it's About time

All this lasted a long time, or a short time: for properly speaking, there is no time on earth for such things. (Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part. IV Sec.12)

"...For all the ancient philosophers and sages have reckoned two things to be necessary for safe and pleasant travel on the road of wisdom and in the pursuit after knowledge; God's guidance and the company of men.... So, when you philosophers, with God's guidance and in the company of some clear Lantern, give yourselves up to that careful study and investigation which is the proper duty of man -- and it is for this reason that men are called... searchers and discoverers... -- [as men, you] will find the truth of the sage Thales' reply to Amasis, King of the Egyptians. When asked wherein the greatest wisdom lay, Thales replied: 'In time.' For it is time that has discovered, or in due course will discover, all things that lie hidden.[fn.81] [As men, you] will also infallibly find that all men's knowledge, both theirs and their forefathers', is hardly an infinitesimal fraction of all that exists and that they do not know." ...When [our guide] had concluded her speech she handed us some closed and sealed letters and, after we had returned to her our undying thanks, she showed us out through a door... where [she] summoned her people to propose questions twice as high as Mount Olympus. And so we passed through a country full of delights... and at last we found our ships in the harbour. (François Rabelais, 1955/1532-1534, pp. 710-12)

...[T]ake your time. Think a lot. Think of everything you've got. For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not. (Cat Stevens song, on: "Footsteps in the Dark / Greatest Hits Vol. 2")

To the philosopher and to a generation of philosophers, acting responsibly in a human and cultural space, there accrue, also deriving from this cultural space, responsibilities and corresponding actions. It is the same here as it is generally for men in times of danger. For the sake of the life-task that has been taken up [e.g., reflective thinking, and the reconstruction of the social world as self-reflective, self-accountable community], in times of danger one must first let these very tasks alone and do what will make a normal life possible again in the future. The effect will generally be such that the total life-situation, and with it the original life-tasks, has been changed or in the end has even become fully without an object. Thus reflection is required in every sense in order to right ourselves. (Edmund Husserl, 1970/1954, p. 392)

Nothing lasts forever in this world, Where one season changes into another. (Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, ref. lost)

For the spirit alone lives; all else dies. (Jean de Coras, inquisitor of Martin Guerre, 1561, from the film: "The Return of Martin Guerre") ...[F]or the spirit alone is immortal. (Edmund Husserl, "The Vienna Lecture" [10 May 1935], 1970/1954, p. 299) Read statement from current Waltham CEO.

"Shipwreck

with Spectator" :: Metaphor of a Paradigm for Existence.

Read Medieval morality play: The Summoning of Everyman (1485).

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See 12th C. Tuscan country house I find evocative of time and eternity.
See a different kind of timelessness: A Florida gated golf community.
05:30 04:30AM.
 
Read about some of my experiences growing older (aging).
 

Leisure is the basis of culture.

Learn why a city can deserve to exist (Louis Kahn).

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Enjoy a Misu moment....
Meditate (visit a virtuous labyrinth...).
 

Learn  about Giovanni de Dondi's astronomical clock (ca. 1370) + Antikythera mechanism (ca. 80BCE). Read  about my (BMcC) personal experiences with mechanical wristwatches. Return /Go to horology page (What time does your computer think it is?).

What is the current phase of the moon?
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