Time is unusual. I think most people in here have a pretty wierd understanding of time. Personally, i dont see your distinction, Trippin, of natural and man made time. to me its all bad, since the more time goes past, the closer i get to the time when they say 'hes dead' Ive got a theory on time an life and it goes like this: for most people, and for a lot of time for all the other people, time is spent being killed. your killing time, waiting for something new to happen. what your doing now is not what you want, your just killing it so that the time that comes after it comes and might be better. However when your doing something you enjoy, or your interested by something, or excited about what your doing, or your having fun, or your learning something you want to learn and its a good experience, then your making love to time. now, the perfect life is one that involves making love to time constantly. when i get stoned, time makes love to me.
natural time is the dimension: this allows things to happen, rather than hang suspended in a 3-d still life. Human time is time measured. Days, weeks, hours, minutes, seconds. But yeah, you're right, we do waste a shitload of our lives. Most of my time on the 'net is a waste, so is all my time at work. That's probably 70% of my time spent awake right there. At least I can say sleep is time well spent