Bruce Moen
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Bird,
I think the confusion comes in the understanding of what "no time" means. What is time any way?
My opinion? It is what we use as a term to describe the flow of a sequence of events. Time, perhaps, doesn't really exist anywere. Perhaps what actually exists is just the events and sequences of events.
While we are focused within physical reality a sequence of events appears to move only and always in one direction, from what we call the past, through the present, toward what we call the future. While we are focused within nonphysical realities it is my opinion that it is this sequence of events being limited to "only and always" flowing in one direction that changes. It isn't that time "doesn't exist" it is that we are not limited to experiencing events in that unidirectional way. In a sense time There can move forward, backward, or not move at all. Instead of being stuck with only and always in that one direction we are instead free to experience events in the past, present or future, free to experience sequences of events forward, backward, stopped or sideways (whatever sideways might mean) at will.
So what might folks in our afterlife be doing? Activities, sequences of event, like the ones you describe. Swimming, climbing a mountain, going to a concert, visiting with friends. They could be doing any of these things but without the limitation of being forced to follow an arbitrary, single flow of events from one to the next. A silly example could be that they are free to take a swim at a beach in the winter in Puerto Rico, switch to climbing a mountain in summer time in Colorado and attend a live Beatles concert in the 60s after that, all in the same "day." In my opinion the old movie, Slaughter House 5, gives some clues about what some folks do when they become "unstuck in time.".
Bruce
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