Love of Money

For this one I will be taking a more religious view point.

"The Love of money is the root of all kinds of evil."

Originally most Christians would interpret this passage from the Bible as the love of money is the THE root of evil. Then later it came to be interpreted as the root of a lot of kinds of evil.

However, I would say that there is great evidence, in my opinion that the love of money is THE root of evil. Okay, rather the love of money in terms of Greed. Why I say this is because of this: Greed does not have to be just with money, In fact money is the very thing that represents all of our wants. And that is the key, Greed is the love of (money) our wants. If one truly thinks about it the first stepping stone in sin or evil, is doing what we will or want instead of what God wants. I have yet to run across a "sin" that could not be traced back to this. Lying, wanting status quo not to change. Murder, wanting some one out of the picture, etc...

Green is Backs!

Hmmmmm...How can I talk about time some more, without actually talking about it...

Oooooo...I know, money! (They are the same after all)

Scared ya, didn't I. Believe me it will be a long time before it's the right time to talk about time. (Like ya haven't heard that one before, eh.)

Anywho, enough idle chit-chat, let's ask some questions!

Why is money so...moneyish?
moneyish: valuable, important, integrated, loved, powerful, almost (ironically) god-like...

Why? well the answer is an obvious one, and unsatisfying...just 'cus.

But to take it part by part:
It is valuable because it represents those things which everyone wants, with it we can get whatever we want. What I find funny is...we can do that anyway... In all honesty we can have anything we want because nothing belongs to anyone. The only way we can "possess" anything is when we have a "power" over someone. Whether that be physical or mental, strength or blackmail. basically and advanced form of the barter system, me want that you want this, we trade ,UG. The problem, If you don't give me that I won't give you this. It is a good thing that I'm not gonna throw Darwinism into the melting pot. Otherwise guy A would be dead, because the most intelligent thing guy B could do would be to remove that "power" which allows guy A to possess that which he wants (I'll leave it to you to figure out which one is A and which one is B). Therefore, guy B gets what he wants without loses something he possesses or wants. But since that's not an option, well the other way to remove the power from guy A is for guy B to not want what guy A has. A little aside here: economics states that there is a scarcity of resources and unlimited wants, and the problem is not enough to fulfill the wants. The solution, find more stuff! Or! better yet don't want anything. I know, I know, easier said than done, kinda. And when I say nothing I mean nothing. That includes life, but then again I'm being contradictory because that would also mean death too...But my real point is to exist were you are, and allow yourself necessities of life basically food and water. You really don't need clothing and you don't need a shelter. And yes, I also know that while this is nice it won't stay forever, because there will be that one guy, and it will be a guy, that loves food way too much, and wants more than anyone. This want of stuff and power is inevitable. So I finally say this the smartest thing to do is not to not want completely, but to want what others want before your own wants. ("I want you to say that again" ;).

In this it shows us why money is so important, because it is the exact opposite of this. Money is the solution where we create something, why not make it out of trees, and say it is valuable...for everyone! There! :P. That way everyone is on equal footing, when considering their wants, they want other objects and money represents these. Without it we wouldn't be as...evolved...as we are now, we wouldn't be as civilized...

And because of this it is now integrated into our society. If we get rid of it our society would collapse. The way money is headed it will eventually be in the form of computerised accreditation. So then I will really laugh because we will truly "own" a lot of nothing. At least right not we can say we "own" a piece of a tree. And when that happens we'll be right back were we started possessing something through the means of nothing, because we possess nothing. (It is true, I have only talked about objects and the things we, in a way, do truly posses are our abilities.)

However, because it is so valuable, important, and integrated is why it is like a dear sibling, and thusly, loved.

And something that is loved by most anyone, is very powerful indeed.

So I answer the question "Why is money so... Moneyish?", with: Why Indeed.

It's About Time!

Actually its all relative.

Einstein's immortal theory of relativity.

According to this theory, when a person travels at the speed of light time, for them, stops, and similarly as one approaches the speed of light time slows down.

However, I would like to propose what I think would happen as one approaches, and hits, the speed of light.

Here we have man A (you may not be able to see him, but trust me he is there :), and standing next to man A is man C (man B was sick that day). Both men are 20, and both men must die at 75. Man C begins a journey in a straight line (and there isn't anything in the way) at the speed of light. On the outside world (not traveling at speed of light) man A goes about his life for 50 years. Then at 50 years man C stops. According to relativity man C would still be 20 and man A would be 70, and man C can now continue on with his life. However, what I say would happen is that at the end of the 50 "years" both men would be 70. Man A would live a normal life until 75 then die. The same would happen with man C, however, if man C were to look behind him he would first be seeing the light that left with him. Therefore, he would BE 70 when he stopped, but to him he and the world around him would be like it was when he was 20. He would still die at 75 and therefore could only see five years of man A's life before he died. He could move around and act when he got were he was going, but wouldn't be able to SEE himself do it.

My point is that I think this would happen because, time doesn't exist, only spacial change. Therefore, traveling at the speed of light would only affect what we see.

However, I have heard of experiments by NASA in space which has "proven" Einstein's theory. Supposedly after climbing into space the time on the space shuttles computer was slightly slower than that of it's counter part back in Houston. So in the interest of an open mind, I would be willing to concede that it is a possibility that traveling faster, slows the rate of change (A.K.A., in math, time :D).

Finally I also believe to achieve the kind of stopping of time that travel at the speed of light would produce, needs an instantaneous velocity to happen. Therefore, you would need to be everywhere at the same (echem) time. Or in other words be God.

(Whew! NO MORE...I'm in china for crying out loud! But then again that's still just the surface :)

Seriously! What time is it?

Aaaaahhh... But in order to know what time it is one must first know what it is (time that is).
Isn't that enough "is"s for now?

So what IS time??
guess not...

Webster's Definition: A non spatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future.

Sorry about that. It's not like enough people don't start papers or speeches with the definition of their topic. However, logic dictates that one should start with unambiguiting (making clear) of one's ambiguous terms (and plus who doesn't like using big words).

With that definition proposed, it caused another question to come to mind. If time isn't spacial, does it really exist the way we think it does? Does it have power over us here?

To those of you who don't believe in God, or god, or anything beyond what you can see, or beyond science, I say this: Time doesn't exist, prove me wrong...
And yes I know some of you may think you can, with respect we shall leave it at this for now, and come back to it later.

To those who do believe in God, it is surmisable that such a person could believe in something they cannot see, touch, or truly understand. They would simply chalk it up to faith, at least those who don't care to think about it would (and there is nothing wrong with that). Those that are intrigued by my previous statement that time doesn't exist are probably trying to think of some way, beyond faith, to show that time exists.

One very viable argument for God fearing people, mainly Christian, creationists (apologies to the rest), would be creation itself. God created time at creation and mentions it specifically. God created the heavens and the earth...he said let there be light, and there was...he saw that it was good, and there was light and there was darkness the first day. There it is, case closed, the passage of time. To this I would ask "what is a day defined as?"

If one was to ask a random person on the street to tell them what a day was, I would believe that a common answer would be "24 hours" (or blank stares to such an "odd" question). However, then one could ask the question "what's an hour?" This could continue on in this fashion for all...time.

This is why I would say that a better definition would be to use the creation account: A day is the change from darkness to light and back to darkness. How this helps to answer the question if time exists or not will be seen soon.

Another important concept to Christians would be that God is timeless. There is also mention that God does not change. He doesn't change his mind and keeps his promises. I would combine these two. God is timeless, not because he is outside the fabric of time, but because he is changeless. And time (A.K.A. a day) is defined by a certain amount of spacial change (light to darkness). This is why God would be timeless, because he doesn't change.

Therefore, Time wasn't created at creation but the spacial world was and the changes in this world we perceive as time.

Now back to those who have been itching to prove me wrong, with out God.

I would believe a common argument that may pop into some minds, would be mathematics. Time exists in math. And I would grant you this. However, I normally wouldn't use an unstable idea to explain another one... What do I have against math? Oh, nothing. Its just that it's exactly like time. They could both be defined as an idea used to describe the physical world, at the very least I think we could agree math is this. Math explains everything about the world yet tells us nothing. An example would be ironically similar to the "day" analogie. How long is a meter?? 100 centimeters. How long is a centimeter...?? Again I think you get the picture. Of course time and math can exist in one another, anything can exist in human imagination.

But what about what we see in the world around us? ... I can feel time passing... It took me five secs to ask this question.

In response to this I would bring up the topic of time zones and such concepts, and propose this question. If time is beyond space and is a constant continuum (by nature), how is it that we can exist in different places at different times all at the same time? What I mean to do is to ask a question that a child would ask, how can it be 9:30 here and 10:30 there...right now?

Now we could agree that time is constant and a continuum, and that times zones are a human fabrication to make life easier. However, what then would the value of this constant time be to us. If we were to say that it is 9:30 everywhere, as it should be with time being constant, the world would be thrown into a funk.

A simple example of this would be having two people look at a clock. One person is further away from the clock than the other. In the same way that if a car (car A) travels at the same speed as another car (car B), and car A is farther from point Q. Car B will reach point Q first. Back to the clock. Light travels at a constant speed, and, therefore, the man standing closer to the clock will see the time sooner. Thus he is "traveling" through time "faster". My point is, if time has power over space why is it so bound by spacial concepts?

True we call it the space-time continuum, implying that they are interconnected, but I still see no evidence of time other than the idea of it, which can be manipulated and changed to be whatever we, as humans, want it to be.

What I do see is change in space. We say we get old and things wear down, over time. However, in reality what is happening is quantum mechanics with chemistry. In other words the spacial movement of atoms, all they do is change position. I do realise, however, we could still say that change of the atomic structure happens, over time.

So there is something that has power over this matter, and I would say that for those that don't believe in God this would be "time", and for those that do believe it isn't time but God. (Just to be neutral, I know what I believe)

(If you still want more, Let me get my shovel, and meet me in "It's about time!")

Pardon me...do you have the time???

Tempus Fugit...
(Time Flies)

...about as fast as we want it to.

Movies portray this wonderfully, that first kiss, that scary moment, that...spidey sense. At certain moments in our lives time seems to freeze. It's like we could sense everything, and do anything. Do we really have the power to slow down time...? Yeah, and the Egyptians were from Mars. Of course not.

But then why do we feel this way???

Well its a matter of our perception. During these events we lose all care about anything else and focus completely on that event. For example, when we are having a good day it seems to go so quickly. This is because we are influenced by our perceptions of the world. Our observations account for our feelings, when we are able to enjoy our surroundings and observations we then pay no attention to the purple paint drying on your neighbors house. However, when we have nothing to do we pay attention to all those little things, and "time" seems to go much slower.

So we can't control time but we can control our perceptions...the point?

It cracks me up how people would: 1. like to have all the time in the world, to live forever, to reach their full potential...and 2. In order to do this they would basically have to stop or slow time.

The irony of it, and why its funny, is that if "controlling time" is a matter of perception, and it seems to speed up when we are doing things. Why, then, do we... do more? So we can fit more into our life, most likely. However, if we would slow down, and stop to smell the roses; we may actually have a life where we know what a rose smells like. Don't let time control you, and don't try to control it. Just live life, and let others live theirs.

(If that didn't put you or your brain six feet under, I could go deeper... see post "Seriously! What time is it?")