Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Uhhhhhh......

Hmm, so all this talk about time has really got me thinking. Today, the wonderful Katie Collins brought up the topic of time and calendars, and how if people go by different calendars, how can we all be on the same page? But the way I see it is, calendars and hours and minutes and seconds are all things that we as humans have made up. They dont really exist, its just our way of making life more routine. Its kinda like how the east coast and the west coast run on different time schedules. When something happens in the US, its still happening to all of us at the same time, despite what time zone we are in. Time is real, but the way we describe it is not. We have made it easier on ourselves by splitting time into measurements. These measurements are fake, but time itself is not.

1 comment:

Samantha Chase said...

I agree, although I wouldn't say that the measurements of time are "fake". We perceive them differently but they still exist as tools and organizers, both on a personal and broader societal level.