The Numbers Game: Agism

Aren't you sick and tired of "friends" asking "How old are you?" I am.




 



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If we are to get out of this moral and spiritual cesspool we've gotten ourselves into, we are going to have to re-form our images of ourselves and our perceptions of others. We have to recognize the reality of who we are as individuals and as members of a common cosmos.We have to acknowledge what we are as ephemeral temporal material beings subject to the ravages of time and the wear and tear of simply living. We have to accept that what we are in this moment is completely other than what we will be in the next moment. Even as you read these words, you are irreversibly changing; there's no turning back.



 

As Heraclites taught several 25 centuries ago, "panta rhea", everything is in a flux. More clearly stated: You can never step into the same river twice. Why? Because "panta rhea," it's constantly moving along, the water you stepped into a moment ago is no longer there; new water has taken its place. That's why we call Time metaphorically a river, although Time itself is a metaphor, because it's constantly flowing, every instant is different from the last.

In the maladapted western concept of linear time, most of you are thinking of moving along a linear path running from your conception in a moment of sexual ecstasy to your final moments and the moment of your death. Along that linear path called life you place markers called years and plot your journey by the number of these markers you pass. Some of you will pass just a few and then end your journey; others will pass many of them before their journey comes to an end. Your reality is that you are compelled to accept that you have a beginning and an end, just as all line segments, all paths, all journeys. They have a beginning and an end. If you think about this you become confused and anxious so you stop thinking about it and go into denial. You're being pursued. You can run. You can't hide.

[caption id="attachment_11330" align="aligncenter" width="268"] You can run but you can't hide.[/caption]

When we think in terms of linear time, it's impossible to escape the raw anxiety that with every step we take, we move closer to an end, to oblivion. Linear time forces us to attempt to do as much as possible in the time allotted and in the time remaining. With each step we approach that mysterious gate, beyond which lies the unknown.

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