This one was inspired by a comment made by someone on the Zone.
The Independent Variable
There is no past and there is no future.
One is but a memory, the other just a dream.
All we really know is an eternal present,
suspended between regret and anticipation.
You cannot travel to the past
or refuse to travel to the future.
The first is the map of a vanished city.
The other, the score of an unplayed symphony.
All we'll ever have is the infinite Now.
And all else is the convenient fable
of an imaginary journey
to an unknowable destination.
We cannot plan unless we remember,
nor can we recognize what we see
if it is unlike all we have known.
So we create the illusion of passing time.
What is gone was once the now,
as will be what comes to pass.
One was, the other will become,
the never-ending moment
Time does not exist,
Everything happens at once.
It is just a number that we use
to keep track of moving objects.
This point in time
The whole thread (61 posts)
- Test driving government health care
- We've driven the current system into a ditch for most Americans (n/t)
- What's going to change?
- A Century ago, in Ybor City
- "...before we put everybody in the country in the program"
- Here's the Finance Committee presentation
- Did you READ it?
- Since you love to just throw a link into a post, here's back at ya...
- Great stuff. Send us Part I.
- Non-profit medical
- No offense, but you guys are rather dense.
- All Conservatives need to justify the status-quo is "high profit".
- Great stuff. Send us Part I.
- and leave us with what?
- Since you love to just throw a link into a post, here's back at ya...
- "Are you ever going to put your strawman arguments to rest? "