Eternal the originator of time - proof.

[Mudhammam]

I'm about to begin a book by the physicist Julian Barbour called The End of Time in which (I think) he argues that time is a mental construct through which we organize patterns or events. If something like his thesis is correct, Mystic's entire argument fails. Maybe Barbour is completely off base but at least it goes to show that nobody should presume to understand the actual nature of time, as some sort of medieval "units" of indivisible "momenta" that succeed each other to infinity and beyond, when even physicists themselves don't know exactly what to make of it. Many have suggested that events in time and space evolve from an underlying structure of reality to which these concepts don't apply. Call it metaphysical, or first cause, or unmoved mover, or God if you want. But keep in mind that this tells you nothing more about the fundamental nature of reality (much less your everyday experiences) than if you were to refer to every paradox in the intellectual life of humans as The Mysterious Mrs. X. And with the rest of what Mystic said about "love" and "honor" and these ideas being derived from an omnibenevolent being...yeah that's not logic or science, that's theology, or mythos, and worse, it's mythos without any usefulness or pragmatic value to observers who literally find no inherent need or benefit in pretending that Middle World is under the Eternal Unblinking Eye of X. If you want to say this notion comforts you, fine, but there are madhouses full of sufferers who have far more innovative fantasies to offer your creative appetite.