Time-travel
Time-travel is real - i can prove it …
Australia's Original inhabitants time-travelled from 60k year ago to the 18-19 hundreds.
Trick is: it’s not you, the human, who time-travels, so much as Time travels to you. It travelled to the Originals - It could travel to us from 60 k into some other dystopian future - via aliens/AI/what-have-you - it could happen at any tick of the clock …
Time is … only a word (Anaxagoras’s Nous is another word, a better one), a concept … that western culture has defined, metricized.
1. Clocks: tick-tock-tick-tocking their seconds, minutes, hours away for Earth spinning on its axis - makes me dizzy thinking about it … Each revolution one day long - Mon-day-i-got-Friday-on-my-mind … We set alarm clocks to it, work, knock-off, make dates, eat, watch entertainment, enforce curfews. Spinning is The Days of our Lives. But: Seven days do not a weeketh make. Weeks, months, years, centuries - the higher-ups - that’s a different force of physics entirely …
2. Calendars: 30 Days have September April June & November - all the rest have 31, excepting February … which is a weird fucking month, that should be banned. Calendars are Earth’s lap-times - calculated according to our revolvement around Sun. Which is a bloody long way. 900 million k’s - btw, don’t be late. Meanwhile, Sun is also revolving within the solar system at some nutso speed - ends up you're doing 2mil+ k - sitting on the couch. (If only we could travel that speed in a different direction … you could get to Mars in 30 minutes)
There are two types of humans:
- Spinners (trees)
- Revolvers (forests)
That’s crap. I made that up, but spectrum-wise - we have both inside us, one is more, less, or so-so, emphasized. It also fluctuates within us.
Spinning - revolving - both dizzying - are (funda)-mental input-forces acting on us. It’s like, not like, it is, going on two different, scary rides at the Amusement Park at the End of the Universe - happening at insane speeds - at the same time … perpetually … That’s gotta do ya fucking head in … surely …
It doesn’t somehow. It sends you around the bend, literally, in a circular motion, it’s all bending, but it’s also the state we blithely exist in. I’m doing it now - typing at millions of k an hour whilst spinning like a top … ! Feels slower though. Slow as a snail. I wish i could go faster … Sometimes i do have a spinning feeling when i stand up too quick, so that’s something.
How are we meant to deal with the spinning/revolving thing? Ignore it, carry on is the normal method, Understanding beyond that ... ? It will do your head in - can tell you that much - did mine.
I know what it’s not, if that’s any help …
Clocks - Calendars - are empirical measurements - they don’t capture Time’s essence .. they downstream-register it’s existence on a machine - that’s all
The Originals had a good way of looking at time: the Everywhen
Everything that has happened or will happen or could have happened … but didn’t … wells from the Everywhen … or doesn’t …
One fine day, the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (MSC), a breed-unto-themselves, welled up …
When these universes entwined, the Missionaries assumed the position of the Aliens from the Everywhen - come to Save us in the name of Jesus & The Blessed Virgin.
This is the story of that time-travelling encounter - a story of Australian culture - a story of existence …