REALITY – TIME IS NOT

REALITY

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Other world!

There is no other world!

Here or nowhere is the whole fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 – 1882)

There is nothing supernatural, there never was and there never will be.

No supernatural being exists, none ever existed, and none will ever exist.

There is no deity; no deity exists, no deity will exist, and no deity ever existed.

There is no supernatural being, entity or thing; there never was and there never will be.

No deity or supernatural being oversees, controls or creates any one, every one, any thing or every thing; not entirely or to any extent; and no deity or supernatural being ever did so or ever will.

Every so-called deity and supernatural person, being, entity, force, energy and thing is, was, and will be only an idea, an ideal, a concept, a myth, an illusion, an hypothesis, a theory, a mental construct, a fiction of human imagination, about a person, being, entity, force, energy or thing that does not exist, never did exist, and never will exist.

All that is alleged, thought, worshipped or believed to be supernatural or divine is merely ideas, ideals, concepts, hypotheses, theories, illusions, myths, mental constructs, and fictions of human imagination, about what does not exist, never did exist, and never will exist.

No one is being judged by, or will be or ever was judged by, any deity or supernatural person, entity, power or being.

There is not, was not and never will be any day of judgment by any deity or supernatural person, entity, power or being.

There are not any divine decrees, there never were and there never will be.

There are no miracles, there never were and there never will be.

There are no supernatural occurrences, there never were and there never will be.

There are no angels, demons, spirits, souls or ghosts, there never were and there never will be.

There is no, was no and will never be life after death for any person or living being, not on earth, not any other place, and not in any supernatural heaven or hell.

There is no heaven or hell, there never was and there never will be.

All that exists is what physically exists in physical reality in the eternal present; that is all that there is, that is all that there ever was, and that is all that there ever will be.

I. M. Schönenwald (1913 – 2011)

The mystery of existence cannot be explained by the intellect of man. Back of life, of existence we cannot go; beyond death we cannot see. All duties, all obligations, all knowledge, all experience, are for this life, for this world.

Robert Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)

Did you know: That lawyers are men; and judges are men; and that all laws are and were made by men; and that all priests and preachers are men; and that all religions were made and formulated by men; and that all books were written by men; and that all of the justice we know is man’s justice; and that what we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.

Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915)

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves; of such undoubted integrity, as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind, as to have a great deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood; and at the same time attesting facts, performed in such a public manner, and in so celebrated a part of the world, as to render the detection unavoidable; all which circumstances are requisite to give us a full assurance of the testimony of men.
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A miracle is no miracle at second hand.
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Upon the whole, then, it appears that no testimony for any kind of miracle has ever amounted to a probability, much less to a proof.

David Hume (1711 – 1776)

I conjure you my brethren, remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of superterrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life they are, decaying and themselves poisoned, of whom earth is weary: begone with them!

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)

The fact that something which exists in the physical world is experienced, but that what that physical thing actually is and why it does what it does cannot be understood, explained, or communicated with words, thought, language and logic, is not evidence that such thing is mystical, magical, metaphysical, supernatural or caused by any spirit, soul or deity.
Physical reality is often if not always ineffable.

Ambrose Sélavy (1942 – )

Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well,
Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods, who dwell
Crowned with avenging righteousness on high,
Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.

Titus Lucretious (96 – 55 BCE)

The picture of scientific method drafted by modern philosophy is very different from traditional conceptions. Gone is the ideal of a universe whose course follows strict rules, a predetermined cosmos that unwinds itself like an unwinding clock. Gone is the ideal of the scientist who knows the absolute truth. The happenings of nature are like rolling dice rather than like revolving stars; they are controlled by probability laws, not by causality, and the scientist resembles a gambler more than a prophet. He can tell you only his best posits — he never knows beforehand whether they will come true. He is a better gambler, though, than the man at the green table, because his statistical methods are superior. And his goal is staked higher — the goal of foretelling the rolling dice of the cosmos.

Hans Reichenbach (1891 – 1953)

[W]e know that no empirical proposition can ever be anything more than probable.

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882 – 1944)

To understand the phenomena of the physical world it is necessary to know the equations which the symbols obey but not the nature of that which is being symbolised. . . . The demand of the layman for a concrete explanation has to be set aside.

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882 – 1944)

The devil is in the absolutes and in the details.
And the answer to a subjective question is most probably
“Maybe” or “Sometimes” or “Who knows?”

Ernesto Unochesa (1877 – 1940)
[For more on probability, see here→ ]

There appears to be a mind independent reality,
but there is much that is not known about what that reality is;
although some things are apparently known about what it does.

M. S. Aman (1942 – )

What you think physical things that you perceive with your five senses are,
and all your perceptions and conceptions of those physical things,
are much different than the things perceived;
much different than whatever it is
that things may in fact be,
in and of themselves,
outside of your
mind.
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In endless space countless luminous spheres, round each of which some dozen smaller illuminated ones revolve, hot at the core and covered over with a hard cold crust; on this crust a mouldy film has produced living and knowing beings: this is empirical truth, the real, the world. Yet for a being who thinks, it is a precarious position to stand on one of those numberless spheres freely floating in boundless space, without knowing whence or whither, and to be only one of innumerable similar beings that throng, press, and toil, restlessly and rapidly arising and passing away in beginningless and endless time. Here there is nothing permanent but matter alone, and the recurrence of the same varied organic forms by means of certain ways and channels that inevitably exist as they do. All that empirical science can teach is only the more precise nature and rule of these events. But at last the philosophy of modern times, especially through Berkeley and Kant, has called to mind that all this in the first instance is only phenomenon of the brain, and is encumbered by so many great and different subjective conditions that its supposed absolute reality vanishes. . . . ‘The world is my representation’ is . . . a proposition which everyone must recognize as true as soon as he understands it, although it is not a proposition that everyone understands as soon as he hears it.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)

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WHAT WE HAVE WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE
$\because$
CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONCEPTS
OF THINGS IN THE WORLD
RESULTING FROM
PERCEPTIONS
OF BEING
$\because$ THAT IS WHAT IS
“GIVEN”
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Vitam impendere vero. (Juvenal, c. 100 CE)