Time: Explain-ed.
2000-08-10 - 19:52:20
I have stopped waking up early every morning. I don't even remember the last time I saw the sun rise...no, I take that back. I watched the sun rise to 1-1-00.
Time, Theory The First: When you think about it, everyone is living in the future. We say that the 100 years until 1900 is the 'nineteenth century', because we have a 'zeroeth century', which is the really 'first century' in a long list of centuries. In the same manner, There is a 'zeroeth decade', and a 'zeroeth hour', and a 'zeroeth minute'. Thusly, when you look at the clock, and it says 4:18, you are really living an hour ahead of that time. 5:18 And a minute ahead of that time. 5:19. Because some Roman Catholic Church (TM) decided to have a 'zeroeth hour', throwing all actual time off. And if we had a word for five hours (a quintushorus, for example) then there would be a 'zeroeth quintushorus', and we would all be living in the next quintushorus. One can be brought to the conclusion then, that we are not only living one century ahead of our time, but infinitely beyond our time, because any manner of denominations of time, large or small, can be made up. And people still complain that there isn't enough time in a day, tsktsk.
Time, Theory The Second: We are trapped in the laws and boundaries of time. The conk shell conks away the seconds, and we are helpless to resist. What will happen will happen, because what has happened is static, and what has happened is the only variable that controls what happens in the future.
I ask you to stop and smell the roses. If you are the type of person to heed my advice, then you will. If you are not the said type of person, you won't. The human brain is merely a compilation of 'IF...THEN' statements, of endless complexity. I say 'endless complexity', because your every action (which is in turn influenced by previous experience) is based on the sum of all of your previous experiences. If two clones were to grow up in the exact same environment, they would BE the exact same, right down to the perspective location of their individual atoms at any given moment. Their thoughts would be 'Xeroxed' (TM) by the other. They would talk the same, with the same words. They would wipe their nose in the same exact action. And if they were raised with reverse prospective, such that one's right was the other's right, then they would be as a person in a mirror to the other. And all because of time. We cannot escape. Even what we think is controlled by time, because we will think what we will, at the time we are supposed to, due to those infinitely complex experiences we've had. And we believe in freedom. We believe in freedom of choice. We believe in justice. But none of these things exist.
Time, Theory The Third: We are all living at different times in an endless time line. Consider that you are living several fractions of a second in the future. And your drinking buddy, Bill, is living several fractions of a second in the past. When you talk to Bill, she gets your message later than you actually finish saying it. Later even than the difference between your time and hers, because the sound has to travel. Now, Bill responds. You hear Bill's response a couple several fractions of a second earlier than Bill responds, minus the speed of the sound traveling to you. It is because of the speed of sound that we do not notice this discrepancy between people of different times. However, Bill might be encouraged to think and respond faster, because she would slowly be trained to respond faster to communicate normally. Subliminally, She might notice that there is more of a space between when you talk to her than when she talks to you. Now consider that you, living in the future, develop your mind to Bill's level, so that you can think and respond faster, but still live in the future. You would be living in the future, and actually realize this fact. Suppose you were to think faster than time, throwing you more into the future. Perhaps you could predict things a whole second before they actually happened. But it would be useless. You would not be able to save people with your intuition of the future, because you cannot see farr enough into the future for it to make a difference. And time goes on.
Sir#1: Nothing is impossible.
Sir#1: Don't be silly, Sir, there are lots of impossible things: It is impossible for a week to be composed of Tuesdays, impossible for one to survive forever, or for a president to be truthful to the people...
Sir#1: Oh that's not what I meant. By saying 'nothing is impossible', I mean that the actual theory about nothing is impossible.
Sir#1: You mean there can be no nothing?
Sir#1: Exactly. You see, if there is a 'nothing', we have given it a name, and therefore, it is a 'something'. So even if there isn't anything, there is still a something because we call it nothing.
Sir#1: But nothing is a lack of anything...
Sir#1: That it is, but that is not to say that it isn't a something.
Sir#1: But if nothing is a lack of anything, then nothing doesn't exist, and if it doesn't exist, it can't be a something.
Sir#1: But it is, because we have given it a title, and properties of non-existence besides...
Narrator's Solution: Nothing is any something that doesn't exist as anything.
