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Is there such a thing as the past?

Very interesting question. Someone once said that time is nature’s way keeping everything from happening at once. We now know that time moves at different rates in different places, for instance, time move slower in the surface of the earth than up in orbit, and it stops completely at the event horizon of a black hole. If time were a “thing” then all these different rates would have torn it apart long ago, instead it appears to be nothing more than the rate at which things happen, not a “thing” than can be manipulated or traveled in.On the other hand, this implies that it’s a property of space, since the more space is warped by gravity, the more time slows down. So, perhaps in other dimensions, such as postulated by string theory, or in the whatever that existed before the big bang and exists outside of it, “duration” as we know it, doesn’t exist and “everything does happen at once,” as spiritual traditions have asserted for millennia.Time, as we experience it, is a function of our memory and imagination. We remember what happened in the past and we anticipate what’s going to happen in the future. But, since we don’t know the future, we construct our “future” from things that happened in the past. And, since most of us spend our time either rehashing the past or worrying about the future, it turns out that we spend most of our time in the past, and the past we project in to the future. So we never live in the present. Just regretting or reliving the past, or dreading or anticipating the future. We “time travel” almost our entire lives.Something to think about.

Is there such thing as "the one"?

Your ex is probably very young and still live a Disney-like version of these things. Life will teach her what I am about to write.There are persons which just fit you perfectly in many ways. Often, you would have never thought that is is THESE PERSONS that are perfect. However, notice the plural. There are multiple such persons, not only one. And they do not perfectly line up with your expectations. In fact, these persons make you see what you wanted all along without even knowing beforehand that you wanted it. They make you change your life plans and turn them into something much better. There cannot be a check list for the perfect match. And there cannot be only one perfect match.

Is there such a thing as perfect?

In the present world there is no such thing as perfect except that which has been created by the Divine Source or God. Beyond this  all else of the man made world is never to be made perfect. Man made things can always be turned into something better. There is always room for improvement along the way. So are you asking about one of these, if it is ,that of God will always be nothing but perfect and all else is not to be so. Then comes the question do you want perfection at all. Should this be the case, than there is nothing else left to do. In a way humans are made to be inperfect so that it is sopmething for them to achieve. We can always strive to become more perfect without ever reaching this and still be happy. I would rather be this way for it allows us all to continue down a path of perfection without ever really getting there. It is life in its own way. We can find our own happiness by this being this way. This is ghood.

Is there such a thing as "the future"?

Sure.  Let's draw an analogy to something more familiar: spatial dimensions.Let's imagine you're on a non-stop Eurostar train from London to Paris.  This train is traveling along what we're going to consider a single-dimension track.  As far as you're concerned, it cannot stop and cannot go back.  It continues monotonically proceeding forwards, under the channel, and towards Gare du Nord.If, perhaps as you're viewing the white cliffs of Dover, you inquire to the chummy business person sipping his afternoon tea next to you, "is there such as thing as France?"  He would most certainly affirm that it does exist.Now, suppose instead you asked "does 5 kilometres down the track exist?"  He pauses, realizing that he can never really arrive at "5 kilometres down the track", since for him to verify the existence, it would no longer be 5 kilometres down the track.  This is essentially the argument you're making.What's you're forgetting is that when you say the future, you're also including a context - it's the future relative to right now.  The same way "5 kilometres down the track" is obviously in reference to your current position.  Not the position you'll be in a few minutes.So, today is yesterday's future, and tomorrow is today's future.  So on.

Is “nothing” a thing or is there no such thing as “nothing”?

Conceptually speaking, there can be.But empirically speaking, there cannot.This is because you can’t ever be nothing, you necessarily exist, so in terms of sentience, there can’t be nothing at the moment you’re contemplating whether there is such a thing. There might be nothing after you die, following this logic, but you can’t know. But this requires me to define something and nothing in a specific way: biological existence and non-existence, ironically making the empirical conceptual, as it depends on how I’ve chosen to define it.The idea of death, with ensuing nothingness, though, is an abuse of the logic that there is an infinite substance which causes everything and is always existent. This is because the nothingness represented here (a hollowness that can’t have any qualities in common with the substance) can’t have come from this substance, which must embody and be the cause of everything (according to Spinoza). But then this depends on what he took the substance to be axiomatically—all-encapsulating—which it might not be.Alternatively, you can take nothing to be a placeholder for something that actually exists, but is elusive, or as a negation of something, which implies the existence of something prior to it, etc. But I think this leads to a never-ending battle of nothing defined in different ways and made to fight each other. So nothing is whatever we make of ‘it’, which might imply here that it is something, but only conceptually (which is however we conceive of it) and maybe not ontologically. Because there are so many different definitions of nothing and something, they can only coexist conceptually and not actually.The true nature of reality can’t just be what we make it to be, unless there is no such thing as this truth I’m alluding to.

Is there such thing as perfection?

Depends on the definition of “perfection”. If it’s about fulfilling a specific requirement, then yes, perfection exists. Imagine you want to build a product P that does the work R to solve the problem Pr. You create the first instance of your P product, P1 and it does R and solves the first instance if problem Pr, Pr1. That’s perfection, by definition. It met the goal perfectly. But, if you’re applying it to something whose essence is not defined or not standardized, there’s no place for perfection. As Jean Paul Sartre points out in his Being and Nothingness, for humans, it’s existence before essence. So, there isn’t like a perfect human, or a perfectly moral being.