2006-08-08 10:25:27 · 17 answers · asked by reading_is_dangerous 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jumping off from answers posted two hours ago/
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The past now resides in distortion and/or incorporation.
2006-08-08 12:43:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is such a difficult question. As I see it, history is just an idea of where we came from--a one dimensional and sometimes distorted reflection of past events that someone deems relevant.
However the past is not just history. The past is something more. It is the collection of experiences, conversations, moments and thoughts that shape the individuals we are in the present and the individuals we will become in the future.
Unlike history where we make this cognizant decision to record it the past leaves impressions that we are not always consciencely aware of what we take in. The environment plays a part to how we react.
2006-08-09 18:37:21 · answer #2 · answered by adieu 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The past is always happening. The past is a place. Linear time is an illusion.
2006-08-08 17:29:45 · answer #3 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eventually, the past is either accepted, or forgotten. The earliest thinkers tried to induce the far past, origins so to speak, by starting at the end, and working backwards. If I were standing at the end of time, looking back at the beginning of time, I would hope that the day on Calvary, was not still in existence, eternally painful for three men on three crosses. Come to think of it, you have to accept the past, before you can forget it...
And yet, a man that stands at both ends of eternity chooses to do exactly that; forgive, and forget...
2006-08-11 03:33:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no THE past. There are personal experiences and there are group experiences, there are recent memories and there is remote history. Personal, recent memories are fairly reliable if you are sane, but not reliable at all if you are not sane. Group experiences and remote history are merely matters of normative opinion with barely any basis in reality. Hope this clears up any confusion.
2006-08-08 17:35:41 · answer #5 · answered by anyone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Acording to the quantum theory the past always exists in anothr universe similar or the same to our's.Its callet multiverse
2006-08-08 17:32:35 · answer #6 · answered by cyberhacker665 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no past, there is only memory. The only reality is NOW.
2006-08-10 22:24:26 · answer #7 · answered by Dragon Sword 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's behind us. It's something that we look at and learn from so that we wouldn't make the same mistakes over and over again. And it's also to learn other things.
2006-08-08 17:30:26 · answer #8 · answered by OnFireForJesus! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It gets distorted more and more as time passes, and often gets retold by the victorious party.
2006-08-08 17:31:41 · answer #9 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Langoliers eat it up!
2006-08-08 17:30:43 · answer #10 · answered by Harry_Cox 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The langoliers eat it up!
2006-08-08 17:33:57 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋