fiction
Edward w Pritchard
Please don't disturb the fiction about Time. It's running out.
Pink Floyd's "Time" popularizes the intellectual quest to come to an understanding with One's self and Time, as in Time's arrow, or "Time my sentinel" by this author reposted below.
Does time have real existence? Or, as Immanuel Kant speculates does time only have real existence as relations between things? Such as our intuition and the observation of the birth and death of a bright red rose in the Garden.
Unaided by any source, including the writings or thoughts of others and to also exclude any hallucinogenics I approach the problem of Time's reality in my own head using Musical group " Pink Floyd" and their song " Time" from 1975 for an overlay.
We must begin any discussion of Time's nature and reality with Mc Taggart's proof. [ look it up ]
Using relatively simple logic Professor Mc Taggart proves the unreality of time.
Pink Floyd says " Hanging around on a piece of ground in your Hometown"
Let's go back together to before thirty five years ago. We will visit a dark decrepit Mall where we all once frequented. Let's stop at Radio Shack, and Sears, and Penny's and have a sandwich made on white bread with spam from the food court. Gasoline was one dollar a gallon and no one had a cell phone in their pocket.
Think about you being at the Mall in 1980. Were you then the same as "you" are now?
In 1980 you were waiting, waiting for " someone or something to show you the Way"
Did we find " the way" over the last thirty years?
I am straining my brain but I can't remember the Future.
Time is running out. Radio Shack, Sears and Penny's will have one last gigantic clearance sale. Everyone will stop by the mall one last time. Your children will be in their soccer uniforms at the food court and ask for pizza and Dr. Pepper. Buy some tools in a plastic pack for the Husband, maybe a socket set in Metric; someday everyone will use metric and everyone will have to speak Spanish in America. Go to Sears or Penny's and buy a new suit and tie for work; everyone will wear a tie to work in the future. Stop at the Carmel corn kiosk and buy some snack food for the pretty Wife.
Things are changing; that I know for sure. Look at the back of your right hand. Remember when you made a powerful fist, raced up hills on a bike without gears or could run across an uphill field until darkness came.
Ok I can't remember the future here and now in June 2014. It's because I am already getting old and what will happen in a dozen years in 2026 will be happening when my memory then is so much worse than now. It's logical to suppose if I am here in a dozen years my memory will be so much worse than now. That's why we can't remember the future. We only recall the Past. Recall the past. Recall the past.
" Every day your getting older, never seem to find the time",
" Time" , " the song is over, nothing more to say" [ note- " Time" by Pink Floyd and lyrics by Rogers Waters 1973]
Now is now, I am sure of that. Recall the past. Strain to remember the future, strain; try to remember a September twelve years in the future, " try to remember, and if you remember, then follow," .
[ note- "Try to remember a kind of September" from the fantasticks 1960 lyrics by Tom Jones]
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