In this society time is a snake who eats you, you're off to a painful start with teeth and it's all constriction and acid thereafter until death (what's more symbolic of our growing mistrust in the afterlife than snake defecation?) Time has got it's parts: you pass through ribs, through a small intestine, through a large intestine and you slowly break down over the duration of the journey. That's how white people see time, a winding living line that you pass through, marked by stages. On the whole, it's not a trustworthy beast. In the end it will destroy you.
I'd like to try and describe other ways to know time. I've caught glimpses of them, but it can be difficult to see time in a way that is incongruous to how you've been raised, in a snake. Some people don't measure time in increments.
The passing of time is meaningless if you are aware of what's happening now. You are always here now, except for in the times when your mind is not here, now, and is instead preoccupied thinking about the snakes teeth or the snakes anus. The past and the future are essentially lost on us, but we are constantly putting our minds in those dream worlds. If you pluck your head out of fearful contemplation of the snakes sphincter and open your eyes to focus on that which occurs in this very moment; time becomes less linear and you touch omnipresence and eternity. Because, after all, every thing that has existed and will exist can only exist the present moment, and there is no other time than right now.
I'd like to try and describe other ways to know time. I've caught glimpses of them, but it can be difficult to see time in a way that is incongruous to how you've been raised, in a snake. Some people don't measure time in increments.
The passing of time is meaningless if you are aware of what's happening now. You are always here now, except for in the times when your mind is not here, now, and is instead preoccupied thinking about the snakes teeth or the snakes anus. The past and the future are essentially lost on us, but we are constantly putting our minds in those dream worlds. If you pluck your head out of fearful contemplation of the snakes sphincter and open your eyes to focus on that which occurs in this very moment; time becomes less linear and you touch omnipresence and eternity. Because, after all, every thing that has existed and will exist can only exist the present moment, and there is no other time than right now.
most convincing argument ive heard for living in the hear and now. snake defecation does have a certain feel to it that makes you want to avoid it at all cost.
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