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CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 3

RELATIVITY OF TIME AND

THE REALITY OF DESTINY

he foregoing arguments demonstrate that we can never have
direct experience of the outside world, that we only know matter
T as it exists inside our brains and that one leads one's whole life in
"spacelessness". To assert the contrary would be to hold a superstitious
belief removed from reason and scientific truth, for the things set out here
are all technical and scientific facts even described in middle school text-
books.
This fact refutes the primary assumption of the materialist philosophy
that underlies evolutionary theory. This is the assumption that matter is
absolute and eternal. The second assumption upon which the materialistic
philosophy rests is the supposition that time is absolute and eternal. This is
as superstitious as the first one.

The Perception of Time
The perception we call time is, in fact, a method by which one moment
is compared to another. We can explain this with an example. For instance,
when a person taps an object, he hears a particular sound. When he taps the
same object five minutes later, he hears another sound. He then perceives
that there is an interval between the first sound and the second, and he calls
this interval "time." Yet at the time he hears the second sound, the first
sound he heard is no more than a bit of information in his memory. The per-
son formulates the perception of "time" by comparing the moment in
which he lives with what he has stored in his memory. If this comparison
is not made, neither can there be perception of time.
Similarly, a person makes a comparison when he sees someone enter-
ing a room through its door and sitting in an armchair in the middle of the
room. By the time this person sits in the armchair, the images related to the
moments he opens the door, walks into the room, and makes his way to the