The Nature of Time Settled Once and For All

[Sparko]

You provide great comic relief?

Thanks. I didn't know you care.

So I had a visit from my future self yesterday. He told me that the B-theory is the settled science. So now it really is settled. Except he was a bit drunk. Or maybe that was the present me. Anyway, a mirror was involved somewhere in there.

[seer]

Thanks. I didn't know you care.

So I had a visit from my future self yesterday. He told me that the B-theory is the settled science. So now it really is settled. Except he was a bit drunk. Or maybe that was the present me. Anyway, a mirror was involved somewhere in there.

I don't like my future self, he is all dried up, winkled and pees on his shoes...

[Sparko]

I don't like my future self, he is all dried up, winkled and pees on his shoes...

Your future self is Joe Biden?

[seer]

Your future self is Joe Biden?

Pretty much...

[Sparko]

Pretty much...

Can you get me a lucrative job where I get paid millions of dollars by China for doing nothing?

[seer]

Can you get me a lucrative job where I get paid millions of dollars by China for doing nothing?

I don't know, what I do know is that my future self can beat up your future self - even if I'm peeing on my shoes while I do it...

[rogue06]

I don't know, what I do know is that my future self can beat up your future self - even if I'm peeing on my shoes while I do it...

My future self was supposed to count y'all's push-ups that you challenged Sparko to but ended up taking a nap while you two struggled to do one.

[seer]

My future self was supposed to count y'all's push-ups that you challenged Sparko to but ended up taking a nap while you two struggled to do one.

Is your future self peeing on your shoes yet? If not I have both of you beat!

[rogue06]

Is your future self peeing on your shoes yet? If not I have both of you beat!

Depends.

[seer]

Depends.

Yes they work!

[shunyadragon]

Presentism is true.

Special Relativistic effects are Lorentzian.

General Relativity is completely compatible with a privileged foliation of time, the presently existing, three-dimensional hyperplane of simultaneity, persisting through one-dimensional time.

Reality isn't a literal, geometric object, a semi-Riemannian manifold, though it can be plotted that way on a Minkowski space-time diagram.

God is temporal to preserve His Omniscience.

To ask about the extent of the Present is a malformed question.

You don't need truth-makers for past and future tense propositions.

Tense is an ineradicable feature of language.

Present tense propositions have truth-makers: the existent Present.

Leave the cult and come to the good side of the force.

Are you considering the Physics and Quantum Mechanics understanding of time or your religious presuppositions of the nature of time based on your beliefs?

It is likely that the scientific view of time is not compatible with your religious view.

[seer]

It is likely that the scientific view of time is not compatible with your religious view.

What religious view? There are Christians that hold to B theory, and those who hold to A theory.

[Sparko]

I don't know, what I do know is that my future self can beat up your future self - even if I'm peeing on my shoes while I do it...

My future self stole all of your future self's bacon so I win.

[Sparko]

What religious view? There are Christians that hold to B theory, and those who hold to A theory.

Best to just ignore Shuny. He has no idea what he is talking about but wants to pretend he does. He thought the B-theory was Newtonian in the other thread

[shunyadragon]

What religious view? There are Christians that hold to B theory, and those who hold to A theory.

The choice gives less meaning to a philosophical/religious view of the nature of time. Regardless of the choice the theme is a theistic basis for the choice as presented in your first post when you stated the subjective Theistic assumption: 'God is temporal to preserve His Omniscience.'