Bob Shell wrote:
On Feb 18, 2006, at 12:16 PM, keith_w wrote:
Righto! If there is no time, there is no before and after.
Ooops! No before, I'll go along with that. No after? Ludicrous!
Irrational.
Without time, how can there be an after? The term is meaningless
without the context of time.
Exactly, but...
I don't see how it has to be any more compllicated, for the average
bloke, than "before" means anything that happened between the big bang
and the minute in question. Pre-now, pre-history, pre-whenever.
"After" is what WILL happen between this very minute and in the
foreseeable future.
"After" can also pertain to a period of time between any given time
marker (e.g. Tuesday, September 8th, 1844) and whatever followed that
point in time.
It doesn't have to be complicated or esoteric.
keith
