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Time, you'll be pleased to know--and since one must start somewhere--was created in creation. the question what was there before creation? is meaningless. time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.
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Time, You'll Be Pleased To Know--and Since

Glen Duncan
Time, you'll be pleased to know--and since one must start somewhere--was created in creation. the question what was there before creation? is meaningless. time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.
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One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... what those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. the absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.
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To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . they are sustained by structural relationships even when they have lost all other meaning and purpose. people arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without question because the structure demands it be that way. there's no villian, no 'mean guy' who wants them to live meaningless lives, it's just that the structure, the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless.
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