Time can either guide us — or misguide us!

(This is the second part of a two-part blog. The first part appeared yesterday.)

Dear Fellow Earthlings,

   In another instance, suffering from a viral infection, I took some medication which caused me to become drowsy just before a scheduled session with a Jingles client. I actually was sitting in front of the computer, but dozed off and missed that client’s session. The client became irate and said : “YOU TOOK MY TIME!” — and I have never heard from that client again since that time, as he refuses to respond to my attempts to contact him. Obviously, time DOES exist in that person’s mind.

   There are philosophers, physicists – – and indeed many other people who are not sure that time does indeed exist. The late Steven Hawking said in “A Brief History of Time” (published April 1, 1988) that time has a “direction”, comprising “a thermodynamic arrow of time”, a psychological arrow of time “, and “a cosmological arrow of time“.

   The concept remains difficult to fathom for the majority of humans.

   Time could possibly be something that we merely use to simplify our lives. Ironically, overpopulation, stress, information overload, and a lack of consistency in the ethical guide that religion provides have pushed humans into a form of bondage that makes us slaves of time . 

   We need to get back to remembering that we should base our lives on spiritual bliss, charity, toleration, and patience — whether we believe that time exists — or that it’s just a figment of our imaginations. Whatever the case may be, we should not allow time to constitute either our slave or our master.

   Rather, we should aim for productivity, conservation, respect for all life forms, all lifestyles – – and saving Earth.

   For people of faith, religious tolerance (both for other religions and for the individual beliefs held by other people) should be seen as a means for  engendering the workings of Godly plans.

Steve Walker 

Earthsaver and Jingles Creator

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