Time is not Being (from the archive)

I understand that Zurvanism, an extinct branch of Zoroastrianism, said, "time created everything." They seem to think that when something or someone is said to be in that state of timelessness there is no you or I or it or separations, there isn't birth or death, which suggests an immortality for "time.”

That is very good description of what is not timeless Being. Time is judged in relation to living beings who see time passing, and can remember past time and can think of future times.

So Heidegger's idea of Being as Time is in line with that tendency of intellectuals, at least since Plato, to overlook the fact that the “names” of things are an abstraction which only point toward the reality of the thing named---the abstract name is not the thing-in-itself.

“Time” is a secondary abstraction or name for the actions of material evolution in time. Living objects are the real Beings, not the abstract name “time” for the course or period that living beings move through.

The highest evolved material-not-spiritual Beings are called Godhood, which are evolved to in the material-supermaterial world, and time is important only in relation to living objects living in time.