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The metaphysical doctrine simply contrasts time as a continuum with the ,eternity that is not in time and so cannot properly be called everlasting, but coincides with the real present or now of which temporal experience
is impossible. Here confusion only arises because for any consiousness functioning in terms of time and space, “now” succeeds “now” without interruption, and there seems to be an endless series of nows, collectively
adding up to “time”. This confusion can be eliminated if we realise that none of these nows has any duration and that, as measures, all alike are zeros,
of which a “sum” is unthinkable. It is a matter of relativity; it is “we” who move, while the Now is unmoved, and only seems to move,-much as the sun onlv seems to rise and set because the earth revolves.
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