Action and Changing

Last class we spent a large majority of the time trying to define action. These are some definitions found at "Dictionary.com" that I feel define "Action" in accordance with our class. "An exertion of power or force or effect or influence." We had argued that action could be a "being" I completely disagree. A being can not be an action. It can be a result of an action. A being can do and action. And although a being is constantly changing with time, it is still not an action itself, but the changing is the action. We ended with the question, "Are there situations which are not actions..not where time stops, but where there is not change?" The answer is simple no. Because time is constant. Each second is either the past or present or future for only a second. Once a second passes it can no longer be or remain. Its gone. Things are constantly changing because of time. An ashtray sitting on a desk does not look like its changing. Eventually its chemical make up will break down and it will become nothing or nothing like it was, but we cannot see that. But an ashtray that existed in the second that just passed can no longer be cause now its an ashtray in the present second, but only for a second.