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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> hanson wrote:
> >
> > Sternmacher "The Starmaker" <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >  >> > if the past doesn't exist..
> > >> > and the future does not exist
> > >> >
> > > Sam Wormley wrote:
> > >>   what makes you think the Present exist?
> > >>    Let's make it a bit more personal...
> > >>    you don't think your next breath
> > >>    is not in the future...
> > >>    or your previous breath is not in the past?
> > >
> > Sternmacher wrote:
> > > can you go back to the past and get a sample of your breath????
> > >
> > hanson wrote:
> > Sternmacher, not withstanding your belletristic notions below,
> > you can retrieve a that sample of breath from the past,
> > and not only in a closed space and of a few seconds ago,
> > but, as long as the sample is small enough you can do it
> > outside in the open air and go back thousands of years....
> > >
> > It used to be standard edu, when discussing the size of
> > Avogardo's Number. N_A = ~ 6.02*10^23, to calculate
> > that you inhale and exhale, with every breath you take,
> >  2 to 3 atoms of the SAME oxygen that Jesus was breathing
> > 2000 years ago... etc.  The calc is easy. High school stuff.
> > >
> > Sternmacher wrote:
> > > and how can i predict what will be in the future?
> > > what makes you think the Present exist? you mentioned the
> > > past and the future, but not the present...
> > > what makes you think the Present exist?
> > > Sam, let me show you how it works...you first have to THINK.
> 
> That is no indication that a past exist...
> 
> or a present or a future.
> 
> It doesn't even prove that you are living *in* time...

I mean...really, tell me where exactly is this ...'present'?