The R Theory of Time

This article by Jeff Group, although difficult to read in both format and content, has had a profound effect on me in that it reminds me of the way that I see time. I have never really believed in a past or a future…not in a way that they exist outside of our personal memory logs or imagination scopes. We can not “visit” these timeframes, because instead of assuming that time is somehow “burning away” or “is waiting to be burned”, I have always imagined that time stands still, in one singular moment, and that everything else is existing within that moment. This moment, right now, is the only moment that has ever existed. It is the same moment the dinosaurs and the Buddha resided in. And now we are.

according to Buddhism and the doctrine of momentariness, only the present exists due to the fact that only one moment ever exists. The reason there are no moments before or after the present is because, in a theory of time and change based on momentariness, where moments are destroyed and copies of moments come into being, the destruction of one moment and the creation of another indicates that there can only ever be one moment.

…according to Buddhism and the doctrine of momentariness, only the present exists due to the fact that only one moment ever exists. The reason there are no moments before or after the present is because, in a theory of time and change based on momentariness, where moments are destroyed and copies of moments come into being, the destruction of one moment and the creation of another indicates that there can only ever be one moment.

link: The R Theory of Time

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