Words are important.
What Alex was trying to tell you is that the words you use are indicative of how you think... And how you think inherently requires the presence of time.
You (and most of us) cannot think about the absence of time.
When you say something like "time is a part of the universe, so what was there before the universe?", you are taking nonsense...
There is no "before" if there is no time.
There is no action if there is no time. All our verbs rely on the existence of time, so you can't apply any action to the state of timelessness.
What Alex was trying to tell you is that the words you use are indicative of how you think... And how you think inherently requires the presence of time.
You (and most of us) cannot think about the absence of time.
When you say something like "time is a part of the universe, so what was there before the universe?", you are taking nonsense...
There is no "before" if there is no time.
There is no action if there is no time. All our verbs rely on the existence of time, so you can't apply any action to the state of timelessness.