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> This is only true if you spend too long navel gazing.

Not at all. "Now" can only have meaning withing a spaciotemporal frame of reference. We are used to operating within a single such context and our language assumes that.

Your point 2) explicitly brings up people from two different contexts discussing what "now" means.

While language that assumes a single spaciotemporal reference frame will continue to be used and to be useful, that doesn't make it useful for discussing systems with multiple frames of spaciotemporal reference.




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