It feels like I’m moving back and forth, through time.
TGI Friday fam. Looks like we’ve made it to another end, of another week. Cooler days and darker skies as we rise in the late sixes. If I don’t start these mini-essays early enough We’ll be late for work. You know where we work right? At the playground. We fashion our fitness training as employment. The payoff is a more energetic, more efficient vessel. The starship Noxsoma.
We’ve recorded some tracks in the Street Studio about the perception of time and why it seems to move quickly, or drag on. No spoilers, but we did postulate a dumb-guy hypothesis. The best aspect of our “science” is that it only has to work for Us. Meaning The Trinity. However, sometimes initial ideas can serve as a stepping-stone for others.
Here’s an abstract example. Your humble vagabond philosopher has noticed that whenever we Zeta, Mu happens. Mu helps us do better Deltas. The curious reader thinks, “Never thought of it that way.” And gives Zeta a chance. They don’t get the same results, because of different environmental factors & forces. So Mu doesn’t show any measurable improvements. But Nu improves.
“What’s this, then?”
Turns out the clever reader had just about given up on Nu, because some podcaster or the other has been talking about, for example, “Nu cannot be enhanced if one has lived a certain amount of years.” As if the Nu function knows to shut down at age whatever. So the reader gets her “Nu on,” and is happy. Six months later, our intrepid reader is complimented on her Mu.
Turns out, she’d been so focused on Nu, she didn’t notice Mu. The theory being that Nu had to be activated to benefit Mu.
It’s one of those, “You can’t get there from here,” type situations. Like, if you want to visit a European capital but there are no direct flights from the US, and you must fly to Lisbon to get to Istanbul, or something like that.
We’ve had this experience when it comes to exercise. Maybe a candidate wants to do hanging leg lifts from a pull-ups bar, but they can’t grip the bar. They must first improve their grip and as the grip improves the forearms become stronger and more efficient. Not only does the grip on the bar improve, but so does the grip on the dumbbells, barbells and kettle-bells. The weights can be held in the hands longer, more reps can be done, definition improves in the arms. Vessel becomes stronger. More impressive.
There’s no substitute for time. We must put in the work.
We will be on the road in November, but it will be late November. Whenever we travel, We’re always sure to have at least ten days of Full Metal Ox Episodes prepared, posted and ready to release, automatically, so that our lovely viewers don’t miss a day. This means, because we want to keep continuity in the series, that we are going to push our monkey-bars and grav-straps segments two weeks into the future.
Why this feels like moving back and forth through time.
When mouth says a date, subconscious accepts that date as the date. Today, for example, We’ll be pushing the monkey-bars segment all the way into Friday the 13th of November. While doing the monologue, “psyche” will be on Friday the 13th. If we don’t consciously return to October 23rd, we might forget.
Legendary baseball player, Satchel Paige is quoted as asking, “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”
Not everyone on the planet is as anal about counting birthdays as Americans, and not everyone starts the age count at birth. Korea used to have a very complicated method, (to Americans at least), of calculating age. South Korea, in 2023, reformed its method of calculating age to the so-called, “international age system.” Even age is political. But that’s another pathway.
Time is one of those human “discoveries” that spark debate. Discovery? Or invention?
In our Simulatrix, we perceive time as a non-thing thing. It’s eternal and infinite, and probably shouldn’t even be called, “time.” The measurement of movement, is the, “invention” side. The tether. Because not long after humans created a way to measure the ineffable, they also found a way to bind us to that which does not exist.
And, that’s my time.
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