Silk's perception of time

Don Doggett · 19 Nov 2002, 07:13 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

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From: "Don Doggett" <harlekin at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Silk's perception of time
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:13:05 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
To: <urth at urth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 9:59 AM
Subject: RE: (urth) Silk's perception of time

"Don Dogget, agent of SMERSH, emerged from an alley and dropped
the microfilm. When deciphered, it read:"

SMERSH?  I'll bite, what is it?  Do I wear a cool suit and glasses?

" Actually, I think this slightly reverses the usual understanding
of the relationship between God-in-Eternity and Time. I would
not say that God "is always NOW"; rather, I would say that God
perceives past, present, and future as always-already
simultaneously present before God. To say that God is NOW almost
seems to restrict God, to place God in the NOW, whereas I posit
that we want to say that no moment contains or can contain God."

Thank you, that's what I meant but I was trying (unsuccessfully) for
economy.

Don

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