Being, Time and the Given

John Caputo says that Time, to Heidegger, means the “constancy” of what passes away. To be constant is to be constantly present, and “presence” is Being. Heidegger wants to determine the “It” which “gives” Being and Time. Is it Time that does this? Heidegger seems to say that the It is the “event of appropriation.”

I think that nothing “gives” Time, Time is an unconscious bystander which gives nothing, it merely marks the time in which objects live and move, having no consciousness of marking anything.

The "future” can “deliver” nothing, evolution is unpredictable, and even if evolution was predictable it is the object or substance in the future that does the delivering and never the "future" and never Time, which are unconscious and “do” nothing.

As to “appropriation,” the Spirit-Will appropriates the substance or material body of beings all the way up to Being or Godhood, as a vehicle in the Spirit-Will's drive to evolve to Godhood. But this appropriation is not a “giving” or a true creative act, this appropriation takes place in ongoing reproduction and survival and is a supermaterial indwelling in substances or objects all along since the birth of the cosmos.