Shank Godley Butcher
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1/6/2008 7:29:59 AM
I think #2 - Time Travel Made Easy
Life Expectancy As Proof Of Time Travel
Death is not a constant, but you can rely - roughly - on the regularity of most other common signposts of existence. We are born, then nurtured until deemed ready for independence, as most other animals on this planet. At a certain time we are told by our bodies to procreate and keep the evolutionary ball rolling. Again, our body gives us a signal to slow down and then to completely stop.
These signposts are common during every human's journey from birth to death. Is our species' life expectancy long? In comparison to a pet dog it seems generous, but it is dwarfed by the lifetime of a tree, which lives in the shadows of a mountain's expectancy, which can't but feel humbled by the millions of years afforded by our earth, which completely relies on the sun surviving the longest of all. So, if everything has a life expectancy - remembering that astronomers have been courageous enough to measure the sun's lifetime - it may be time to question their relationship with what we call ‘time’ because each and everyone one of the objects - animate or inanimate - on this planet has its own 'signposts' of existence.
Animals have a similar path to ourselves, but even a brick wall, a bottle, the keyboard I'm typing on: they are all created, they all age and they all die. So, does a dog really live a shorter life than a human? It appears to have a similar life when put into context. What if dogs were simply living faster than us? They may be subject to the laws of nature; oxygen, gravity etc but what if they were simply living a more intense existence? I believe all things exist in differing times. It's a common notion to believe in different planes of existence; it’s possible that this world with its entire contents exists elsewhere in another dimension, separated from its siblings only by time.
We also like to fantasize about controlling time and traveling through it. But the reality is that different dimensions and time travel exist right before our eyes. In animals is the clearest example. If they died at their physical peak, it would disprove my theory, but since they run the course of a life that is similar to ours - because they expire just as we do - they become an illustration of the point. Even their personalities - as it is with humans - reveal their age. A dog has a childhood, it becomes a cheeky teenager, it becomes concerned with territory, it learns to be aggressive when it needs to, it finds objects of desire, it fucks, it grows weaker, it becomes less agile, it gives in to a lack of energy, it learns to relax, it dies.
So the dog runs its full course of existence. Why should it live any less than us? If we believe that all this (the world) came from one thing - whether it be a deity or a cosmic spark - why did that one thing deem a dog unworthy of the same amount of life as a human? My answer: it didn't. It made everything equal - from the mosquito to the blue whale - but made them a completely different species; with not only a different physical relationship to its fellow beings, but also a completely different plane of existence; its own time.
So when we take the dog for a walk, or pat it, or ask it to fetch a stick, we are traveling into another dimension. The pet seems fast and - to it - we seem very slow. Two times/dimensions are overlapping. We look at an old tree and nothing ever seems to change but if we could live in the same time as that tree, life would be as it is now. A year may show a small sign of aging, a decade would reveal that we had grown or become stronger or aged and become weaker. But because we are moving in a different dimension to the tree, we can only hope to notice its most rapid transformations: birth, infancy, death. Just like us, the most significant years of the tree's life will show little structural or physical change.
Why does everything have an expiry date, from a fly all the way through the chain of command to the sun? Beca
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