Page 99 - Never Plead Ignorance

that Time is a Variable Perception

and that Everything is Predestined

ime is also a kind of perception resulting from conclusions we
make from our sensory experience. This perception occurs as a
result of apparently consecutive events taking place. We per-
ceive the flow of time by comparing the changes in motions we observe
one with another. We hear the door ringing, for instance. Ten minutes lat-
er it rings again. We perceive that there is an interval between the first
ring and second, and interpret this interval as "time". Alternatively, a glass
falls and breaks, coal burns and becomes ashes, we walk and find our-
selves in one corner of the room while a moment ago we were in the op-
posite corner. The time passing between these causes and effects and the
movements we observe around us gives us clues about the passage of
time. Our past experiences also provide us clues enabling us to make al-
most accurate estimates about how much time an event needs to takes
place. If we measure that it takes 10 minutes to walk from home to the
nearest bus station, we can assume that it will take approximately 10 min-
utes to walk the same distance again. Yet someone who is asked how long
it takes to walk this distance will probably have little idea if he has never
walked that distance before, except according to his experience of having
walked similar distances.
The sun rises, sets and by the time it again rises the next day, we say,
"a day passed by." When this process is repeated for 30 or 31 days, we say
this time, "A month passed." Yet, if you were asked about that month, you