If someone were to ask you what time it is, there will never be a time in your life, when you cannot say “it is now”. You may point to a mechanical device on the wall and give them some number, which is an agreed upon time and you will also be right. It is now, everywhere on the planet, regardless of what time zone you are in. If Planet X were to hit earth and destroy the planet, half the people would die in their sleep and the other half in the middle of the day, but all would die in the same present moment.Halc wrote: ↑June 14th, 2018, 10:25 amYou simply choose to assume this. I claim no proof of such, but I strongly suspect that no moment of my life takes place in the present. One has to beg the answer to assert otherwise. OK, so I am begging a different answer, and thus claim no proof.Present awareness wrote: ↑June 14th, 2018, 9:12 amIf you think about it, you will realize that there was never a time in your life when it wasn’t the present moment.My death will not end time or halt my plans. It just halts the making of new plans. The demise of all humanity might end the concept, which ends time only for idealists.Present awareness wrote: ↑June 14th, 2018, 9:47 am The concept of time is very useful for making plans, but an unfortunate and untimely death, would put those plans into a different perspective.
How much time went by before you were born? You will have no memory of it of course, so you must rely on what someone tells you. Could be 13.7 billion years, if you believe in the Big Bang theory, could be shorter if you believe in creationism or it could be that you have always been here and this is just your current present form.