Further Treatises on Time... (Humans)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, March 12, 2011, 16:33 (5004 days ago) @ xeno6696


> There's more relativity there than you think... have you spent time in Africa or among former citizens of Africa? I was invited to a wedding ceremony for a lady friend who was Sudanese. The time was 7pm. We waited at the hall for 2 hours before she and the entire wedding party finally showed up. Of course, I didn't care so much, (though my wife was angry, lol...) but they don't live by a clock over there. If you've worked with anyone from Brazil... trust me, they won't be on time. Give them 1-2hrs. Again, because they have different ideas about time than we do. 
> -I spent over a year working in Africa, a year and a half in the Middle-East, plus time in the UAE, Italy, Norway, and the UK. I definitely understand what you are talking about. --> You're already aware that most of the world follows a lunar calendar (especially native civilizations.) The concept of time that you're discussing here (and I myself am a part of) is so culturally based it's not even funny...
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> I think its a bit of a myth that "nothing would get done..." stuff would still get done, I just think that there would be a more relaxed way of doing things. I would even go so far as to suggest life expectancies would go up, as stress would go down. 
> -There IS a more relaxed atmosphere... sometimes too relaxed. I have watched shipments of food rot on the dock because no one would get down to the dock to crane them from the dock to the boat. That is just one example, I could give you hundreds more. -> And my apologies... I analyze people's words and read a few times before I respond. (I usually try to account for multiple meanings...) I don't mean to be a syntax/semantics hound, but sometimes things are ambiguous... again I apologize!-No need to apologize. I am a bit flustered today. It is getting close to time for me to go home from work, so of course everyone starts scrambling to finish things they have let sit to long, and a lot has fallen into my lap at the last minute. If that weren't enough, finals are coming up next week :P