On Jul 22, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> I'm not sure there's anything terribly profound in noting that human
> beings, who exist in time, understand things in terms of time.
Beings do not "exist in time." Human--and all other beings--exist in *duration*. The only unit of duration recognizable to perception is the diurnal. It was very very late in human social development when humans began to break up duration into measured units of "time" (starting with lunations). And even later when they broke up place into measured units of "space."
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos