Fundamental Truth, This Time . . .
Apocalyptic Meeting
Does the future come toward us?
Or:
Do we go into the the future?
Or Both . . .
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 10:27 AM
14 comments
Gypsy Scholar
Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Friday, December 21, 2018
Does the future come toward us?
Or:
Do we go into the the future?
Or Both . . .
About Me
- Name: Horace Jeffery Hodges
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
14 Comments:
Neither?
Although time is something we describe with prepositions(to, at, by, on, about, before, near, will, until, near, during, after...) or with helping verbs (will, had, were), this does not mean that a certain time is located *somewhere* or located in the same way that something is located in space or in a spatial relation to something else.
(Erm, I think...)
Maybe future of the 666 Surreal-Blasphemous and turning to the future Surrealmageddon! *Bones*
It's certainly surreal.
Jeffery Hodges
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So, time is just a linear series of singularities.
Jeffery Hodges
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"So, time is just a linear series of singularities."
As a "metaphysical" phenomenon, time is an illusory grammatical illusion.
Grammatically, time is something we "mention in passing" in order to coordinate our activities, tell stories, and/or distinguish things we do, see, say, or have read/heard of.
I blogged your blog, again.
I tried to link it, but that would not work.
https://carterkaplan.blogspot.com/2018/12/so-time-is-just-linear-series-of.html
Let me try:
Carter Kaplan
Jeffery Hodges
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I meant to use a question mark when I first wrote the statement:
"So, time is just a linear series of singularities?"
I was thinking of a "singularity" as a useful fiction.
Jeffery Hodges
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Thanks, and I agree.
I'll edit my blog post, and add a question mark.
I once spoke with my high school math teacher about the infinite density of a black hole. He noted that this was just an artifact of the mathematics used.
Jeffery Hodges
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