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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...