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Don't know bout anybody else, but i've always been fascinated by time. I remember about a year and a half ago there was a thread about how we deal with the issue of time passing us by. I do remember the dread i was having back then at 29, i don't think it's that hard to imagine how much worse i feel now at 31.
Is there anybody else out there as apprehensive about its passing as i are? I was actually talking about this some weeks ago at work. My whole little 'reflection' stemmed from a random and silly incident. I had dropped my cell on the floor like the clumsy head that i am and i had to set its date and hour once more cause the battery and case were all over the place. And that's when it occurred to me – why can't we set 'real' time just as easily with a touch of a button?
And here is where the whole time travel thing comes along. If you could travel in time, where would you go – in what place and time? And if the time machine was a reality, would you use it? Remember them captain Picard dilemmas – if you could influence history (or in their case the fates of planets and civilizations lol) would you do it, even if for good, would you have the right to turn things in another direction? For example, if you could, would you stop Hitler's parents from meeting so he wouldn't be born, knowing the horrible impact he had on human kind?
In terms of time travel i've always found the middle ages quite fascinating a time. Of course i would have prefered to live in the conditions of the nobility cause it wasn't fun being a poor ole peasant, especially back in those days. I know that time in history has a pretty bad rap being called 'dark' and full of ignorance, but from my point of view it was also actually a time full of spirituality and depth.
Also, i've asked myself more than once if i were alive 2000 years ago while the Lord was walking the earth how would i view Him? Would i have been among the disciples or would i have shouted with the rest of the people in front of Pilate – 'free Barabbas'???
As a post-modern believer it is easy for me to claim that i woul've been on the right side, but there is a part of me which cannot help but have the doubt that i might have not been able to see the truth even if stared me in the face. I think it's a lot easier to be around now when we can't see the Lord, but believe in Him.
There are people who can't see obvious truth standing right in front of them, but those kind of parallels belongs to a less holy segment of life, but then again, maybe it's all part of the same story....
Returning to that horrible foe of mine, that time guy. Don't it seem to no one else that time really is slipping right through our fingers?
There are those who might be tempted to say that time is on our side that it is our friend, but i cannot help but feel a sense of urgency and immediacy about everything around me. It could very well be a perception issue of mine and it could very well be rooted in all my struggles and my issues with time from long ago and all the unmet expectations, prayers and needs from long ago.
I definitely know how relative time can be – for those who wait it seems endless, while for those rejoicing it is passing by to fast. One of my biggest fears is that the agony of seeing time pass by so awfully slowly while i await some sort of miracle and fundamental change in my life will be replaced at some point by a stringent need to make time stop so i can enjoy the bliss which i pray awaits me. And in an ironic twist, what was once a cause of torment – time passing by too slowly, will at that point become a desire. So, no matter from what perspective i look at it, time is and always will be a terrible enemy.
Many people say how important it is to live in the moment. Unfortunately there are so very many people caught in the traumas or the plesant memories of the past which have since been replaced by unhappiness or those living only with the hope or the vision of a brighter future. They are all wrong because they are missing out on the beauty and the relevance of the only time we have for ourselves – the sacred moment of NOW. When the moment of now is one incessant grief and yesterday's pain is continued in tomorrow's sorrow, as it can be for some of us, then it is indeed hard to escape the prison of time and feel any real hope for the future.
Dali had some really great things on this theme. I'm sure most people are familiar with this next painting. It is called the persistence of memory.
What i didn't know is the genius of surrealism also did jewelry inspired by time. I know he was quite the antreprenorial spirit and was involved in all kind of commercials, but i wasn't aware he also did this beautiful next piece called Time's eye.
When i saw the picture i was shocked because it struck me as a possible inspiration for a painting from a local artist who did this next one called 'A window in time'
I distinctly remember sending this as a greeting card (cause that's how i found it at a book fair in late autumn of 2009) to someone and after the initial shock of seeing it i also remember their promise about getting back to me about it. It was just one of many promises he did not keep. Thankfully that was one of the minor promises he didn't keep, so i guess it is an offense easy to forgive. The jury is still out though on the major ones he made....hopefully, he will indeed be a man of his word. I just have to believe that, otherwise i realy don't know what will be of me.
And btw of the hour-glass in the above painting, here is another one which mirrors my believes.
Music has also dealt with this dreadful issue in some wonderful ways. And one particular tune which is incredible is Time waits for no one from the awesome Rolling Stones.
[video=youtube;tI318VBjAmw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI318VBjAmw [/video]
U2 also have a great passage about it in City of blinding lights.
[video=youtube;ZhCezZQqxx4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhCezZQqxx4&ob=av2n [/video]
Time...time...time...time...time
Won't leave me as I am
But time won't take the boy out of this man
In my case it should be rephrased: time won't leave me as i am, time won't take the girl out of this woman. But maybe it's the other way around, who knows?
Michael himself has had a few songs – Remember the time, the song with the same title as the Stones, but on a narrower topic...The one song that i'd like to explore now though is Time explotion from the J5 days
[video=youtube;os76qyDr9qc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os76qyDr9qc [/video]
Tic toc tic tic toc ti
Time is going faster everyday
There's a time explosion
Gotta make the most of love today
There's a time explosion
Fast or slow, no matter how time is going, i absolutely believe it is of vital importance that we do indeed make the most of love and life TODAY cause neither hearts are unbreakable nor life on earth is forever.
Even the good book has some things about. We are instructed to count our days because they are brief.
Psalms 31 and 39 are terribly poignant from my point of view at least.
9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress.
Tears blur my eyes.
My body and soul are withering away.
10 I am dying from grief;
my years are shortened by sadness.
Sin has drained my strength;
I am wasting away from within.
Psalm 31 New Living Translation
[SUP]1[/SUP] I said, “I will watch my ways
and keep my tongue from sin;
I will put a muzzle on my mouth
while in the presence of the wicked.”
[SUP]2[/SUP] So I remained utterly silent,
not even saying anything good.
But my anguish increased;
[SUP]3[/SUP] my heart grew hot within me.
While I meditated, the fire burned;
then I spoke with my tongue:
[SUP]4[/SUP] “Show me, LORD, my life’s end
and the number of my days;
let me know how fleeting my life is.
[SUP]5[/SUP] You have made my days a mere handbreadth;
the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath,
even those who seem secure.[SUP][b][/SUP]
[SUP]6[/SUP] “Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom;
in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth
without knowing whose it will finally be.
[SUP]7[/SUP] “But now, Lord, what do I look for?
My hope is in you.
[SUP]8[/SUP] Save me from all my transgressions;
do not make me the scorn of fools.
[SUP]9[/SUP] I was silent; I would not open my mouth,
for you are the one who has done this.
[SUP]10[/SUP] Remove your scourge from me;
I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
[SUP]11[/SUP] When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin,
you consume their wealth like a moth—
surely everyone is but a breath.
[SUP]12[/SUP] “Hear my prayer, LORD,
listen to my cry for help;
do not be deaf to my weeping.
I dwell with you as a foreigner,
a stranger, as all my ancestors were.
[SUP]13[/SUP] Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again
before I depart and am no more.”
Psalm 39 New International Version
I know that we ought to patiently wait on the Lord, but i also know Christianity is the faith of impatience in the face of injustice and evil, actions, expected results and answers to prayers. Many could be in a rush to judge me and my infamous impatience, but i may have some very valid reasons to feel the urgency that i do. But that's one thing that only.....yes, that terrible foe again, time will prove - if i am horribly right even when i don't want to.
Time waits for no one, and i'm soooo afraid it won't wait for me......
Is there anybody else out there as apprehensive about its passing as i are? I was actually talking about this some weeks ago at work. My whole little 'reflection' stemmed from a random and silly incident. I had dropped my cell on the floor like the clumsy head that i am and i had to set its date and hour once more cause the battery and case were all over the place. And that's when it occurred to me – why can't we set 'real' time just as easily with a touch of a button?
And here is where the whole time travel thing comes along. If you could travel in time, where would you go – in what place and time? And if the time machine was a reality, would you use it? Remember them captain Picard dilemmas – if you could influence history (or in their case the fates of planets and civilizations lol) would you do it, even if for good, would you have the right to turn things in another direction? For example, if you could, would you stop Hitler's parents from meeting so he wouldn't be born, knowing the horrible impact he had on human kind?
In terms of time travel i've always found the middle ages quite fascinating a time. Of course i would have prefered to live in the conditions of the nobility cause it wasn't fun being a poor ole peasant, especially back in those days. I know that time in history has a pretty bad rap being called 'dark' and full of ignorance, but from my point of view it was also actually a time full of spirituality and depth.
Also, i've asked myself more than once if i were alive 2000 years ago while the Lord was walking the earth how would i view Him? Would i have been among the disciples or would i have shouted with the rest of the people in front of Pilate – 'free Barabbas'???
As a post-modern believer it is easy for me to claim that i woul've been on the right side, but there is a part of me which cannot help but have the doubt that i might have not been able to see the truth even if stared me in the face. I think it's a lot easier to be around now when we can't see the Lord, but believe in Him.
There are people who can't see obvious truth standing right in front of them, but those kind of parallels belongs to a less holy segment of life, but then again, maybe it's all part of the same story....
Returning to that horrible foe of mine, that time guy. Don't it seem to no one else that time really is slipping right through our fingers?
There are those who might be tempted to say that time is on our side that it is our friend, but i cannot help but feel a sense of urgency and immediacy about everything around me. It could very well be a perception issue of mine and it could very well be rooted in all my struggles and my issues with time from long ago and all the unmet expectations, prayers and needs from long ago.
I definitely know how relative time can be – for those who wait it seems endless, while for those rejoicing it is passing by to fast. One of my biggest fears is that the agony of seeing time pass by so awfully slowly while i await some sort of miracle and fundamental change in my life will be replaced at some point by a stringent need to make time stop so i can enjoy the bliss which i pray awaits me. And in an ironic twist, what was once a cause of torment – time passing by too slowly, will at that point become a desire. So, no matter from what perspective i look at it, time is and always will be a terrible enemy.
Many people say how important it is to live in the moment. Unfortunately there are so very many people caught in the traumas or the plesant memories of the past which have since been replaced by unhappiness or those living only with the hope or the vision of a brighter future. They are all wrong because they are missing out on the beauty and the relevance of the only time we have for ourselves – the sacred moment of NOW. When the moment of now is one incessant grief and yesterday's pain is continued in tomorrow's sorrow, as it can be for some of us, then it is indeed hard to escape the prison of time and feel any real hope for the future.
Dali had some really great things on this theme. I'm sure most people are familiar with this next painting. It is called the persistence of memory.
What i didn't know is the genius of surrealism also did jewelry inspired by time. I know he was quite the antreprenorial spirit and was involved in all kind of commercials, but i wasn't aware he also did this beautiful next piece called Time's eye.
When i saw the picture i was shocked because it struck me as a possible inspiration for a painting from a local artist who did this next one called 'A window in time'
I distinctly remember sending this as a greeting card (cause that's how i found it at a book fair in late autumn of 2009) to someone and after the initial shock of seeing it i also remember their promise about getting back to me about it. It was just one of many promises he did not keep. Thankfully that was one of the minor promises he didn't keep, so i guess it is an offense easy to forgive. The jury is still out though on the major ones he made....hopefully, he will indeed be a man of his word. I just have to believe that, otherwise i realy don't know what will be of me.
And btw of the hour-glass in the above painting, here is another one which mirrors my believes.
Music has also dealt with this dreadful issue in some wonderful ways. And one particular tune which is incredible is Time waits for no one from the awesome Rolling Stones.
[video=youtube;tI318VBjAmw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI318VBjAmw [/video]
U2 also have a great passage about it in City of blinding lights.
[video=youtube;ZhCezZQqxx4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhCezZQqxx4&ob=av2n [/video]
Time...time...time...time...time
Won't leave me as I am
But time won't take the boy out of this man
In my case it should be rephrased: time won't leave me as i am, time won't take the girl out of this woman. But maybe it's the other way around, who knows?
Michael himself has had a few songs – Remember the time, the song with the same title as the Stones, but on a narrower topic...The one song that i'd like to explore now though is Time explotion from the J5 days
[video=youtube;os76qyDr9qc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os76qyDr9qc [/video]
Tic toc tic tic toc ti
Time is going faster everyday
There's a time explosion
Gotta make the most of love today
There's a time explosion
Fast or slow, no matter how time is going, i absolutely believe it is of vital importance that we do indeed make the most of love and life TODAY cause neither hearts are unbreakable nor life on earth is forever.
Even the good book has some things about. We are instructed to count our days because they are brief.
Psalms 31 and 39 are terribly poignant from my point of view at least.
9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress.
Tears blur my eyes.
My body and soul are withering away.
10 I am dying from grief;
my years are shortened by sadness.
Sin has drained my strength;
I am wasting away from within.
Psalm 31 New Living Translation
[SUP]1[/SUP] I said, “I will watch my ways
and keep my tongue from sin;
I will put a muzzle on my mouth
while in the presence of the wicked.”
[SUP]2[/SUP] So I remained utterly silent,
not even saying anything good.
But my anguish increased;
[SUP]3[/SUP] my heart grew hot within me.
While I meditated, the fire burned;
then I spoke with my tongue:
[SUP]4[/SUP] “Show me, LORD, my life’s end
and the number of my days;
let me know how fleeting my life is.
[SUP]5[/SUP] You have made my days a mere handbreadth;
the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath,
even those who seem secure.[SUP][b][/SUP]
[SUP]6[/SUP] “Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom;
in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth
without knowing whose it will finally be.
[SUP]7[/SUP] “But now, Lord, what do I look for?
My hope is in you.
[SUP]8[/SUP] Save me from all my transgressions;
do not make me the scorn of fools.
[SUP]9[/SUP] I was silent; I would not open my mouth,
for you are the one who has done this.
[SUP]10[/SUP] Remove your scourge from me;
I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
[SUP]11[/SUP] When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin,
you consume their wealth like a moth—
surely everyone is but a breath.
[SUP]12[/SUP] “Hear my prayer, LORD,
listen to my cry for help;
do not be deaf to my weeping.
I dwell with you as a foreigner,
a stranger, as all my ancestors were.
[SUP]13[/SUP] Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again
before I depart and am no more.”
Psalm 39 New International Version
I know that we ought to patiently wait on the Lord, but i also know Christianity is the faith of impatience in the face of injustice and evil, actions, expected results and answers to prayers. Many could be in a rush to judge me and my infamous impatience, but i may have some very valid reasons to feel the urgency that i do. But that's one thing that only.....yes, that terrible foe again, time will prove - if i am horribly right even when i don't want to.
Time waits for no one, and i'm soooo afraid it won't wait for me......
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