Further Treatises on Time... (Humans)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, March 12, 2011, 15:47 (5004 days ago) @ xeno6696

Wow... picking apart the syntax. Going to have to be more careful on my choice of language. Putting the concept on the individual level was actually the mistake, not my statement. In order to have a functioning society at our current state of mind and understanding, a concept of 'time', even if fabricated, is necessary for society to function. I agree that if allowed to move in our on cycles we would most definitely change our individual cycles to whatever worked for us individually, but then we would run into problems with the way society functions. Nothing could be scheduled, nothing could be billed. The past and future don't exist, right? So what ever good you received in the past, the past does not exist so the shipment may or may not have ever happened. All we have is a transition of states. The boxes are in my warehouse. Now the boxes are in your warehouse. You are right, are language does not support the concept of no time. It is hard to even have a discussion about it. While the individual may be 'equipped' for timelessness, society is not. Perhaps that clarifies the point as I was trying to make.