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Why Do We Need Time?



Seriously? What’s the point? Who does it actually help? I got rid of watches and smashed cell phones and I’ve never been happier as a result. I don’t sit around needlessly checking the time when I’m nervous.

Seems like the only useful thing with time is having a (semi) objective reference point around which people can congregate (”come to my house around 10pm”). But it’s not even that useful because it makes you chained to certain time-frames instead of being able to allow for the natural rhythms of the day and of people coming and going socially.

Syncing up rhythms with other people, the natural world, and life itself as a process is much more valuable and useful than keeping track of time.







2 Reader Responses

  1. Ted Heistman Says:
    September 24th, 2007 at 3:56 pm

    I think we need linear time to exercise our will and accomplish stuff.

  2. Tim Boucher Says:
    September 24th, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    What do you mean by “linear time” and why do you see that as allowing one to exercise their will?

    Do you mean something different from “linear time” as opposed to “clock time”? I’m not necessarily saying that “time itself” doesn’t exist (change is evidence available to the senses that it does), but that maybe setting the rhythms of one’s life to an arbitrary “clock time” may not be the healthiest or most natural habit.



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