Yes, Peace Girl, that was a mistake. We all live in the image. The IMAGO the original film, of experience which does not translate into am awareness , until the word, which was in the beginning.
Philosophy does talk in many languages, and it is the responsibility of conscious thought to sort it out.
That kind of activity can not be done without imagination to conxiebe succession and hierarchy that only the word can introduce.
That is the primal failure of the fall and no secondary derivitive of it, to live without imagination, to ignore words which mean something otjer then a warning .The warning does not
necessarily imply determination in order to love a life, except to mean -driven to find truth, and act accordingly.
Every generation has.to live the truthful life , anew, relearning it by themselves, because otherwise it consists of mere directives in a dusty manual.
The Bible is the best seller of all times, yet has lost meaning for many in the sue course of time, it’s imagery has been superimposed into a recording image.
Marcus Aurelious said it well, when he said that an untested wisdom is not wise. A superimposition with Botticelli’s Venus emerging from the see, may indicate a dial interpretation. between the sound of the roaring sea. With God yelling at his Son: " Watch out and see, it is merely a shell, a seashell."
Nut of course being a little kid he goes for Her, and Pa tries to cover for him by by ‘discovering’ the futility
of self sacrifice.
But that is another story, partial to other expression of feelings, justified by a different set of rules, within the imagimation of Other Minds
It can just as well be asserted that the saying " live in the present is merely a metaphor. I am writing this determenently, in order to understand time, and end up with a metaphore, no matter how you slice it.
The present moment is already gone as soon as it is lived. We always live predeterminately on a conscious level, and in the proximate future as the last flows into the future.
This can be imagined or illustrated. Y set theory as well.
The perfect essence of the imperfect reflection must end sadly, paradoxically, because perfect presence implies slicing the gap between the relative and the absolute set up to a scintilla of a slice: where a scintilla is immeasurable.
Time expanded into the very tiniest segments end with uncertainty which is the quanta of temporaluty.
In that sense the flow of time covers that minute gap between conscious and unconscious flow.
There really is only relative time and the relation must be a measure of one signified epoch to another.
Signification depends on signs, and since the present has no sign , it is not significant enough to take measure of.
It is merely a metaphore, her and now, as well as the next nano second.
Imagination is , on the other hand, capable of recreating a time such as one can imagine of suspended animation. But then again, that implies Other minds, and verification of shared imminance takes more than telepathy, recognition .
That those kinds of states are absolutely certain to have arisen, is within the boundaries of certainty as well.