tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post8839854854805064703..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: ClocksCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-43455607378432653772014-08-28T08:31:44.329-07:002014-08-28T08:31:44.329-07:00Hi – It’s good to read such interesting stuff on t...Hi – It’s good to read such interesting stuff on the Internet as I have been able to discover here. I agree with much of what is written here and I’ll be coming back to this website again.<br />Thanks again for posting such great reading material!! To get new information visit here <br /><a href="http://www.tnalite.com.au/Biometric-Timeclocks.html" rel="nofollow">biometric time clocks</a><br />Biometric641https://www.blogger.com/profile/10845985700987062276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-38481182877870942932011-04-21T09:32:41.144-07:002011-04-21T09:32:41.144-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-85453901903513410792011-04-20T17:22:08.557-07:002011-04-20T17:22:08.557-07:00Dear Mr. Faville:
You have hit upon one of my fav...Dear Mr. Faville:<br /><br />You have hit upon one of my favorite topics. If you will indulge me, following are four poems on the subject that I am hoping you and your readers might enjoy.<br /><br />GBF<br /><br /><br /><br />Time<br /><br />Time once measured<br />by sun and moon<br />and the balance of the days,<br />the slipping of each<br />from dark to dark,<br />keeping all in order,<br /><br />now measured by fleet<br />seconds and hours,<br />the ticking of the clock,<br />moving ever faster between<br />full and final quarter,<br />need and obligation,<br />as we slip from sparse<br />to stark.<br /><br />Copyright 2009 – Tall Grass & High Waves, Gary B. Fitzgerald<br /><br /><br /><br />Time<br /><br />So time, old friend,<br />such times we've had…<br />fast and slow,<br />good and bad. I remember<br />that time in school<br />when I thought the day<br />would never end.<br />I remember my first date<br />when you just flew away.<br />So many songs and poems <br />written about you.<br />You’re famous! But we were<br />close and personal,<br />you and I. Remember?<br />You aided me.<br />You wounded me.<br />You were my saviour,<br />as often my betrayer.<br />So time, old friend,<br />I never thought I'd see the day,<br />after all that we've<br />been through together,<br />that you would finally sit down<br />and tally, then look up at me and say<br />time to pay.<br /><br />Copyright 2008 – HARDWOOD-77 Poems, Gary B. Fitzgerald<br /><br /><br />Time<br /><br />“When I was a boy, time didn’t seem so fast.<br />You could savor the moment. Things seemed to last.<br />School days never ended but summer took forever,<br />playing games or lazy fishing , waiting for dinner.<br />But now that I’m older it seems like time’s passed<br />before I even spent it, and now that I consider it,<br />I think it’s going even faster.”<br /><br />I believe this is true, I replied.<br />I think Einstein even proved it. Consider this:<br />if the gravity at a black hole slows time,<br />then it’s lack must surely speed it.<br />So if gravity weakens as the Universe expands,<br />then wouldn’t time be going faster?<br /><br />Likewise, Einstein’s identical twins:<br />if one travels for an hour near the speed of light<br />when he returns in an hour he’ll find his brother<br />is now twenty years older.<br />So if high velocity shrinks time,<br />then its decrease must surely stretch it.<br />If the expansion of the Universe is slowing,<br />and gravity decreasing, if velocity is waning,<br />then wouldn’t time be going ever faster?<br /><br />But don’t take it from me…take it from you.<br />Reconsider your time when you’re seventy-two.<br /><br />Copyright 2010 – Ponds and Lawns – New and Corrected Poems, Gary B. Fitzgerald<br /><br /><br /><br />The Antiques Store<br /><br />Time is hard to comprehend<br />(as is anything without end)<br /><br />but seeing this rusted old cookie can<br />I wonder how many grubby little fingers<br />that once snatched chocolate chips<br />and fresh pecans now hang on the brown,<br />paper-skinned hands of old men.<br /><br />This small wooden horse now bare<br />of even paint anymore, whose happy young<br />rider died of old age forty years ago,<br />made me realize that my mother’s<br />cookie cans, my grandmother’s rocking chair,<br />even my own once precious toys,<br />might be in stores for sale somewhere.<br /><br />I realized that time is hard to comprehend.<br />(as is anything with an end)<br /><br />Copyright 2008 – HARDWOOD-77 Poems, Gary B. FitzgeraldGary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12096685990751580031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-83367485509498763162011-04-20T08:30:23.523-07:002011-04-20T08:30:23.523-07:00of course UHAUL know who's clock this one (of ...of course UHAUL know who's clock this one (of his many) is:<br /><br />http://ih0.redbubble.net/work.142134.12.flat,550x550,075,f.two-dali-clocks.jpg<br />and<br /><br />if it wasn't for my Whole Life Insurance Policy agent sending me a birthday card every year since 1962 I wouldn't know what time it is... or care.Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-26176496801350197012011-04-20T06:17:09.564-07:002011-04-20T06:17:09.564-07:00Sounds somewhat Spinoza-ish, Sir F.--granted deter...Sounds somewhat Spinoza-ish, Sir F.--granted determinism (even in poetic form) does not lack a certain plausibility, certainly in regard to the "natural world", and most human actions, for that matter. Yet at a certain point (ie rational thinking, at least with sane humans...a rarity) we humbly dissent from strict determinism. Perhaps read some <a href="http://contingenciesblog.blogspot.com/search?q=bricmont" rel="nofollow">Bricmont</a> regarding this issue, that is, assuming you can handle some tweaking of yr cognitive polarities .Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.com