RE: Last thursdayism
May 25, 2022 at 10:27 pm
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2022 at 10:35 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(May 25, 2022 at 7:17 am)Jehanne Wrote:(May 24, 2022 at 11:19 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Yes, well this is just radical skepticism dressed up as a challenge. I doubt the OP is much interested in professing a theory of Time to go along with his Thursdayism. I say this because, if he is a Presentist, then he would have to explain why the past is real only back to Thursday then stops being real. Or if he is an Eternalist, he would face the difficulty of explaining why Thursday is so special among other real past moments.
Theists are faced with the same dilemma -- if God created space & time, "when" did that happen? The simplest explanation is to claim that the Cosmos is eternal, without a beginning and without an end.
Not really, strictly speaking notions of time do not apply in any meaningful way to the God of classical theism. It's like asking how big a concept is. Because we are creatures of time within time our ability to imagine any mode of existence that transcends time. Personally, I find time, as time, and our experience of it to be two of the most entrancing philosophical topics. God's eternal nature is mystery to me...in the best sense of the word. And I truly do not think it is necessary to know everything about something before you can know that it basically exists...like God...or gravity.
Anyway despite the OP having been banned, I would not mind having a friendly discussion about God and time...mostly just speculating though, because lMHO anyone who stubbournly insist that their ideas about time are the correct ones is a fool. No one truly understands time, as in the actual ontological status of the past, present, and future.
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