M & D Time pp194--195
John Bailey
sundayjb at gmail.com
Sun Apr 19 09:00:48 CDT 2015
I've read about that guy's relationship with that group for a few
decades but an article named "The Grammar of Happiness"...
Fuck.
That's so now.
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/grammar-of-happiness-the/0/141519
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~Henry David
>> Thoreau, "Economy," Walden, 1854
>>
>> p.194
>> "purely,as who might say, dangerously, was Time that must be denied
>> its freedom to elapse"...
>>
>> There is a real-life philosopher who appears in Against the Day, one
>> McTaggart, famously known for the fullest
>> arguments made that Time does not exist.....check out one of the
>> arguments....they hinge on
>> the question of how Time's passing can be measured since, being time,
>> it cannot be measured
>> by Time....
>> As above, "Time denied its freedom to elapse."
>>
>> p. 195 "People who liv'd in quite another relation to Time.....The
>> Verbs of their language no more possessing tenses, than their nouns
>> Case-Endings".....
>>
>> In his major book, Marshall McLuhan alludes to (from anthropologists'
>> studies) and talks of pre-industrial communities that live in such a
>> situation..in eternity, so to speak....
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