The Illusion of Time (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, June 21, 2010, 22:55 (5267 days ago) @ dhw

dhw creates a striking argument discussing how life carries its past with it. -Here I concede to flawless logic. Indeed; we carry all the changes to our genomes that didn't result in abject failure, as well as all of its successes. In this sense--for life--conservation of the past is EXACTLY what the point IS. -Moving on to culture and our attempts to preserve it: I didn't mean to say that certain events never happened: Clearly all history leading to 1967 resulted in the firm and swift manner that the Israelis took their destiny into their own hands. -I could argue here that this past doesn't actually exist--and though technically correct in terms of here/now vs. everything else, it also fails because as you of all people should know--it doesn't matter if an event exists or not if it is pivotal in the development of an individual; extrapolate a shared event to a group of many and this only becomes more severe. -At the moment I can't say much else about this.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"