There’s no Tuesday

[PurpleTree]

4 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Do we actually grasp the significance of that, though? That's the key question.

Intellectually, we can understand it. It's relatively straightforward if one understands English. But what does our experience say in the matter? 

It's a fascinating contemplation. For example, we likely keep holding the present as a moment in time, and don't quite perceive the Now. Anything we point to - whether it happened years ago or a millisecond ago - seems to be process-based, which isn't the same as an experience of now. Now it's an absolute, and naming things is one of the functions of language, so things can be named; another thing is whether that is an accurate representation of what's so. It's still a representation and not the thing itself. 

Some food for thought, sorry if I sidetracked the thread. 

There’s not even a Now really.

because now still implies time, before and next.

 

[UnbornTao]

9 minutes ago, PurpleTree said:

There’s not even a Now really.

because now still implies time, before and next.

 

Perhaps. But consider that the now is an absolute and might even be the source of time, prior to "before and next", or the context for them. That is, we have yet to become conscious of the Now - it's likely being heard as the way we experience "the present moment", which is fine. At the same time, they aren't quite the same thing. I can't really tell because I'm not conscious of that now.

[Mellowmarsh]

3 hours ago, PurpleTree said:

Obviously it’s useful to say we have an appointment on Tuesday or whatever.

 

But it then easily becomes stale and repetitive.

God fuccn Tuesday again and i hate my dumb job and my fat boss.

And god my dumb fat boss NEVER respects me.

and so on.

But it’s not true everything is not repetitive.

Everything is kind of new.

There‘s no real Tuesday and there has never been and there will never be.

I feel the same about the fake repetition that are religious holidays, especially Christmas time. Yawn!! Urgh!!

 

That is the price paid for being born a human I guess. Can get tedious.

 

 But yes, everything is kind of new.