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  Bruh
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  What? Seem to be a bit of double standards here.
  Are you referring to the past itself? Then that’s just as real as the future. 
  Are you referring to specific events people have in mind of what occurred in the past? Then you must compare that to specific events people have in mind of what will occur in the future - ie, predictions. Predictions aren’t guaranteed, and in fact are overall even more flawed than our memories. 
  So either way, no. >
  
  exactly! op isn't comparing the same things.
  past (real), future (real), our memories (flawed past), our imagination (flawed future). out of these 4, op chose two that one is subjective, and one is objective, and is surprised that gasp! one isn't real! >
  
  If no one were around to confirm that an event happened, how do we know our memories our real? What if our past is just a fabrication? I think about this sometimes. >
  
  Because we remember events that other people can confirm, which means that our memory is somewhat reliable and accurate. >
  
  The Titanic, Chernobyl, the Hindenburg ... all "somewhat reliable". >
  
  Those aren't our memories. Those are all historical events that none of us have experienced >
  
  I was just commenting that the phrase "somewhat reliable" is pretty wishy-washy to begin with ... >
  
  It seems this thought switches weights without much good reason to do so.
  Eh, I think the general perception of things is true. The past is muddied by perspectives and the things we tell ourselves to neatly store it away, but it still happened in a certain way that can't be denied. The future is very uncertain. The question isn't "will things occur in the future," but "what do we know will happen?" Which is nothing absolute. Nobody is going around saying "there is no future." >
  
  The future may be absolute but also uncalculable so we percieve it as yet untested and therefore untrue. >
  
  Both are fantasy and in reality there is just this moment and a wildly hallucinating mind thatcomes up with wacko ideas about a linear time and a future and a past just so we don’t poop our pants in all this chaos.
  If you’re listening, this moment will tell you all you need to know. We tend to assign past and future very important roles but theyre a super complex system to let us off the hook for not being present. Crazy excuses for not feeling and experiencing our own lives or actually connecting with anything around us because time must exist, right? 
  The present moment is pretty crazy how it will teach you to connect with others but first of all with yourself and learn to trust yourself so you’ll know you’ll do the right thing without the complexity of imagined linear time. Past and future are so sexy to us, so inviting as they take place all in our heads and don’t need us to connect with anything or lower our walls to experience them. The present though, thats a totally different beast and it may take a lifetime to learn to be with it, in it. The present moment has a powerful way of just absolutely completely wrecking your ideas of the ”future” and writing a ”past”. Its a scary thing as it cannot be controlled like things that we make up in out heads. For many it is too difficult to be in the present, which is understandable. But its a beautiful thing and a beautiful place of love and life and chaos that is taking form as reality. Lets be in it and learn to trust ourselves with it. Its the only thing se have for truly learning about us and the world. Lets do it.