RE: Past and future do not exist

Oh, wonderful, someone who also thinks that humanity is too literal about what it thinks it can accurately measure. Scientific methods of measurement are an approximation to this relative reality experienced by the individual.

For example, I would have disagreed with you before I myself embarked on the time issue and once countered your concept of an illusion with the accepted time unit of 365 days per year in which the earth orbits the sun. Only after I went through the whole thing experimentally in my head and constantly stumbled over differences in the calculation of time, as well as the really amusing and crazy "attempts at correction" in Christian time measurement, did I come to realise that even small deviations can cause huge effects. I remember that - I think it was Pope Gregory - had erased a whole eight months from the calendar? If my memory does not deceive me :)

For me personally, as a result of my research into scientific as well as philosophical, religious and esoteric texts, it hardly makes a difference to my decisions, I could consider everything equally "voodoo", insofar as my mind is not able to translate such readings into a form of expression that I can understand. When I then think I have finally understood, I am guaranteed to encounter contradiction. HaHa!

The professional idiocy that I detect in scientists and the efforts at interpretation in understanding texts of this and other writings on the part of the humanities or theologies, where one scene tries to convince the other that it is right, is suspicious to me in principle. Possibly not even so much by the scientists themselves in the debate among themselves, but by the general public who, in search of reliable information - or to find security in their existence - are prepared to reject one for the other and such expresses itself in compulsion of opinion.

I like the Buddhist approach, although it is often accused of nihilism. In my view, the non-existent question of a creator defuses the eternal arguments about whether we live in an intelligent or stupid universe.

Though I probably like the practical, touchable practices more than the mind-related teachings. Like washing the dead, looking at dead bodies, taking care of the congregation in terms of physical ceremonies. When it comes to birth, the beginning of life, there is not much to find in Buddhism. Motherhood, midwifery etc. I think has not a particular connection to this form of religion or concept. So I am happy to complete this lack with other forms of cultural influences.

Thank you for this article, I very much enjoyed reading and commenting on it!