the answer is an inigma and not a single worded answer.
2007-02-15 01:18:05 · 13 answers · asked by chapmark64 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
One answer could be: what was. But, Nietzsche spoke of 'eternal return' of everything. So, if all comes back in an infinite series of possibilities that exist in eternity, what was CAN again be. That's why I presume this is not the right answer.
Logically, what's not and never will be should refer to something (nothing) that was never created, that never lasts and never perishes. What would that be? Possibly: stillness. We believe (not to say that we know!) that everything that is is moving, and that the only thing not moving is the non-being. But, can we prove that a non-being can not be? The fact (?) that all that is is moving is just empirical, so we must consider the option of a form of existence that we've never encountered so far.
Possibly, an explanation would be just the opposite: what constantly flows and changes can never be. In that case, it would be: time! Time never stops, so it never IS. If it never stops, then it never will be. The only time we can determine is the one that passed - maybe that's why there is no 'what never was' in the question. This will be my final answer: what always flows can not be in the present or in the future, it can only be in the past. What I find most similar to this is time.
2007-02-15 02:14:44 · answer #1 · answered by Uros I 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What we call now perhaps?
Everybody lives in the past. News from the world at large arrives minutes, hours, days, months later.
Everything we experience arrives at a maximum of light speed (minimum not set) , so even looking out the window, what we see is in the past (however recently). If you hit me, it takes my brain several 10ths of seconds to respond. (perhaps I am slower than most)
2007-02-15 19:29:02 · answer #2 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All that we perceive, matter, self, world, surroundings, ideas, is all illusion. There is only a flux and flow of energy that our feeble minds compartmentalizes into ideas of solid things, and solid concepts. So in a sense, anything that you see, perceive, or think of could be an answer to this question!
2007-02-15 04:14:23 · answer #3 · answered by coysmirk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The future. It always ends up being the past.
2007-02-15 04:43:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A free lunch.
2007-02-15 13:03:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah i agree with nothing.
Not that I really get what your talking about.
2007-02-15 01:25:49 · answer #6 · answered by Vixz06 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Civilisation as we know it, never ment to be, all going through life, 'hows your father'?
2007-02-15 01:24:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the present
2007-02-15 07:40:40 · answer #8 · answered by no1shylass 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing.
2007-02-15 01:22:11 · answer #9 · answered by lisateric 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cant be nothing because nothing is something
2007-02-15 03:33:04 · answer #10 · answered by happytramp 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋