Just the other day I read on Yahoo Answers the question: “What is time?”.
It got me thinking, especially after reading a couple of the answers.
My opinion is that time is man-made. That without time everything would be disorganized and in chaos. Thus people invented time to make life easier – just like all the other things invented to simplify (and complicate at the same time) our lifestyles.
Time – as we know it – I believe is based on cycles. For example: the sun, probably the biggest time indicator except for our man-made clocks and watches.
Time goes by…
- We need yesterday for our memories.
- We need a now for our daily existence.
- We need a tomorrow for our hopes and dreams.
Structured. You see the pattern?
Maybe I’m sounding kind of negative about time, but that’s not it. I’m just analyzing and speculating.
In conclusion the thought:
If time does exists, define forever.
It got me thinking, especially after reading a couple of the answers.
My opinion is that time is man-made. That without time everything would be disorganized and in chaos. Thus people invented time to make life easier – just like all the other things invented to simplify (and complicate at the same time) our lifestyles.
Time – as we know it – I believe is based on cycles. For example: the sun, probably the biggest time indicator except for our man-made clocks and watches.
Time goes by…
- We need yesterday for our memories.
- We need a now for our daily existence.
- We need a tomorrow for our hopes and dreams.
Structured. You see the pattern?
Maybe I’m sounding kind of negative about time, but that’s not it. I’m just analyzing and speculating.
In conclusion the thought:
If time does exists, define forever.
1 comment:
I like your post, especially about the three perspectives of time and each ones necessity in humanity. Beautiful logical structure.
Though might I offer a mathematician's friendly delivered contradiction. Man created the concept of a day and the concept of time and how to measure them using calendars, sun-dials and clocks; but if humans created time, then any existence before the first humans would, by necessity, be absent from time. We have the free will to do with time as we please, and yes we use it to bring order to that which is otherwise chaotic. But we also have a conditional sense of time: which hypothesizes what time could have or would have brought if we had control over it.
Nice post, though, it does make you think
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