I haven't worn a watch in years. I only have 1 clock, in the kitchen, which is a 'left over' from my last boyfriend. It's still there as the kitchen could do with a lick of paint and to remove it would prove this fact....yuk!

However....this vid sums up time and how I live by 'time'......




Jane

Hei, thanks for the Anthrax song Mikey.

Yea, I-B, I think people are way to worried about time, it can be extremely frustrating, think that there's no time for this and that and what not. My mother is one of those people who's often worried about time, or actually the fictional lack of it. I think there's nothing to hurry about, time's not going to run out, as it's infinite.

Two years ago, quite soon after I went all woo-woo, I decided to start living 'timeless' life, it's kinda hard to explain, but I just realized that I'm not better off a bit if I let the damn clock tell me what to do and when, I can do stuff when ever I want or need to do it, wont let the clock decide it for me. That thinking has resulted in lot less stress, and that's good. This goddamn Silent Hill of a society is very stressful place and people should be going on to every direction with their hearts racing and mouth foaming, that's how it feels like, there's so little time and you have to pay your bills, do your job, take care of family and friends and blablablablaa.. I don't buy that, getting rid of time, figuratively speaking, has helped a lot.

No time like the present.

The Cornish have an excellent saying that I find very pertinent to the topic of time and being ruled by it:

"Why build a fence today when it's gonna blow down tomorrow?"

It also appears in their word, "dreckly". As in "I'll do it dreckly". In Spanish this translates pretty much verbatim as "Manana".

Needless to say I heartily concur with the Cornish and the Spanish on this subject

I love not wearing a watch when not at work, but sometimes they're necessary.

Today we are living on earth time, basically we are more or less living to work with the daylight, the more we get the more we work for ourselves. As the seasons slow down, so do we, never rising until ten in the Gregorian during winter time.

My good mood just got better:) Welcome back the app

dubmeup wrote:
Start getting my room ready

I don't so much mind wearing a watch and tracking "time" throughout the small parcels of it that we call Day. We fill our days with meetings and tasks, and a watch can be quite helpful in keeping us on track.

BUT I think it's very important to jettison the bigger idea of Time: Age *shudders*. There is something about convincing people that they have to mark off years that is very harmful.

I've long since just REFUSED to have a birthday. I don't celebrate or mark birthdays at all. It's just another day and it means nothing. BUT when you call people to have to acknowledge that they are now "30" or "43" or "56" or "71", you are actually calling up in them a whole, tacit list of things they can no longer do, things it's too late for, things theyf haven't got much time left at.

My old trainer competed in both eventing and dressage until he was in his mid-eighties and he swore it was predominently because he had stopped letting people FORCE him into reminding himself that he was now "78" and shouldn't be doing/able to do certain things.

He went on how he was every day; and that's what we should all do.

Now that's what I'm talking about! Great post Cantata!

When I had my 19th birthday, I was sitting with a friend in a pub, sipping beer and talking things, that day I decided that from now on, each year, I will have my 19th birthday, I decided I refuse to old... I refused to get old and grumpy, to acknowledge my age, just what Cantata is talking about!

I think people should do what ever they see important to them, no matter their physical age. When I was doing Aikido, the oldest guy in the dojo was around 65 year old, second oldest was in his fifties... And it was really hard to tell, only difference was that the oldest guy didn't have that much strength, it was obvious if his technique went wrong, but when it went just right, it was just like as being thrown by somebody in his/her twenties. Age may slow us down, but it should not be an impassable obstacle on the way of human experience, not in a mental way at least.

Another great example of this mentality of 'not aging' is one of my uncles, hes now in his early seventies, the guy does woodwork, keeps up his own house and summer cottage, he's constantly on the move, skiing at winters, jogging and fishing at summers and what not, very active guy, and in good shape, people mistake him for somebody at fiftysomething years of age because of this. Strange thing how much just attitude towards life, time and age does to a person. Then in the other end of spectrum, I see guys in my age (28) looking like bunch of relics.... Balding heads, bad posture, crumbling health etc.

Exactly, Hex.

Every day we should mentally check ourselves over and seek out - honestly, truthfully - "Am I up to this thing I want to do?". Most of the time, we'll honestly, truthfully answer, "Yes". Age somewhere in the 70's we honestly can still be up to training for and running a marathon (maybe not winning it, but certainly completing it). We can start a university course at age 90 - and be 94 with a degree, instead of 94 without a degree. One of my old schoolteachers got married for the FIRST TIME aged 72 and stayed happily married until she died aged 95.... a longer, happier marriage than many people in their 20's and 30's.

It's down to if you feel you can, if you want to.

At the other end of the spectrum are those who know a) it's too late to train as a ballet dancer now because you're 18. You've got to quit your football career soon because you're nearly 40. You'll never have children now because you're 43.

Drop the marking of "years passing" and just go with what you genuinely believe you can do.

dubmeup wrote:
Aye, wb app :~)

Here's a head scratcher.
According to relativity, the faster you go, the slower time goes, until at the speed of light, time stops.
This results in, "an astronaut having spent a year aboard the space station will have aged 0.0085 seconds less than the rest of us that stayed on Earth"....but when he comes back to terra firma we can still see him, he is in the same 'time' as us....

So....what does that tell us?

time is relative

Pretty much yup There is no such thing as a universal time that we are all living in.

Which, when you think about it makes a mockery of an awful lot of the facts we are told about existence

And this raises a question to ponder, if you'd be able to go faster than light, would time reverse?

dubmeup wrote:
The issue we have imho is in our perception of reality and our experiments which are often flawed by that very same perception.

Physicists have an innate tendency to throw away bits that don't fit their models. They also have a tendency to compound mistakes by failing to acknowledge the mistake made previously and concocting a 'work around'. As long as they can make the two sides of the equation balance, by whatever means, they are happy.

Their is also this tendency amongst us to partake in one of my pet hates. Treating theories as facts.

Is "the Big Bang" a theory?

dubmeup wrote:
To their credit not all scientists make such mistakes, although I'll admit that the monetary paradigm acts to reinforce making those mistakes because it only funds research that favours profit in the first place.

Ironically enough the monetary paradigm is probably the best example of something that does not exist anywhere outside of our own minds. It is also 'assumed' to be a part of nature...at least amongst the most brainwashed. If there is not enough money for something then it cannot be done, it quite literally becomes 'impossible' and therefore discarded as an option.

You can see that very same example in science, eg it breaks the laws of physics therefore it is impossible and not an option.

There is no investigation to actually test the laws of physics in such circumstances.
Nikola Tesla was a scientist who broke that mould, he refused to make assumptions.