The idea of time may mean different things to different people, depending on their perspectives or other variables of circumstance.
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I am not driven by people’ s praise and I am not slowed down by people’ s criticism.
You only live once. But if you live it right, once is enough. Wrong. We only die once, we live every day!
Make poverty history.
Our lives seem to take place in the perpetual present. Life can be viewed as a dynamic activity that disappears as it happens. From that point of view, you could say that there is no time like the present, no present at all, merely the memory of one. In the course of our lives we invent the past as a source of the now. We invent time as a background in which the past, present and predicted future take place.
Time exists at least partially within the context of our cognition.
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I am not driven by people’ s praise and I am not slowed down by people’ s criticism.
You only live once. But if you live it right, once is enough. Wrong. We only die once, we live every day!
Make poverty history.
I admit to being a little confused by these statements. Don't they contradict each other?
And we do need a philosophy forum.
__________________ "Men curse the Communist Party, but eventually it may release them. If hell were endless, then God would be worse than our Secret Police."--Pastor Valentin
Life is a series of moments that occur in the PRESENT. We look to the future only because we can. We can peer into the past by recreating events in history. However, the only thing that should matter to a person is the present, hence my previous post.
That seems like a destructive philosophy. Those who don't consider the future are doomed to regret it, and those who do not consider the past cannot learn.
__________________ "Men curse the Communist Party, but eventually it may release them. If hell were endless, then God would be worse than our Secret Police."--Pastor Valentin
The present and future are meaningless without the past. Every thing you do, you do because of something you did in the pase. A trivial example: This semester, I took a religion course with Dr. Johnson and enjoyed it emensely. So next semester, I am taking another religion course with him. If I had not taken the first course in the past, I would not be taking the second course in the future.
__________________ "Men curse the Communist Party, but eventually it may release them. If hell were endless, then God would be worse than our Secret Police."--Pastor Valentin
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