"The clock is a piece of machinery whose 'product' is seconds and minutes. In manufacturing such a product, the clock has the effect of disassociating time from human events and thus nourishes the belief in an independent world of mathematically measurable sequences. Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created. [the use of the masculine pronouns here I find significant.] In the process, we have learned irreverence toward the sun and the seasons, for in a world made up of seconds and minutes, the authority of nature is superseded. Eternity ceased to serve as the measure and focus of human events. The inexorable ticking of the clock may have had more to do with the weakening of God's supremacy than all the treatises produced by the philosophers of the Enlightenment; that is to say, the clock introduced a new form of conversation between man and God, in which God appears to have been the loser."
Perhaps those last few sentences are a little extreme, but it brings up an interesting point: isn't human nature and all the convoluted ins and outs that make up people and their personalites and idiosyncrasies and relationships a bit more complex than "mathematically measurable sequences"? A person is far too complex and uniqe to ever be described by some equation or graph.
Thus, maybe some of you should stop wearing watches.
Trials and Testimony
2 years ago
12 comments:
Time is cool...
It is a matter of common experience to describe the position of an object in space using three numbers (x,y,z) these number could be anything: latitude, longitude, altitude, or the distance from a fixed point. However, in order to describe an EVENT you need a particular point in space and a time coordinate. but any self respecting college student would tell you that space and time are actually the same thing, hence the term space-time. Space-time is not something "whose product is seconds and minutes." Space-time is a measurement of all the events that take place with in the light cone of any given event. so time is not man's measurement of minutes but actually the reference frame that God gave man (the use of the masculine pronoun here i find significant).
To assume that God doesn't have time is unheard of. after all what is Eternity but a noun for an unmeasurable about of TIME.
The universe was created in accordance with natural laws, including you. Nothing is too complex for math. nothing.
If this is too confusing for you maybe you should leave the "mathematically measurable sequences" to the boys.
Well, you obviously missed the point entirely. Sure, an EVENT can be described mathematically. But how does math describe the EMOTION that goes along with that event? It can't. And emotion is what makes up relationships. I feel sorry for you if you think nothing is too complex for math, cuz someday it'll hit you like a ton of bricks. But whatever helps you sleep at nite, I guess. And since I don't even know who you are, I'm sure I don't really care.
Complexity does not exclude logical analysis or expression.
I blame myself for your failure to understand my point. I used big words. Let me try and explain myself with a dumbed down vocabulary.
Emotion is not a magical thing. It, like everything, is a product of an event. Emotion is the chemical reaction that you experience in response to your environment. Chemistry (math with chemicals) is the art of predicting what will happen when you mix two or more chemicals together. For you to claim that you are somehow exempt from the laws of nature is analagous to saying that that the universe is without order, or that you can defy the laws of God, and even you don't believe that.
The reason that we can't write a universal equation to explain it is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle (a fundamental part of quantum pyhsics, don't worry I'll try to explain in simple terms). The uncertainty principle states that, with current technology, one can never know the exact state of a particle (tiny little things that make up atoms, part of chemicals).
This science of understanding the irrational female gender is a large undertaking. We are far from finding the solution, but we can't let close minded people like you stop us from unravelling the mysteries of the universe. Even God cannot break the rules (math) that he set, or he would cease to be God. I read that somewhere.
I don't really appreciate being insulted on my own blog.
and besides, don't you think that looking at everything through mathematical lenses is sorta close minded?
Who's "Thought & humor"? Was that a comment or an advertisement?
Yeah, kinda weird and interesting, huh? I wish I knew.
I don't think it's weird and interesting. I think it's annoying and I hate him.
Plus, what could possibly be close-minded about looking at things mathematically? That's like saying that trying to analyze and understand things is close-minded. It seems quite the opposite to me. People that are close-minded usually have some irrational emotional response to something that prohibits them from understanding it's true strengths or weaknesses.
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