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How to say the following in English?

 
 
KaJe
 
Reply Mon 9 Mar, 2026 02:49 pm
I'm writing something somewhat phylosophical. And there is something in it I could express in my mother language but can't in English. It would sound literally in English as follows. In the present of any time. Or: in the present of whatever time. Or: In the present of every time. And it is meant to express that something is considered in the present, but not only the point of time which is now, but it is meant to mean any points of time which was or will be present for somebody in a (now past or future) moment.
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hightor
 
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Reply Mon 9 Mar, 2026 04:31 pm
@KaJe,
The eternal now might work, or the everlasting present. You might need to buttress the philosophical context however, so that it doesn't conjure up a sense of new age spirituality or religious mysticism.
KaJe
 
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Reply Mon 9 Mar, 2026 06:20 pm
@hightor,
Yes, I've said 'phylosophical', true, maybe I shouldn't have. As a matter of fact, I want to say a really simple thing, which can be said without any kind of phylosophy. Here I can't present my sentence which should be contain the mentioned thing because it would be incomprehensible as a single sentence, but I'm trying to say something else containing the same thing I'm talking about, inserting your idea. So: We see our one-time problems as very little ones at a much later time, but they do exist in the eternal now. Yes, I would say simply: 'in the present'. But I still need a phrase which expresses emphatically without the first clause that it is so everytime when it is now.
Lady Lingiton
 
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Reply Thu 12 Mar, 2026 07:21 pm
@KaJe,
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