Everything behind you is your future, in front of you is your past?

Question

how does this sound?

Answer 1

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Time is linear, it is subjective and relative time that is not...

[original message]

That is a very good statement, Jorge...

Subjectively it is true.

[this is the future]

However:

If you never learn from you relative past and apply it in the present, you are doomed to keep repeating it.

That Merlyn (who has had many forms in human mythology) was said to have been like this was because he understood this fact.

Being able to look at the relative past, define the Eonic patterns and then use that definition to "divine" the future is a skill all humans possess - if not put into practice.

Think of a time when you did something wrong.

The first time you got burned...

You know now, through the physical sensation of pain, which is pretty uncomfortable (though can be beared, no-one died of pain. Just from what caused it...), you know not to do whatever it was that got you burned unless you want to be burned again.

Of course, if you want to be burned then your past is your future and your future is your past - nothing will stop you from doing what you want. So long as you are dedicated enough to actually do it.

In regards to this question:

When you wrote it, in your past, this answer was in your future. It is in both our pasts now, though right now - it is my present.

Behind my answer, which is the future for you, is my past - my experience and knowledge of temporal relativity and psychology/psychoanalysis...

My past is not my future - I do not let it define who I want to be.

Though it does make me who I am right now.

[this is the past]

[now this is the future again]

Time flows in one direction, but the human mind's ability to view time relatively means that both can be blurred and appear to be one and the same - the person repetitively performs the same action over and over again... This is what is known as a psychosis.

A false belief.

A computer can have a psychosis...

Using one of the earliest, modern, programming languages, we can create a situation where what you have said is entirely true:

10 print "this is the past and it is my future"

20 goto 10

The result is a never ending, scrolling list that never prints anything but "this is the past and it is my future".

Until the programmer decides to end the programme.

[this is the past and now it's the future again]

What I have said to this point is my past and it also defines what I am going to say in my future.

But this is only in the confines of me answering this question.

When I choose to finish - it really will be my past.

My future can be set by myself.

I know that tomorrow, I will get up and have breakfast because it is what I do most days (except sundays, where I stay in bed - unless there is something that happens, unexpectedally, that causes me to get out of it!).

That is my routine, something that is based upon my past.

In that instance, my future is behind me and my past in front of me.

The one key factor that means the relative future is not my past is that the future contains events that, no matter how good you are at reading the subjective past and present, will occour and prove this statement to be both a paradox and a fallacy.

I could talk about this all day [this is the past] but as I have a phone call that I wasn't expecting [which occoured in the future, now the past] I will not continue to substantiate my past as an unexpected event has occoured in my [this is the future].

To quickly conclude - what you say is true. It is a paradox and so therefore can never be proved either way. It is a very interesting paradox because it proves and disproves it's own fallacy (illogical argument).

But that is the nature of paradox!

At the end of my life, all my future will be behind me and all that is in front of me will be my past. Definitely.

Right now, however - that is not the absolute truth.

I have a say in what I do and where I want to be (don't get me started on free will and fate!) regardless of whether that is pre-ordained or not - I believe that I do.

Your belief is all that matters.

If you can read your past, and other people's, and apply that Eonic pattern in the present to rationally decide what future events are most likely to be - take a gamble using loaded die, for example - you will be as Merlyn is and live your life knowing the future and having your past decide what the future will bring.

If you can do that, you are a very lucky (which we can create for ourselves...), very intelligent (which we can also create for ourselves) person indeed!

[this is the future]

A legend, to become a myth that lasts forever!

[this is the past]

Answer 2

Like you're Merlin. Supposedly he was born into his future and lived backwards.

Answer 3

I suggest you turn about 180 degrees to your left or right. That should solve your problem

Answer 4

Like you are going to grow up to be just like your parents.

Answer 5

Sounds like you understand that time is not linear.