Thursday, October 16, 2008

Emo Philosophy II

Originally Posted January 4, 2005

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion.  In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause... What does 'coming before' mean, or coming after?... it is the whole idea of 'point' that is mistaken.  Ever since Parmenides, points have been posited by science in as attempt to establish whence and whither something moves. But in fact nothing moves, and there is only one point, the one from which all others are generated at the same instant.

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