Time
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Time is the axis along which events take place.
This series of snapshots, taken over a 40-day period in 2014 and compiled into a stabilized GIF, shows how a flower—like us—can change dramatically as it grows. (Timelapse by Tomas Mariancik, CC BY-SA 3.0)
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At a time when bandits are strong, kings are weak…
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Bhikkhus, there are these four Dhamma factors, primal, of long standing, traditional, ancient…
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Furtwängler’s Bach is no smug or mindless adaptation of Bach to the style of Wagner. It is a reaffirmation of the presence of Bach in Wagner and the simultaneous, reciprocal presence of Wagner in Bach.
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Picture the splash of a pebble falling into pond water, but on a planetary scale.
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Time is now currency: it is not passed, but spent.
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Grown-ups generally treat children with more kindness and compassion than they treat adults. This naturally, but erroneously, leads people to imagine that the world was nicer when they were young.
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We find the claim that time is not real in both Western and Eastern philosophical traditions and, more recently, in contemporary physics. Yet it seems unlikely that when McTaggart, Godel, Barbour, and Dzogchen practitioners say that there is no time, they are denying the existence of the same thing. This essay is an attempt to set out a taxonomy of different views about what it takes for there to be time and, alongside that, a taxonomy of views about whether or not there is time.
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For the time being stand on top of the highest peak.
For the time being proceed along the bottom of the deepest ocean.
For the time being three heads and eight arms.
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People change when they think others are changing, but people misperceive others’ changes.
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The biggest danger we face today isn’t that industrial civilization will choke on its own exhaust or that democracy will crumble or that AI will rise up and overthrow us all. It’s that we will cease believing in the one force that raised humanity out of tens of thousands of years of general misery: the very idea of progress.
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Besides serving as the condition for the possible arising of craving, feeling tone is also part of name-and-form. Exploring these two contexts helps to put dependent arising into temporal perspective.
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most waking hours are spent on activities intended to achieve direct outcomes for human minds and bodies (9.4 hours per day), while 3.4 h/d are spent modifying our inhabited environments and the world beyond. 2.1 h/d are devoted to organizing social processes and transportation.
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… what does it say about our society that it seems to generate an extremely limited demand for talented poet-musicians, but an apparently infinite demand for specialists in corporate law?
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We follow archaeological research and employ skeletal records of women’s and men’s health from 139 archaeological sites in Europe dating back, on average, to about 1200 AD to construct a site-level indicator of historical bias in favor of one gender over the other using dental linear enamel hypoplasias. This historical measure of gender bias significantly predicts contemporary gender attitudes, despite the monumental socioeconomic and political changes that have taken place since.
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Of course, it is worthy and noble to be passionate about people and causes you care about. It’s also easy to fall into the trap of attempting too much in the pursuit of trying to have it all.
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But historical scholarship did more than substantiate a single pivotal argument. It framed the majority’s broader understanding of marriage as an evolving institution…
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When the next generation starts its career, the stocks have further declined, but it is the stocks at that time that serve as a new baseline. The result obviously is a gradual shift of the baseline, a gradual accommodation of the creeping disappearance of resource species, and inappropriate reference points for evaluating economic losses resulting from overfishing, or for identifying targets for rehabilitation
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For the likes of you, the qualities of the path
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A series of short, well-produced educational videos giving a brief introduction to world history.
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[Hunter-gatherers] considered themselves affluent and enjoyed a degree of affluence as a result of that. Yet we seem to be trapped in this cycle of ever pursuing more and greater growth, greater wealth, greater anything. It seems that our aspirations now grow endlessly.
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We’re living in a time-travel golden age. But why? What happened to time?
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They want to make clear that other ways of thinking about humanity that are based on conceptions of biological difference and hierarchy are wrong.
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shamans endowed with powers to cure the sick, predict right times of planting and harvest, and invoke the souls of ancestors to guide the deceased to the afterlife.
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My first thought was, ‘Wow, I’m going to view history and then get wiped off the map.’
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It’s not that complex—the idea of agriculture. But because the brain of most animals is not particularly good at linking cause and effect across large periods of time, agriculture wasn’t invented by other animals. So this ability to create the future, this ability to engage in what we call mental time travel, is really, in many ways, the defining cognitive signature of our species.
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I felt for the first time this is what I was supposed to be doing.
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Has humanity ever really learned from the past and been able to apply the lessons?
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It turns out however that I was deeply
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Windowless now, roofless, tucked
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Is it difficult to get away from it all once you’ve had a child?
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Then happiness became an egg that broke…
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To wake when all is possible
before the agitations of the day
have gripped youTo come to the kitchen
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Sunday morning, the wind has washed our minds,
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A frog leaps out across the lawn,
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O New Day, I get to build the boat!
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