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eternal now

noun

Definitions

  1. The condition in which all reality is experienced in the present, with the past contained…

    The condition in which all reality is experienced in the present, with the past contained only in memory and the future only in anticipation or speculation.

    • We never go beyond the present. […] Tomorrow never comes. Our existence is enclosed within the divine moment, the eternal now.
    • Who is it that needs history the most? Our children, of course. […] Unless they can be won to history, their imagination will be held hostage in the cage of eternal Now: the flickering instant that's gone as soon as it has arrived.

  2. The nature of God's existence which is outside of time

    The nature of God's existence which is outside of time; the nature of a soul's existence in a supposed timeless afterlife.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for eternal now. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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