DO you agree that Past and future have no reality of their own?

Answer 1

There is no past, or future. That is linear thinking. There is only now.

Answer 2

Hi Rena,
What an interesting question. Put that way, it does seem so but the more I think about it the more I disagree. The past has brought us here. The reality is, if we hadn't gone through it, we wouldn't be. Everything that happenned in its past has its own reality. In the moment it occurred it was real. The consequences the past has on the future can be very real. There is reality in the future in that we know there is a future (the concept we have of future in our perception of time). I am in the future as compared to when I first started answering this question. When I begun answering I was in the reality of that moment in the past. Now I am in the reality of that moment's future.
Pollyanna

Answer 3

Yup, the future becomes the past. We can not "see" the future and the past is gone. So in reality they have no reality of their own. So, to go a step further, the present does not exist and therefore we do not exist, in time construct, that Is.

Answer 4

By the way that you frame your question it is clear that you only want answers that agree with you. And who is the person giving thumbs down to all the answers that disagree with you? Is it you? If you were open to various answers you would objectively ask, "Do you agree or disagree that the past and future have no reality of their own?" First of all you would have to define "reality of their own."

The nature of time is complicated, and the nature of each point in time is complicated. The various points in time are not completely separate from each other. However, each point in time is real. One cannot, no matter how much one may try to do so, eliminate time's complexity by simply claiming that time is an illusion or that it is unreal. The reality of time, and of its various points (past, future) included, is proven by the consequences of the contraints that it sets upon us.

The past is a real point in time. And so is the future. Thumbs down can't change the truth of their reality.

Human beings are supposed to be distuinguished from other animals by our capacity to recognize that there are such things as past, present, and future. Evidently, not all human beings have that recognition.

Answer 5

No, the past was certainly real, correct? The future, if there is a tomorrow, will come to pass, thus having a reality. Anything that is real has a reality

Answer 6

Not necessarily, While I would agree that the future is not fixed. Based on the only proof I have that the present is real, like proof exists that the past existed. Our existence is
its tangible trace and at any given juncture its reality.

Answer 7

Hello Rena, I suppose giving the past is the past, the reality of it is past too! the future is yet to be reality so it has none, so yes I agree.

Answer 8

The past has reality, b/c it already happened. The future has no guarantees of even happening, so it's real yet. The present is reality in the minute... so, I guess I'm at a empasse with this question... half and half...

Answer 9

Two ends to the same reality.


'12. This Now and this Here are vanishing somewhats. Now is no more while it is and another Now has entered its place, and this latter Now has likewise vanished. But the Now abides all the same. This abiding Now is the general Now, which is both this and that Now, and is likewise neither of them. This Here which I mean, and point out, has a right and left, an above and a below, a behind and a before, etc., ad infinitum; i.e. the Here pointed out is not a simple and hence definite Here, but a unity including many Heres. Therefore, what in truth is extant is not the abstract, sensuous determinateness [the simple "it is"], but the General. '

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ol/ol_phen.htm

Answer 10

There is only Now, consciousness. Consciousness is not a thing of then or will be, it is present and continuous in the NOW. Not to say that we have not had experiences or that we won't some time, but what is constant is consciousness. The past and the future is in the NOW. Time is a dimension of MIND, everything is related to the NOW. When you remember things you draw upon the time of that experience within yourself, but what is occurring is the movement within consciousness while you are present in the NOW. This is not to say that the past doesn't have a reality, because all lives lived, all things done dwell within their experience and you visit or draw upon them when you have memory, when you are invoked by stimulus and react out of your conditioning. That people can be conditioned and that man only reacts shows that most are not in the NOW but are stuck in their past. That I mentioned consciousness, which we all have many don't utilize their consciousness nor do they practice it, because they are unconscious and dwell in their conditioning, from which they react without a genuine action, reacting as they were programmed to - mechanically.

But still everything is present in the NOW, in consciousness. We are not just a by product of our past we are as well one of our future, ironically we can both suffer from ideals and past experiences. The goal is to dwell in consciousness and expand in consciousness, those who dwell in the past suffer their past, those who bring the knowledge of the past into present serve their NOW, the same is true with the future, ideal. All that matters and all that counts for anything is what you do in the NOW and to truly DO takes consciousness.

Answer 11

Hi Rena, Yes i agree that past and future have no reality of their own. I believe God has our lives planned. The old selfish past is now dead. My future is mapped out by God, By me walking his path correctly.