Wednesday 28 December 2011

No Time To Lose

IN THE NAME OF ALLAH – THE SOURCE OF MERCY – THE MOST MERCIFUL

TAKE A BRIEF LOOK AT THE TRUE NATURE, OR RATHER UN-NATURE OF "MATTER" WE ARE COMPELLED, IN THE INTERESTS OF COMPLETENESS TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE NATURE OR "UN-NATURE" OF "TIME" TO WHICH IT IS CONSIDERED TO BE INEXORABLY LINKED, OFTEN SPOKEN OF COLLECTIVELY AS A CONTINUUM "SPACE-TIME". NOW THE ROLE OF "TIME" MUST BE CONSIDERED TO BE OF GREAT INTEREST IN THAT THE VERY NATURE OF "TIME" IS, ACCORDING TO CONTEMPORARY THINKING INTIMATELY LINKED WITH THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF "SPACE" AND THEREFORE OF "MATTER" ITSELF ONE CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT THE OTHER ACCORDING TO SCIENCE.

FOR THE LAST FEW HUNDRED YEARS AT LEAST, HUMANS HAVE ATTEMPTED TO REDUCE THE CONCEPT OF "TIME" TO AN OBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE BY ARBITRARILY INTRODUCING METHODS OF "TIME" MEASUREMENT BASED UPON THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE EARTH, THE MOON AND THE SUN. THE "HISTORY" OF "TIME MEASUREMENT" CAN ACTUALLY BE TRACED BACK THOUSANDS OF YEARS WHEREBY THE PASSAGE OF TIME, AS WELL AS LARGER UNITS OF "TIME" SUCH AS THE "SEASONS" BY MEASURING THE RELATIVE POSITION OF THE SUN TO FIXED POSITIONS ON EARTH. ONE OF THE SIMPLEST DEVICES TO MEASURE THE "PASSAGE OF TIME" ACTUALLY TO MEASURE THE PASSAGE OF THE SUN ACROSS THE SKY IS THE "SUNDIAL".

MANY ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS DEVELOPED MUCH MORE COMPLEX STONE BUILT STRUCTURES, NOT ONLY TO MEASURE THE PASSAGE OF TIME AT A MICRO LEVEL MINUTES, HOURS, DAYS ETC, BUT ALSO AT INCREASING LEVELS ON A MACRO SCALE MONTHS, SEASONS AND SO ON THROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION OF LARGE STONE CIRCLES, POSITIONED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUN, MOON, STARS AND OTHER COSMIC ENTITIES. STONEHENGE IS SUCH AN STRUCTURE AS ARE MANY OF THE PYRAMIDS OF MESOAMERICA SUCH AS THOSE OF THE INCA, AZTECS, TOLTEC'S AND MANY OTHERS. IN FACT IT IS NOW THOUGHT THAT STONEHENGE WAS CONSTRUCTED AFTER THE LAST MAJOR GEOPHYSICAL POLE SHIFT ON EARTH, WHICH CAUSED ALL THE SEASONS TO CHANGE. THE PEOPLE OF THE TIME RELIED ON CROPS TO SURVIVE AND NEEDED TO KNOW WHEN TO SOW, WHEN TO HARVEST ETC, WHICH WAS DIFFICULT AFTER ALL THE SEASONS CHANGED.

IN "MODERN" TIMES THE INFATUATION OF PEOPLE WITH "TIME", WHICH IS IN REALITY IS NO MORE THAN A "CONCEPT", HAS WROUGHT ALL MANNER OF CONFUSION AND MISERY UPON HUMANITY, EQUALLED ONLY BY THE ILLUSION OF "SEPARATION". IF "TIME" IS SO IMPORTANT TO HUMANITY, TO THE POINT WHERE MOST PEOPLE "LIVE THEIR LIVES" BY IT, SURELY IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO KNOW WHAT "TIME" IS OR IS NOT. THE BASIS OF "TIME" AS SUBSCRIBED TO BY MOST HUMANS IS A CONSTRUCT ARBITRARILY DERIVED FROM THE RELATIONSHIP OF A "PLACE" ON PLANET EARTH IN RELATION TO THE OBSERVED POSITIONS OF SUN AND MOON. BUT IS THIS TREATMENT OF "TIME" REALISTIC? IS "TIME" REALLY A MECHANICAL, FIXED PROCESS? MOST IMPORTANTLY, IS "TIME" EVEN A CONSTANT AS MOST CLOCK WATCHERS WOULD IMAGINE?

CONSIDER THIS SCENARIO THEN. IF YOU WERE TO PLACE YOURSELF IN A ROOM WITHOUT ANY WINDOWS, CLOCKS OR OTHER MECHANICAL DEVICES OR MEANS OF MEASURING TRADITIONAL TIME, WITH A FIXED LEVEL OF AMBIENT LIGHTING, WHAT THEN VERY QUICKLY HAPPENS TO YOUR PERCEPTION OF "TIME"? VERY QUICKLY YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT "MINUTE" OR "HOUR" IT WAS. VERY SOON YOU WOULD LOSE TRACK OF WHAT "DAY" IT WAS FOLLOWED BY LOSS OF ORIENTATION WITH THE CONCEPT OF "WEEKS" OR "MONTHS", AND EVENTUALLY EVEN YEARS IF YOU WERE ENCLOSED LONG ENOUGH. YOU COULD TAKE A GUESS OF COURSE, BUT YOU WOULD INVARIABLY BE WRONG DUE TO LACK OF REFERENCE POINTS FOR THE FIVE PHYSICAL SENSES. AS YOUR ISOLATION PROGRESSES, ANY BEST GUESSES" ABOUT MEASURED "TIME", "DATE", "YEAR" WOULD BECOME INCREASINGLY FLAWED TO THE POINT OF BECOMING COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS.

THIS PROVES THAT ONCE WE REMOVE ALL HUMAN MECHANICAL REFERENCE POINTS, "TIME" ITSELF IMMEDIATELY BECOMES TOTALLY MEANINGLESS. I WOULD GO AS FAR AS TO SUGGEST THAT EVEN IF THE BEST SCIENTISTS IN THE WORLD WERE PLACED IN THE ENCLOSED ROOM, OF FIXED AMBIENT CHARACTERISTICS, WITH ACCESS TO ANY SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS OF THEIR CHOOSING, EXCEPT FOR COMPUTERS, CLOCKS AND OTHER MEANS OF MEASURING "TIME", THEN THESE SCIENTISTS WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO OBJECTIVELY DEFINE OR QUANTIFY TIME AS A CONSTANT OR PRINCIPLE OR EVEN AS HAVING ANY BASIS IN FACT.

NEUROTRANSMITTERS IN THE BRAIN THAT REGULATE SLEEP AND WAKING CYCLES MELATONIN, SEROTONIN FOR EXAMPLE WOULD RESET, RESULTING IN A LOSS OF ALL ORIENTATION WITH THE PREVIOUS CONCEPT OF "TIME". WITHOUT A REFERENCE TO "TIME" SOME MAY BECOME DISORIENTED OR EVEN DISTRESSED, AND PERHAPS, IN SOME CASES ULTIMATELY PSYCHOTIC. LET US CONSIDER THE HUMAN CONCEPT OF "TIME" IN ITS PROPER PERSPECTIVE. AGAIN, "TIME" IS A PURELY HUMAN CONSTRUCT, FOR THE PURPOSES OF CONVENIENCE, THAT MAKES USE OF ARBITRARY REFERENCE POINTS IN THE SKY NOTABLE SUN AND MOON TAKEN TOGETHER WITH THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH.

NOW HOW THEN WOULD "TIME" LOOK IF, INSTEAD OF LIVING ON EARTH WE LIVED ON SAY JUPITER INSTEAD, ASSUMING, FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ILLUSTRATION, THAT JUPITER COULD SUPPORT HUMAN LIFE. JUPITER IS MANY TIMES THE SIZE AND MASS OF EARTH, WITH A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SPEED OF ROTATION, DISTANCE FROM THE SUN, HAS NUMEROUS "MOONS" IN ORBIT AND SO ON. HOW WOULD YOUR CLOCKS AND CALENDARS, IF CONSTRUCTED IN THE SAME WAY AS THOSE ON EARTH, APPEAR THEN? WELL CLEARLY THEY WOULD BE UNRECOGNISABLE DIFFERENT.

DUE TO THE SPEED OF ROTATION OF JUPITER VIS A VIS EARTH, A "DAY" ON EARTH WHICH IS CONSIDERED TO BE 24 "HOURS" IN DURATION, WOULD, NOTWITHSTANDING THE MUCH GREATER CIRCUMFERENCE OF JUPITER, IS ONLY 9.9 HOURS. BUT SURE AN "HOUR" IS, IN AND OF ITSELF, A CONSTRUCT OF EARTH HUMANS, SO WHO IS TO SAY THAT AN EARTH GREGORIAN HOUR IS MORE OF A "STANDARD" THAN A JOVIAN HOUR? BUT WHAT ABOUT A "YEAR" ON JUPITER. WELL JUPITER TAKES THE EQUIVALENT OF NEARLY 12 EARTH YEARS TO ORBIT THE SUN, SO ONE JUPITER YEAR IS EQUAL TO 12 EARTH YEARS.

BUT AGAIN THAT OBSERVATION IS BASED ON THE PRESUMPTION THAT THE "EARTH" YEAR IS THE BASIS OF THE DEFINITION OF A "YEAR". IT SHOULD BE READILY APPARENT THEN THAT THE MEASUREMENT OF "TIME" ON EARTH IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TO THE MEASUREMENT OF "TIME" ON JUPITER, AND ACCORDINGLY CLOCKS AND CALENDARS DESIGNED FOR ONE, WOULD BE COMPLETELY ALMOST COMPLETELY USELESS FOR THE OTHER. SO THEN IS "TIME" CORRECT ON EARTH? OR IS "TIME" CORRECT ON JUPITER? OR NONE OF THE ABOVE? WELL CLEARLY IT IS NONE OF THE ABOVE.

"TIME", AS MEASURED MECHANICALLY, CAN NEVER BE "CORRECT", IN OTHER WORDS AS A CONSTANT, BECAUSE NO MATTER WHERE IN THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE IT IS MEASURED IN ACCORDANCE WITH HUMAN CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS OF MEASUREMENT, IT WILL ALWAYS BE DIFFERENT TO GREATER OR LESSER DEGREES. SO NOW WE MUST CONSIDER THE "EXPERIENCE" OF "TIME" WHICH IS ALL THERE IS TO THE EXTENT THAT "TIME" HAS ANY BASIS IN FACT AT ALL. WE HAVE ALREADY DISCUSSED HOW BEING ISOLATED IN AN ENCLOSED, CONSTANT ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCES THE EXPERIENCE OF "TIME, BUT HOW ABOUT OTHER INFLUENCES BASED UPON EXPERIENCE ITSELF? 

WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PERCEPTION OF "TIME" IF YOU ARE REALLY ENJOYING YOURSELF, ENGAGED IN AN ACTIVITY YOU ARE REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT AND TOTALLY IMMERSED IN? TIME IS SAID TO "FLY BY". YOU WISH IT WOULD NEVER END. CONVERSELY, IF YOU ARE ENGAGED IN A REALLY MUNDANE OR BORING ACTIVITY, OR SOMETHING YOU DISLIKE DOING AND WISH YOU WERE NOT DOING, PARALLEL WITH THE PERSON WHO WAS ENJOYING THEMSELVES, WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR EXPERIENCE OF "TIME" THEN? IT SEEMS TO "DRAG ON FOREVER", AND THE END OF IT CANNOT COME SOON ENOUGH. YET IF BOTH LOOKED AT A CLOCK, BEFORE AND AFTER THEIR RESPECTIVE EXPERIENCES, THEY WOULD SEE THAT THE HANDS OF THE CLOCK HAD MOVED BY EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT.

THE REASON HUMANS FEEL "TIRED" AT "NIGHT" AND "AWAKE" DURING THE DAY, IS NOT DUE TO THE RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE HANDS ON YOUR CLOCK, BUT RATHER BECAUSE CONSCIOUS SPHERE OF MIND ACTIVITY HAS CONVINCED SUBCONSCIOUS SPHERE OF MIND ACTIVITY THAT "TIME" IS IN FACT "REAL", AND HENCEFORTH SHALL BE "MEASURED IN A CERTAIN WAY", BASED UPON THE OBSERVATION OF CLOCKS OF VARIOUS TYPES, AND WITH REFERENCE TO PHOTONS OF ENERGY ENTERING THE EYES AS "LIGHT", OR ABSENCE OF PHOTONS AS A LACK OF "LIGHT" THROUGH WHICH SUBCONSCIOUS MIND WILL REGULATE BRAIN ACTIVITY. 

SUBCONSCIOUSNESS REPRODUCES THOSE EXPECTATIONS BY PROGRAMMING THE BIORHYTHMS OF THE ORGANIC BODY THROUGH THE MANIPULATION OF AMINO ACIDS, NEUROTRANSMITTERS IN THE BRAIN SUCH AS MELATONIN, SEROTONIN AND DOPAMINE, WHICH IN TURN PROVIDES THE CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE OF "WAKEFULNESS", "SLEEPINESS" AND MENTAL ALERTNESS. SO CLEARLY, THE ONLY POSSIBLE CONCLUSION IS THAT THE VERY NATURE OF TIME IS ALWAYS INEXORABLY CONNECTED TO:

1. THE WAY "TIME" IS EXPERIENCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PERCEIVED NATURE OF THE CURRENT SITUATION E.G. ENJOYABLE, BORING, TORTUOUS ETC.

2. THE WAY YOU HAVE PROGRAMMED YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND TO PROCESS THE EXPERIENCE OF TIME USING MANY DIFFERENT FIXED AND EXPERIENTIAL REFERENCE POINTS. E.G. YOU MAY ALWAYS FIND WORK "TEDIOUS" AND THEREFORE "5:00 PM" OR "THE WEEKEND" CANNOT COME FAST ENOUGH".

3. THE WAY TIME IS MEASURED USING ARBITRARY REFERENCE POINTS.

SINCE EXPERIENCE ITSELF VARIES INFINITELY NOT ONLY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF ONE PERSON, BUT ALL PEOPLE, THEN "TIME" CANNOT POSSIBLY BE "FIXED" OR QUANTIFIABLE IN ANY WAY, BECAUSE THERE CAN NEVER BE A SINGLE POINT OF REFERENCE.

"TIME" THEREFORE IS A QUALITATIVE NOT A QUANTITATIVE EXPERIENCE. IF WE THEN LOOK AT "TIME" DISPASSIONATELY, WE CAN CLEARLY SEE THAT: 

TIME CANNOT BE A CONSTANT.
TIME CAN NEVER BE OBJECTIVE.
TIME CANNOT BE QUANTIFIABLE.

IN SHORT, "TIME" IS EXCLUSIVELY A SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE. SO WHAT ARE THE FURTHER RAMIFICATIONS ON THIS RELATIVE TO YOUR PREVIOUS CONCEPT OF "TIME". IF "TIME" AND "SPACE" REALLY ARE CONNECTED, AND "TIME" IS SUBJECTIVE, THEN "SPACE", MATTER, "THINGS" MUST BE ALSO SUBJECTIVE. SO YOU MUST NEVER CONCERN YOURSELF WITH BEING "DELAYED" BECAUSE, IN TRUTH, LOOKED AT DISPASSIONATELY, THERE IS REALLY "NO TIME TO LOSE".

SO WHEN YOU ARE FEELING YOURSELF "PUSHED FOR TIME", OR WISHING TIME WOULD "NEVER END" OR "FLY BY", ALWAYS STOP FOR A MOMENT AND REALISE THE TRUTH: THERE IS NO TIME TO LOSE.

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I WOULD STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT IF YOU ONLY READ ONE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT BOOK THIS YEAR, IT SHOULD BE MIND CONTROL SYSTEM. ‘THE BASIC HYPOTHESIS IS PROFOUND. THE APPLICATION OF PROVEN RESEARCH IS MASTERFUL. THE EXPLANATIONS AND SUPPORTING STORIES ARE COMPELLING AND LUCID. THE TRANSLATION OF THE RESEARCH AND STORIES INTO PRACTICAL IDEAS AND SOUND ADVICE IS NOTHING SHORT OF BREATHTAKING.’

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