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time
(iconosphere entry)

Time is a thing (flow, static, etc), much debated (see below) and is 
generally defined in terms of events, causality, memory, and processes.

   An event is something that happens and it happens at a particular
            time. For example, the first landing on the Earth's Moon 
            by humans. And even that event is a bit un-time like, and
            brother/sister/sibling if there's ONE EVENT in human history
            that deserves to be un-time like, that's pretty much got to
            be it!

            It (the first landing on the moon) occured on approximatelu 
            July 19th/20th. In some parts
            of the world it was 2pm while in others 
            it was 7am. In Cape Canaveral (aka at the time "Cape Kennedy"), 
            Florida, United States, Terra it was July 19th, while in 
            Parks, New South Wales, Australia, Terra it was July 20th.  

            Many who doubt the nature of time, maintain that man has
            yet to land on the moon and that the illusion of time 
            (like the moon landing) is simpy "yet another hoax" foisted
            on the world by "them". This them is taken severally (or not)
            to be the Free Masons, the Priory of Rome, the Illuminati, 
            the Rossicurians, the Mormons, the Catholics, the Jews, the
            Arabs, the Christians, the Warren Commision, Lt. Kije (or
            at least his nose), Jorge Luis Borges of San Francisco (etc),
            the Pope, the AntiChrist, PBS, the CIA, Ralph Nadar, Kala Anka
            (a known international absurdist code-named  "Donald Duck",
            Gloria Steinem, Elvis, The Rand Corporation, an unspecified
            group of "reverse vampires", (and of course) "THE" Government, 
            and even "a certain duck". 
            
            It is beyond the scope this entry to go further with this, 
            please google. We appologise for the inconvenience.
 
   Causality -(see map)- is the idea that one thing occurs and then
                       something else happens as a result of it.
               For instance, a carpenter is building something 
               and hits "the wrong nail" (ie, the thumb nail, rather 
               than the metal nail). This cause, gives rise to the 
               air being blued. That is,

                  Carpenter (raises hammer (slightly), 
                  Stikes (what she/he/neh thinks is the nail),
                  Hits thumb by mistake
                  Jumps up and down (this is the danse portion 
                                     of todays viewing)
                  Says many, many bad words; some of which were 
                       foreign i think) - ref to "Police Academy III: Back in training".

               That's: Cause and Effect    

The Existence/Existance (or not) of Time

The acceptance of the existinse of time is (like the various views
of turtles) is often a matter of personal taste. However, from the
POV of iconospheric thinking, we have:

Time does NOT exist for the following POV's
      
   Absrudist - from a certain POV, time is CENTRAL to
               aburdism; and therefore it can't be.

   Artist - time is the ultimate "is is"; ie, "the is that is now".

   Fractalist - constructing a fractal is a reversable process.
                Same for chaos, catastrophy, etc. From a PHYSICS
                POV, we can:  Just run the "film" backward.

   Humanist - "concern for mankind and his fate must always 
               form the cental concern" (Albert Einstein.
               Time is reducible to Furturist POV.

   Jazzist - in a sense JAZZ is time. Is the fish the water?
             Is the leaf the tree? But of course, as every
             jazzist knows: The bird is the bird.
                            The bird is flight.
                            The bird is slavery.
                            (and in the end - time?)
                            The bird is free.
    
Time DOES exist for the following POV's

   -[Futurist]-  although for the futurist, the distinction 
                 between the  past/present/future is an 
                 illusion; as Einstein point out: "But, a persistent one".
                 (me thinks that Einstein was well taught/thought
                 in -[pataphysics]-
   
   -[Scientist]- from clocks (mechanical, atomic, biological, geological,
                 etc) to the the "chronons" of Star Trek, etc.
              
   -[Spiritualist]- an un-removable singularity.

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