“ is that like for reals time”
my roommates girlfriend said this to her boyfriend while discussing a late night trip to Wal-Mart for camping supplies.
So i have this thing about clocks. i feel that you should never be able to make them the wrong time. you know how some people make the clocks in the house like 5 to 20 minutes fast. this seems like utter madness to me. i mean come on…YOU KNOW ITS FAST….you set it. its always the worst when you are at some ones place and you don't know the clock is wrong. you get all confused a little. are we really trying to trick ourselves? do we have so little control of ourselves that we have to trick ourselves into getting ready faster in the morning? we must be pretty unhappy with our lives.
anyway what this brings me to is the idea that clocks should never be wrong. users should not be able to change them. they need to run off of location and get “internet time”. oh shit what about the old school gear clocks…..
mmmm that's quite a problem. im sure back in the day there was a pretty big difference between everyones clocks. the internet has become our town clock tower that keeps everyone on time…..
“Among prominent philosophers, there are two distinct viewpoints on time. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, adimension in which events occur in sequence. Time travel, in this view, becomes a possibility as other "times" persist like frames of a film strip, spread out across the time line. Sir Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time.[4][5] The opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of "container" that events and objects "move through", nor to any entity that "flows", but that it is instead part of a fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which humans sequence and compare events. This second view, in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz[6] and Immanuel Kant,[7][8] holds that time is neither an event nor a thing, and thus is not itself measurable nor can it be travelled.”
i really like this second idea of time much more.
I've never understood people who try to trick themselves like this, either. If you're the one who sets the clock wrong, you're obviously going to know it's set wrong and take that into account. People try to do this with money, too. Some people (who still use check registers) pretend they have $100 less than they really do, so they can be surprised if they still have money at the end of the month.
ReplyDeletelol i totally agree. its madness. thanks for the comment.
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