D'accord, old mate.
>Tom Bishop writes:
>>My emotions in the present are
>>involved with experiences in past, present or future. Absit my
>>immediate death, I do confidently expect to have experiences in the
>>future, Bill, as I hope you will also, and I can think and feel about
>>them in the present in a number of ways, as in "Yesterday I was
>>happy, today I am not, but perhaps tomorrow I will feel like I did
>>yesterday."
>
>I think we are losing a distinction here, between hoping that, in the
>future, we will have experiences, and really having experiences in the
>future. Yes, I acknowledge the existence of human hope/hopes and the
>possibility that it/they may influence the way I feel now, but I do not
>think I can have experiences beyond the present, i.e., in the future.
>"Hoping to have" is genuinely different from "having." My hopes may be
>shattered, as you suggest, Tom, by death.
>
>Yours, Bill Godshalk -- with his High Modernist emphasis on the present!
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