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The mechanism of creation and dissolution is outside of time. It is not a time function and effects all points inside of time at the same moment. Consequently, if the dissolution wouldoccur, people living in the year 35 would say, "That guy Jesus that the government put down a couple of years ago was right - he said we had little time left and sure enough everything isfalling apart !"
People in present time would say, "The preacher on TV said it was almost the end of the world, and sure enough he was right cause there it goes !"
People in the year 5000 would say, "Our ancient computer records show that a subversive named Jesus said that our world would end and, sure enough, we don't know what's happeninghere and our scientists are powerless to stop this !"The time machines will not operate.It is similarly incorrect to argue, "I hopped in my time machine and went to the year 2057. I observed that the Earth was still there, that there were people living on it, and that thingslooked OK. Therefore, I conclude that the "end of the world" cannot be before the year 2057."
This argument, like the others, misses the boat. The origin event and dissolution event for the Universe have no relation to time as observable inside the Universe. Dissolution, when itcomes, comes for 1998, 2057, 35, 5000b.c., etc. at the same moment - a moment that cannot be specified by any reference to "time".
Now let's take a closer look at a "moment". A moment is a slice of time with no thickness - no quantity of time is contained in a moment. However, there are at least two different things ina moment. One is the creation event and the other is the dissolution event. These two events effect all time simultaneously. Therefore, our slice of time must contain them also.Additionally, if we are in a "moment" there is a third event because we are there also. Creation and dissolution are opposite events, so there should be some "space" between them and weare somewhere between creation and dissolution so in our "moment" we should be between these two events. The moment, then, represents a new vector which has a quality of "length" inits own way along a direction that we do not normally travel in our everyday world. So, one might want to contemplate what else is in this fifth dimensional vector. What is on "the otherside" of the creation event or the other side of the dissolution event and what other goodies might be there as well. Trying to lock yourself in to a moment is a key step in all meditationexercises. So this discussion is a scientific way - for those who relate to science - to conceptualize where people go when they claim to "go somewhere" in mystic trance or meditation.
It is from the new perspective we get from travel along this vector that many concepts in the various sacred books come. When evaluating these claims, then, we must judge them from theperspective where they originated - where they are likely to be completely valid and correct - instead of from the usual perspective where they are likely to look senseless or confusing atbest.
It is apparently from this perspective we get statements like, "Well, the Universe comes and goes in just the wink of an eye." and so on.
Concluding, the general advice of spiritual people to live "in the moment" seems to be a very good survival skill to master. It is something everyone can do if they try and it offers escapeopportunities that will still work when space and time machines fail to operate - as they must in a dissolution phase because time itself is dissolved.
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