Comments on: Lesson 3: Time is Too Short http://problemattic.net/blog/2004/11/08/lesson-3-time/ Insert witty tagline here. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:18:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Julian http://problemattic.net/blog/2004/11/08/lesson-3-time/#comment-343 Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:43:53 +0000 http://problemattic.net/blog/2004/11/08/lesson-3-time/#comment-343 Matt, time is a human measure. I think that we have some choice in how we live. If you consider this life is a set amount, say x, and we have to divid x up into lots of things that we choose to put into it, i.e. x=job + house + play + love etc, and then panic cos it is a very full and ambitious venter, and so we become anxous around time, and use words like 'dash' to get from one place to the next, so we can get it done. what if we took a series veiw instead of a parallel view. Take all of life as a consept and put it to one side, and consider the present, and do what is important today. now as i type this i feel the constrains of a culture telling me to think ahead, plan, save, invest. telling me to live continually holding the future closer to my attention than the present, and hence the present gets ditched (in favour or anxiety) as i have to dash to the next important thing. To live presently is counter cultural, i think, and that is lonely and scary. Matt, time is a human measure. I think that we have some choice in how we live. If you consider this life is a set amount, say x, and we have to divid x up into lots of things that we choose to put into it, i.e. x=job + house + play + love etc, and then panic cos it is a very full and ambitious venter, and so we become anxous around time, and use words like ‘dash’ to get from one place to the next, so we can get it done. what if we took a series veiw instead of a parallel view. Take all of life as a consept and put it to one side, and consider the present, and do what is important today. now as i type this i feel the constrains of a culture telling me to think ahead, plan, save, invest. telling me to live continually holding the future closer to my attention than the present, and hence the present gets ditched (in favour or anxiety) as i have to dash to the next important thing. To live presently is counter cultural, i think, and that is lonely and scary.

]]> by: Matt http://problemattic.net/blog/2004/11/08/lesson-3-time/#comment-342 Mon, 08 Nov 2004 22:38:49 +0000 http://problemattic.net/blog/2004/11/08/lesson-3-time/#comment-342 I didn't do anything... maybe the RSS didn't like quotes in the title. And I'm not sure that demand on time would scale infinitely—there's still a finite number of people for one. Plus, if you know something is guaranteed to eventually happen, you're likely to be more chilled out about it, in my experience. I didn’t do anything… maybe the RSS didn’t like quotes in the title.

And I’m not sure that demand on time would scale infinitely—there’s still a finite number of people for one. Plus, if you know something is guaranteed to eventually happen, you’re likely to be more chilled out about it, in my experience.

]]> by: Nato http://problemattic.net/blog/2004/11/08/lesson-3-time/#comment-341 Mon, 08 Nov 2004 22:03:36 +0000 http://problemattic.net/blog/2004/11/08/lesson-3-time/#comment-341 Also, I notice your RSS feed is back online - did you tinker with it at all? Or was it just that the post before 'a question' was bung? Also, I notice your RSS feed is back online - did you tinker with it at all? Or was it just that the post before ‘a question’ was bung?

]]> by: Nato http://problemattic.net/blog/2004/11/08/lesson-3-time/#comment-340 Mon, 08 Nov 2004 21:57:29 +0000 http://problemattic.net/blog/2004/11/08/lesson-3-time/#comment-340 Are you basing that on the fact heaven is perfect, or that we have infinite time? If its based on infinite time, I don't think it works... There would be infinite supply of time, but there would also be infinite demand, as people have infinity of it, and want to spend some of it with you. Aren't the demands of spending time is proportional to the time they have available, not absolute? Just a thought... Are you basing that on the fact heaven is perfect, or that we have infinite time?

If its based on infinite time, I don’t think it works… There would be infinite supply of time, but there would also be infinite demand, as people have infinity of it, and want to spend some of it with you. Aren’t the demands of spending time is proportional to the time they have available, not absolute?
Just a thought…

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