Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? A Meditation on the Mystery of Time

Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 12-31-15 | Msgr. Charles Pope

[Salvation]

Video

[Lx]

He does:

[occamrzr06]

Does anyone really care?

[samtheman]

HIGH Up in the North in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak.

When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by.

— http://www.authorama.com/story-of-mankind-3.html

[alloysteel]

Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.

That would be chaotic.

[marron]

"If you don't ask me, I know. If you ask me, I don't know."

Good piece. I'm chewing on the same issues.

[Rio]

25 or 6 to 4?

[occamrzr06]

Not a big Chicago fan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uy0ldI_1HA

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Lyrics

As I was walking down the street one day
A man came up to me and asked me what the time was that was
On my watch, yeah
And I said
Does anybody really know what time it is
I don’t
Does anybody really care
Care
If so I can’t imagine why
About time
We’ve all got time enough to cry
Oh no, no

And I was walking down the street one day
A pretty lady looked at me and said her diamond watch had
Stopped cold dead
And I said
Does anybody really know what time it is
I don’t
Does anybody really care
Care
If so I can’t imagine why
About time
We’ve all got time enough to cry
Oh no, no

And I was walking down the street one day
Being pushed and shoved by people trying to beat the clock,
Oh, so I just don’t know,
I just don’t know
And I said, yes I said

People runnin’ everywhere
Don’t know the way to go
Don’t know where I am
Can’t see past the next step
Don’t have to think past the last mile
Have no time to look around
Just run around, run around and think why

Does anybody really know what time it is
I don’t
Does anybody really care
Care
If so I can’t imagine why
About time
We’ve all got time enough to die
Oh no, no

[Parmy]

You are right. It really doesn't matter because a vast majority of people go about their lives without giving time a thought. They are aware of past events or happenings to themselves and they, for the most part, are aware they have a future.

But, IMHO, time is just a concept that mankind has and us using to create order in their lives. For instance, trains need time schedules to avoid collisions. i.e. Most of the train collisions of the 19th century was probably due to the lack of standardized time which allowed confusion and trains running in opposite directions on the same track.

I have tried to explain to people that while we were talking that as soon as the words came out of my mouth, they were in the past. I was trying to illustrate that the present is only a moment before it, almost instantly, moves into the past and the future, almost immediately, moves into the present, for a moment, before that too moves into the past.

Confusing, isn't it?

[dforest]

I was going to post the same. It dates us though! LOL

[twister881]

Here's a time reference of importance to all normal Americans:

Obama Countdown Clock

[Regulator]

About Time?

If so, I can’t imagine why...

[I want the USA back]

Read Thomas of Aquinas. Time is the numbering of movement. The assigning of numbers to motion.

Everything is in motion, having received its impetus from another object; all motion can be traced back to the Prime Mover, God, who exists outside the time continuum.

What the contemporary world needs is a return to the teachings of St. Thomas of Aquinas

[occamrzr06]

Good Article.

[Mastador1]

Sara Evans

"Time Won't Tell"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4SBNlqpX_I

Can't believe that after all this time

You keep slipping back across my mind

Did we maybe leave the love behind afraid of what we felt

Other loves I've had have come and gone

I don't know why, they just don't last too long

There are questions that go on and go

That time won't tell

Time won't tell me how it might have been

And time won't make what's wrong alright

It can only take me back again

Feeling all those memories in black and white

I watch his kiss good-bye that day

Here's where you turn around and walk away

Where were the words that would have made you stay

Time won't tell

No, time won't tell me how it might have been

And time won't make what's wrong alright

It can only take me back again

Feeling all those memories in black and white

You never see the road you didn't take

You never feel the love you failed to make

But you never know might be the words to say

And time won't tell

Time won't tell

[Hot Tabasco]

`Time seems to accelerate as we age.....My first 9 years of employment took forever. The past 9 years of retirement have gone by in the blink of an eye.......

[ETL]

Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.

Yet time depends on one's state of motion relative to other reference frames.

[delchiante]

Quote-what the contemporary world needs is a return to the teachings of St. Thomas of Aquinas

If St. Thomas of Aquinas numbered His Days like the Father does in His Word and His Calendar, it would erase lots of false teachings- and false worship.

But how to tell people today isn’t really named after a false goddess named Friy or frigg.

Tough to worship the Father in Spirit and Truth when things like Thor or the moon or the sun gets a ‘day’.

But we can be assured His Day is coming.
And the Kingdom will have zero to do with naming days after false gods or created things..

Truly amazing how scripture says times and law would change, and the world can’t see it. But that is the subtlety of the enemy.

[Salvation]

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