It's astounding, time is fleeting Madness takes its toll But listen closely, not for very much longer I've got to keep control
I remember doing the Time Warp Drinking those moments when The blackness would hit me and the void would be calling Let's do the time warp again... Let's do the time warp again! It's just a jump to the left And then a step to the right With your hands on your hips You bring your knees in tight But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane, Let's do the Time Warp again! It's so dreamy, oh fantasy free me So you can't see me, no not at all In another dimension, with voyeuristic intention Well-secluded, I see all With a bit of a mind flip You're there in the time slip And nothing can ever be the same You're spaced out on sensation, like you're under sedation Let's do the Time Warp again! Well I was walking down the street just a-having a think When a snake of a guy gave me an evil wink He shook me up, he took me by surprise He had a pickup truck and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change Time meant nothing, never would again Let's do the Time Warp again! And, the immortal Roger Waters, Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way. Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way The time is gone, the song is over, Thought I'd something more to say.- I hope people investigate the new tax laws before going into private business. Things are getting downright ugly against small business right now. They are downsizing, reducing production and letting employees go left and right to get under that magic Obama $250,000 range. The only people hiring are the people benefiting from massive government spending. The new administration seems more interested in control then innovation and entrepreneurship. It might be smarter to lay low for a few months and collect that unemployment. Perhaps search for a job in Government; that seems to be our future. We are turning into France. dj On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > Your on the right track, fran, with the awareness of time falsehoods. > That's what I thought about years ago, and so began to figure out ways > to have more time for myself. Soon things started to fall into place > and I never again worried about having a job but only thought of how > to make more money in less time. The freedom is not the result of > wealth, but only because most people work at least four hours to make > what I can make in one hour or less, which translates to 3 hours of > free time for every hour that I work. Then of course it is exactly > how you say, setting priorities and eliminating wasteful ventures that > use up free time. I set my own schedules in order to take off > whenever I want, to get away, like a few hour run to the ocean or a > jaunt out to the river for a lazy day, picnic style. My wife > substitutes at a couple of schools so she can allot time for us > whenever as well. I might add that utilities have dropped a great > deal with the use of several solar panels, a 12 volt battery system > and a rain water reservoir, so the $avings also adds to the freedom. > It is not just one thing that makes it work for me but several things > working together in concert that ultimately pays off. > There is another beneficial side effect, that being the ability to > spend more time in the peaceful mode, the tranquility mode. Driving > during the stressful hours of the commuter rush are a thing of the > past and just watching the early morning news traffic report reminds > me how lucky I am. Having to shop at crowded stores and markets are > unnecessary and the list goes on. Consider it the Slipian Slant on > Gruffian philosophy. Hope things work out for everyone out there > wanting to have more time to enjoy life. > Truth is, this economy downturn is getting more and more people > interested in owning their own business and they are realizing that > they can also make twice the money in half the time. An insurance > adjuster friend lost his job a few years back and now he is making a > ton of money as a "private" insurance adjuster handling claims for > corporations and the private sector for a percentage of the settlement > or the savings, depending on which side of the claim he is working. > He can't believe that he wasted all those years working the daily > grind. This economy might just be the wake up call for many people. > I hope so because I'm sick of hearing about wage excesses for > executives, its time the people on the bottom start to realize the > value of their "time". > > > > > > On Apr 1, 4:07 pm, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: >> In the past few years I've become more and more aware of the falsehood >> in the ever-repeated phrase; I haven't got time, I didn't have the >> time, etc. We all have the same amount of time, 24 hours every day. It >> would, of course, be more honest to say; this, that, or whatever, >> isn't/wasn't important enough to me to take the time necessary to >> occupy myself with it. This need not be negative, we set priorities >> all the time. Still, a little more awareness of this fact has helped >> me to see new areas in my life where I have the freedom to rearrange >> things; to realise how much I can actually determine myself. In short, >> to accept and appreciate my own freedom and responsibility. >> >> Or, as those deep-thinking philosophers Mick and Keith put it: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLNv0NChe3Y >> >> Francis >> >> On 1 Apr., 12:40, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > We know that time exists, at least for us, here, within our awareness, >> > unless you are one of those who deem time as an illusion. However, >> > even if time did not exist, one could watch a speck of dust fall and >> > measure that interval and perceive it as time but its existence is not >> > the point. Time is like a commodity which we use, trade and measure. >> > We can spend time, waste time, bide time, utilize time, consume time >> > and even do time, among the numerous applications of time. Aside from >> > the chronological measurement of time we also have the quality of time >> > where something can happen at the right or wrong time or you could >> > have the time of your life, what the Greeks called Kairos. Then there >> > is space time, time dilation, quantized time, relativistic and >> > Newtonian time etc. Time is something we tend to view as acquiring in >> > the form of accumulated time, as in I have a lot of time right now. >> > Personally I haven't had much time lately and haven't been able to >> > respond to many reply posts, so I think now might be the right time to >> > apologize to some of you, I guess you could say, in a timely manner. >> > Ordinarily I try to avoid time as much as possible and only get caught >> > up in it when interacting with someone else who lives by time, which >> > is as of late in a coordinated project. I rarely know what time it is >> > and if asked what time I want something done I usually reply, >> > "whatever time is good for you". Because I have mostly freed myself of >> > time constraints, I can sleep till I'm no longer tired, eat when I'm >> > hungry and simply beat my own drum. This is not easy within a society >> > that operates on global synchronicity. One could measure the >> > durability of something simply by observing the outcome through the >> > test of time. I don't really find much that stands the test of time >> > these days but ultimately the earth and all its wonder certainly has, >> > and sometimes love. The question is, do we really need time? Could >> > we live without it? This is something that has been the subject of >> > many philosophical discussions since, should I say?, the beginning of >> > time. If time has a beginning shouldn't it have an end? I guess it >> > does because we seem to confine ourselves within time segments and set >> > forth various rules of time management, living by the clock, not just >> > within a day but for some, every second, perhaps every millisecond >> > counts. Oops, I'm running out of time! lol >> >> > So does time matter for you? How much are you affected by time? >> >> > Please take time to answer, if you have the time and if you don't then >> > just make time. >> >> > At least give me the time of day! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
