Comments on: On Time http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/09/on-time/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:28:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Father Robin http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/09/on-time/comment-page-1/#comment-468 Father Robin Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:46:44 +0000 http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/09/on-time/#comment-468 I suspect we all may well be. I suspect we all may well be.

]]> By: Father Robin http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/09/on-time/comment-page-1/#comment-467 Father Robin Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:06:10 +0000 http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/09/on-time/#comment-467 How about 'Time' Pink Floyd 'Dark Side of the Moon' Or about 'Time' Steeleye Span 'Time' Are they total ratbags? How about ‘Time’

Pink Floyd

‘Dark Side of the Moon’

Or about ‘Time’

Steeleye Span

‘Time’

Are they total ratbags?

]]> By: Father Robin http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/09/on-time/comment-page-1/#comment-466 Father Robin Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:22:00 +0000 http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/09/on-time/#comment-466 Time has no foundation. Shifting sands. Nothing is permanent. Including You and I. Time has no foundation. Shifting sands.

Nothing is permanent.

Including You and I.

]]> By: Father Robin http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/09/on-time/comment-page-1/#comment-237 Father Robin Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:25:22 +0000 http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/09/on-time/#comment-237 Hmmm... How about "Time is the moving image of Eternity" Plato. Hmmm…

How about “Time is the moving image of Eternity”
Plato.

]]> By: Ted Scott http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/09/on-time/comment-page-1/#comment-234 Ted Scott Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:02:39 +0000 http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/09/on-time/#comment-234 Great quote Father Robin. I will store it for further use! Great quote Father Robin. I will store it for further use!

]]> By: Father Robin http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/09/on-time/comment-page-1/#comment-232 Father Robin Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:54:50 +0000 http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/09/on-time/#comment-232 Time is what keeps the Light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time. And not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections; not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time. A typically littleoverthetop Meister Eckhart, medieval Christian mystic Time is what keeps the Light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time. And
not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections; not only temporal
affections but the very taint and smell of time.
A typically littleoverthetop
Meister Eckhart, medieval Christian mystic

]]> By: Greg Brown http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/09/on-time/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Greg Brown Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:32:12 +0000 http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/09/on-time/#comment-230 Time, like nothing else defines humans. The knowledge of our mortality only exists through the concept of time and almost nothing causes more fear to the ego than our mortality. Without time most of us would consider the Universe to be a static "dead" place. Absence of time in most people’s minds is akin to death. We often define death as "eternal rest" (absence of time). Time therefore becomes a thing to be feared by most of us. We can't waste it. I'll quote Roger Waters from Pink Floyd: We run and we run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind us again, the sun is the same in a relative way but we’re older shorter of breath and one day closer to death. Bet you never thought you'd get a quote from Pink Floyd in your blogs Ted :-) Through correspondence with Phil Harker recently I have been prompted to think about the idea of time quite a lot. My own conclusions I think, but Phil gets 100% credit for the ideas. Phil is working on a book that expands on these concepts and plenty of others. Look out for it. Time is the 4th dimension and it is necessary for us to understand the underlying other 3 dimensions of space. If you can not move around an object you can not fully appreciate its 3 dimensional structure and in order to have movement you must have time. The object we define as the observer can't be in 2 places at the same time, can it?? If you delve deeper it also becomes pretty clear that to fully understand or perceive any dimension you need to be one dimension above the dimension you want to know about. We all live in the time dimension (the highest directly observable dimension) so by this definition we can not fully understand that dimension. This does not tell me what reality is in relation to time, but it does tell me that my perception of time is definitely incomplete and most probably incorrect. This thought has allowed me to open my mind to such concepts as the eternal present or the singularity of time. I have not sensed this but I appreciate that others may well have and are attempting to share there intuitive observations. In the same way that time and mortality/death invokes fear for our ego, awareness that our perception of time is almost certainly incorrect is for me and my insecure ego quite liberating. If time is a construct of consciousness so is mortality. Time, like nothing else defines humans. The knowledge of our mortality only exists through the concept of time and almost nothing causes more fear to the ego than our mortality. Without time most of us would consider the Universe to be a static “dead” place. Absence of time in most people’s minds is akin to death. We often define death as “eternal rest” (absence of time). Time therefore becomes a thing to be feared by most of us. We can’t waste it. I’ll quote Roger Waters from Pink Floyd:

We run and we run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking,
racing around to come up behind us again,
the sun is the same in a relative way but we’re older
shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Bet you never thought you’d get a quote from Pink Floyd in your blogs Ted :-)

Through correspondence with Phil Harker recently I have been prompted to think about the idea of time quite a lot. My own conclusions I think, but Phil gets 100% credit for the ideas. Phil is working on a book that expands on these concepts and plenty of others. Look out for it.

Time is the 4th dimension and it is necessary for us to understand the underlying other 3 dimensions of space. If you can not move around an object you can not fully appreciate its 3 dimensional structure and in order to have movement you must have time. The object we define as the observer can’t be in 2 places at the same time, can it??

If you delve deeper it also becomes pretty clear that to fully understand or perceive any dimension you need to be one dimension above the dimension you want to know about. We all live in the time dimension (the highest directly observable dimension) so by this definition we can not fully understand that dimension. This does not tell me what reality is in relation to time, but it does tell me that my perception of time is definitely incomplete and most probably incorrect. This thought has allowed me to open my mind to such concepts as the eternal present or the singularity of time. I have not sensed this but I appreciate that others may well have and are attempting to share there intuitive observations.

In the same way that time and mortality/death invokes fear for our ego, awareness that our perception of time is almost certainly incorrect is for me and my insecure ego quite liberating. If time is a construct of consciousness so is mortality.

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