Written By Volya
March 14, 2021, 10:02 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
What is time?
Believe it not, dear readers, I actually take put some effort into take a matter seriously. For those curious, I'm not talking about the concept of change, but time. As a concept, as a construct, as an entity, or maybe something else. In my reading, there's been a lot time(get it) spent on talking about time. From being something arbitrary to something more infinite or to even something that has permeance, even if whole concept of it is literally entropy. I've thought a lot about the idea of change is also time, and time is change.
I haven't come to any definite conclusions. Well, maybe one, if I'm going to aspire to any real line of thought, but I just want to look over what I've so far seen and read.
Time, as it's currently defined in various books of study, is "the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience." Still don't feel like that really explains things adequately enough. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades, so on and so forth ad nauseum. Seems to me that nobody really thinks about time, that it's just another aspect of change. Or maybe that it even is change. Is time a side-effect of change. Or is change the result of slow march of progression? Does it go on forever?
I've read that time is an illusion, a concept created by humans to give context to decay, entropy, or anything goes from one state to another. Seems to me it's just another word for change, and again, here we are in this perpetual round of circular logic. So why do I feel like the two can and should be separated from each other. Two different concepts. That time is the steady march and beat of progression while change, at least to me, is circular. It always happens, but does it have a set pattern? Seasons change, but usually only four seasons(unless you count their weird seasons where it snows one day and then you're walking around without a coat the next, I call those 'second winters'), things wither, decay, and die, and that very decay giving life to something else. A perpetual cycle of life, death, and rebirth. That, I think is the very basis of change, and it does not seem to me that time functions in similar fashion. That there is no cycle for time. It has no starting point and no stopping point, and rather more akin to line that goes only in two directions, for infinity. That, if I have to put a shape to it, change would be a single circle, and time would be a straight line stricken through it.
Some that I have spoken to in the field have look at time as a fundamental part of an abstract conceptual framework, together with space and numbers, within which events are examined in sequence, quantify their duration, and compare the motions of objects. In this view, time does not refer to any kind of entity that 'flows,' that objects 'move through,' or that is a 'container' for events. Measurements are used to quantify the extent of and distances between objects, and a separate set of measurements are used to quantify the durations of and between events. So more or less, to some time is nothing more than a way of measuring something from one point in space, or time, to another. But I think that's too simplistic, even if that might be the most literal interpretation that I've heard.
The biggest question that seems to be asked from how niche this field of study might be, is if time is real or not real, and a theory has come out of that question that while, not really sure if I agree with it, it's still interesting. So as the theory goes, if time is happening all at once or rather a duration. If time tensed or tenseless, is there a future to be? So one aspect of the theory suggests that any tensed terminology can be replaced with a tenseless one. Like saying that "We will win the tourney." can be replaced with "We do win the tourney.", and taking out the future tense. On the other hand, the other aspect of the theory states that our language has tense verbs for reason and that future can not be determined. An even THIRD aspect to the theory is the concept of 'imaginary time', that space and time are finite but have no boundaries. That isn't real or unreal, more that it is simply hard to visualize. Personally, I think that explanation is a cop out, nor do I buy it. If a thing exists, then we should be able to understand that thing, regardless of it's complexity. At the very least, from what I've read, most agree that physical time exists outside of the human mind is objective, just as mental(or our perception of)time is dependent on the mind and subjective.
But if I had to define my views from my earlier idea from writing this(and I haven't given myself a nosebleed for thinking too hard on it yet), is that we are time. Our relationship to the past, our own past allows it to exist in the present, while our relationship to the future is the state of anticipating a potential possibility, task, risk, event, or any other kind of engagement. In relation to the human tendency of caring and being concerned, y'know, that whole feeling of 'being ahead of yourself' when thinking about a pending result of something(event, relationship, war, whatever). So it'd stand to reason this concern for a potential result also allows the future to exist in the present. The present becomes an experience, which I'd think is more qualitative rather than quantitative. It's not how many memories or potential memories you have, it's the quality of the memory itself. We're able to remember the past and project into the future, so we have a kind of 'access' to our representation of existence in a future state. It's in this, that we can 'step out' of sequential time.
Does that make any sense to anyone? Just me? Maybe I'm thinking about this way too hard. But even if I am, why is it so important? Even if I can step out of time, if only in my mind's eye, it doesn't change the fact that it is still immutable. So why does that matter so much to me? And why does everything that I've read so far come off more like speculation than anything more defined. Of all the theories, and they are all theories, none of them fit. Not even my own. I doubt it's something I'll ever be truly satisfied on. So I'll just keep writing and yelling at clouds. Because it's about the only thing I'm really good at.
Why does it suddenly smell like burning toast in here?
Believe it not, dear readers, I actually take put some effort into take a matter seriously. For those curious, I'm not talking about the concept of change, but time. As a concept, as a construct, as an entity, or maybe something else. In my reading, there's been a lot time(get it) spent on talking about time. From being something arbitrary to something more infinite or to even something that has permeance, even if whole concept of it is literally entropy. I've thought a lot about the idea of change is also time, and time is change.
I haven't come to any definite conclusions. Well, maybe one, if I'm going to aspire to any real line of thought, but I just want to look over what I've so far seen and read.
Time, as it's currently defined in various books of study, is "the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience." Still don't feel like that really explains things adequately enough. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades, so on and so forth ad nauseum. Seems to me that nobody really thinks about time, that it's just another aspect of change. Or maybe that it even is change. Is time a side-effect of change. Or is change the result of slow march of progression? Does it go on forever?
I've read that time is an illusion, a concept created by humans to give context to decay, entropy, or anything goes from one state to another. Seems to me it's just another word for change, and again, here we are in this perpetual round of circular logic. So why do I feel like the two can and should be separated from each other. Two different concepts. That time is the steady march and beat of progression while change, at least to me, is circular. It always happens, but does it have a set pattern? Seasons change, but usually only four seasons(unless you count their weird seasons where it snows one day and then you're walking around without a coat the next, I call those 'second winters'), things wither, decay, and die, and that very decay giving life to something else. A perpetual cycle of life, death, and rebirth. That, I think is the very basis of change, and it does not seem to me that time functions in similar fashion. That there is no cycle for time. It has no starting point and no stopping point, and rather more akin to line that goes only in two directions, for infinity. That, if I have to put a shape to it, change would be a single circle, and time would be a straight line stricken through it.
Some that I have spoken to in the field have look at time as a fundamental part of an abstract conceptual framework, together with space and numbers, within which events are examined in sequence, quantify their duration, and compare the motions of objects. In this view, time does not refer to any kind of entity that 'flows,' that objects 'move through,' or that is a 'container' for events. Measurements are used to quantify the extent of and distances between objects, and a separate set of measurements are used to quantify the durations of and between events. So more or less, to some time is nothing more than a way of measuring something from one point in space, or time, to another. But I think that's too simplistic, even if that might be the most literal interpretation that I've heard.
The biggest question that seems to be asked from how niche this field of study might be, is if time is real or not real, and a theory has come out of that question that while, not really sure if I agree with it, it's still interesting. So as the theory goes, if time is happening all at once or rather a duration. If time tensed or tenseless, is there a future to be? So one aspect of the theory suggests that any tensed terminology can be replaced with a tenseless one. Like saying that "We will win the tourney." can be replaced with "We do win the tourney.", and taking out the future tense. On the other hand, the other aspect of the theory states that our language has tense verbs for reason and that future can not be determined. An even THIRD aspect to the theory is the concept of 'imaginary time', that space and time are finite but have no boundaries. That isn't real or unreal, more that it is simply hard to visualize. Personally, I think that explanation is a cop out, nor do I buy it. If a thing exists, then we should be able to understand that thing, regardless of it's complexity. At the very least, from what I've read, most agree that physical time exists outside of the human mind is objective, just as mental(or our perception of)time is dependent on the mind and subjective.
But if I had to define my views from my earlier idea from writing this(and I haven't given myself a nosebleed for thinking too hard on it yet), is that we are time. Our relationship to the past, our own past allows it to exist in the present, while our relationship to the future is the state of anticipating a potential possibility, task, risk, event, or any other kind of engagement. In relation to the human tendency of caring and being concerned, y'know, that whole feeling of 'being ahead of yourself' when thinking about a pending result of something(event, relationship, war, whatever). So it'd stand to reason this concern for a potential result also allows the future to exist in the present. The present becomes an experience, which I'd think is more qualitative rather than quantitative. It's not how many memories or potential memories you have, it's the quality of the memory itself. We're able to remember the past and project into the future, so we have a kind of 'access' to our representation of existence in a future state. It's in this, that we can 'step out' of sequential time.
Does that make any sense to anyone? Just me? Maybe I'm thinking about this way too hard. But even if I am, why is it so important? Even if I can step out of time, if only in my mind's eye, it doesn't change the fact that it is still immutable. So why does that matter so much to me? And why does everything that I've read so far come off more like speculation than anything more defined. Of all the theories, and they are all theories, none of them fit. Not even my own. I doubt it's something I'll ever be truly satisfied on. So I'll just keep writing and yelling at clouds. Because it's about the only thing I'm really good at.
Why does it suddenly smell like burning toast in here?
Written By Decius
March 14, 2021, 10:02 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
I left my wood out in the snow. I can't find it now. I have to wait for spring and see what can be salvaged.
Written By Decius
March 14, 2021, 10:01 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
Where does all my silver go?
Written By Quintin
March 14, 2021, 9:43 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
Exploring and getting out more has been great for me. I have met many more friends, and feel that the city is opening up to me in ways it had not prior to my absense. Here's to future endeavors with new friends!
Written By Raja
March 14, 2021, 9:41 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
I am going to do something dumb very soon. If I survive, which I am assured that I will, I will be ecstatic.
Written By Quintin
March 14, 2021, 9:40 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
I had a lovely conversation earlier this week with Lord Dycard Blackshore, who has just joined the Society of Explorers. I am delighted to see someone else with similar passions join the organization, and hope to have the opportunity to share some books with him in the future. Lady Mabelle Laurent helped connect us, and I am, as always, impressed by her thoughtfulness. I hope we all can connect more in the future.
Written By Lisebet
March 14, 2021, 9:35 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
Today has been a busy day, taking care of all the paperwork that piles up. But now that it is finished, I am going to enjoy a nice glass of wine by the fire, and ponder if I can come up with a poem.
I don't know why I think I might want to try my hand at writing a poem, but for some reason I do.
I don't know why I think I might want to try my hand at writing a poem, but for some reason I do.
Written By Lisebet
March 14, 2021, 9:35 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
Today has been a busy day, taking care of all the paperwork that piles up. But now that it is finished, I am going to enjoy a nice glass of wine by the fire, and ponder if I can come up with a poem.
I don't know why I think I might want to try my hand at writing a poem, but for some reason I do.
I don't know why I think I might want to try my hand at writing a poem, but for some reason I do.
Written By Lisebet
March 14, 2021, 9:35 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
Today has been a busy day, taking care of all the paperwork that piles up. But now that it is finished, I am going to enjoy a nice glass of wine by the fire, and ponder if I can come up with a poem.
I don't know why I think I might want to try my hand at writing a poem, but for some reason I do.
I don't know why I think I might want to try my hand at writing a poem, but for some reason I do.
Written By Lisebet
March 14, 2021, 9:33 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
I spent some time with Quintin, having a good discussion about research and the Hall of Heroes. I shall be quite interested to hear what he has to say after he visits the place.
In other news, I think I would like to have a child's party with Ryhalt and Clover, so that our children can get to know each other better. I wonder if we can manage that without too much fuss.
well, perhaps not, but I'm sure we can manage it.
In other news, I think I would like to have a child's party with Ryhalt and Clover, so that our children can get to know each other better. I wonder if we can manage that without too much fuss.
well, perhaps not, but I'm sure we can manage it.
Written By Michael
March 14, 2021, 9:30 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
I was trapped in the bay. We accidentally dropped the oars. We had to wait for someone to be kind enough to pull us in.
Written By Lucita
March 14, 2021, 9:17 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
A writing contest sounds like fun but lately the only writing I seem to be able to accomplish is business or Barony related.
Written By Lucita
March 14, 2021, 9:14 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
Relationship Note on Medeia
It is good to see Medeia so happy but she is missed around the tower. The twins are always asking when she will visit.
Written By Olivian
March 14, 2021, 9:07 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
I am restless. I am athirst for far-away things.
My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance.
O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute!
I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.
My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance.
O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute!
I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.
Written By Alarissa
March 14, 2021, 9:03 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
Relationship Note on Maren
I had a delightful afternoon and respite from the cold in the Jade Moon. It was a trudge from the carriage through to the doors but very much worth it. I had never seen tea that transformed from a ball to a blooming flower but now I have and the twins and Eleyna did so delight in it. Even if there was fighting over who had the better flower steeping in their water. Ever does their great aunt dote upon them. Such worries that I had when she appeared within the city and presented herself at the estate. But then, I always worry about everything. But between then and now, it has been a delight to see the look on my husbands face when she is around. The children flocking to her when she comes to the estate and YaYa as they like to call their cousin to whom Astrid just flat out adores.
It's good to have family around. To see them all embraced and accepted. I miss this. Have missed this. I shall have to thank Gild for the blessing laid upon this family and cherish the time despite the turmoil around us. I shall remain in envy though that Aunt Maren was permitted to know the name of Eleyna's doll but that I am still bereft of the knowledge.
It's good to have family around. To see them all embraced and accepted. I miss this. Have missed this. I shall have to thank Gild for the blessing laid upon this family and cherish the time despite the turmoil around us. I shall remain in envy though that Aunt Maren was permitted to know the name of Eleyna's doll but that I am still bereft of the knowledge.
Written By Ciro
March 14, 2021, 8:37 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
After having let a member of my family run me out of Arx, I have decided that this was the wrong choice to make and have since made my return!
Written By Sloane
March 14, 2021, 8:29 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
Relationship Note on Venturo
You all should tell my patron how fiendishly wonderful he is. (You can lie. Everyone likes good lies.) We must fight the winter blues with fire, alcohol, and extravagant prose.
Written By Graziella
March 14, 2021, 8:21 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
I put some of my clothing designs and artwork in one of the display cases that Zyxthylum set up just south of the city center since he's asked me to look over the place while he's going to be away... I am going to miss him dearly, he's been a sharp Protege. I didn't put in a display case to sell anything but I hope that if people see my artwork it'll offer some praise to Jayus, I like to fill my hours crafting things and trying to keep my spirits light as I pray us through this time of war. I am not fit for the battle field and I fear my recent dreams have my head too full of worries for me to be of any asset in diplomacy. Speaking of light spirits, there is also a small lounge area just off of Kithrite's Showroom where I'll be spending all my free time in the coming months... Zyx has left the most wonderful table games to play.
As I mentioned, it saddens me that Zyx will be away but I've made a few other new friends this week...
I think they are friends...
As I mentioned, it saddens me that Zyx will be away but I've made a few other new friends this week...
I think they are friends...
Written By Cristoph
March 14, 2021, 8:12 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
Relationship Note on Deva
Don't let anyone ever tell you that the three of us aren't very exciting. Well, I guess Kael was the most exciting. Then you and Alis. I'm a distant fourth.
Written By Cristoph
March 14, 2021, 8:11 p.m.(2/11/1015 AR)
Relationship Note on Kael
You really just came out of the bushes at the wrong time. I guess that's just a thing that happens to a person occasionally.
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