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Bruce Bradley
10-15-2007, 04:15 PM
Have you ever thought about time and how it has effect on everything? Most people never think about it except to know what time it is. Time is endless and also was here before anything else. Because without time, it would be the end of time.

Time is the name we have given it. It controls when the sun rises and sets. It also controls the future and records the past. As the future arrives we plan things to do in advance by the use of time. So I guess you could say it tells the future too. The worst thing about time is when you need it you never have enough and when you wish it to fly by it ticks away soooo slow. It doesn’t really change but our mind plays a trick on us.

Our need for time has given us an extraordinary piece of jewelry known as a watch. It is the only useful piece of jewelry you can buy. Rings, chains and charms are only for other people’s pleasure as you can only see it while looking in the mirror.

One of the most critical parts of time is History. History is critical because we can look back and learn from it. We use time to pinpoint places in time that we wish to remember. We record them so we will be able to pass them from generation to generation.

Memories is another important part of time. A memory what is it? A memory is a mark in time that is left by you for anybody who wants to remember. A picture is one of the best ways to record a memory. Some do such great things that everyone rembers them. Here are a few: George Washington, Ben Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, and Thomas Edison? These were great men who left there mark on time by having great ideas. Other are artist leaving there works of art or a writter with a novel.

Have you ever consider that in each man and women that is born, there is a need to not be content. We are not like the other creatures on earth we just can’t be content with anything. An example of this is how many creatures wear shoes? Something we take for granted but they give us a tremendous advantage in the animal kingdom. Have you hurt your foot running barefooted, does it slow you down? What amaze me are not the shoes but the man that stepped on something and said I need shoes. He probally took a peice of leather hide and wraped it around his feet. Everyone probally thought that it would make him and slow and clumsy. I imagine they all laughed at him until he showed off his version of Nikes. He put his mark on time.

The most wonderful time we will ever have is a lifetime. We didn’t think what it would be like for our lives to end when we were at a young age. As a child, time was important because a year is a large part of time we had lived. As you get to be older you will think about time and a year could be all you have left.

I am not fortunate enough to have left my mark on time yet. There is an easy way to do it. The men mentioned eariler were great who worked hard to put their mark on time. You can have a mark that will be there for all time. You can do it by having a child. You will always be in that child’s memory and be his mark in time and him yours. I feel for the unfortunate people unable to have a child; my heart goes out to them.

Remember to look, listen and observe all around and you can find a way to change things. You never know if your idea gets laughed at that it may be one of the biggest inventions of all time. Try hard to keep your memories where you can bare to look back at them, because what you do today will be a memory tomorrow.

Midas
10-16-2007, 06:00 AM
Bruce, On TIME, and I say this in a helpful way, at least this is my intent. It is TIME you learned the use of paragraphs. We were taught this long before high school.

They serve a VERY useful purpose, and, in case English is not your native language, as far as I know, the paragraph is common to all languages - at least all the ones with which I am familiar.

Once again, I apologise if it comes across as cynicism, but that is not how it is meant - truthfully.
Midas

Bruce Bradley
10-16-2007, 09:45 AM
Midas,
No offense taken and thanks for the tip. I'm not an educated person, I just love writing. I have went back and put in paragraphs. I just get to writing and it flows and the next thing I know I have written a whole page. I have a vivid imagination and my mind wonders sometimes. I just wanted to put it in words for people to read. I don't really care if anybody likes or not, it is just something to still my mind.

Midas
10-16-2007, 11:09 AM
Bruce, I am pleased you did not take offence. I never pick people up on their grammar, or spelling, no matter how bad, for two main reasons. I cannot assume on these forums that everyone who contributes has the good fortune to have English as their native language (smile).

The other reason is, I do not spend the time editing my own contributions, unless I happen to spot something that hits me in the eye, which often occurs after I have posted it. I am a terrible typist, and I have, at the moment, a sticky keyboard.

However, paragraphs are essential if you want anyone beyond the seriously dedicated, like your mom, or devoted sister et al. read it.

Today we have little patience, if we are honest, and a whole long passage without some break is too daunting.

Some may disagree, but they will be very few in number. There are some people who will disagree with anything as a way of life. So, accept that with whatever you write.

Now a word about paragraphs. Whilst there is a rule to paragraphing, if one needs to go by the book, it does not matter in writing here.

Just break it up into small bites. Obviously not in the middle of a sentence.

Its a bit like that 'How do you eat an elephant?' Answer: 'One bite at a time'.

In the older classics you will find that the writers tended to have long paragraphs ( the reason for this is not good or bad English). Today, modern writers tend (not always) to use shorter paragraphs. You should be able to figure out the reason.

You have been frank about yourself, and I am only wanting to help so that you are not just writing for yourself, and those who dearly love you.

People with good imaginations have often something with which to enlighten us, or at least sow some seeds for other thoughts to grow.

Midas

blazeofglory
06-29-2008, 10:03 PM
Time is an illusion and we name it for our convenience. There is an eternal whirlpool and we all are circling round and round infinitely.

jgweed
06-30-2008, 09:36 AM
While I am not sure that time exists independently of human existence, or is something eternal, I do think that humanity is closely defined by its temporal stance, and that the god Janus is a profound metaphor.
Certainly, without the historical accumulation of a common stock of knowledge that seems to be capable of self-correction, and without a future allowing man to create projects of both an individual and a social nature, man would not be man.

Smoogles
07-01-2008, 05:44 PM
Time... I am not sure if this is just a measurement of man or not. There is clear aging, obvious to the world around us; but if one thinks... really there is no way to point out time, see time(outside of measurements), to touch time, so time must be abstract. I think of it as much like an emotion, you can see anger (no behaviorist), much like you can see time, but you can't point at one specific thing and say LOOK there's time! (or anger) We know it exists, we just can't encounter it.

"No matter how advanced human technology gets, one will never encounter an idea, or emotion in the brain. Just material things such as neurons."

blazeofglory
07-04-2008, 10:49 AM
Man is something that thinks about time and animals have nothing to do with it.

Man has too many things and he keeps on rationalizing things, and he does not live up instincts.