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why is it always now?

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Because when we put it off till tomorrow, tomorrow never comes.

Funny, when I tell my wife that I'll do something "tomorrow", boom! There's tomorrow, and she's making sure I'm doing it, you betcha!
 
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is the flow of time an illusion?
Probably , according to all Scripture, few understand it the way God Designed it. (the natural mind is unable to grasp truth)

As written in Scripture, unless the Father in heaven grants it (gives it graciously from heaven), a man cannot receive it (anything). In line and harmony with "EVERY GOOD GIFT" is from above(from the Father in heaven) ....
 
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why is it always now?

is the flow of time an illusion?
We are actually living in the past (in God's mind). But, once you become aware of it that's when you start living from Heaven to Earth, being able to manifest the Kingdom. The movie The Matrix helps understand it more.
 
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why is it always now?

is the flow of time an illusion?

I look at time as an invention by an Intellect that has always existed and planned and worked out an essentially infinite number of Big Bang type events over infinite time in the past.

I think of time as a car, ship, bicycle or some sort of vehicle that assists souls to progress from point A to Point B and on and on and on.....

https://www.near-death.com/experiences/exceptional/mellen-thomas-benedict.html#a05

At this point of my near-death experience, I found myself in a profound stillness, beyond all silence. I could see or perceive FOREVER, beyond Infinity. I was in the Void.



I was in pre creation, before the Big Bang. I had crossed over the beginning of time / the First Word / the First vibration. I was in the Eye of Creation. I felt as if I was touching the Face of God. It was not a religious feeling. Simply, I was at one with Absolute Life and Consciousness. When I say that I could see or perceive forever, I mean that I could experience all of creation generating itself. It was without beginning and without end. That’s a mind-expanding thought, isn’t it? Scientists perceive the Big Bang as a single event that created the Universe. I saw during my life after death experience that the Big Bang is only one of an infinite number of Big Bangs creating Universes endlessly and simultaneously. The only images that even come close in human terms would be those created by super computers using fractal geometry equations.
 
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is the flow of time an illusion?
We experience time at one second per second (although it may seem faster or slower at times), so we can never get ahead of now, or drop behind it. However, we can get ahead of other people's nows... ;)
 
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...is the flow of time an illusion?
Not really - it's possible that time itself is emergent, but at the level of fundamental particles it has no direction or flow, particle interactions are reversible.

The flow or arrow of time, i.e. the fact that the past is different from the future, that we remember the past but not the future, and seem to progress into the future, is an emergent property of statistical mechanics at macro scales. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (entropy never decreases in an isolated system) in conjunction with the low entropy initial state of the big bang, means that the entropy of the universe is continually increasing, and it is this that supplies the arrow of time.

Ordered systems tend to become increasingly disordered, and can only be maintained by using the available energy to do work to reduce local entropy at the expense of a greater increase of entropy in the universe as a whole. So life on Earth uses the low entropy, high energy photons from the sun to do work to lower its own entropy, building and maintaining order, and radiating away low energy, high entropy photons to the rest of the universe. For every high energy photon used, around 20 low energy infra-red photons are radiated away.
 
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is the flow of time an illusion?
Perhaps no illusion.

TODAY is enough trouble for TODAY. Tomorrow has troubles of its own.

TODAY if we hear HIS VOICE, we are to obey, and not to rebel as they did in the wilderness and were destroyed .
 
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