online: 16 january 2017
modified: 15 january 2017

6 january 2017 many times and rhythms...




for this note to be effective it may have to be temporal... not physical... not the tyrrany of enforced clock time but the many times and rhythms of the world... all the times imaginable... including those of this writing via language and touch keys linking the tempo of thoughts to those of eyes to brains to fingers to screen... not to mention the many uncountable times and rhythms of bodies moons vegetations heartbeat breathing days seasons years speaking walking thinking... much else...

...even this disorderly attempt at describing the complexity of 'everything that changes' leaves me breathless... and out of my depth... reaching for ideas and examples beyond the capacity of anyone to list completely or to enumerate... let alone describe or understand...

...thinking again of the word temporal i realise that in theology things temporal are contrasted with things spiritual... whereas in physical science and algebra temporal is taken to mean a dimension... not in space (letters xyz) but in time (letter t )...

...and that it may be timely to think of time and thought and even science as supernatural!





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