Eckhart Tolle argues that the future does not truly exist because no one can encounter it — whenever the future would arrive, it becomes the present. He illustrates this with a humorous pub sign anecdote (“free beer tomorrow”), noting the promise is never fulfilled because tomorrow never comes as a distinct, reachable thing.
Future doesn't exist, because if future existed, you would have encountered it at some point. Nobody's ever experienced or met the future. No intrepid explorer has ever gone out and said, I'm going to find the future. Because when you find the future, it's the present moment. That's why in a pub in England, there was a sign saying free beer tomorrow. And it was always true, because to norm never comes.
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