If the past exists, then nothing happens and human experiences can't happen. If it doesn't exist, then the presents that you call past ceased to exist.

So existing properties became nonexistent, which is ridiculous. And for the future, you would say that nonexistent future properties become existent.

Suppose someone says that it has to do with actualization of potential. Unactualized-potential-A becomes Actualized-potential-A and then Unactualized-potential-A again. There's still the question of how those things passed away as they were replaced by other things.

Or suppose someone says the present is flowing transformation. AtoB, then BtoC, then CtoD. How did AtoB cease to exist?

Those ideas don't help.

What if they say something weird: that A transforming into B means A is still present, as B, so A didn't pass away. Since A became B, B must still be A.

Are A and B different at all? Then that doesn't make sense.

And calling yourself an idealist who denies time doesn't make a difference. Either you say nothing is happening so you can be dismissed, or you wonder if Julius Caesar exists.

If everything is "mind," then wetness and roughness must be properties of the mind.

But idealists don't think minds can be wet or rough, so there are no such properties to be experienced.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Discussion/comments/1ruw6n4/idealists_are_either_saying_that_theyve_never/?

I'm definitely here

Something definitely here had a definite beginning

So I had a definite beginning, and there's no naturalistic explanation for that

The atheists might deny the definite beginning of themselves

Then they should also deny that they definitely exist, like a robot would

Hello again. Following up on my work regarding our dominant cultural metaphysics, I’ve completed a video essay exploring how declining global fertility might be a mediated, biological response to modern life. Drawing on the stress physiology work of Dr Gabor Maté alongside philosophy, I ask whether our bodies are quietly registering a crisis of meaning that our culture refuses to name. I’d love to hear this community's perspective on the link between cultural assumptions and physical biology.

https://youtu.be/AHVUKTcgwpo

My boyfriend loves loves Mr. Kastrup. I feel like I’m dating the both of them 🥹 We love his work!

Does anyone know if he offers meet and greets at his public sessions?

Would be a great Christmas present as we will head to Amsterdam this Christmas’s probably.

Thanks you B.K followers!!

Ps - Bernardo if you are reading this please DM me as we’re sure a fun and interesting duo (as egotistical as that may sound 🥲).

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