What started this brainstorm:
All you who seek the way
Please,
Do not waste this moment now.
-Zen Teaching
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
-Byron Katie
What we are looking for
is what is looking.
-St. Francis of Assisi
The following is literally the notes I took while I was thinking about this… So good luck figuring out what it all means:
Does the future exist?
No.
The future cannot exist because it hasn’t happened yet. It’s only possible to predict the future.
Why do things happen?
Maybe because people expect them too… The hypothesis always comes before the discovery. Every second happens because each second is expected.
What will this mean in 2012?
Alternate universes.
The future must exist somewhere, but it can’t possibly exist in the same universe as the present.
The past may or may not exist… still need to think about that.
Must be a number of universes; one for the past, one for the present, and an infinite number defining every possibility for the future.
Maybe the reason for deja vu is that this particular universe collides with others, creating “memories” of similar experiences in people. For this to happen, there has to be more then one present, but if there is more than one, the number of presents cannot be finite. When one present bumps another, the individual has a feeling that whatever is going on has happened before… but it could be that whatever is going on is happening parallel to them.
Time:
The next second doesn’t exist, but once it does, it will exist forever. Time is fluid.
We have reined in time, creating years, seconds, centuries, minutes etc. Time has constraints.
It is easy to assume that there will be another second after this one because the clock ticks seconds constantly.
In reining in time, it has made it possible to make schedules and anticipate the future.
Scheduling would be impossible without constraining time and assuming consistency.
The past:
has to exist forever. Each moment affects another indefinitely. A moment can’t be changed.
The past lives forever because it affects the present constantly.
The following list is arranged generally with the top being my top favorite, and the rest of the list being a jumble of other favorites.