08-23-2024, 09:55 AM
(08-23-2024, 02:12 AM)l0st Wrote: Well, if you take a look back at ancient cultures, for instance the Mayans, they had systems for keeping "time" that are entirely different from our own. I actually wrote and delivered a presentation on this topic back in college.
If time truly exists and is not a man-made construct, then surely each group must be able to measure it in the same way. Yet, they don't. Several ancient cultures with entirely different takes on what time is and with differing systems of measurement that are not equivalent to each other.
We currently use the Gregorian calendar. I think many (perhaps even most) aren't even aware that alternate systems for measuring time even exist. I realize the audience here is likely to know this, but most people just take for granted that "it is what it is" because that's what they were taught.
Taking it a step further, the Mayans believed that the calendar ends, and would have ended some time around December, 2012 on our Calendar. Clearly, time did not end. Their system of measurement also accounted for only 260 days, not 365. Their concept of a day spanned multiple sun cycles, and also had waypoints built in for seasonal changes, as well as an astrological element. Their perception of time is clearly different from our current system. This seems impossible if time itself as an immutable, always-existing element.
You're looking at it a little differently. What you're talking about is organizing time. What I'm talking about is the 'nature' of time.
You have time being organized as various calendars, and then you have 'cosmic time' which gets to the crux or root of the matter concerning the very essence of time which is basically 'change'.
Time IS change. You may sow a seed, but in the absence of 'time' it will never germinate.
