BS: Which way is the future?

Subject: BS: Which way is the future?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 03:30 PM

The Aymara of the Andes apparently place the past in front and the future behind. So no "looking to the future" or "that's behind us now" for them. It makes sense: you can see the past, but not the future.

When I'm on a train I always try to get a seat facing forwards, to the future for me. I feel uncomfortable seeing a past I haven't already experienced, as though it's old news. I want to be there first.

And the Yupno of Papua New Guinea see the future as uphill- out of their valley. I wonder if the Welsh have a similar concept.

Subject: RE: BS: Which way is the future?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 04:42 PM

Ahead.

Subject: RE: BS: Which way is the future?
From: meself
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 04:57 PM

Just over that you hill you just came over - you must have missed it.

Subject: RE: BS: Which way is the future?
From: frogprince
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 05:25 PM

At my age, it's probably all downhill from here.

Subject: RE: BS: Which way is the future?
From: number 6
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 05:28 PM

I think it went that way ... or, it could have gone by the other way.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Which way is the future?
From: bobad
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 05:29 PM

"The future ain't what it used to be"
    -Yogi Berra

Subject: RE: BS: Which way is the future?
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 05:41 PM

It's right over there, just past the Rigby's tavern, the one that burned down in 1947. Hang a right there, drive past where the Smiths used to pile their hay, and go straight about a another half mile or so and turn right again at the Baptist Church, or maybe it's the Methodist one, anyway you can't miss it from there unless you get to Sawmill Creek and then you've gone too far.

Subject: RE: BS: Which way is the future?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 07:16 PM

If I just wait, the future always comes to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Which way is the future?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 07:42 PM

The future ain't a place, it's a journey.

Subject: RE: BS: Which way is the future?
From: Beer
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 07:54 PM

We grow up and look down,
We grow old and look back.

I never said that. No clue who did.
Adrien

Subject: RE: BS: Which way is the future?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 08:34 PM

I don't see the future ahead or behind. It's more like multiple futures and maybe multiple pasts. There's also this sign flashing red that says "Last Exit." I wonder what that means. Oh, yah, it's the name of my niece's bar on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn; stop by some time and say, "Charley Noble sent me!" That should be good for a round.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Which way is the future?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 30 Apr 12 - 05:25 PM

Which way to the future? explained in a picture.

Subject: RE: BS: Which way is the future?
From: Bert
Date: 30 Apr 12 - 06:35 PM

You can't get there from here!