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>Bill Perry wrote:
>
>> completely? I don't see how that would work, considering the fact
that
>> once you erase the enemy from time, they would have no reason to
erase
>> them, if they don't exist, so what have the pilots of the time
spaceship
>> done with their "time"?
>
>Yes, the "Time Loop Paradox" is one of the principle arguments against
>reverse "time travel" ever being a possibility. (Like, what happens if
you
>kill your parents before your birth date?) It makes for excellent
fiction
>however.
>
>My question:
>"When has anyone ever observed that there has ever been any more than
>exactly ONE time?"
>
>My own perception of time is very different. I submit that there is
only
>one time, and that time is now.
>Sure, we have a memory of a former state of this "now" moment, but this
>"memory" is hardly more than a chemical arrangement in our brains in
the
>present time. The notion of a "past" somehow still existing as it was
is
>just an illusion, albeit a materially useful one. In reality, our
>remembered "past" and latent "future" exist only in the present.
>
>(I remember that I have actually been in a state of mind where I have
>"observed" this to be true.)
>
>-Doug Renner
>
>PS. This is consistent with Plato's "forms", and is particularly
compatible
>with all major religions. It is mindblowingly simple, in a literal
sense.
>
>
>
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