The Human Mind Can't Comprehend...

It always seems like I'm writing about things that we, as human beings, can't comprehend. Perhaps that's what makes a true deep thought.

Take time for example. It is yet another illustration of something that was not created by man kind, therefore we can't comprehend it. We use it as a form of regulation, and we literally mold our entire life around it. Everything is driven by time. Think about it. Time controls when we sleep, when we eat, when we work, when we play, etc.

We even use it as a form of measurement. From the minutes and hours in a day, all the way to the months and years of our lives. We've even taught ourselves to gauge things from it. Based off of experience, we can estimate everything from how long it should take to cook breakfast, to how long we should technically live; how early is too early; how late is too late.

I understand that time is technically driven by the sun, moon, stars, and universe as a whole, but that goes back to the age old question of where it all came from. We'll leave that for another post. Maybe this is why ancient civilizations studied the stars so closely, and some even worshiped them. Because they understood that the motion of these large bodies is what drives life forward. Now, they obviously didn't fully understand what they were seeing, but they figured out through experience and repetition that it was something worth paying attention to. Take the Egyptian pyramids, for example. They're laid out in the pattern of Orion's belt. And the Mayan calendar which was formed from studying the stars and is pointing to 2012 as the end of the world (no chance). If they had this down to such a science that they could engineer these huge construction feats, what happened to this science? What happened to this large database of potentially understanding?

Time is just a topic that seems to be a lost topic. The fact is, to try and comprehend a world without time is like trying to turn ourself inside out. Although I suppose it is technically plausible, we would never know if it happened.

The human mind just can't comprehend it.

Take a second to think about it...

                                 <>< C. T. Gunn