Time
The division (and harmony) of time — the calendar as the singular achievement of Nature and Human Civilization working together, and a thing worth worshipping. INTRODUCTION There is a singular achievement — one of Nature and Human Civilization working together. We couldn’t have done it alone. Either of us. Well… technically it always existed in Nature, and we humans just came along and observed it. Discovered it, if you will. As we tend to do, we will say that we human people “invented” it. But Nature’s people — plants and animals and weather and the elements — have been using it since day one. What is it? It is the calendar. It is so monumental that most of us take it for granted, every day. But it is something to believe in, and, in a sense, to worship. It is the truest and most natural thing that we have. DETAILS We might re-word it as: the division (and harmony) of time. It has existed since the beginning of time? Well. Actually no. Cosmic time has no division, and therefore,...