I do genealogy. It has changed my perception of time. I find it most interesting to be able to pin world events to the presence of a person with a name associated with mine. Time shrinks for me when I can see that this person's marriage was recorded according to the Napoleonic calendar, or this man was affected by the Jacobite Rebellion. Time shrinks!
That said, I also find that without the structure given to time by a schedule, time slips away very quickly. Especially as my trips around the Sun accumulate!
Here in Eastern Europe, this saying was probably more popular in the communist era than it is now.
Bolsheviks sure loved messing with time. Russia had kept using Julian calendar, and one of the first things Bolsheviks did, just about three months after gaining power, was to drop February 1-13 1918 to align with the rest of the world. That was not enough, and they started experimenting with five- and six-day weeks and kept doing so until 1940 when they reverted to traditional ways, likely because war was obviously approaching.
Orthodox Church still sort of uses Julian calendar; also, quite a lot of people in Russia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe celebrate «Old New Year» on January 14 just because they can.
Great remark. All numbers are created by men. It is hard to tell people, especially the experts, that they are relying on something man-made when they get their numbers out. How much may you weigh? How much sugar can you eat? Is this good is that good? One says yes one says no. Only one person can decide what is going on with you, and that is you! How we use our time is our business. (of course if you have to work for a boss, you depend on his time scale or you won't get paid). We are living so unnatural nowadays, it is hard to grasp that once, we lived like the animals in a natural world, getting up with daylight and sleeping when dark. Kinda funny how they skipped a whole week though! Wondering if we will stop the fall back one hour. The govt promised they' stop this craze !
That's a huge conversation for down the road. Right now, one of my interests is to encourage others to question concepts and practices that are so common as to be invisible.
Thanks for reading, JAE!
P.S. I'm not sure "replace" is the word we're looking for!
I have a visceral reaction to reading about the need to tear down, or strip away, or merely to “Change” for the sake of change. My gut tells me the alternatives to the so called and flippantly labeled “Constructs” we have had for millennia, such as two sexes, will likely be far worse than anything we can imagine or conjure up out of thin air.
But I think some have fun toying with these ideas because it gives life meaning it otherwise wouldn’t have.
What if everything we’ve ever been told is a lie? I’ve been watching a lot more David Icke and Max Igan videos lately and it’s a validation of what I’ve been struggling with internally for years. I’m ready to quit struggling with the idea that everything is a lie and embrace it wholeheartedly. I’m ready to be the point of LOVE I am meant to be. Raising a glass to you Mickey, a fellow unique expression of infinite awareness. ❤️. Sending love and light to all of humanity, each their own unique expression of infinite awareness. 💕 And so it is.....
These two sentences are as wonderful as it gets: "I’m ready to quit struggling with the idea that everything is a lie and embrace it wholeheartedly. I’m ready to be the point of LOVE I am meant to be."
Thank you, Mary, for your kind words and for being a beacon of love, curiosity, and courage. 💕
Isn't it an odd that FEMA decided to "test" it's EAS on October 4th?
And, oddly enough, after I removed my SIM cards from my phones on the 4th (and put everything in Faraday bags), my carrier immediately "locked" my account!
When I called 611 to find out why, the customer service person told me that he didn't have access to my account. It was "restricted".
So I went up the food-chain and spoke to a supervisor who told me that I would have to send them a Government Photo ID so they could make sure that I was me!
I asked her what she would use to "compare" my photo with; I have never provided them with one, and the I have had the same account for 25 years.
She told me she couldn't tell me!
I asked for her supervisor, and she told me that she didn't have a one!
So I told her that I absolutely would NOT send her a picture, and would just close the account. (Six lines. Kids.)
Today I did battle against the psyop that was telling me I would be a failure if I didn't finish my short story by Sunday, the deadline given to me by my mentor.
Now, if I worked to deadline, the story would suck. It would read as forced rather than draw the reader into an emotional moment, feel the shift in a relationship because of a certain look, or enjoy the most powerful parts of the story because they were buried to save time ... sacrificed in trade for meeting a deadline.
And my mentor would yell at me in all caps in his email because ... the story is the story. It's up to me as the writer to let it come to the surface in its own way and time. The true story trumps the checkmark on my to do list. The true story feeds the soul of the reader. That's worth more than hitting a stupid date.
I thought the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar was based on science, i.e., the Gregorian calendar was more accurate scientifically. Huh?
Fascinating, when you put it like that!
I do genealogy. It has changed my perception of time. I find it most interesting to be able to pin world events to the presence of a person with a name associated with mine. Time shrinks for me when I can see that this person's marriage was recorded according to the Napoleonic calendar, or this man was affected by the Jacobite Rebellion. Time shrinks!
That said, I also find that without the structure given to time by a schedule, time slips away very quickly. Especially as my trips around the Sun accumulate!
Thank you, Jaye. The genealogy context is fascinating!
> In a capitalist society, “Time is money.”
Here in Eastern Europe, this saying was probably more popular in the communist era than it is now.
Bolsheviks sure loved messing with time. Russia had kept using Julian calendar, and one of the first things Bolsheviks did, just about three months after gaining power, was to drop February 1-13 1918 to align with the rest of the world. That was not enough, and they started experimenting with five- and six-day weeks and kept doing so until 1940 when they reverted to traditional ways, likely because war was obviously approaching.
Orthodox Church still sort of uses Julian calendar; also, quite a lot of people in Russia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe celebrate «Old New Year» on January 14 just because they can.
Thanks, Rat...I did not know any of this!
When we were in Bosnia i Herzegovina, I found the use of two calendars very interesting. Mind you, everything there was interesting
Great remark. All numbers are created by men. It is hard to tell people, especially the experts, that they are relying on something man-made when they get their numbers out. How much may you weigh? How much sugar can you eat? Is this good is that good? One says yes one says no. Only one person can decide what is going on with you, and that is you! How we use our time is our business. (of course if you have to work for a boss, you depend on his time scale or you won't get paid). We are living so unnatural nowadays, it is hard to grasp that once, we lived like the animals in a natural world, getting up with daylight and sleeping when dark. Kinda funny how they skipped a whole week though! Wondering if we will stop the fall back one hour. The govt promised they' stop this craze !
Amen to all of that, Ingrid! 🙏
So what to replace time with? I’m all ears.
That's a huge conversation for down the road. Right now, one of my interests is to encourage others to question concepts and practices that are so common as to be invisible.
Thanks for reading, JAE!
P.S. I'm not sure "replace" is the word we're looking for!
I have a visceral reaction to reading about the need to tear down, or strip away, or merely to “Change” for the sake of change. My gut tells me the alternatives to the so called and flippantly labeled “Constructs” we have had for millennia, such as two sexes, will likely be far worse than anything we can imagine or conjure up out of thin air.
But I think some have fun toying with these ideas because it gives life meaning it otherwise wouldn’t have.
My gut tells me we can create "new" concepts that are far better than anything we can imagine!
What if everything we’ve ever been told is a lie? I’ve been watching a lot more David Icke and Max Igan videos lately and it’s a validation of what I’ve been struggling with internally for years. I’m ready to quit struggling with the idea that everything is a lie and embrace it wholeheartedly. I’m ready to be the point of LOVE I am meant to be. Raising a glass to you Mickey, a fellow unique expression of infinite awareness. ❤️. Sending love and light to all of humanity, each their own unique expression of infinite awareness. 💕 And so it is.....
These two sentences are as wonderful as it gets: "I’m ready to quit struggling with the idea that everything is a lie and embrace it wholeheartedly. I’m ready to be the point of LOVE I am meant to be."
Thank you, Mary, for your kind words and for being a beacon of love, curiosity, and courage. 💕
Thanks Mickey!
Isn't it an odd that FEMA decided to "test" it's EAS on October 4th?
And, oddly enough, after I removed my SIM cards from my phones on the 4th (and put everything in Faraday bags), my carrier immediately "locked" my account!
When I called 611 to find out why, the customer service person told me that he didn't have access to my account. It was "restricted".
So I went up the food-chain and spoke to a supervisor who told me that I would have to send them a Government Photo ID so they could make sure that I was me!
I asked her what she would use to "compare" my photo with; I have never provided them with one, and the I have had the same account for 25 years.
She told me she couldn't tell me!
I asked for her supervisor, and she told me that she didn't have a one!
So I told her that I absolutely would NOT send her a picture, and would just close the account. (Six lines. Kids.)
Within 4 hours, my service was restored.
You can't make this stuff up.
Do you think it had to do with the test? My first guess would be classic, inefficient bureaucracy.
Yes.
"time is a psyop"
Today I did battle against the psyop that was telling me I would be a failure if I didn't finish my short story by Sunday, the deadline given to me by my mentor.
Now, if I worked to deadline, the story would suck. It would read as forced rather than draw the reader into an emotional moment, feel the shift in a relationship because of a certain look, or enjoy the most powerful parts of the story because they were buried to save time ... sacrificed in trade for meeting a deadline.
And my mentor would yell at me in all caps in his email because ... the story is the story. It's up to me as the writer to let it come to the surface in its own way and time. The true story trumps the checkmark on my to do list. The true story feeds the soul of the reader. That's worth more than hitting a stupid date.
Think Kairos ... not Chonos.
Have fun creating, GLW!
💕 🙏 💕
Time is on my side...yes it is.
🙏🏼
I thought the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar was based on science, i.e., the Gregorian calendar was more accurate scientifically. Huh?
It might be but I was speaking more abstractly about the tenuous human concept of "time."