tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312736954468978064.post5901252657019979605..comments2024-03-28T01:51:22.367-03:00Comments on Not Buying Anything: Getting Off Mechanical TimeGregg Koephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09349453216733070775noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312736954468978064.post-34380701521371952292017-10-03T16:21:03.480-03:002017-10-03T16:21:03.480-03:00Anon,
Nature IS THE CLOCK. Nature IS EVERYTHING. ...Anon,<br /><br />Nature IS THE CLOCK. Nature IS EVERYTHING. Linda and I have a been observing the phases of the moon for several years now, and measure her cycle by that rather than the calendar. We are measuring everything by these cycles. Gregg Koephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09349453216733070775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312736954468978064.post-65907622853007325922017-09-29T21:18:27.737-03:002017-09-29T21:18:27.737-03:00Horology (the study of time-keeping) has its origi...Horology (the study of time-keeping) has its origins in astronomy, with the movements of the celestial bodies. From there mankind sought to record the cycles of the seasons that he didn't readily understand at the time, and we have things like sundials, stonehenge, mapping the solstices and equinoxes so that people knew exactly when to plant and harvest. Time-keeping goes deeper than "feeling oppressed" when the boss man tells you to stop watching the clock. Nature doesn't operate "off the clock", nature IS THE CLOCK. It is only human beings that use it as a tool of oppressive control. Humans and time-keeping are intrinsically linked; however, how else would you explain the "lunar cycle" of women (their periods), without using the word "month", which is a time-keeping term, that comes from the word "moon"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312736954468978064.post-41235291205743484352017-09-16T00:26:36.752-03:002017-09-16T00:26:36.752-03:00Mitja,
You bring up a point I have been thinking ...Mitja,<br /><br />You bring up a point I have been thinking about lately - standard of living vs. quality of life. Consumer countries tend to have a high standard of living, but a low quality of life. We aren't getting as much bang for our buck as we used to, and a lot of what we do is a total waste of time. Or a waste of "life", to see it in a non-temporal way. Gregg Koephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09349453216733070775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312736954468978064.post-7662381781427742572017-09-16T00:21:36.330-03:002017-09-16T00:21:36.330-03:00Marla,
I think living without measured time is tr...Marla,<br /><br />I think living without measured time is true freedom. It allows us to engage with life on a different level. That must be good, or why would we describe good things (like god) as "timeless"? Gregg Koephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09349453216733070775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312736954468978064.post-41520644364739613112017-09-16T00:18:37.628-03:002017-09-16T00:18:37.628-03:00Madeleine,
I like to imagine what life would be l...Madeleine,<br /><br />I like to imagine what life would be like without measured time. No clocks, no calendars, no day timers. Only the clues of nature to tell us of the passage of time. I wonder how our experience of aging would differ in such an environment?<br /><br />Teaching music is good, life-enhancing work. It is too bad the clock has to intervene, but it does. How can you have time signatures without time?Gregg Koephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09349453216733070775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312736954468978064.post-17434155389077783642017-09-10T15:03:30.597-03:002017-09-10T15:03:30.597-03:00Clocks are our new masters to tell us when to begi...Clocks are our new masters to tell us when to begin and when to stop working. Clocks also add stress to our lives when alarmclock interrups our sleep and tells us to go to work even if it is not the most optimal time for us. All in the name of synchronized activities to achieve higher productivity and ever increasing growth of GDP. It is sad that nobody thinks about growth of quality of our lives ... We do not have much time on Earth so we should carefully think about what we are doing with our time.<br /><br />MitjaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312736954468978064.post-49246843884817053742017-09-08T18:05:16.565-03:002017-09-08T18:05:16.565-03:00Excellent point Madeleine! I think of all the time...Excellent point Madeleine! I think of all the time I wasted when working, just to seem busy. I could have been outside in the fresh air.<br /><br />What a luxury to not have to keep a man made sense of time, to be free to be.<br /><br />MarlaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4312736954468978064.post-72195030931825980562017-09-07T17:21:20.855-03:002017-09-07T17:21:20.855-03:00I used to be very tyrranised by the clock. Now I t...I used to be very tyrranised by the clock. Now I try to let go of it on weekends, and remember that there's always tomorrow to get things done. I'm still struggling with it though, due to that other invention - the 5 day work week! I always feel I want a bit more time for living but tick, tick, tick, it's Monday again and my rich home life has to wait.<br /><br />When I'm teaching my students (piano) I definitely feel the tyrrany of the clock. I would love to be able to just work with a student for as long as it takes for them to get the information they need. If they need less time, they go early and someone else gets my time. Wouldn't it be amazing if people were paid to get a job done rather than being paid by the hour? Think of all the time wasted in offices with people trying to look busy until 6 or whenever they are meant to be working - what a waste of their precious lives!<br /><br />Madeleine.xAussie Connoisseurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02668698720239626709noreply@blogger.com