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

To: Solon who wrote (19111)	1/8/2005 12:50:32 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

"If you have an argument that experience can obtain without the occurrence of finite events separated by finite durations of time...I would be happy to entertain it. But Zeno's paradox fails the point miserably." To the contrary. It supports it well. You, as many pragmatists do, got flustered and just determined illogically to dismiss any discussion of what time is so that your presumptions about tense could stand. "It doesn't matter what time is. What matters is that time separates the past, the present, and the future" Time does no such thing. Time is an absolute that moves in only one direction and in which we can only experience the present on an ongoing basis. If you have an experience of the future I'd love to hear about it. "When you presented Zeno's paradox as a lead-in to your assertion that "We make an infinite number of movement events through an infinite number of moments in time to reach the corner." it was necessary that I correct you." The paradox is a null argument to demonstrate how division of time is illusory. " My discussion started with my assertion that any "afterlife" would require events if there were to be experience...and events require separation in time." I missed that discussion. Maybe I will go back later and pick up the gist of it. For now, I will simply post the questions that I have about your presumptions. You and I accept that 'Time' is a primary vehicle in explaining temporal experience. Right? Isn't it possible that an after life experience would transcend temporal conditions, that is being time bound ... no longer being bound in the temporal universe and all? Unless you were thinking of reincarnation or something. I thought your inference was to some existence external to the universe.