Which is the most significant, the past, the present, or the future?

[yowolabi]

Originally posted by: isaacmacdonald
overrated constructs.

Randomness has a crucial role in the way things happen. Extrapolating the "future" based simply on the "past" is a great way to act irrationally in the present.

See also:


Sirens of Titan

Fooled by Randomness

You can't base the future ONLY on what happened in the past, but ignoring the lessons of the past is as big a folly. There is no such thing as learning without the past, nor is there anything to base your present decisions on at all. Taking the past into account is a much better way to determine and create the future than throwing dice.

 

[guyver01]

The present and the future eventually becomes the past.
Nothing exists except the past.

This is not the present (it's now the past)

Is now the present? Nope... it's now past.


You are reading something i wrote, in the past 😉

by the time you end this sentence, what you thought was the present, was my future, will now be past.

 

[Geekbabe]

Live for today but do it with your hopes on tomorrow🙂

 

[isasir]

Nice question. I voted for present, since my present is somebody's past, and somebody else's future, but what I'm doing right now is significant to me, as long as I continue to feel there's a future to look forward to, as well as learn from my past.

 

[eplebnista]

Present

 

[Syringer]

Anyone as confused reading this thread as me?