The Vortex of Time
Time and tide, it is said, wait for no man. Unlike Aristotle's disastrous assertion that the Earth was the center of the universe, wrongly attributed to European Monasticism (come now, credit where credit is due, it was the ancients all the time, the ones you thought were so enlightened), the philosophical view of time and tide is accurate to a degree.
All objects once emerging from a state of finality so that they might be thought of a being "new", as in a manufactured object that rolls off the assembly line begins to become subject to something it's component matter was subject to previously: the stress of cosmic tide.
This is one of the factors in decomposition of organic forms. The saying that no man is an island is also applicable here as well, for the cosmic tide is the sum of all it's
constituents. Every astral body in the cosmos is it's own ocean, the composite of which, when formed with the sum of all other bodies becomes the cosmic tide, always variant,
always active.
And it is that very activity, in all it's fierceness, which I have come to label
the vortex of time. The idealism here is that, supposedly, if one can understand or at least respect the dangers of the vortex of time to a higher degree, then one can better
weather or last out the ravages of the cosmic tide.
We can go a bit further to suppose that there must consequently be more than one sort of measurement of time, in the instance of this sentence meaning that the
instrumentation and the measurements taken are far greater than the concept of chronological time had in the middle ages. Here comes another
label of mine, the concept of tempo dynamics.
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