Originally Posted by
SourCherryBoy
This just keeps on getting more interesting :)
One thing to consider here is the notion of change. The common view is that change takes time. Still, we can only experience change, like everything else, in the present.
The key question from that perspective, in my opinion, is: has an 80-year-old being experienced "more" presentness than a 25-year-old?
Or asking the same question a bit more poetically, bringing in the aspect of intensity:
Who lives in slow motion, the fruit fly with a life expectancy of a few months, whose wings flap 200 times a second, or a 1000-year-old dragon whose cold heart beats once a day.
Continuing in that spirit:
Maybe all we have, and need, is Attention. By shifting that we momentarily and timelessly hop from square to square on the chessboard of the Universe. Squares close together also share a greater resemblance with each other than with those farther away. Taking greater leaps, skipping a lot of squares on our way, we might wake up one day to find the world somehow different, maybe even brand new. I know I've had that feeling many times. I'm guessing a lot of people have.
This analogy can't be taken literally, of course, but still... :)