ain't nobody got time 4 dat
homecoming, homecoming
on time, that oh-so-scarce resource we take for granted
A LIST OF 8 TIME RELATED THINGS:
TIME MAGAZINE
NEW YEARS EVE
CLOCKS
GRAVITY (AND THE FACT THAT IT WARPS TIME)
FEBRUARY 29TH
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
THE SONG “GOOD RIDDANCE” BY GREEN DAY
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit named Bilbo and in a cave in a mountain there also lived a hobbit named Gollum.
And once upon a time the hobbit from the hole in the ground found himself in a game of riddles with the hobbit from the cave in the mountain.
The first riddle was something simple, especially in the context of the conversation, which happened inside a mountainous Orcian lair:
Q:
What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?A:
Mountain
The next riddle was a bit tougher, with a dark flair and a layered set of negative connotations:
Q:
Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.A:
Wind
Riddle three is eerie. The words stick when read aloud, creeping into the those areas of the mind that scream flight instead of fight.
Q:
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes out first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.A:
Darkness
Honestly, riddle four is pretty lame. The framing is delightful and it is a bit tricky, but the answer lacks the over-arching power of the previous riddles.
Q:
Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking.A:
Fish
It is the fifth riddle that TW is here for.
Q:
This thing all things devours;
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats mountain down.A:
Time.
The answer is time.
It is the noun-ender; no person, place, or thing is absolved from the deathly power of time. The world is shaped by time, allowing for the erosion of materials and the deterioration of man made objects. Time beats slowly, steadily, but like the tortoise, it always wins the race.
they say that time heals all wounds.
people who say that are probably wrong.
wounds don’t heal with time. people do.
Johne Locke, he who came up with the idea that every American has the right to freely pursue life, liberty, and property, was very interested in time and how the passage of time affected an individuals sense of self.
He has a thesis (that has since been dubbed Lockean Memory Theory) positing that a person’s sense of identity is bounded by memory.
In essence, Locke claims that a person is who they remember being. To quote directly, Lockee says that a person is “a thinking intelligent Being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places.”
This is a super interesting claim that has major ramifications, as memory is quite a fallible method for record keeping (try to remember what you had for lunch eight days ago if you disagree with me).
Locke basically says that if someone remembers doing something, then it happened, and if they don’t, then it doesn’t really matter because it might as well of not happened. The direct quote goes thusly: “as far as [a] consciousness can be extended backwards to any past action or thought, so far reaches the identity of that person; it is the same self now as it was then; and it is by the same self with this present one that now reflects on it, that that action was done.”
I’ve always found the concept of time and self to be terribly difficult to parse through. For example, my definition of self, which carries with it a moral compass, memories, and potential actions, is very different at age 24 than it was at age 11.
I don’t really feel like I’m the same person as I was a decade ago and I hope that I am not the same person in a decade as I am now.
That’s why Lockean Memory Theory has always sort of stuck with me. It gives me some leeway in understanding who I am and frees me from the constant ticking of time — instead of being some cumulative score of every action and every thought that has occurred as the seconds tick by, I can consider myself as a collection of the most vivid of my memories.
I guess Lockean Memory Theory allows me to consider myself as something outside of time, rather than just some piece of organic material being eroded and shaped by the arbitrary passage of time slipping away.
Google says that time is the continued sequence of events and existence occurring in irreversible succession from the past.
Sometimes I hate Google, it takes the art out of life.
Time is textured. Sometimes it flows quickly. Sometimes it slows to a crawl. Time gives us something to measure the things that matter: love and heartbreak, pain and joy, happiness and sadness.
The greatest men and their greater deeds might become immortalized in time thanks to the written word, but their physical presence rarely endures past three generations of the world turning. The greatest places and their greater views might grandly stand for hundreds and thousands of years, but never do they last forever.
It is the way of the world, time is, the rule that gives our reality shape and our lives purpose.
- kram