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   From: burkesgurlz@std-girls.com   
      
   On 12/19/2009 7:29 AM, Colonel Edmund J. Burke wrote:   
   > Here's some advice to the ignorant of mind who believe in the false concept   
   called prediction.  The nature of prediction implies a set future residing   
   somewhere in time and space.  The same can be said regarding the concept of   
   the past, which also    
   has no reality in time and/or space.  Instead the concepts of past and future   
   are merely conventions of the human mind, allowing the expression and   
   communication of complex time relationships.   
   >   
   > Prediction, then, implies that the future is a time and/or place which   
   exists along the timeline.  This is the basis for all religious claims, by   
   the way, which, to the intelligent man, always serves to demonstrate the   
   falsity of all religion.  There    
   is no one or no thing watching over us.   
   >   
   > In actuality, time exists only in the immediate present.  It exists as an   
   infinite quantity of points that exist momentarily in the immediate present.   
   And this is what time is, as best as can be defined:  Time exists as infinite   
   imaginary points of    
   the immediate present.  We really can't even be certain if time actually is;   
   time may be nothing more than the logical ordering of the mind, existing   
   wholly within the mind but not in exterior reality.  Now that I have   
   explained all this, you can    
   clearly see that the so-called future is only a figment of unreality.   
   >   
   > THANK YOU AND HAVE A PHILOSOPHICAL DAY.   
   >   
   >   
   > Sincerely,   
   > Colonel Edmund J. Burke   
   > U.S. Army, ret.   
      
      
   I told you I was a philosopher.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)