Time

"Time has been defined as the continuum in which events occur in succession from the past to the present and on to the future" (wikipedia.org). Looking at time from a religious standpoint it can be defined "as a medium for the passage of predestined events" (wikipedia.org). I find this interesting because part of my work is focusing on meditation and other practices relating to Eastern religions.

There is an appointed time (zman) for everything. And there is a time (’êth) for every event under heaven–
A time (’êth) to give birth, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to uproot what is planted.
A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to tear down, and a time to build up.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance.
A time to throw stones, and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace, and a time to shun embracing.
A time to search, and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep, and a time to throw away.
A time to tear apart, and a time to sew together; A time to be silent, and a time to speak.
A time to love, and a time to hate; A time for war, and a time for peace. – Ecclesiastes 3:1–8

I've been thinking about how time relates to the work I'm making this semester. For one, I thought it would be interesting to document my journeys over a period of time. Or to document everything that happens during my meditations, which could be an hour or more.

Time as "unreal"

"In 5th century BC Greece, Antiphon the Sophist, in a fragment preserved from his chief work On Truth held that: "Time is not a reality (hypostasis), but a concept (noêma) or a measure (metron)." Parmenides went further, maintaining that time, motion, and change were illusions, leading to the paradoxes of his follower Zeno.^[35] Time as illusion is also a common theme in Buddhist thought,^[36] and some modern philosophers have carried on with this theme. J. M. E. McTaggart's 1908 The Unreality of Time, for example, argues that time is unreal (see also The flow of time).
However, these arguments often center around what it means for something to be "real". Modern physicists generally consider time to be as "real" as space, though others such as Julian Barbour in his book The End of Time, argue that quantum equations of the universe take their true form when expressed in the timeless configuration spacerealm containing every possible "Now" or momentary configuration of the universe, which he terms 'platonia'" (wikipedia.org).

Strauss, D.F.M. "Do We Really Comprehend Time?" South African Journal of Philosophy 29.2 (2010): 167-77. Print.