Maybe in this context it would be useful to reflect about time.
Our life is a continuous concatenating of present moments. And every present moment is new. But where do they come from? Nobody knows.
I see time as a continuous gift from Someone outside of our physical Universe. No other explanation is logically possible, because any explanation would come from inside our Universe -- but fresh new present moments can't be located inside, otherwise they would not be new.
If it's the former, well, I guess you're probably right. Nobody knows. At least, nobody thinking about it in a purely philosophical/theological context.
So I was a little disappointed when I found out
on day 1 that I had been assigned to the ads group.
But that disappointment turned to dismay when I learned
what my assignment was to be: I was the lead engineer
on a new advertising system code named "adstoo", what
eventually became AdWords. That part wasn't so bad.
The bad part was, this was going to be the inaugural
Java project at Google. Google, which had until now
been a Java-free zone (which was one of the reasons I
took the job) was going for Java in a big way, and I,
the consummate Java hater, was supposed to be its
chief evangelist.
Just peachy.
Our life is a continuous concatenating of present moments. And every present moment is new. But where do they come from? Nobody knows.
I see time as a continuous gift from Someone outside of our physical Universe. No other explanation is logically possible, because any explanation would come from inside our Universe -- but fresh new present moments can't be located inside, otherwise they would not be new.