Lightman Post 1

14 April 1905 (8): “Suppose time is a circle…”

In this chapter, most people aren’t aware that “they will live their lives over” and that everything they do “will be repeated again and again, exactly as before.” But those who are aware of the nature of time are the ones who lead miserable lives. Why?

16 April 1905 (10): “In this world, time is like the flow of water, occasionally displaced by a bit of debris, a passing breeze.”

In this segment, time is a river in which some people get stuck and are redirected to the past. These people from the future are call “wretched” and are “left alone and pitied.” Why are these time “exiles” said to have “lost their personhood”? Why aren’t they sought after and admired instead?

Choose one of the prompts above and respond in a post to your blog class tomorrow. Your post must exceed 250 words.

~ by cehret on 17 March 2009.