Time

Man has divided the event of earth making rotational circles around the sun into sequences, and gone labeling them as the 12 months. We went further subdividing these into days, hours, minutes and seconds etc.  Globally this is to what we have associated the word time with in everyday use.  

But does the universe has an awareness of this time; is there a counter placed up somewhere “displaying” how much time has elapsed since the beginning or maybe showing a countdown to our extinction!?

Let’s try the following angle; how about the thought that our silly ball which is dumbly circling endlessly the sun (which we know is the results of gravitational and centripetal forces, etc) is nothing but series of pure motions only.  Days and nights can be explained by the fact that earth is always spinning on its own axis, right? And our planet being slightly tilted makes the seasons as we know it.  Finally going around the sun simply makes one complete turn and that’s it. Time’s absence, if ever, could well go unnoticed here…

                                          

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Did time always exist and we eventually discovered it, or was it solely an invention of the human mind?  First, we cannot even perceive time through our senses, unlike heat or even the more subtle: gravity, where it goes without saying that we feel its pull.

Second, we read our times on watches and clocks which are run by batteries and springs and not time! This is not the case for example; between temperature and a thermometer or luminous intensity and a lux meter etc where there, there is quite a clear logical relationship between the elemental input, the scientific process going on inside and their output of these instruments which is where our much respected clocks and watches fail!

Some interesting observations around the concept of time…

Say the word NOW,

From the moment you think of the word “Now” and the moment it takes your neurons in your brains to process accordingly the information and send them to your mouth, this moment has elapsed. When you glance up at the moon, it is actually seen as 3 seconds as it was before, the time light takes to travel from the moon to us.  And for the Sun, it takes 8 minutes to get to us… Expanding with this logic and exaggeratedly speaking, we could say everything we see in our environment is an image of the past and by this equation, we seem incapable to grasp the moment “now”. 

Mario Puzo, the famous author of the Godfather wrote:

"Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time." 

Puzo logically demonstrates how we have associated mystical powers to time, such as healing or in this case eroding, killing friendships, attachments or love between individuals.

The moment now, the present, gets bombarded by events, scenarios and motions, by sequences of changes in your life. They all form an integral part of a larger sum of events that are meant to come to you.  So in this respect, is it really time to be held accountable here for the loss of the friendship, can it by itself and only by itself, corrode the friendship? Or is it rather changes that occurred in the person’s life? Pointless but still….

Also check out these sites that discuss on time:

http://sciencefocus.com/qa/time-real-or-illusion

http://does-time-exist.info/

Hello World, Yes! the world visits my page (India, USA, Denmark, SA, Germany, France, England, Barberland,  Mangooseland, Martian based on planet earth, Mustacheland, Landsland etc etc)

How are you good people doing? In this post, I have decided to share some unedited, uncropped and unphotoshoped pictures. They were taken with my prehistoric but faithful 2MP camera and are the products of my humble little adventurous quest in photography which after watching The Narrows, startled me to "try" with still images.


Yes the protagonist of this small collection is my little boy Dino. If you are wondering to what race he belongs to; he is of Griffon, Teckel and Fox terrier descendant. =)

Let's get started:  (click on the images for a "zoomer" version)

My best photo of him

Scaring frogs with his moves...

His eyeeesss!!

He gets real angry when his food being served is actually dog's food

This is on my fridge.  Its more than a trend that people emigrate to Australia, and something like "its gud 4 the kids/they do it for the kids" bla bla bla are usually uttered.... SO i thought you know they gotta have those there.. 

The carpet, ol' pooh, the after noon sun, the usual nap, life's good

The most beautiful tree in the garden.

Stalking mode

Get the hell outa my yard stray cats!!

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Technically not on photography though, but an awesome storyline.

Yes and I rent films too..=D  

A debate between an atheist and a religious man

This a story narrated to us by our maths teacher, (Monsieur Elahee) some 5 years ago.  I tried recalling it the best as I could.

~The Story ~           

There were 2 men, one an atheist and the other a believer in God (a theist if you want) who were obviously in disaccord with each other on a number of things and more importantly whether a creator exists or not.

So one day, they decided to debate this in front of an audience and both of them agreed on the location and time of the debate.  The particular day arrived; the audience was set, the atheist was here and sat waiting for the opposing party to arrive. Time went by but there was no sign of the religious man. Restlessness was starting to show on the faces in the audience who were obviously not too satisfied with the way things were going.  More time went by and still the seat at the other end of the table was empty...

At one point, the atheist stood up and spoke in a sarcastic tone “ see; they call themselves man of God preaching high moral values while they cannot even respect a mere commitment, what a shame!”  The audience knew where he was going with this statement.

More hours passed by and then suddenly emerged the religious man. 

The atheist spoke first, “Is that how you honor commitments? By arriving late and keeping all these good people here waiting”

“Sir I am so sorry for having kept you and the whole audience waiting for so long, but let me recount to you what actually happened to me” said the religious man.

He continued: “I have this usual river that I have to cross to come down here and there is this boat we usually take to do just that.  Well today, the boatman was nowhere to be seen.  There were no other ways to cross this river and as you probably know I cannot swim.  So I just had to wait and pray that God sends me some boat.”

“Suddenly to my astonishment, trees started to bend all by itself to let me walk through the beginning of the waters.  In the middle of the river, rocks emerged from underground.  Near the other bank of the river, some trees fell by themselves and formed these types of flat surfaces that float on water.  Well then people, I just had to walk my way on the various “objects” to pass through the river and here I am…”

After saying this, no one spoke and it felt like time stood still…

“Haha Haha Haha, what the hell is wrong with you?” exploded the atheist. “You want us to believe this? You had all this time to think of an excuse and this is what you had finally come up with? You know what mister, go back home, take a good rest and let’s get back to the debate when you get your brains back.  All this waiting in the sun must have hit hard on you. Hahaha”

The religious man: “Hmmm well yes, but then, if you cannot believe my story, then do you really think that this whole world, wait, no forget the world, this whole universe which has been proved to be in continuous expansion by itself and possessing billions of billions of galaxies to have suddenly come out all by itself? Who is the maddest man here?

An accident? come-on thats just too beautiful..

Thanks to you Mr Elahee

~End~

The following is a quote found in the book In his Image by Madeleine Guillemin

The conflict between persons who accept God, and those who deny him, those who affirm that he can be found only in such a place, and those who affirm that he cannot be found anywhere, is never ending; it has continued right through the ages. When considering how this can be, one must remember that, while it is unnecessary to awaken a person who is already awake, and easy to awaken one who is asleep, we cannot awaken, however hard we try, a person who is pretending to be asleep. Similarly, those who ‘know’ can be taught by simple illustration the things they do not know, but those afflicted with half knowledge, and proud of that acquisition, are far any further education.  


-SSSB

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 My 3^rd post of the day… ^^ ==>  beginner’s luck…

So this one is a quote I wrote some days back…

“Awareness and realization make the difference” 

==> In my opinion, of what we became aware of and things we realized are the elements which are going to “dictate” our thought patterns, actions and state of being, whether we learnt it from others or it came from within...

THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE...

This is my first post; so please take it easy…

I have more to come, which are still waiting to be polished and transcribed into bunch of zero's and one's

I am thinking that blogging could be an efficient weapon to fight boredom, so on the way to find out…  

SO YEAH, I came across this list and thought it was totally cool… It is about the things that make life enjoyable or survivable if you want.  Anyway, cut the bullsh*t, here it is people…

THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE:

*Laughing so hard your face hurts
*Eating ice cream on a hot summer day
*Singing to a song in the car
*Smiling for no reason
*Taking a drive on a pretty road

*Eating junk food
*Helping someone out
*Falling in love
*Knowing someone loves you back

*Going on your first date
*Getting married
*Walking on the beach
*Watching a breath taking sunset
*Trying to play guitar and doing it right
*Playing your favorite sport just for fun
*Seeing a long anticipated movie

*A special glance
*The first day of a school year
*The last day of a school year
*Meeting a new friend
*Camping

*Getting mail

*Hot towels out of the dryer

*A long distance phone call

*The beach

*Discovering new bands in your likes you never heard before

*Finding money in your coat from last winter

*No lines at the mall
*Waking up on a perfect day with the sun in your face
*Walking your dog in the neighborhood
*Going to a very good concert
*Learning to drive for the first time
*Walking through a park
*Watching your favorite TV show

*Getting very good grades in a paper

*Laughing at an inside joke
*Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep

*Singing to your favorite song
*Watching fireworks
*Celebrating special occasions
*Walking barefoot through freshly cut grass
*Slowing realizing you're in love, and knowing that one day you'll be with that person
*Discovering that love is unconditional and stronger than time

*Watching tragedy happen, but watching it get put back together
*Getting out of bed every morning and thanking God for another beautiful day

*Talking for hours to your best friend
*Staring at the stars
*Living for today
*Realizing how good life is…

I think it indeed clearly defines moments in life that bring us to a state of bliss, a moment of great elation.  Even if their proportions of enjoyability would fade with repetition or when our infatuation for some in the list crumbles, but is still elevates us on the happiness scale, you cannot disagree. 

Well then people, I think that life is about, dealing with those stages in-between these states of bliss…

My Thanks go to VICAcobhc for having given me the permission to reproduce her list in which I brought a few changes nevertheless… ;)  Thank You