How soon is now?

I had a huge crush on that girl in the video.

With a separated shoulder, heaven knows I’m miserable now.

Not soon enough.

…and…I now have Marr’s classic tremolo riff in my head for the rest of the day.

now here is nowhere

There is no such thing as “now”. But we can all enjoy the present, the moment, and the current.

Pretty sure England is stuck in the past

Terry pratchett quipped that the shortest unit of time was a New York second, which is the amount of time between the light in front of you turning green, and the cabbie behind you laying on his horn.

@ucme so are you up for ETpro’s job or something?

@Mama_Cakes I told you that sex-swing was a bad idea.

@drhat77: I knew there was a reason I liked you…(Terry Pratchett reference and not sex-swing)

You shut your mouth. How can you say I go about things the wrong way.

What difference does it make? William, it was really nothing. That joke isn’t funny any more.

Now is never.

@drhat77 You’ve lost me there i’m afraid.

@ucme ETpro is asking things like what is an electron and what’s a black hole. What is now seemed like an obvious progression.

What is when?

@drhat77 Gawd bless ya, no this is just a bit of fluff about a song, nothing so deep as that.

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies is right—there is no now. The instant one tries to capture it, it’s past. And since the past cannot be recaptured, and the future always becomes the now and then the past, one could argue… well… it hurts my head.

And now for something completely different…

…a man walks into a pet shop and says…

West End Girls

That’s right @Pachyderm_In_The_Room. We cannot point to a now, or hold one. There is no evidence that a now ever existed.

The now is in direct conflict with the present, the moment, the current, which all reveal a flowing process, rather than a point.

The moment is an acknowledgement of momentum that must build up and then fade away. The present denotes a process of receiving, opening, enjoying, and setting aside in a place of honor. The current reveals an upstream/downstream flow of reality, all necessary to make potential manifest.

The now, on the other hand, is actually death. Think about it… The now denotes a point when the old paradigm ends, and a new one begins. Most folks think the other way around. But hear me out.

“I’m going to the store now” denotes a point where the current activity ends, so a new one can enter the current. And to show how deceptive the now truly is, consider that it doesn’t even need to be said. “I’m going to the store” will do just fine, without mention of the now.

I’ve said this before, and will say it again. The now is a point of death, much different than the present, or the moment, or the current.

It cannot be said that Abe is dead currently.

It cannot be said that Abe is dead presently.

It cannot be said that Abe is dead at this moment.

But it can be said that Abe is dead now. And the now doesn’t even need to be added. Abe is dead, will do just fine.

Speaking of now, how many more fucking Now albums are there going to be?

Now is, well, shoot, its gone.

No! it ba, never mind there it goes again.

Seems like all I ever have is past and future.

Whew! @RealEyesRealizeRealLies , that REALLY makes my head hurt. I’ve always been fascinated by the concepts of time and time travel. My library includes many books on those subjects, including a beautiful one called The Dream that combines poetry and prose and discusses the paradox of time very much as you’ve stated it in your comment.

@ucme did you notice they stopped calling them “Now That’s What I call Music” roundabout the time they stopped containing any actual decent music?

It’s all in the linguistics… the word. It’s so clear that we cannot see it.

now here… is literally nowhere.

This is not a play on words. This is the reality of linguistic logic.

And “here” is just as errant as the now. Earth spinning 24,000 miles per hour, circling the sun at 30,000 mph, all rotating around the center of our galaxy, floating in a universe which is expanding as we speak.

The moment one thinks we are “here”, they can only, at best, try and point to a “there”.

@downtide Yeah, i’m proud to say i’ve never bought one & never will.

This linguistic paradox is the very reason why science cannot measure both position and velocity at the same time.

I am human and I need to be loved.

This has nothing to do with this question but at the bottom of this page, under the heading <<NEWER it asks the question;

“What do Americans think about “European” South Africans?” and “What happened to these vultures?”

So, is this one question or two? Are they related?

@Ucme what else ya’ll listenin to over there?

@NOITORL Ronnie Reagan sings the blues with Nancy on bass.

Now is right now, although it ceases to be now before you finish reading this sentence, unless you’re thinking about now like, right now. It is, and now it ain’t. In a way it always is, but only was if you were thinking about now at the time of said now.

But what the hell, how long does now last? Maaan…

Now is now. Not then now. Now now.

Aaaaaaaaand there it goes!

To those who recognised the song & ran with it, respect & a small gift of a toffee penny.
The left overs who followed their own path, well that’s okay too, no prize though…all gone now.

Now means….. When I get around to it.

Now is now. That’s all there is…right now, this moment. The next moment does not exist and the one past, is gone forever.

Now is never too soon.

“This moment-what is it-just a mosquito, a fly, a speck, a scrap of breath”
Adam Zagajewski

Now will happen in 0.0000… seconds.

Now will last 1 unit of Planck time, until the next now arrives.

Now.
No…Now.

F it!