Time and Space 9-08-08

9-08-08

I've been thinking about time and space on this little third dimensional planet. It's no wonder the Human Race is confused about reality. We try to run our lives according to dates and times. Neither one actually exist, as we know it, other than what we have made them into. We have "time" so that we can make appointments. An appointment for work, lunch, a date, a business meeting, a call to prayer, a movie, a wedding, whatever. We took one day, from sunrise to sunrise, divided it up in to 24 parts approximately. If that wasn't enough, we divided each of those into 60 equal sections. Then of all silly things we decided that we would change from one day to the next about 4 or 5 hours after it gets dark. How silly is that. Anyway, we did this so that if someone wanted to meet at 3:15 P.M. everyone would know exactly when that was.

The Calendar we use is call the "The Gregorian Calendar" and was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII after whom it was named, on February 23, 1583 which was a revision of the Roman, Julian Calendar There have been many calendars, including the Civil, Mayan, Chinese, Esceene, and a number of ancient calendars which are more accurate than the one we are now using. Why, because we need to know which day our appointment is on. 3:15 P.M. on Wednesday.

Time is just a concept we invented. It makes things more convenient for us. Which actually amazes me. Time I mean. It doesn't really exist, but it's the one thing no one seems to have enough of, and the one thing they seem to hold sacred. No one ever seems to have time to spare. People are much too busy, they don't want to give you any of their precious time, money maybe, but not their time. They think they don't have enough of it, and say they wish they had more of it. Is this reality? Actually it is, in a way, its "our" reality. Time is something that seems real, because we have made it that way. Albert Einstein once said "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." I've thought about this, and I am grateful. This way we have time to love, learn wisdom, and to be of service to others.

I have come to the conclusion after several day of thinking about a way to explain our concept of time as apposed to a more Universal concept of time/space or apace/time and I realize that I am unable to do so. I suppose in the Universal view of things, it doesn't really matter how the inhabitants of this one tiny third dimensional planet thinks about time for its own use. I just wanted to state that our understanding of 'time' is simply a concept, devised strictly for our own use, and that it not a Universal concept. Good grief, I'll leave this for others to try to think about and explain if they have the time.