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Jack Downey ~ The Galloping Geezer

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""No Time , No Time" said the Mad Hatter while dipping his watch in his tea." (from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland)



Time was designed by ancient man to provide reference frames for major changes in weather cycles, animal migration and when fruit and berries could be harvested. The problem with some humans is that they have to divide everything into little bits to confuse regular folks. Migratory birds and animals have a clock that tells them go north or south with the seasons to escape harsh conditions that are approaching. Bushes and trees respond to sun and weather changes. Humans defy this simple method of existence by building shelters and developing garments that allow existence in areas that defy reason. I blame the development of a time system for taking all the fun out of life.

I look back on my relatively long life and curse those ancient shifty Shamans that came up with the idea of TIME. Time has caused us nothing but grief and worry. It is the enemy of every human relationship. It destroys friendships. In fact, every enjoyment comes to an end by the hands on a clock. If we did not have clocks, we could have parties until we run out of wine and food, enjoying ourselves, dancing until we fall down in exhaustion (or get married).

Being a kid was great! One played from sun up to sun down and responded only to the call for lunch. This gentle happiness continued until someone invented time. One was then required to learn the 'big hand, little hand' positions. Once time was established, schools and churches came into being. Those who established these disciplines used a different, and far slower, clock. I recall watching their clock drag on and on. As soon as I was released from these boring places, the clock sped up and fun time seemed to melt like butter on a hot pancake. Weekends and holidays disappeared like garlic sausage at a Ukrainian wedding. I never found a way to get a fast clock into church or school or a slow clock into holiday time. Clocks are ancient, diabolical, life-threatening devices that should be banned in a modern culture. As any felon knows, 'when you spend time you don't get any change.'

Teenage life is severely effected by time. 'Remember your teen romances? They were perfect, sweet and carefree, until parents forced time curfews on you. I hated those parents and was a REBEL with a CAUSE because of time restraints. Not one girl's parents realized how they forced a young couple to cling to each other in dread of the movement of that horrible device that ticked away our joy. What could happen on the far side of curfew that couldn't happen on the short side? I do not blame them for not trusting me, but I can assure them they could trust their daughters!


To the ruination of all fun and the destruction of carefree attitudes, there were water clocks, candle clocks, Sun dials, and a huge assortment of mechanical clocks. The churches soon learned how to control humane movement and enterprise by putting a large clock in the steeple, from then on we were slaves. My watch is on my wrist and can call me, count laps I never run, and tell me date and time in a series of countries I am not in. This small gadget controls my life and decides when I work, eat, play, and go from one place to another. Almost every form I will ever fill out requires some kind of time stamp. There is no escape and things are getting tighter and tighter.

Something that always has bothered me is being late for work. The boss remembers every time you're late and can punish, and even legally terminate, you for being tardy. If you stop work dead on time you are a "clock-watcher" and considered "unreliable" or not a good team player. If you voluntarily work past quitting time, that is "what is expected of a good employee." Since time is money (now we have business along side the schools and churches flogging us with the whip of time), bosses only remember the money your time costs the company (if you are late or leave early), but tend to forget the money you give the company in extra time, lest they be obliged to pay you in kind.

Clocks are so dominant in our lives that Science has joined the Forces of Evil Time Counters with clocks so accurate that they can account for nano-seconds. Here is a example of a cesium clock so accurate the mind boggles.

I defy you to tell me if you have ever seen a rooster with a wristwatch, a salmon with a water clock, or a church mouse with a candle clock. Show me a Canada goose with a Cesium laser clock. They all seem to lead the same carefree lives they have had throughout history without this soul-destroying gadgetry.

Clocks have ruined the peace and tranquillity of the human race. In fact, time has become a driving force for human effort. We waste time, spend time, accumulate time, provide time, find time and lose time. As the churches, schools, and businesses have already enslaved gentle folk like you and I, there is only one other group needed to completely control us - the government!

Oh yes, they are in the game to tax our time and, worse yet, waste and limit our time.

It seems to me, from my skewed point of view, that time should at least be reversed. We as families and citizens of our great country need more time to enjoy each other's and Canada's beauty.



Here is the only reference to time I've seen that makes sense to me and it applies to our highways:
Slow down! It is better to be late than dead on time!

Here is a another history of time click here

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Here is how bad time accounting has become Our concept of a year is based on the earth's motion around the sun. The time from one fixed point, such as a solstice or equinox, to the next is called a tropical year. Its length is currently about 365.242190 days, but it varies. Around 1900 its length was about 365.242196 days, and around 2100 it will be about 365.242184 days.



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