The past - concrete, or mutable? Options

The future is apparently mutable, meaning there are many possible paths that could be taken. Just because we "know" something happened in the past (like a past life, etc), does that necessarily mean it happened, or is just one of many possible pasts? It is common metaphysical doctrine that every event exists in the present moment, so does that necessitate that there is no concrete past?

the difference is that a made up past did not happen.
However there is most of the time no way of proving that it did or did not happen either way. So the reality of a made up past and a true akashic memory appear the same on the surface.

Their is no way to be sure about the past, because the only thing we can use to look at it is present time. Papers with information on old kings, memories of days gone by, video tapes and images of the past.
All these things find their place in the now, not in the past. Altering the now will erase all references to the past.

The past in itself does not exist, only trough the way the world is now can the past be analysed.
If a magician were to change the now, no one in this world would be aware that a change occured. The past would not be altered then, it would be forgotten, and replaced by a false, yet seemingly real, new past.

This seems like altering the past. But it is not so, it is just changing the present. the past still happened as it did, people just don't know it anymore. A lie will have replaced the truth, a lie that no one being knows about.



the true past does not exist. But the true past is a true now flown by. So a true past was once real and in existance. It has passed, it no longer exists, but it is real and true.

That is the difference with altered memories and true memories. True memories point to a now that once truly was. False memories point to nothing, they never existed, they only seem to have existed.

In the end, it has no relevance, both seem the same, nobody can tell the difference, but there still is a difference.

This post has been edited by A_Smoking_Fox: Oct 26 2005, 12:02 PM