One of the laws of nature that has always bothered me is that light travels faster than sound. Even light travels to our eyes after the event has actually happened. As a result of these laws, humans are condemned to live eternally in a sort of momentary past. Every event that we perceive has already happened. What we hear is heard moments after it has been spoken or sounded. Just as everything we perceive relies on light in order for us to recognise it. Thus, we live in the past, even if that past has only just happened miliseconds before.
I believe that, if we are restricted to living in a constant state of what has already happened, that humans, in a way, are prisoners to fate. The belief in predestination, while not a scientific belief, actually juxtaposes quite nicely with the idea that we live in the past; which is a belief that can be supported with physics. Also, it becomes increasingly difficult to live according to Kairos if everything we do is nearly predetermined. I am not really entirely sure where Chronos falls in all of this. Time, to me, is a single moment that is eternally repeated. In my eyes, we are living in the same age as the ancient civilisations of Greece and Egypt: cultures that have died long ago in the eyes of those that live according to Chronos.
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