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Time is Money

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That well known quote by Benjamin Franklin in his 1748 essay “Advice to a Young Tradesman”.

More for a business minded person in that context clearly, trying to convey that time is a valuable resource, which converts to monetary value in that case and then used to decide if you are successful in that endeavour.

In many cases, we are conditioned to believe that money means so much in life, affords a certain style of life and opportunities, and therefore money becomes the driver of life. As sad as that is, it’s where we are. I have written many articles already about Cash, and how is it used for purpose as a tool of control, and even though people fight to save it over digital, it is still part of the play.

And now the costs of living are going up even further with their quest of Tightening the Screw on everyone as much as they can, well, not quite everyone. Because with one hand they take away from over here, and with the other hand they give it to someone over there. And money is the crux of it all, because if they couldn’t threaten you with fines, or price you out of everything, then there would be a more even playing field. But cheaters don’t want an even playing field, they don’t want a fair fight or for the ‘best man’ to win.

But what I find quite odd about it all, is that it is not ‘real’ as such. I know I can hold it physically, and it exists in our materially created world, but so does the game of Monopoly, or any other game. I can play it and ‘buy’ into the illusion of it being real for the duration of said game time. And then walk away when it’s over and forget about the banker, the properties, the pieces, the money and so on. But in the scaled-up version of it in society, we aren’t allowed to just walk away, being kept there by the bankers for a never-ending game that keeps you coming back every day. To play again and again until I guess they decide to shut it down or as in the game version occasionally where someone just loses it and flips the board.

So, to keep you playing, everything becomes about money. Yet I have mentioned before in What We Leave Behind, about it being a very rare thing to see someone’s lifetime earnings on their gravestone. How much money you made is of no concern once you are no longer here. But time, that is something that gets noted, from start to finish, our journey of Time. Which, ironically, is also an illusion, but one we work well with in this three-dimensional construct and seems necessary.

But while we are here, it appears to be a problem for many who are obsessed with money and the control it brings. For those who have too much, they want to control the direction of society and people in it. For those with too little, they are often forced to become obsessive about it, just to get by and survive. And others who have just enough, possibly spend time fearing and worrying about it, with it being used for threats or just generally weaponised.

It does appear, though there is another group now, who seem to lack monetary comprehension, or that it equates to time. The ones who get what they call ‘freebies and handouts’. And to them, I guess they are, but on the other side of that freebie, is often someone else’s time. Of which they indeed might not give two hoots about, harvesting people’s time and money from them, pimping off them. And clearly, many don’t have a problem with that to keep doing it, wanting to be a dependent. Facilitated by those who also want you to be dependent on the system and its mechanisms. Because if we were able to use our time wisely instead of spending our time making money, which we then spend, then things could be very different. Until then, make every second and every penny count…

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Somewhere in Time

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All of the following films mostly are mentioned in my article Timing, and The Machine of Time, but that was looking at the psychological aspect of it, partly at the mechanism and the themes of the films. This one is more for the mechanics behind the process and the method of ‘travel’ in each of them.

Bill and Ted – the ‘phone box’ being their time machine, dialling into the century you would like to go to, using technology to manipulate the streams of time.

Doctor Who – also with a phone box of sorts, but not machine. A living ship no less, which reminds of that random show a few years ago called Farscape, with a living ship.

Quantum leap – Al with his little keypad type thing called Ziggy, calculating the chances, the mission, the next leap. And the energy of Same would be transposed somewhere else, in someone else and in some other time. Random, but with purpose.

The Time Machine – a contraption to take the seated occupant to the future or the past. Being a witness and spectator to it rising and falling around you until you reach your destination.

Back to the Future – a car was used for this one, and was a great watch in its ‘time’. With extra hints at things that can happen when you meddle with time.

Harry Potter 3 – there was a watch, fitting piece of technology for its purpose, and the only one out of the lot to actually pick a timepiece, and with an extra layer, they had to return to the clock tower on the twelfth chime before the mechanism ‘wore off’. This one also being different as it showed the travellers being duplicated by this process and existing in more than one time simultaneously. The film looper also had a cross-over of timelines for the same person, another strange aspect to the idea.

All machines involved in the ‘journey’ forwards or backwards. But there are others, where it was an object and then mental projection that caused the time travel. Somewhere in Time, Weeping Angels (Dr Who episode) and The Butterfly Effect. So, are we only stuck in this time because we think we are? Mostly being taught that a) time travel as a reality is ridiculous and b) that you would need to build a machine to make it happen it if was possible. Such a ridiculous idea, that it gets mulled over again and again, as in the above stories and films, and surely too in the odd mind of a ‘scientist’, but also in the minds of people giving thought to times past and what is to come.

And this is where I will mention Chronesthesia again (having previously mentioned it in my article about Hyperphantasia, Chronesthesia being the name given to what they have called mental time travel. “In psychology, mental time travel is the capacity to mentally reconstruct personal events from the past as well as to imagine possible scenarios in the future”. I thought everyone did this, or at least could, but it turns out that is an incorrect assessment, and it varies greatly amongst the population. So, do we need a ‘machine’ at all I wonder, or is that we have built-in abilities for such possibilities that we almost can’t even accept them, let alone know how to access or harness them. Perhaps, or maybe we are just beholden to the straight, forward-facing line of time, only going one way and getting pulled along whether we like it or not. But maybe, just maybe, there is something else, behind the ‘face of time’, waiting for us to work it out…

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The Machine of Time

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Although I have written two pieces already called – Time, and The Machine, this one is in reference to a couple of films and of the general concept of time. How we are bound by it and beholden to it, marching forward and we are powerless to stop it.

Chronesthesia – the name for mental Time travel, which if you have seen the Butterfly Effect film, think of it like that. But personally, I had already thought of it in relation to thoughts, when considering nostalgia and future worries as thought processes we have. Which intrinsically require us to mentality ‘time travel’ to do either.

Back To The Future – (1984) – another classic, and shows the folly of going backwards. But also the paradox that gets created by meddling with time as they call it.

The Time Machine (1960) – a great film, and story from H.G. Wells. But unlike the above film, showed how you couldn’t actually go back any further than your current time. As he was away in the future for a week, and when he returned, a week had passed.

Harry Potter 3 – A timepiece for travel was used, but allowing for an overlay of going backwards before it ‘wore off’. But as you are already there, two now exist. Almost more as interdimensional time beings who evaporate when the time is up. Slightly different way of portraying it, I guess.

Dr Who episode (Weeping Angels) – staring at a statue transports a woman back in time on a one-way ticket. Removing the physical self from that time entirely with no way to come back, so disrupting the future and the past simultaneously.

If we didn’t have the sun up and sun down each day, and we didn’t show visible signs of aging, how would we keep tabs on it? And if we didn’t have calendars, clocks and records, how would we know when we are? This is why perhaps it is so easy to see how things can be written and rearranged within history to paint a picture of a placement in time. To think of before, or of how people were and society was, giving reason for how things are now. Or so it would appear. But it is always now, and technically you are always travelling through time, not alongside it, or over it, but through it. Which is why it seems we cannot sidestep it, or avoid it, or change its speed or trajectory, only hold on for dear life as they say, and see if we can make it to what they might say was ‘your time’…

(c) K Wicks

Timing

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As a modern society, we seem rather obsessed with time, and I’m not quite sure if it’s because it has been conditioned into us, or is a natural thing for us to have past, present and future. Is it partly the concept of time that ruins us, by giving us a sense of mortality, and something to allocate time to that which is overwhelmingly important. Life. But perhaps we do not think that way about it at all, as it slips by quite unnoticed often and is treated as a never-ending commodity in some cases. But as I have said before, it’s something you can’t buy more of and you can’t get it back, so use it wisely.

And that was always the thread of the moral in tales and stories, about dreams and regret as well as hopes and a new perspective on something that didn’t essentially change, just your view on it did. Time marches on they say, it takes no prisoners and holds no favourites.

Quantum leap – A great TV series about jumping into and out of different times, people’s lives and experiences, trying to right some wrongs that occurred. I can’t recall if it was known why he had to do that, or who got to be the ‘viewer of history’ and pick the candidates to have life altering moments intercepted by an alternate being to possess you and steer them where they were ‘meant to go’.

The Butterfly Effect – A film about experience, regret and time. As the title suggests, it is shown that actions have consequences and outcomes you couldn’t have foreseen, but with hindsight and an ability to do something about it. An object is necessary in this to manifest it, a diary in his case (and video recordings for his late father). A dark and complex storyline that wasn’t light-hearted in any way, and if anything showed the extreme sadness and regret that can linger on in people.

Somewhere in time – another film, but this one with a dreamy, hazy overtone to it. But this one using the idea that you can mentally time travel by hypnotising yourself – which is rather interesting as I had wondered about it anyway through learning about Chronesthesia and Tulpaism. So, if you can ‘think’ yourself into a different time and manifest reality – is it really that outrageous an option?

Dark (TV Series) – a very strange series, and one of time and it looping back on itself in a repetitive cycle. Quite complex, and not cheery in any way, shape or form. But serious and interesting.

Dr Who – I guess the ultimate in this breakdown being a Time Lord, so one who is not bounds by the same rules and limit as others, recycled as necessary and not mortal. Changes the game a bit when it comes to possibilities if you are not doomed to such a short existence, or at least that is how they always paint it.

Back to the Future – a great set of films and iconic to many who were of that era. But going back and forth through time as needed to again fix the mistakes, or create them as was sometimes the case. I wondered about the method too in that film, the lightning strike, the exact speed and conditions needed for it to work.

They say luck befalls people who are ‘in the right place at the right time’, and equally the reverse can be said too, being ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’, knowing it was a series of moments that led to that one. So, which moment was the right one, or indeed the wrong one, in time? Hard to know I guess until after, when retrospective thought can be applied to make sense of the event if it is at first not clear. And if you factor into that Chronesthsia and all the other mental processes, it’s a wonder we know where we are at all, let alone when we are…

(c) K Wicks

While We Wait

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And while you wait and hope for better, worse comes marching right up into your face.

People shouldn’t be waiting for help, or rescue in the bigger scheme of things, or even on a small level really, an expectation that can lead to disappointment, and death in some cases.

A move to make students homeless a week before term starts is a further display of how little the establishment think of people. Especially ones who are apparently studying for the future, and are looking to go about the normal routine of learning and living somewhere. If they hadn’t noticed, every age group is being targeted in various ways. So, what exactly are they going to university for? To study for that future they are deconstructing around you? Or perhaps it’s because you have to try and carry on, to get on and still work towards a future, because it will get here whether you want it to or not. But taking part in strange set up is not going to make it easier, they like to make you think its fine, but isn’t. And if the next predicted lockdowns are coming, they might be glad to not be stuck in student accommodation. But really it just looks like a super disruptor move, to show favouritism again at your expense. Literally and metaphorically.

People have been conditioned to wait; this I understand. To expect the authorities to sort themselves out, to sort out society and make everything right, to be there in an emergency and to fix what is broken. But why is it really? Holding Us Back looked at that idea, of that we very strangely have a childish mechanism in us when it comes to authority, especially in the Westernised countries, and certain others too. Where they want you to think you are helpless, or useless, or of limited capacity, so they can convince you that you need parenting. ‘Give us your money and we’ll do it for you, don’t worry, you can trust us’. But like a narcissistic, controlling and obsessive parent, they don’t want you to notice and sure as shit don’t want you ever gaining independence from that. Makes me wonder if that was really what the fight for independence was all about in the states all those years ago. That it wasn’t a fight to be free of England, it was a fight to be free of the insidious system of control. And we are told they won, which means something else happened, and maybe they did initially – and it was the land of the free as we were once told. But that wasn’t ever going to be allowed to remain, and perhaps that is what the civil war was about, to get it back in order and make sure it becomes the leading breeding ground for the military power moves to follow in the upcoming centuries. Either way, it’s not going well over there now either.

Yet people are still sort of waiting for the government to do something to help, when they are the ones who have caused it all. They are the ones who have pulled the rug out from everyone’s feet, and are laughing at us all on the floor looking up and going what the hell. But instead of getting up and punching them in the face, metaphorically, we stay on the ground waiting for them to help us up and put down a new rug, where we can comfortably stand and go back to living and getting on. Well, I’m pretty sure we can safely say at this point, there is no rug. There is no helping hand to get you up, in fact, there is going to be periodic kicks to make sure you don’t get up, which will then change into permanent damage and then you can’t get up. But don’t worry, the government will be there to let you have food and water when they decide, unless they can’t be bothered or forget about you, of course. And that’s why it appears important for them to be able to cut off your lifelines and livelihood, and ability thereafter to access ‘society’. To threaten and exclude you into compliance, in a more extreme and aggressive way than we have previously seen, but using individual and collective fear triggers as a weapon. Exploiting people’s weakness and vulnerabilities, having spent decades working everyone out and placing things for later use, reference or to their advantage planned long in advance. Hoping to stitch up the bag around you before you notice the drawstrings getting tighter.

Everyone is waiting though, not all for the government, some are waiting for other people. Wondering when they will notice that the ones they run to for help, are the ones kicking them in the face. The ones they are expecting to come good and stop them drowning are the very same ones who are holding them underwater. A rearrangement of expectation is needed perhaps, to understand how society is actually constructed and what it requires of you to be part of it, because it isn’t free and a given right as everyone thinks. It takes something of you and from you in order to ‘provide and protect’, and what it requires just seemed to go up a notch or two…

(c) K Wicks

Echoes In Time

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Like on a loop, repeating. This has been the explanation here and there for ghosts and apparitions that people claim to have seen or heard. If you have ever been on a ghost hunt, or watched any of the paranormal programs about haunted locations, you might know what I am talking about. And oddly this piece crosses over into another in progress called Imprinting, but as that is from a slightly different angle, I will keep them separate.

From how it is described by the paranormal folk, I took it as the following. That sometimes there is an event, so shocking, tragic or ghastly, that the energy and force of the event, creates a sort of shock in time as well as in what we know as reality. That it imprints the feeling, or image, or sound onto the fabric of time and space, to be replayed and repeated over and over. As if stuck on a loop with the same frame showing, or a record where the stylus keeps jumping on the same spot, playing the same moment over and over.

So, what is it that occurs when someone thinks they have witnessed something like that? There have been many stories over the years that caught my attention, and I have been very much interested in the whole subject of the paranormal for a few decades now. Tales of headless horsemen, women in white, ghostly battle scenes, haunted mansions and creepy walkways. And I have visited a couple of locations on ‘ghost hunting’ tours, to see for myself what it was actually all about and how they were conducted in real life, not just on the television. I also visited a medium as well as part of the research, again just to know how they appeared in real life, and a friend had visited this one and said it was great, so thought why not. Neither the ghost hunting or visiting a psychic made me suddenly unequivocally believe in them, nothing was revealed or was witnessed within the realms of the supernatural. It was however, rather interesting to see how people behaved in those situations though, myself included (as I am ‘people’ too).

And it did make me think, about what it is that remains, if anything, to keep a feeling or an idea ‘alive’ through the ages. Is there an imprint of energy on that location that can then recreate something given the right conditions? I will bring up Ouija boards here as they have been known to be used for things like this, and again I have speculated about them. It comes back to energy I guess, that maybe when people are giving their concentrated attention to something, while trying to create A portal, something does happen. Makes me think of Stranger Things, where they created a tear in the fabric of dimensions, allowing a creature of sorts to come through and for that world to start seeping through into the ‘real’ one. Like Ghostbusters too I guess, and the entire premise of All Hallows Eve where the veil between worlds is at its thinnest. Or so they say. So, there is a question in my mind on that, if people do in fact see, hear and feel things like that – two options are available for that question. Is it an echo in time, repeating on a loop? Or, is it something that is not actually dead communicating from the ‘other side’ of life, but something that is quite ‘alive’ in its realm, reaching through into ours? And maybe sometimes we too, can cross over in theirs. But when they come into ours, are we equipped to recognise that? Or comprehend what it is we are ‘seeing’, finding it easier to apply a common theme or known possibility of a spectre with a tragic human past, making it easier to deal with in mind. Because if we did know, that something dark and unyielding was lurking just beyond our range, pacing the perimeter of reality like a stalker looking for a way in, would we still go about our lives as comfortably as we do? I wonder…

(c) K Wicks

The waiting game

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A thought, of the future and a silly idea that we will be the ones waiting on robots and machines. It was pointed out to me by my other half that we already do. Funny really that I hadn’t already noticed, but then gave it further thought.

We do wait on them, in two ways. By service, and with time. We wait for things to charge, and load, or run its cycle for whatever outcome we await. We have to plug things in, change batteries, calibrate machinery, replace and repair etc. And it may well be that they would like to have robots and machines to do all these things, but it seems not quite here yet, if it is on the horizon. It would seem though there is currently a symbiotic relationship going on, we need them for the society that has developed. And the machines need us to design, build, program, operate and fix them. We don’t require them for quite as much as that though, do we? Apparently, we evolved and developed without machines, and they came much later. Without us, they wouldn’t exist, but without them, we would.

Machines and gadgets that saved us time, we’re put alongside ones that didn’t. Cook faster with a microwave, and sit in front of the TV. Save time washing and cleaning, so you can work more, spend more, buy more. Consumerism working its way through into our mentality, teaching us to ‘need the machines’ rather than just want them.

And now they have everyone being dependent on these conveniences, they want to ration your usage. Which all neatly ties back to electricity. Being able to cook, travel, work, heat your home and basically live these days, all ties back to that. Not for all, some people still have fireplaces and wood burners and have kept in touch with what we now call ‘the old ways’. But not too long ago, all those things didn’t require monitors, meters or someone you’ve never met to dictate how much you are ‘allowed’. Like we have stumbled upon a bridge as the three Billy goats gruff, with the troll demanding a toll. And of course, we do still have toll bridges, and have to pay for the right to cross it. Just an invisible toll taker these days – funny isn’t it, the word toll is very similar to the word troll, isn’t it?

So while we wait for machines, and they wait for us, we also are kept waiting on a daily basis from getting on with our lives. Waiting for politicians to say what they are going do, then waiting for them to either not do them, or do the opposite. Being told of really ‘great ideas’ that are being proposed for the future, but hang on, you have to wait for those. So, patience is something that is quietly expected of us, to put up with being held back, held down and often yo-yoed to suit the needs of those politicians, rather than they and the systems they talk of suiting us, the people. And of course, not implementing all those systems seems to cost an awful lot of money. Just recently we have billions being removed from the NHS debt, billions being thrown at a test and trace program that has apparently disappeared into the ether, billions being wasted on the HS2 project that was a bodge job from the start. And further billions being given to foreign countries. And that is only in three years, so imagine how much they must have been hoarding to have those kinds of resources suddenly available. The decade of ‘austerity’ suddenly makes a lot more sense now, and as people have said, if they can give so much away and waste so much, they are simply taking too much. But with our conditioned tolerance for politicians, of lies and deceit, and of being robbed of time and money, I am left to wonder, how much is too much before something snaps?

(c) K Wicks

Time and again

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It’s a precious thing, time.

Experience teaches you so much, perspectives and ideas change, you develop and change, and what you wanted of your life, will hopefully develop and change. It would be weird to think you were still the same person really from when you were a child or teenager through to being an adult who has perhaps already lived two lifetimes. Time is pivotal in that, without time, you aren’t able to really appreciate experiences I have found. When thrust from one scenario into another, whether it be a societal one, or a personal one, you can end up staggering mentally from one experience to another. It is only with time and reflection that I have managed to get meaning from those events and therefore actually benefitted from the experience.

So, how does that fit in with this fast-paced world around us, more, quicker, do it now, there won’t be time. I can’t help but think part of that is so that you won’t have time to experience things, they will pass you by so rapidly that there is no reflection period upon it and your brain will move onto the next stimulating thing to simulate experience, but a fast and unsatisfying version, that is ultimately unfulfilling. It is said we humans crave experience, so is it any wonder we have knowingly lapped up a virtual one they carefully ran alongside the real one. I wonder when the lines will become so blurred it will be hard for many to know the difference. But maybe we do deep down, because we can feel something isn’t quite right and there is a certain emptiness to it. Like a copy of a copy of a copy, it loses something of the original. Like whiskey that you just keep watering down, eventually it’s just a plain, boring glass of water with a hint of what it once was.

Much appears to be getting lost in the drive for everything to be faster and happen quicker. I remember wanting to be like that, when you’re a kid, and it seems to drag on forever, having to wait for so much. Until you’re tall enough, until you’re old enough – which encompasses a lot by itself.

“Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop to look around once in a while, you might miss it”, as the movie quote goes.

(c) K Wicks

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