allowed to become eternity.

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