The Time Trap

It is dismaying to observe how many Christians, and other religious and spiritual people, get drawn-into saying (and trying to believe) stuff like:

All Time is Now - Time is unreal -- Past, Present, and Future are simultaneous - Everything is always happening...

The intent behind this kind of Time stuff is various. Usually to seek significance, to assert that "everything matters", to explain why all is linked. 

Often to "affirm" that all is One.  

For whatever reason; the people who have "discovered" that all Time is One always seem to announce it as if this is wonder-full, life-enhancing, hope-full, joyous!

Having demolished the straw-man that is mainstream, materialist clock-time; they present their insight of the TT as a liberation. 

Yet, I believe it is a Trap.    

Time is not real, Time does not exist...

This is what I mean by the Time Trap; and it is a trap because it is half-baked: a pseudo-explanation. 

"Pseudo" because it is put forth to explain experiences and phenomena; but the "explanation" is so incoherent and abstract, that the explanation itself requires further explanations...

Explanations of explanations... And all the time we are getting further and further away from that which needs to be explained...

Mystical Time-talk is also "pseudo" because these Time assumptions have consequences that are not considered. 

The implication is that nothing matters. 

Nothing makes a difference - because nothing can make a difference. 

There is no possible freedom, no possibility of learning; no possibility of betterment of any kind. 

Indeed there is no-thing At All - except what is, was, always, and evermore... An unchanging situation, that might equally well be nothing as anything. 

What appals me about the Time Trap assertions are that the statements of no-Time are put forward as if they were a wonderful insight, an enhancement of life, a hope-full way of apprehending reality. 

This can only happen because the logic has not been followed-through, because the implications are ignored or have not been grasped - or are incoherently being denied. 

The Trouble Is... 

My understanding of how things work-out spiritually, is that people (broadly speaking) get what they ask for - or, at least: 

What people want, is what they experience - in the end, ultimately. 

So the misguided souls who have thunk themselves into the Time Trap, and who have not bothered to trace-out or have denied the implications; may find that (later or sooner) they come to experience that which they have advocated: 

They will then (more or less) experience living without Time, without change, without hope...

In other words, living with just the barest minimum of here-and-now awareness, and zero memory, and no imagination. 

Well, it takes many types to make a world - and a Time Trap is really what somebody wants for himself... Fine. 

But is this really what people want for themselves? 

Is that the best that can be envisaged? To exchange this mortal life for... Nothing?