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STOP PUSHING THE RIVER — Part 6

STOP PUSHING THE RIVER — Part 6

[This post is the last of a series that is basically a collection of field notes about my exploration of how we humans interact with time. The past posts have pretty much covered at least some of the ramifications and nuances we humans have encountered as we play around with Clock Time and they point to the existence of other alternatives. So, what happens when we throw away the clock? Mostly, it seems, tossing out that irritating relatively modern contrivance…

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STOP PUSHING THE RIVER — Part 5

STOP PUSHING THE RIVER — Part 5

It occurred to me that the Chaos-Beast we call Time has probably been around as long as humans have been on this planet.  How not?  We made it up! In this River series of mine, I’ve been trying to get a handle on the whole amorphous conglomeration of our human ways and means of dealing with Time. (It’s been a head-twister!) One thing I’ve discovered is that because of our very long relationship with the temporal, we humans have developed…

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