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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (19101)	1/7/2005 6:24:32 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

"Are your predictions of the future any more than an expectation" NO. Because the future does not EXIST now. It is a different moment than the present moment--otherwise I WOULD be experiencing it NOW. But THEN and NOW are two different moments...and that is why we refer to them with two different words. It is obvious that life moves from moment to moment, from event to event. I don't claim to be able to "richly" experience the past or the future. But memories, pictures, and the concordance of others is sufficient evidence for me that events occurred in the past which are not occurring now. Hence those events were not eternal. I only have memories and representations of them. And even those will someday be lost to every memory of every creature.