The moment is all we have...

C'mon people I KNOW you've got to have some thought provoking..........thoughts(lol) on this one! Let's hear them..

Cast a spell?

Would that be this side of the Mediterranean?

Dissapointed in you all!

then our job here is done

everyone drink the koolaid

Are you appointed to diss us?

It would make us all disappointed in you...

Ah, you can spell and I can't.

Bravo, you get a cookie (

Good!

Following a Pavlovian reflex, I'll do better next time..

I think your topic somewhat overlaps many discussions already most have had on a2k - including "free will."

Sorry you're not getting the response you were hoping for.

Maybe the past is all we have.

That's what memories are made of.

"The past" doesn't exist! It is merely a misconception one individual can have when he/she looks upon another person/animal/thing. What's "already done" isn't true for the individual as he/she still has the ability to repeat the action that which he/she is referring to as "the past". In other words, if "the past" DID exist in the way we see it and it was NOT a misconception, it would render life COMPLETELY and utterly futile as the moment an individual did anything it would instantly become "the past". This obviously cannot be true unless you passively accept this common misconception.

If the past doesn't exist, what are you doing responding to the past here on this thread?

I think living totally in the present would be utter misery.

We could not enjoy lovely memories, learn from our past mistakes, or be able to plan for a woderful future.

The present is the vehicle we are traveling in, on our way to and through more delightful scenery.

If we lived only in the present, we'd all be sitting in a pile of our own feces.

Read up ^ You're still having that misconception.

My comprehension of the English language is pretty good; you'll have to point out to me what I'm missing.

"I think living totally in the present would be utter misery.

We could not enjoy lovely memories, learn from our past mistakes, or be able to plan for a woderful future.

The present is the vehicle we are traveling in, on our way to and through more delightful scenery.

If we lived only in the present, we'd all be sitting in a pile of our own feces."

Ah yes, BUT if you did live TOTALLY in the present(and it had always been that way) would there be such a thing as "misery"? No, you wouldn't know such an idea. "Memories" as you put them are(in my mind) nothing more than a vast recollection of a different experience, in order for you to "have" the "memory"something has to "trigger" it by either something you presently hear/see. Plan for a wonderful future? How far ahead can you truly "plan" outside of the very near future? Further than you can presently see still leaves many uncertainties as you cannot be totally sure of the things/people/places you will see and how your own mind will react to it. What you're suggesting is a misconception, as regardless of what you or anyone says WE ARE living in the present moment. It's just sometimes we get "caught up" so to speak. Life is one moment, until it is no more as we knew it.

"The past" is nothing more than an idea any individual can have at any given moment they're alive. An individual sees someone/something "do something" and they refer to what just happened as something that someone/something just did, or "already'' did. Through inductive reasoning we think all beings/things to have some sort of likeness to ourselves so we commonly mis-percieve this to be true for ourselves as well. This, however is false. "The past" is nothing more than a vast recollection of a DIFFERENT experience. Notice - DIFFERENT experience, not a PREVIOUS experience(that's important).

I can only give you information, what you do with it is up to you.

NAACP wrote:

You provide nothing most people already understand. What's your point?