There are tribes in The Amazon which have no conceptualization of time because the abstract idea isn't present in their language. They can be taught about time, but they had no concept of it because they had no words for things related to periods of time. The idea was totally alien to them. That makes you wonder; what abstract ideas are we not aware of because it doesn't exist in our language? EDIT: just realized that what I said had nothing to do with the thread. Oh well.
Those same tribes have various rituals for everything from greetings and goodbyes to sending the men out to hunt which can take hours and to us would seem like a complete waste of time. Hotwater
From many visits to the Amazon I can vouch for their disregard for time as we conceive of it. Even in populations of people who live in larger towns or cities there is little concern for measured time. My sons from the Amazon understand the concept completely but still have issues with it. My Older son had trouble in school with timed tests...he really just did not get it "if Its so Important to know and do right why does it matter if you take time to do it"? Time is circular not linear, everything comes back to the begining so why hurry? With Linear time we are always moving away from past events. With circular time they will return to the begining so they never leave things behind. I think they got it right....they have no stress ot anxiety
time is neither linear or circular..there is no time..everything is only now...the past is memory the future is a guess
A mind game that will never have an answer. The sun in the sky could mean "LOOK someone is playing pig pong again. For some odd reason we give it a number. NEXT!
I like to imagine that there are aliens on other planets living in extreme slow-mo..they dont even know we;re here because 10000 years for us is for them a blink of their eye
Beyond the theory of there being other dimensions with us in them-Dark Energy and Matter are all around us (more and more evidence points to it)-there is another world all around us in matter that we cannot feel or see-but we are beginning to understand it.
time is really how you perceive it as well, sometimes it does literally fly by, other times, not as much. it's all about the awareness of the inner conscience.
