past or the future

is not static containers, nor parts of temporal objects, nor even points of time... they are, rather, the ways in which temporal objects and the points of time they occupy appear to us.

It is important to note that now, past, and future are not static containers, nor are they parts of temporal objects, or even points of time... they are, rather, the ways in which temporal objects and the points of time they occupy appear to us. (blattner in dreyfus 'companion to phenomenology' : 127)

past or the future, n.Definitions

past or the future