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Time rules our lives. It's true, we all live our lives according to time. We are obsessed with time. But why?
How many times have you looked at your watch and thought, "Oh no! I'm gonna be late!" or, "Oh look, I'm just on time." It is amazing how many aspects of our lives are affected by time.
But what IS time? Perhaps it's a watch or clock, which points at what the 'time' is (although, it's not really time, we just classify it in numbers,) and moves around as more time passes. Is it the sun and moon moving up and down? The way the world rotates around the sun? Maybe, when you think of time, you think of the seasons. There are lots of different ways of describing time, but I think the main one is using a watch or a clock.
As I said, time affects almost all aspects of our lives. Work is one of them. Quite a lot of people work for a set amount of hours (a measurement of time) and when they work longer it's called 'overtime.' Most people travel to work. People who travel by train have to check what time the train arrives at the station, and the same is for bus users.
Many jobs involve deadlines, which means finishing a piece of work or finding out something before a set time passes. This is also the same for all us school students. For me, I have to be in school at 8:50am otherwise I get a late mark. We leave school at 3:15pm, no earlier (unless you have a very good reason.) I lookat my watch all the time during the day, to check how long I've got before next lesson, how much more lunchtime there is etc. I am usually willing the time to go faster, and you could sort of say I 'worship' it, especially during Theory IT lessons. {:)
When we're not at work or school/college/university, we're usually checking the time to see how long we've got before we go out, what time our favourite TV programme is on, when our friends are coming over and for kids a big one is how long they've got before bedtime.
But time isn't just in hours and minutes. We use days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries and millenniums. It is currently the 9th October, in the year 2001. On the eve of 31st December 1999, we celebrated the new millennium. There were lots of rumours of the world ending, or all the computers crashing. Fortunately, none of them came to anything, but quite a lot of people got very worked up over them. In fact, almost everyone in the world got worked up over the year 2000, a measurement of time. We celebrate special time's of the year like Birthdays, Christmas and Easter, and we go to sleep in the night-time and get up in the daytime (usually)- time is everywhere!
If you look at all the facts, then we run our lives on time. We base our lives around time. If it wasn't for time, I expect life would be very confusing. So is time a good thing? In a way, yes. It keeps most of us organised, and it helps the whole world to continually keep going, if you know what I mean. But it's bad in another way-it causes much stress and annoyance.
So what do we worship in life? Work? Money? Our family? Perhaps, but most of all, we worship time.
Thanks for reading, Ant.
How many times have you looked at your watch and thought, "Oh no! I'm gonna be late!" or, "Oh look, I'm just on time." It is amazing how many aspects of our lives are affected by time.
But what IS time? Perhaps it's a watch or clock, which points at what the 'time' is (although, it's not really time, we just classify it in numbers,) and moves around as more time passes. Is it the sun and moon moving up and down? The way the world rotates around the sun? Maybe, when you think of time, you think of the seasons. There are lots of different ways of describing time, but I think the main one is using a watch or a clock.
As I said, time affects almost all aspects of our lives. Work is one of them. Quite a lot of people work for a set amount of hours (a measurement of time) and when they work longer it's called 'overtime.' Most people travel to work. People who travel by train have to check what time the train arrives at the station, and the same is for bus users.
Many jobs involve deadlines, which means finishing a piece of work or finding out something before a set time passes. This is also the same for all us school students. For me, I have to be in school at 8:50am otherwise I get a late mark. We leave school at 3:15pm, no earlier (unless you have a very good reason.) I lookat my watch all the time during the day, to check how long I've got before next lesson, how much more lunchtime there is etc. I am usually willing the time to go faster, and you could sort of say I 'worship' it, especially during Theory IT lessons. {:)
When we're not at work or school/college/university, we're usually checking the time to see how long we've got before we go out, what time our favourite TV programme is on, when our friends are coming over and for kids a big one is how long they've got before bedtime.
But time isn't just in hours and minutes. We use days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries and millenniums. It is currently the 9th October, in the year 2001. On the eve of 31st December 1999, we celebrated the new millennium. There were lots of rumours of the world ending, or all the computers crashing. Fortunately, none of them came to anything, but quite a lot of people got very worked up over them. In fact, almost everyone in the world got worked up over the year 2000, a measurement of time. We celebrate special time's of the year like Birthdays, Christmas and Easter, and we go to sleep in the night-time and get up in the daytime (usually)- time is everywhere!
If you look at all the facts, then we run our lives on time. We base our lives around time. If it wasn't for time, I expect life would be very confusing. So is time a good thing? In a way, yes. It keeps most of us organised, and it helps the whole world to continually keep going, if you know what I mean. But it's bad in another way-it causes much stress and annoyance.
So what do we worship in life? Work? Money? Our family? Perhaps, but most of all, we worship time.
Thanks for reading, Ant.
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Venom, I know what you mean.
Whenever I set my alarm, I wake up a couple of minutes before it goes off.
If I forget to set it, however, I sleep right through, bloody typical!
Whenever I set my alarm, I wake up a couple of minutes before it goes off.
If I forget to set it, however, I sleep right through, bloody typical!
The human body is a remarkably good clock in itself. It's not uncommon for someone to wake up in the morning only miniutes before their alarm clock goes off.
Just because animals (or ancient humans) aren't (or weren't) aware of time in the same way we are, doesn't mean they don't need or use it.
Mating season in spring, hibernate in winter.
Predators hunt animals by knowing what time they are likely to find them about (by which I mean more than just light and dark)
Things these day aren't really *that* much more precise than they used to be.
Just because animals (or ancient humans) aren't (or weren't) aware of time in the same way we are, doesn't mean they don't need or use it.
Mating season in spring, hibernate in winter.
Predators hunt animals by knowing what time they are likely to find them about (by which I mean more than just light and dark)
Things these day aren't really *that* much more precise than they used to be.
That's my point.
Before telly they didn't need time. Now we do it.
But why?
Because we force ourselves to need it. We develop things that rely on time. We seem to have developed a culture of"I'll get up at 7am, have breakfast and leave for work. I'll go on my lunch at 12.30 (whether I'm hungry or not). I'll finish work at 5.30, come home and have dinner (again - regardless of how hungry you are), then I'll watch telly until the news is on, then go to bed."
See?
How many times have you been sitting at school thinking "I'm hungry *now*, why do I have to wait another hour until I can have lunch?"
See?
Before telly they didn't need time. Now we do it.
But why?
Because we force ourselves to need it. We develop things that rely on time. We seem to have developed a culture of"I'll get up at 7am, have breakfast and leave for work. I'll go on my lunch at 12.30 (whether I'm hungry or not). I'll finish work at 5.30, come home and have dinner (again - regardless of how hungry you are), then I'll watch telly until the news is on, then go to bed."
See?
How many times have you been sitting at school thinking "I'm hungry *now*, why do I have to wait another hour until I can have lunch?"
See?
Perhaps, but how would we watch TV without time?? We wouldn't know when the programs were on unless we had some way of telling.
Shocktrooper wrote:
> I think civilisation would be in catastrophe. That's what I think.
Only because we rely on it so much.
What did they do in the middle ages, when there were no alarm clocks? When they didn't wake up to the strains of Steps coming out of the radio (luck gits)?
Was the world a disaster?
No.
They got up when it was light, went to work, ate when they were hungry, and went to bed when it was dark. What's wrong with that?
People still managed to wake up, still managed to live.
Why is it so diferent now?
My job means I can start work any time between 8am and 10.30. Then just add or takeaway the difference on the end. So, I wake up whenever, get up and have breakfast, and go to work. Sometimes I turn up at 8.30, sometimes I go in at 10. It doesn't matter.
I do my work, then go home. Stopping for lunch when I'm hungry. I have dinner when I get home, and go to bed whn I'm tired.
Why do I need time?
I need it because it's forced on me. If I want to watch something on television, I have to know what the time is, and what time the programme is on. If I want to go to the pub, I have to make sure I get there before 11pm.
I need time because society has become reliant on it. Like mobile phones.
10 years ago hardly anyone had a mobile, now everyone thinks they're essential. They're not essential. People are just reliant on them. If you took them away, people wouldn't die.
> I think civilisation would be in catastrophe. That's what I think.
Only because we rely on it so much.
What did they do in the middle ages, when there were no alarm clocks? When they didn't wake up to the strains of Steps coming out of the radio (luck gits)?
Was the world a disaster?
No.
They got up when it was light, went to work, ate when they were hungry, and went to bed when it was dark. What's wrong with that?
People still managed to wake up, still managed to live.
Why is it so diferent now?
My job means I can start work any time between 8am and 10.30. Then just add or takeaway the difference on the end. So, I wake up whenever, get up and have breakfast, and go to work. Sometimes I turn up at 8.30, sometimes I go in at 10. It doesn't matter.
I do my work, then go home. Stopping for lunch when I'm hungry. I have dinner when I get home, and go to bed whn I'm tired.
Why do I need time?
I need it because it's forced on me. If I want to watch something on television, I have to know what the time is, and what time the programme is on. If I want to go to the pub, I have to make sure I get there before 11pm.
I need time because society has become reliant on it. Like mobile phones.
10 years ago hardly anyone had a mobile, now everyone thinks they're essential. They're not essential. People are just reliant on them. If you took them away, people wouldn't die.
I think civilisation would be in catastrophe. That's what I think.
Shocktrooper wrote:
> Time has to be one of the most important aspects of life, doesn't it?
Or least important, depending on how you look at it.
When does the game start? When everyone's here.
See, simple as that.
> Time has to be one of the most important aspects of life, doesn't it?
Or least important, depending on how you look at it.
When does the game start? When everyone's here.
See, simple as that.
Time has to be one of the most important aspects of life, doesn't it?
If it we didn't have time, then we wouldn't know when a certain event would take place. This could be anything from going to the dentist and going to see a football match.
Think about it. How would we live ourlives without time, eh?
Picture it now:
"So, err, when's Man United's next game, eh?" Asks Shocky.
"In exactly five nights time" Replies Ant.
"But when would I go in five nights time? When the sun is half-way in the sky? Or when it starts to sink? Or when the sun has just risen?" Queries Shocky.
"Bah. I dunno..." Answers Ant.
See what I mean?
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If it we didn't have time, then we wouldn't know when a certain event would take place. This could be anything from going to the dentist and going to see a football match.
Think about it. How would we live ourlives without time, eh?
Picture it now:
"So, err, when's Man United's next game, eh?" Asks Shocky.
"In exactly five nights time" Replies Ant.
"But when would I go in five nights time? When the sun is half-way in the sky? Or when it starts to sink? Or when the sun has just risen?" Queries Shocky.
"Bah. I dunno..." Answers Ant.
See what I mean?
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