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Originally Posted by Max Power  Here's the real problem with the past...........it sucks up too much of the present. Regretting it, dealing with it, fearing it will repeat itself. Everytime you have a thought about the past (or future) that is a thought you can't have about the present.
The past never exists unless you think of it in the present, right now, same with the future. You only ever have power in this present moment, that's it and that's all there is. Max |
What you say is absolutely true in a certain context, but no one is addressing the fact that the past has relevance in the present. Take the Alzheimers patient. Without a point of referrence we would be disoriented and directionless. And as ming pointed out:
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I agree. If you donīt remember your past you wonīt know how to talk, eat, relate, function. you wonīt remember your address, relatives, colleagues. You will be in a vegetative state, in a coma or like a newborn.
-Animals, children and some mentally ill donīt relate to time. Does it make them enlightened creatures?
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