Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?
Let’s look at the concept of time:
According to Wikipedia online…(yes Wikipedia) : “Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future.”
It is not something we can see, touch, or taste, but we can measure its passage.
This figment of our imagination is noted by seconds, minutes and hours….. let me play the devils advocate and look at what the “God, Goddess or even Mother Gia says about time:( mind you this is just part of one creation story, there are many some known and some yet to be discovered).
As for me I like the Sumerian text…Gilgamesh, Enuma Elis. Then there are the African creation stories such as Oduduwa, Nana Buluku, Akan…..just to name a few. I know I go off on tangents and many of you probably think this is not relevant…..well….I don’t know this is where time was conceived in these stories (at least I think so, and I’m good with it) back to the task at hand what does the Bible say God says about time….lol
According to quora.com: And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 18 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
Do I asked when this concept began, sure did, according to chaptgpt bot:
The division of an hour into 60 minutes and a minute into 60 seconds is believed to have originated from the ancient Babylonians, who used a sexagesimal (base-60) counting system. This system was then adopted by the ancient Greeks, who divided the day into 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness, and further divided each hour into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds.While other systems of time measurement have been proposed throughout history, the sexagesimal system has endured due to its widespread use and familiarity. The adoption of a decimal-based system would require a significant overhaul of our current system and would likely face significant resistance.
So again time is day and night according to “God” “Goddess” “Mother Gia”…..(this is my belief you don’t have to follow it, I was just interested in it).
I really went down the rabbit hole because then I wanted to know when numbers was concocted …I gotta do it… I know just follow me….lol. Tally marks on bones….ok, 20,000 years ago found in the Congo, I remember this from a very old National Geographic.
Although, I always even as a young child felt and later as I grew older understood, that time whether it is future, past or present is used to regulate life or human activities…. With all that being said I think I should answer this question….lol
There are “times when I do both, ( oh you probably forgot what the question was…lol)
Here it is “do I spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why“
As I said I do both but basically I tethered in the present, why because I can’t change the past and only can surmise about the future.
So, according to “God, the Goddess, Mother Gia (because it is still night here in the Midwest.) Time is measured by the light of day and the dark of night( not by numerical assigned digits) it is still night as there is no light, it is 6:35.
Have a great day today time waits for no one…..lol
Donna
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