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To: nihil who wrote (43470)	12/11/1999 1:46:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Of course time as we know it has everything to do with spinning planets. We evolved as organisms in this environment of regular diurnal variation. It is a part of our evolution. Something that we have adapted to. Think we would sleep if there was no such regular variability that enforced darkness on everything at once. If all the animals about never slept because it was always light think your ancestors would ever have survived a nap? The observation of Aries is just a measure of a longer time cycle. We observe the celestial variation. But it is wholly arbitrary. It is an artifice we use to describe longer periods of time. It is a conceptual convenience. Surely time does pass regardless of anything. But what if you remove these experiential variations? Ever wonder what our concept of time would be if we evolved with the sun always overhead in perpetual noon with no other celestial reference. In addition to tan lines, I am sure that we would still have "discovered" time, but our experience of it I wager, and perhaps even our very way of thinking about the relationship of the past, the present and the future would likely be quite different. That's why I think this January 1st thing is merely numeral mysticism. I believe the Mayas had something like a 768 year cycle. When their calendar tripped, it was a big dang deal. Because I think in their mythology it was the beginning of a whole new era. That was likely a lot more intense and fear provoking than our feeble observances will be in a few weeks. After all what is there besides fear from sloppy programming to mark the passage of our new year to triple 0's?