There really is no such thing as time. There is only the eternal, absolute NOW. Time is an illusion, a construct invented by humans to document change.

Change is the only constant in the Universe. The universe is in a constant state of change and so we humans devised the concept of time to document what has changed. Change is caused by movement and movement can only occur in space. If a thing - the sun, the moon or an electron in an atom - moves through space then we base, judge or calculate the difference in their positions in space with our idea of time. It took so long, using our artificial construct of time, for the sun or the electron to move from point A to point B.

Yet if you view time as endless, which we surely must and correctly do, then the end of time is not possible. Time is an absolute. There is no such thing as time as an IS NOT. And in the absence of IS NOT, then IS cannot exist. If you have only one thing, which cannot be compared to anything else because nothing else exists, then you have an absolute.

Time is, as we have constructed it, a relative concept...our choice. But if time is relative, then it must be viewable in comparison to something else, something which is different, something which exists. But if there is no such thing as the end of time, as in NO TIME, if time does never not exist, then we have nothing to compare it to. Thus time is not relative, it is an absolute, a universal truth. It is, therefore, always NOW and only NOW. There is no such thing as NOT NOW.

The past and the future? I'll let you know if I receive anything.

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