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Ever since the invention of the clock, man has been a slave to time. We get up a certain hour, attend a fixed number hours of work, and then go home to have some "real time" with our loved ones. Time dominates our lives, making us painfully aware that there is simply "not enough time" until it's over, and we are removed from time permanently.

Try this little experiment: close your eyes for a moment. Listen to the sounds around you. Feel the air stir the small hairs on your arms and face. Are you aware of the passage of time this way? Is time meaningful? Does time "stand still for a moment" while you ignore it and just be?



Thanks for stopping to smell the roses.

Time: Is it a waste of time?

Not as such. I think you'll find that it actually works out like this:

Time is a waste of space, and space is a waste of time.

I actually came up with a formula to calculate how much fun I was having. It took into account actual time passed versus time experienced. It turned out that Math Lectures were very boring, since they seemed to last three times longer than they were. :p

Time doesn't exist. It's something we invented to gauge how long it is until we can stop doing something we hate and start doing something we like

Sorry, I have no time to read this thread. I have important things to do. (yeah right!)

Sorry, I have no time to read this thread. I have important things to do. (yeah right!)But you still took the time to reply? Hypocrite! :D

Ever since the invention of the clock, man has been a slave to time. We get up a certain hour, attend a fixed number hours of work, and then go home to have some "real time" with our loved ones. Time dominates our lives, making us painfully aware that there is simply "not enough time" until it's over, and we are removed from time permanently.

Try this little experiment: close your eyes for a moment. Listen to the sounds around you. Feel the air stir the small hairs on your arms and face. Are you aware of the passage of time this way? Is time meaningful? Does time "stand still for a moment" while you ignore it and just be?



Thanks for stopping to smell the roses.
damn straight we're all slaves to the clock!
my advice: get stoned. not only do you have no sense of time (or care for that matter), but through prolonged use i swear one's natural sense of time is totally obliterated :P

damn straight we're all slaves to the clock!
my advice: get stoned. not only do you have no sense of time (or care for that matter), but through prolonged use i swear one's natural sense of time is totally obliterated :P

i don't need to get stoned for that to happen.....

Some people are simply focused on finishing tasks. Its their meyers-brigs personality type (yes I know I spelled it wrong). It has nothing to do with knowledge of the passage of time, its just how they think.

I don't know I've never read that magazine.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so.

i don't need to get stoned for that to happen.....
you're one of the lucky ones:D

It's hard to tell when I'm on Summer break.

We are slaves of measurement. Time is a measurement. Thus, we are slaves of time.