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Originally Posted by Tam9  The point was never how you experienced emotional/physical pain of the past and you should get over it. The point was and is 'the past exists and there are continuous reminders of it in the present'! Why is everyone going on about you don't have to dwell on it? This was never the issue. What I had issue with was that the past is a fantasy. I tried to point out that it is not. |
Tam9, you brought up the whole emotional/physical pain connection as a way of illustrating your objection to the idea that the past and future are fantasy, so discussion of it is directly on track with your point.
You don't like the word fantasy, and what I'm saying doesn't require that word, so I will just say to you:
The past and the future do not exist. Events have occurred, and hopefully will occur, but at this moment the events and the time "container" in which they did or will occur do not exist. All we have, all we ever had, and all we will ever have, is Now.
So, there you go.