What is the present? Current minute, hour or day or week?

 

How are we supposed to live in something that cant be defined or can it?

 

 

As time-travel has not been invented, it's impossible to live in the past or the future. So we can only live in the present, can't we?

Just now, chickenslegs said:

As time-travel has not been invented, it's impossible to live in the past or the future. So we can only live in the present, can't we?

Define present

Topic started 4 minutes ago. Now gone. So where is the present?

Just now, bignok said:

Define present

Now.

Just now, chickenslegs said:

Now.

That was past.

1 minute ago, bignok said:

Define present

Something i used to get lots of at xmas

1 minute ago, bignok said:

That was past.

It wasn't when I posted.

Nano second is the present

Just now, chickenslegs said:

It wasn't when I posted.

So now the present has moved. 

Just now, bignok said:

So now the present has moved. 

No, it's still "now".

Just now, chickenslegs said:

No, it's still "now".

Not anymore

Just now, bignok said:

Not anymore

It always is now, and always will be.

But now keeps moving even when asleep

 

Now now now now now etc

 

How do we live in the moving now?

5 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

No, it's still "now".

Getting on a plane and travelling west, one can still live in the past or present...

So confusing

9 minutes ago, bignok said:

But now keeps moving even when asleep

 

True. I just nodded off thinking about it.

2 minutes ago, bignok said:

So confusing

There's an emoji! ????

I think the present can be determined by a small event, but not nano second. 

If you are going for a great steak dinner that lasts taking bite after bite of delicious steak, that is your present environment, present enjoyment.  Same with sex unless you finish in a second.  Enjoying the experience which lasts a short period of time.

The OP is now the past so will need to start a new topic on the present

Mindbending

There are a lot of apparent paradoxes caused by language. Humans have a need to say 'now' sometimes and that is the word we use, or the 'present'. The concept isn't difficult to grasp as even babies can use the terms correctly. The fact that you can't think of a definition that satisfies you is neither here not there. Present is the momentary intersection between past and future. There I just made one up.  

 

If you really are truly puzzled and want to know exactly about time and language read Wittgenstein. or if you are simply interested in concepts you can read Proust for a literary understanding or Stephen Hawkins' Brief History of Time for a concise, elegant and easy to understand book.

47 minutes ago, bignok said:

What is the present? Current minute, hour or day or week?

 

How are we supposed to live in something that cant be defined or can it?

 

 

Go on one of those meditation courses you were banging on about and you might just find out.

Live your present by all means, but don't neglect the future and plan well to avoid all the comming tax hassles for foreign retirees.

57 minutes ago, bignok said:

What is the present? Current minute, hour or day or week?

 

How are we supposed to live in something that cant be defined or can it?

When I saw the headline "Living in the present" I thought this might be an interesting topic.

And then the first comment. Really? Is that the best you can come up with?

 

The present is the present. Like: You look at a beautiful girl and you smile. That is the present.

If you think about that your ex looked similar or you think about what you want to do with this one in the near of far future that is not the present. It's not really that difficult. 

 

2 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

When I saw the headline "Living in the present" I thought this might be an interesting topic.

And then the first comment. Really? Is that the best you can come up with?

 

The present is the present. Like: You look at a beautiful girl and you smile. That is the present.

If you think about that your ex looked similar or you think about what you want to do with this one in the near of far future that is not the present. It's not really that difficult. 

 

It is for some on here.............????

But a quick glance at the thread OP name, is a good pointer..........????

5 minutes ago, transam said:

But a quick glance at the thread OP name, is a good pointer

That is why I was surprised.

I thought after trying at least 100 times he finally stumbled upon an interesting topic.

And them I saw his introduction. 'Nuff said. 

32 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

Go on one of those meditation courses you were banging on about and you might just find out.

It won't help the whiners on the forum though. They need it the most. I lived 10 lives in 20 years. I don't really need it but will do it anyway. 

2 minutes ago, bignok said:

It won't help the whiners on the forum though. They need it the most. I lived 10 lives in 20 years. I don't really need it but will do it anyway. 

I thought you'd been on here before...........................????