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Mona and Lisa’s Special Birthday
Today Lisa and Mona have reached the underappreciated milestone age of 10,000 days! Almost no one gets to experience more than three such days in their lifetime, so the occasion is worth celebrating for its uniqueness. Happy birthday!http://cdn.koreaboo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Ryeowook-10000.jpg
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i think i am around 25000.
I am planning on making it to thirty.
And then – at thirty – i will be too old to Rock-n-Roll but too young to die. Let’s hope.
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Every day and every chime
a blink of an eye in the course of time
but all together
and here forever
a moment not to be forgotten
long after time of life is rotten
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Nice!
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That’s pretty cool Jurgen. A real life cuckoo clock, that houses not birds but people figures. Is there some kind of clock work machine in there?
Time and time pieces always fascinate me. There is a wise saying: “Time is the most precious commodity in the world, more precious than all the gold and diamonds in the universe”, or something like that. Unfortunately I waste a lot of it!
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I can understand your fascination about time and Timepieces very well, Jung. But remember: time is not real. It is only an illusion, a construct we humans have devised to describe the movement of bodies. When you take the train from Vancouver to Calgary, what happens in the meantime is what we call time. You can’t grasp it, you can’t cut it, you can’t play with it. You can measure it and count it, but what does that mean for us humans? Someone who is 40 years old is twice as old as a 20 year old (provided that time really had a beginning as assumed). Does he also feel twice as old? Is he twice as smart? Or can a 20 year old person run twice as fast as a 40 year old person? No. It’s called “time flies,” but we humans are just walking. The biological processes that take place in the body do not follow the physical time process linearly, but follow our own biological clock. And if this inner, biological clock in me ticks loudly, powerfully and pleasurably, what do I care about seconds or minutes. Then time and the universe will have to wait.
PS: I also don’t believe that you have really wasted time in your life so far. You may have sometimes just done things that didn’t match your ideas of effectiveness and success or your desire for self-actualization. That’s okay. That’s life.
If we had a human sense of time perception, then perhaps this is how we would experience time:
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Jung, The carillon (“Glockenspiel”), as it is also called, has its own clockwork, such as this carillon in Munich’s city hall.
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Nice videos Jurgen. That first one with the stars moving at night is fascinating. When I look at the movement of a watch, it feels like the universe on a small scale as all the intricate parts and gears affect each other in a kind of harmony. In MLTs album Orange, the idea of the universe as a clock work that keeps things moving along, but there is something missing with just that. There is life and passion that is the Orange people need. When I look out at the vast night sky/universe the mystery, the Orange is what fascinates me. There has to be something more than just the clock work of the universe.
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David, that is pretty cool. Happy 10,000 days Mona and Lisa! As David said, the next 10,000 will come around in a few decades.
Always a good reason to celebrate a birthday however you measure it.
I won’t even try to figure out how many days old I am.
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I turned 28,000,000 minutes old yesterday. I feel them all.
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That actually makes you one of the youngsters around here, Roger: still under 20,000 days!
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Next up is 1 billion seconds, a few months before their 32nd birthday. I passed 2 billion a couple years ago.
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Lynn, I sent Mona and Lisa a 10,000-day birthday card, with a cryptic P.S. about preparing for February 22nd, 2026. If they read this thread, you’ve solved the mystery for them!
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Speaking of seconds. By the time a person lives to 50, they would have experienced 1,576,800,000 seconds, although some if it would have been in their sleep. This reminds me of a competition a few years ago where people around the world were asked to capture the beauty of a second in a 1 minute video clip and submit it for a competition. There were some beautiful submissions. Makes you realize there is beauty everywhere. In a lifetime we certainly all experience a lot of beautiful seconds, maybe too many that go unnoticed.
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