Actually we have both time and God backwards.

It’s not so much the point of the present, moving past to future, as it is change, turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

We just happen to be mobile organisms, so we perceive reality as flashes of perception, then pass judgement, in order to navigate.

There is no physical dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform it. Causality and conservation of energy.

Which leads to the issue of God. Logically a spiritual absolute would be that essence of sentience, bubbling up though life, not an ideal of wisdom and judgment, from which it fell. More the new born, than the wise old man. The light shining though the film, than the images on it.

Consciousness going past to future, rather than the thoughts going future to past.

It’s just that society couldn’t function simply by reveling in sentience, so we have this top down father figure lawgiver, to validate the forms culture has imposed on us.

It is that there is a multitude of desires that some order has to be imposed. We can’t have our cake and eat it too, even if we both want it and want to eat it.

The anarchy of desire, versus the tyranny of judgement. The heart and the head. Youth and age. Liberals and conservatives.

Without the ups and downs, it would be a flatline. Pain and pleasure.