Does anybody really know what time it is? A meditation on the mystery of time.

Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 1/1/2014 | Msgr. Charles Pope

[markomalley]

And, of course, we should all remember II Pet 3:8 But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

[markomalley]

Msgr Pope ping

[Tax-chick]

As the sage Jimmy Buffett said, “According to my watch, the time is Now.”

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[Sirius Lee]

It’s peanut butter jelly time. Time flies when you’re making it, but when it’s sitting there on your desk and you want to eat it but can’t because it’s only 10am and you’ve already had breakfast, time drags on forever.

[Tax-chick]

Excellent point. Also, the hours drag until it’s Five O’clock Somewhere.

[alloysteel]

Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once, a lattice or framework upon which we live out our lives, a canvas upon which we paint the picture for others to see, though we ourselves may see it not.

[Psalm 73]

"The Mystery of Time’s Elasticity ....as an object approaches the speed of light, time slows down.....strong gravitational forces also slow down time."

That's why I don't get wrapped up in age of earth discussions - we really have no idea of the flow-rate of time in ages past. We think we know, but have no way to test it (to get outside space-time for an objective view).

"Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror, then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known."
I Corinthians 13:12

[GOP Poet]

blessings markomalley

[Big Red Badger]

not the time, now.

[Nervous Tick]

>> the hours drag until it’s Five O’clock Somewhere.

In the fullness of glass, it’s always five o’clock somewhere.

[Nervous Tick]

Thanks for the post & ping. Like Msgr. Pope I enjoy meditating on the concept of a Creator Who transcends time.

Not that I’m all that far up on the curve of understanding...

[Hot Tabasco]

A fishfly upon hatching will swim to the surface, fly towards a light, have sex then die.......You would think that evolution would cause them to give up sex so they could live longer.

[Tax-chick]

Yeah, that time-zone thing. Always confuses me.

[Luke21]

Was a great song by Chicago in 1970.

[Jack Hydrazine]

What about Happy Hour? How long does that REALLY last?

[Tax-chick]

From what I’ve heard, not as long as “I Did WHAT At Happy-Hour?! Hour.”

[Flycatcher]

What is time? Some say it is merely a measure of change. But that doesn’t really make a lot of sense since change doesn’t happen at a steady pace at all.

Not quite true. Change is motion that has been artificially "recorded" by the measurement of time.

It is accurate to say, then, that time is the measurement we employ to record motion.

[NYer]

Ping!

[onedoug]

“Don’t wish your life away.”