Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

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Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy
Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy
Time: The Great Destroyer

Time: The Great Destroyer

Time is a one-way process of decay and destruction.

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Scientists say time is a one-way street because it is accompanied by decay, or to use their language, by increasing entropy. Nothing is a more graphic illustration of this than the photograph of a baby with its perfect skin and shining eyes, compared with that of someone in their eighties; wrinkled skin. maybe bitterness and hurt in the eyes and a body …

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