P: "--What Caused the Universe to exist?
GrrT "--Indeed, and what caused th Causer to exist?
M: "Not sure how that helps with Perry's problem here?
Mephis, --You introduced the very interesting term "linear time" not much different from one dimensional time, or the "arrow of time". What I like Perry to consider is that time is more pervasive than that, Any entity in stationary time would not be subject to the law of cause and effect, that our movement through time subjects us to. Time not as a flowing river, but an endless ocean, through which we move, surf (life riding a wave of energy), To quote he discredited bible," --Hovered over the [endless] water--"