Remarking on the passage of time is something that man has been doing since before he was man. Since troglodytes lumbered across ancient plains, history was being made and kept. Though crude and vague their cave drawings give descriptions of their lifestyles and environment. The natives of ancient Choco Canyon spent their whole lives studying and documenting how the heavens changed over time, erecting massive monuments to mirror the cycles of the sun and moon. Through the ages mankind has been compelled to mark and represent every second that ticks by. And it is not a whim, but a divine calling. Without considering the past, one cannot fathom the future. There would be no foresight, no provision. Such an existence would not even be primal, but feral. Gorging and than starving, rather than rationing and surviving. To prevent this self destructive end, we take what we can from the past and use it to make a better future.
3 comments:
Ralphie used to be compelled to mark--then we had him fixed.
Good post, son (not yours, Jared -- I meant Robert's.)
Time has certainly been crawling by for me this past 72 hours -- and there have been other times that it really flew.
I've thought about this, too. There are a bunch of scriptures on the question -- maybe I can share them with you some time.
I disagree strongly with the necessity to mark time. I have found that time is irrelevant as it pertains to existence. You could capture eternity in an instant or an eon and it wouldn't make a whit of difference. Time is measured unto man only, and not unto God. It has been standardized by man to keep track of man. Anything beyond the realm of human existence does not have time measured unto it.
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