Time???

[supremebeing]

If the past is gone and you cant go back, the future hasnt happened and you cannot go forward, how do we know that there is a now

[Fibonacci]

To do is to be - Descartes
To be is to do - Sartre
Do be do be do - Frank Sinatra

see
http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs/present/p resent5.php

[Clanad]

Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt...

[bernardo]

We do not know that there is a now. Everything we experience has happened in the past, and it takes us time to receive, absorb and interpret the information through our senses.

[SaxyJag]

Supremebeing, Bernardo - I don't know the answer, but can I nick your quotes for possible future inclusion in a book?

[heathfield]

The past is always with us.

[Quizmonster]

In the immortal words of Colour Sergeant Bourne in the film Zulu..."Because we're here, lad!"

[LotusEater]

Confucian saying: "You can never step the same piece of water twice" (or something like that).

Time is but a continuous sequence of nows.

[pjm007]

This is going to sound out of context but 'now' was the time you wrote you're question, and 'now' is the time I'm writing my answer.

[Mikeyd2]

As it goes in "The Likely Lads" theme ..."It's the only thing too look forward to , the past.....

[bernardo]

Who controls the past, controls the future
Who controls the present, controls the past

[Whickerman]

Not only can we go forward in time, we are going forward in time, at about one second per second.

[LotusEater]

Except when we're on film, when we go forwards (or backwards, or in any chosen direction) at 24 or so frames per second.

[southerngirl]

How long does "now" last? Once you've thought you are in the now, it becomes the past.

I reckon it's all a big con, this time thing, and we are all just a figment of someone's imagination, or am I just imagining it?

[jbuckley]

While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

-Da Vinci