Illusion (11 October 2001)

written by T.D. Holtjer – Arnhem.

The difference between the moment, past and future is an illusion. But it is a stuborn one. Just like Einstein Stephen Hawking struggels with this problem: “Why do we remember the past and not the future?” I think the moment is there where the future goes into the past. The question remains why some people (as Nostradamus) think they can “remember” the future. If that was the case the future would be fixed and could not be manipulated. There is a word for that: predestination. In Dutch we know a saying: “Who is born for 10 cents will never be 25 cents.”
The other way around we can ask the question: “If the future can not be manipulated, why can’t the past be manipulated anymore?” You can imagine a safety system where every pilot has a chip under his skin communicating with the plane and looking if the pilot is still alive. As soons as the communications is down the plane will be incontrollable and the automatic pilot will return the plane to nearest airport. This will be reversibly introduced at 01/01/01. On september 11th that same year it will avoid large disasters. Personally you could go with your natural substances against cancer to the moment where your grandfather could be helped in a way he could have lived by now. If that should work, a large amount of people of the future could go back to us. No, you can only go back in your mind. Our mind can go back to worthful moments in the past. But the thing we should do more is looking forward to a good future.
A stock-falldown is a good example of a moment on which anybody thinks: “It goes bad.” Does it surprise us that actually it goes bad and the stock&share fall down?
Events of the past can also turn on to hate. We have to do something on the reasons of the hate
But if the “opposition rich-poor and our freedom suppresses the freedom of other people” is predestinated in a way we can’t do anything about it. I think that is an illusion.