Time

I've got somethin' tickin' in my brain right now, and it has to do with 'time'. What with all the talk about today being one of those Y2K or 2012 things, people are saying this is gonna be the end of the world. I feel erie talking about it, but I don't believe it.
I want to instead talk about what I know about time, and a lot of what I don't know too....Are you intrigued?

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So I read an article this morning about a this small culture that lives in the Amazon in Brazil. They have a different way of measuring 'Time' (as we call it), instead they remember events and change their names as they get older to signify different 'times' in their life. Here's a link to the article:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-necessarily-deeply-rooted-brains.html

Basically they don't have a word for 'time' like we do, nor do they measure it quite like we do. When I think of time, and the history of our country and world, I see a time line in my head and think about events and people, but then of course, I can't really comprehend the future other than assuming it will be like the past....I liked what the article said about our societies' expression, "I haven't got the time", implying that we only think we don't, but we usually do, it's all about prioritizing.

Back to the article, there was a quote that I liked, "Time is more to do with experience than being inborn in us. The only real biological clock is the ageing of our bodies. All our complex concepts of time are cultural inventions, a kind of technology of the mind."

To think we haven't invented a time machine yet....Though I would agree with movies like 'Back to the Future' that messing with 'time' would be a dangerous thing. But maybe that's just because it's unknown to us. We always fear what we don't understand.

'Time' is certainly something we don't really understand. Though by labeling 'it' and counting the days through out history, that has given us some comfort I think. I'm not sure, however, that measuring time has really taught us anything. We still think of history as in big events and important people, whether on a small scale with our own family's history or on the larger scale with events through out the world, or in space. I think measuring and counting time is just a language that we are familiar with and find comfort in, but we really could live without counting it. Though I'm not saying I'd want to change that, I just want to do more with the time I've got each day. That's probably how the spirit world is though, I would think counting or measuring time with clocks and calendars or pills and hospital bills is only something our society concerns ourselves with. But I do think Heavenly Father has an organized chaos of a plan...

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