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Who knows what a treasure your casket may hold?
Oliver Wendel Holmes
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
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The grandfather clock is the reflection of its historical period when time was orderly and slow. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. It stood there in the front hall, its great carven case, with a pendulum like the sun or the moon. There was something monumental and solid about time. By the nineteen-thirties and forties wristwatches were neurotic and talked very fast, tick-tick-tick-tick -- with a sweep secondhand going around. Today we have liquid-crystal watches that don't show any time at all until you press a button. Then the numbers show up. And when you take your finger off, time disappears.
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And from a long time ago: Wednesday, November 21, 2007
"There comes a time when time passing becomes time remaining."
I had no idea what I said. Here's St Eve's first reply.
This is a complicated statement and requires some thought to unravel. The passage of time is a perception that depends upon cause and effect occurrence in the physical world and the apprehension of those causes followed by their associated effects. The batter hits the pitched ball. Then there is the memory of those relations and their order of occurrence. Sight of the ball and sound of the bat hitting the ball this becomes the sensed passage of time. So when the time remaining to our lives becomes the sensed moment of times' passage; it is the last moment-end time. Now some might accuse me of being philosophically narrow and bending the meaning to my own ends but if you think about what time perception is really all about then my conclusion seems unavoidable. If this is not clear I will gladly restate it.
Ss
Gross asked for a restatement. So here's St Eve's second reply or re-statement.
Inherent within the above statement, there is a structure to time. There is past, present and future time.
Time coming is its emergence out of the future to become the present moment. No matter how brief that moment is, it lapses and becomes the next moment. As it passes it becomes past time. Historical time and future time are infinites with present time sandwiched in between. Time passing from future to present to past is the accepted linear configuration in western society.
In the second part of the statement, “time remaining” has to be assumed to be a personal subset of future moments that constitutes the finite period of the person’s life that they have left to live.
So when that packet of future time, the remainder of one’s life’s moments becomes passing time, and entering the past then one's life is over the next instant. When the time remaining to one's life passes it is all over.
To restate the notions related to the perception of time embedded in the above statement is less . This perception is complex and comes from our senses which record in memory happenings sequentially with antecedent and subsequent events. They may be cause and effect but as Katz has pointed out may just be sequential.
The order of occurrence and their recording on RNA and reading that order may be how we know that events are past time and we are able to place them in their temporal order by their physical placement in the RNA molecule.
There are many exceptions to time perception which are intriguing.
Time passing fast, passing slowly: time standing still, athletes in “the zone “with altered time perception and increased performance abilities.
When my understanding improves with research I will pass it on.
ss
The grandfather clock is the reflection of its historical period when time was orderly and slow. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. It stood there in the front hall, its great carven case, with a pendulum like the sun or the moon. There was something monumental and solid about time. By the nineteen-thirties and forties wristwatches were neurotic and talked very fast, tick-tick-tick-tick -- with a sweep secondhand going around. Today we have liquid-crystal watches that don't show any time at all until you press a button. Then the numbers show up. And when you take your finger off, time disappears.
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And from a long time ago: Wednesday, November 21, 2007
"There comes a time when time passing becomes time remaining."
I had no idea what I said. Here's St Eve's first reply.
This is a complicated statement and requires some thought to unravel. The passage of time is a perception that depends upon cause and effect occurrence in the physical world and the apprehension of those causes followed by their associated effects. The batter hits the pitched ball. Then there is the memory of those relations and their order of occurrence. Sight of the ball and sound of the bat hitting the ball this becomes the sensed passage of time. So when the time remaining to our lives becomes the sensed moment of times' passage; it is the last moment-end time. Now some might accuse me of being philosophically narrow and bending the meaning to my own ends but if you think about what time perception is really all about then my conclusion seems unavoidable. If this is not clear I will gladly restate it.
Ss
Gross asked for a restatement. So here's St Eve's second reply or re-statement.
Inherent within the above statement, there is a structure to time. There is past, present and future time.
Time coming is its emergence out of the future to become the present moment. No matter how brief that moment is, it lapses and becomes the next moment. As it passes it becomes past time. Historical time and future time are infinites with present time sandwiched in between. Time passing from future to present to past is the accepted linear configuration in western society.
In the second part of the statement, “time remaining” has to be assumed to be a personal subset of future moments that constitutes the finite period of the person’s life that they have left to live.
So when that packet of future time, the remainder of one’s life’s moments becomes passing time, and entering the past then one's life is over the next instant. When the time remaining to one's life passes it is all over.
To restate the notions related to the perception of time embedded in the above statement is less . This perception is complex and comes from our senses which record in memory happenings sequentially with antecedent and subsequent events. They may be cause and effect but as Katz has pointed out may just be sequential.
The order of occurrence and their recording on RNA and reading that order may be how we know that events are past time and we are able to place them in their temporal order by their physical placement in the RNA molecule.
There are many exceptions to time perception which are intriguing.
Time passing fast, passing slowly: time standing still, athletes in “the zone “with altered time perception and increased performance abilities.
When my understanding improves with research I will pass it on.
ss
Saturday, January 23, 2010
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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RSVP from a friend.
I seem to represent the lone hold out. Yes Wed is the date and I consulted my calendar
and there are no prior appointments for that day. Before I assent to the meeting
I feel it appropriate to share with you my dark mood which might taint the upcoming
evening if it persists.
Upon my return from my brief trip abroad I noted in my Staatsburg kitchen an excess of
mouse turds in several corners. The weather has been bitterly cold for the last few weeks and in my absence the brown mice have found their way into the house from outside and made their way up to the kitchen in search for food.
For a man who is trying each day to live in greater harmony with his whole environment
the presence of mouse turds in his kitchen posed a disturbing contradiction. Let them be they are living creatures perhaps with little souls with a need for life and participation in the great karmic wheel.
On the other hand, they spread filth with their indiscriminate urination and defecation and will multiply endlessly to meet the limits of the food supply and beyond. I,without much hesitation, chose the killing. With standard mouse traps and peanut butter, I executed 10+ furry creatures mostly by crushing their skulls. Yes, me first; human over animals when the choice comes. But then where does it stop?
The entire protein-for-humans industry adopts this tenet in spades. We not only kill them. We eat the animals too. I have just returned from France where eating animals has been raised to high art. There are unintended consequences. It is a disaster for the planet.
So as soon as I finish the bouef in the frig I will try once again my hand and mouth at
being a vegetarian. So here is the bottom line by next Wednesday, my new regime will be in full swing. So I would prefer, if I am to eat with you all and not just watch, that the restaurant choice be one where a vegetarian can get a reasonable meal without feeling like a freak. Indian food would be nice.
ss
RSVP from a friend.
I seem to represent the lone hold out. Yes Wed is the date and I consulted my calendar
and there are no prior appointments for that day. Before I assent to the meeting
I feel it appropriate to share with you my dark mood which might taint the upcoming
evening if it persists.
Upon my return from my brief trip abroad I noted in my Staatsburg kitchen an excess of
mouse turds in several corners. The weather has been bitterly cold for the last few weeks and in my absence the brown mice have found their way into the house from outside and made their way up to the kitchen in search for food.
For a man who is trying each day to live in greater harmony with his whole environment
the presence of mouse turds in his kitchen posed a disturbing contradiction. Let them be they are living creatures perhaps with little souls with a need for life and participation in the great karmic wheel.
On the other hand, they spread filth with their indiscriminate urination and defecation and will multiply endlessly to meet the limits of the food supply and beyond. I,without much hesitation, chose the killing. With standard mouse traps and peanut butter, I executed 10+ furry creatures mostly by crushing their skulls. Yes, me first; human over animals when the choice comes. But then where does it stop?
The entire protein-for-humans industry adopts this tenet in spades. We not only kill them. We eat the animals too. I have just returned from France where eating animals has been raised to high art. There are unintended consequences. It is a disaster for the planet.
So as soon as I finish the bouef in the frig I will try once again my hand and mouth at
being a vegetarian. So here is the bottom line by next Wednesday, my new regime will be in full swing. So I would prefer, if I am to eat with you all and not just watch, that the restaurant choice be one where a vegetarian can get a reasonable meal without feeling like a freak. Indian food would be nice.
ss
Saturday, January 09, 2010
BusterStronghart@Gmail.com
From "To The Finland Station", Edmund Wilson
(From Hegel came the idea that)"...the great revolutionary figures of history were not simply remarkable individuals, who moved mountains by their single wills, but the agents through which the forces of the societies behind them accomplished their unconscious purposes. Julius Caesar, says Hegel, for example, did of course fight and conquer his rivals, and destroy the constitution of Rome in order to win his own position of supremacy, but what gave him his importance for the world was the fact that he was performing the necessary feat--only possible through autocratic control--of unifying the Roman Empire."
"'It was not then merely his private gain, but an unconscious impulse,' writes Hegel, 'that occasioned the accomplishment for which the time was ripe. Such are all great historical men--whose own particular aims involve those large issues which are the will of the World-Spirit."'
"They may be called Heroes, inasmuch as they have derived their purposes and their vocation, not from the calm course of things, sanctioned by the existing order; but from a concealed fount -- one which has not obtained to a phenomenal, present existence. -- From that inner Spirit, still hidden which, impinging on the outer world as on a shell, bursts it in pieces, because it is another kernel than that which belonged to the shell in question. They present themselves, therefore, as men who appear to draw the impulse of their life from themselves; and whose deeds have produced a condition of things and a complex of historical relations which appear to be only their interest,, and their work."
"Such individuals have had no consciousness of the general Idea they were unfolding, while prosecuting those aims of theirs; on the contrary, they were practical, political men. But at the same time they were thinking men,
"This was the very Truth for their age, for their world; the species next in order, so to speak, and which was already formed in the womb of the time. It was theirs to know this nascent principle; the necessary, directly sequent step in progress, which their world was to take; to make this their aim, and to expend their energy in promoting it."
"...For that Spirit which had taken this fresh step in history is the inmost soul of all individuals; but abides in a state of unconsciousness from which the great men in question aroused it."
"Their fellows, therefore, follow these soul-leaders; for they feel the irrestible power of their own inner spirit thus embodied.
From "To The Finland Station", Edmund Wilson
(From Hegel came the idea that)"...the great revolutionary figures of history were not simply remarkable individuals, who moved mountains by their single wills, but the agents through which the forces of the societies behind them accomplished their unconscious purposes. Julius Caesar, says Hegel, for example, did of course fight and conquer his rivals, and destroy the constitution of Rome in order to win his own position of supremacy, but what gave him his importance for the world was the fact that he was performing the necessary feat--only possible through autocratic control--of unifying the Roman Empire."
"'It was not then merely his private gain, but an unconscious impulse,' writes Hegel, 'that occasioned the accomplishment for which the time was ripe. Such are all great historical men--whose own particular aims involve those large issues which are the will of the World-Spirit."'
"They may be called Heroes, inasmuch as they have derived their purposes and their vocation, not from the calm course of things, sanctioned by the existing order; but from a concealed fount -- one which has not obtained to a phenomenal, present existence. -- From that inner Spirit, still hidden which, impinging on the outer world as on a shell, bursts it in pieces, because it is another kernel than that which belonged to the shell in question. They present themselves, therefore, as men who appear to draw the impulse of their life from themselves; and whose deeds have produced a condition of things and a complex of historical relations which appear to be only their interest,, and their work."
"Such individuals have had no consciousness of the general Idea they were unfolding, while prosecuting those aims of theirs; on the contrary, they were practical, political men. But at the same time they were thinking men,
"This was the very Truth for their age, for their world; the species next in order, so to speak, and which was already formed in the womb of the time. It was theirs to know this nascent principle; the necessary, directly sequent step in progress, which their world was to take; to make this their aim, and to expend their energy in promoting it."
"...For that Spirit which had taken this fresh step in history is the inmost soul of all individuals; but abides in a state of unconsciousness from which the great men in question aroused it."
"Their fellows, therefore, follow these soul-leaders; for they feel the irrestible power of their own inner spirit thus embodied.
BusterStronghart@Gmail.com
"Lying here, during all this time after my own small fall, it has become my conviction that things mean pretty much what we want them to mean. We'll pluck significance from the least consequential happenstance if it suits us and happily ignore the most flagrantly obvious symmetry between separate aspects of our lives if it threatens some cherished prejudice or cosily comforting belief; we are blindest to precisely whatever might be most illuminating."
-- from Transition, by Iain M. Banks
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
-- The Boxer, by Paul Simon
"Lying here, during all this time after my own small fall, it has become my conviction that things mean pretty much what we want them to mean. We'll pluck significance from the least consequential happenstance if it suits us and happily ignore the most flagrantly obvious symmetry between separate aspects of our lives if it threatens some cherished prejudice or cosily comforting belief; we are blindest to precisely whatever might be most illuminating."
-- from Transition, by Iain M. Banks
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
-- The Boxer, by Paul Simon
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