It's all in the timing

Well thanks to a certain someone (also you should totally read his blog he is actually a competent writer) I can't help but think about time now. This is annoying because I dislike dealing with time. I will return to this idea later, but firstly I am going to address the issues raised by that devious bas**rd (again seriously read his stuff it's not twaddle like over here.) 


The Point raised by my esteemed colleague is that time can be a subjective matter, essentially a matter of perspective. Now I can understand this and indeed it does make sense, as he so correctly puts forward time appears to pass more quickly while on is say for example dreading an exam. However is this to say that time itself is subjective, surely the question raised must be does time exist whatsoever? 


Now before I hear the cries of "But Frazer you stupid big haired loon, isn't that post-structuralist and thus against basically most things you stand for?" The answer to that is two fold; on the face value it is essentially such a question. However I don't intend for it to lie as such, by this I mean to say, what is time? for as I said above I dislike time. This is because it refuses to fit into correct schema, by this I mean to say that time is I cannot qualify time as being either man-made or an external construct. This is to say that it appears to be both of these for some of the very reasons that are mentioned above. As if it were a wholly external source it wouldn't appear so subjective surely? e.g. Gravity doesn't sometimes seem stronger and sometimes weaker it tends to remain the same pretty much all the time. However I cannot find it within myself to say that Time isn't partially projected. Consider a year, there is no set reason why it must be 365 and a quarter days long. Indeed there is no reason why a day must be 24 hours long and so on and so forth. 


The easiest way I have found of dealing with it must be to claim that TIME(the external concept) is different from Time(the system of measurement.) This is to say that we as a species have established a way in which to ensure efficiency from nature i.e. through the process of quantifying natural processes such as sunrise etc. Whereas TIME is a universal constant which is observable as we pass along it. Hence why history is in the past and the future is yet to come. (I may have Nietzschean tendencies but eternal recurrence seems abit mad) This I feel must be the way otherwise if TIME didn't exist then there could be even less certainty concerning within nature. (something I was sure I had written about but appear to have not. Another time I suppose) 

All in all dear friends I require some semblance of order in my universe. If there is not that then the maw of Nihilism appears ready to swallow us whole. For without reason we are but dust in the wind.