Mon 5 Apr 2004
This time of year always strikes me as odd. It’s a time when we collectively agree upon a certain point at which we will all willingly agree to change our perception of time. It’s kind of amazing if you really stop to think about it. If time is relative, is space…is reality itself? Isn’t this all just one big agreement amongst us? We [more or less] agree on how we define things, on what we experience, on what we expect. And, we have the collective power to ‘change time’! I actually prefer this time of year [and again in the fall] for “resolutions”. New Years is just time continuing, while Day Light Savings is an opportunity to embrace change. There exists a quiet power in it that no one seems to recognize or celebrate.
I think next year I will have a Day Light Savings Time Party! So bring your resolutions, and be ready for a personal shift in consciousness. Which of your perceptions do you want to change?
April 6th, 2004 at 9:20 am
So, you think this time business is amusing? Well, my cows no longer give milk. Wait, I don’t have any cows, but if I did I’ll bet they would be milkless. I’m going to buy a cow and I shall call her Chuck and we will go many places together and we will be an hour late all the way up to where they change time again.
April 6th, 2004 at 10:14 am
On a more serious note, all by yourself, you just described science. The basis for all scientific agreement is definition. Science is what those in the collective agree it is. It is relative. Its purpose is not to explain why, but to describe how, because all is perception and, at the deepest level it is neither correct nor incorrect, only timely. Any scientist that gets caught up in the “why” is useless. (Except at parties where we can make fun of them.)
April 6th, 2004 at 10:32 am
now is the only thing that is real.
April 6th, 2004 at 11:01 am
Except when I poot. That is real, right now.