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The What is time?

Perhaps it's a question not worth asking for fear of the answer.

Even the first forays into the question opens up labyrinthine corridors of convoluted paradox, difficulty, and strangeness.

What is time after all? Is it merely a construct of the mind,

an effect of the interplay of consciousness and matter?

Is it a thing in nature itself? However, ethereal that thing might be.

And if it is a thing that is somehow in nature in the same way,

gravity or mass or distance or electricity is in nature, just how ethereal is it? Where does it fall

under man's dominion mandate? Man has turned electricity into a tool in his hand,

conquering the electromagnetic spectrum, at least to some degree in the process.

Man has learned how to use wind and differential pressures to make planes fly.

Man has even used the co-relationship of mass and gravity and heat to make all sorts of things

that we use in everyday life. Man has dug deep into hills and mountains

and mined metals for manufacturing,

turning mountains on the lathe of his intellect

into cars and cathedrals and computers and more.

Could it be that man is to see time

as a material to transform in his smithies?

Is man to be a time right, forming time into a servant of his dominion

as a shipwright forms wood holes from forests? Could it be that man is supposed to see time as a mountain

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