What if we forgot that time existed? Don't you think we'd all lead a much better stress free life?

[thegreenyogi]

[OneViewpoint]

Not really. Time, and time keeping devices are one of the linchpins of civilization. It's what allows people to cooperate and coordinate their actions to get stuff done together they could never achieve alone. The Global Positioning System (GPS) depends on extremely precise clocks to determine the position of cars, aircraft, and ships so that bad things don't happen. A lot of stuff can be automated because we can use clocks to control it.

But all that aside, this universe would be a very different place without spacetime. And spacetime exists whether we choose to measure it or not independent of how we measure it.

So as much as we like to complain about the clock and whine about not having enough time, we need measurement devices (clocks).

What I think we need to be better at is managing our time, prioritizing things in our life, saying NO once in a while, and being OK with letting some things just fall off the table once in a while. It's OK to let stuff break sometimes. Relax, the sun will come up tomorrow.

[Tarifa]

We can only do that during holidays. That's precisely why we are able to relax. We just need to know when the sun has risen over the hoziron and when it will set again. Our body will signal when it's time to eat or drink.

The last day of our holidays, we'll be thinking about the routine that inevitably comes when our alarm clock goes off the next day.

So, in theory it's great to think of a timeless, stressless life. It's doesn't work in our everyday lives full of obligations and appointments.

[WellBye]

I don't even remember that time exists anyway, I'll only remember it exists and so precious when I’m at someone's funeral, but I'll forget it again as soon as I back home. I don't think other people are any different than me.

[wynning]

Wouldn't that make us forget our mortality?

[wynn-ing]

Deepest shit you've ever said god damn

[wynning]

I think there’s deeper shit in your toilet might want to check dear shitser

[HawkPerception]

The fact that our time is limited on the planet means that there's an urgency to get things done now because you don't always have tomorrow. However, if people live forever, it also means they can scale infinitely in business and skills, so the longer you postpone things in your life, the farther someone else will get ahead of you to the point you may never catch up. And those born before you would have quite an advantage.

I think there would still be stresses in life, but they would be fundamentally different than they are now.

[Staximus]

Deepak Chopra wrote a book about this concept that made him rich and famous called "Ageless Body Timeless Mind". It's about how the concept of time adds stress to your life and some other stuff. He was a doctor in India and then became a new age health guru after he got into transcendental meditation. I haven't read it since the 90's, I should read it again. There's a doctor named Robert Sapolsky who has done research on stress, health, and aging but I haven't read any of his stuff yet. He sued Deepak Chopra for plagiarism haha.

Johns Hopkins University (one of the top medical universities in the US) did a ten year research project on the stress caused by the concept of time and living by the clock. Their conclusion was that many people lose 20 years of their lifespan just from the stress caused by constantly worrying about time.

[molonski2]

Well , time does create a lot a stress , I try and live a very much " Sabai Sabai " lifestyle for the most part , but that clock is a kind of " necessary evil " I think , but the less stress you endure , the longer you will live no doubt.

[MrChinaski]

The third law of thermodynamics holds regardless of whether or not you remember it.

[MrChinaski]

It sounds flippant. But it is what defines the direction of time.

[thegreenyogi]

Of course. I'm always very interested in anything you have to say on the topic.

[Sparklight]

@bddddd relativity I suppose. LOL!

[MrChinaski]

@Sparklight No, it is the law of increasing entropy (disorder). You can't unscramble an egg ... and if you even try you create more disorder somewhere else in the universe.

[Sparklight]

@bddddd ok. Thanks. That is does. I learned something there. Thanks.

[MrChinaski]

@Sparklight My pleasure.

[BDRick]

entirely so. We would all be care-free in that sense and literally live day-by-day. This is some psychedelic stuff that it sounds like I think when I get high lol

... peace, love, and happiness man

[Sparklight]

Ah. No doubt about it. Didn't Einstein say something like that.

[NicholasRedone]

@thegreenyogi isn't that describing the sense of time in what some religions would call the afterlife or even another dimension? 😂🤣

[Miristheiss]

Time?

What are you talking about? Never heard of it.

[fish5505_87]

Maybe if we could, the whole sun rising and setting would throw me off! I love the question!

[thegreenyogi]

I'm happy to hear you like this question.

[ilistengood]

Maybe, but nature abhors a vacuum, its my humble opinion that if you replace time with naturebwill find another timeframe, get it , lol

[ilistengood]

I apologise my phones correcting. y words for some reason

[Shiprex]

No. It would mean organising anything would be so much more difficult BUT having it by calendars instead of watches may be a thing to consider.

[exitseven]

yes , up until we get fired, forget to pay the mortgage and fail to buy my wife a gift.

[WonderingManII]

We wouldn't get anything done, cause we wouldn't know when we needed to get done by.

[Godihateyou]

No. Value is in scarcity. If people realized how little time they had they wouldn't spend 40 hours a week watching television and rotting their brains.

[msg321]

It sounds like good at first but in a long term it won't be good. This would make the life aimless and meaningless.

[msc545]

Well not me. I would be late for everything...

[Luopio27]

If we were immortal, I don know would it be better or for worst!

[Panthero80]

Yes, even when am out camping or hiking, I seem to look at my watch, so I am not let for class, work, an appointment, etc.

[Jeff51]

It's to bad we work most of our lives and we worry about time after retirement

[Anonymous]

Maybe some people would, but I'm not so sure.

[jazzy34]

That’s impossible to imagine, I’m afraid.

[FunkyMonkee]

How can time NOT exist?

[DrPepper12]

I'm too uptight. I NEED time to keep the pace.

[Dongie]

Yeah, but our jobs would suffer.