Comments on: Book. Alan G. Padgett: God, Eternity, and the Nature of Time http://firstword.us/2006/09/alan-g-padgett-god-eternity-and-the-nature-of-time/ How can you have the last word if you haven't heard the first? Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:33:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: T http://firstword.us/2006/09/alan-g-padgett-god-eternity-and-the-nature-of-time/comment-page-1/#comment-10267 T Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:08:27 +0000 http://butler-harris.org/archives/17#comment-10267 Hoff -- my sympathies. Hang in there. The pain and frustration is a part of the fall, but the subjectivity of time as such is not. A world is conceivable, or so I argue, in which there would be no metrical time and thus no "natural law" of the physical world as we know it. The objectification of time as an aid to predicability and thus subduation is a blessing of God, and it is yet another thing that that the atheist presupposes without being able to account for. Hoff — my sympathies. Hang in there.

The pain and frustration is a part of the fall, but the subjectivity of time as such is not. A world is conceivable, or so I argue, in which there would be no metrical time and thus no “natural law” of the physical world as we know it. The objectification of time as an aid to predicability and thus subduation is a blessing of God, and it is yet another thing that that the atheist presupposes without being able to account for.

]]> By: s. e. hoffmeister http://firstword.us/2006/09/alan-g-padgett-god-eternity-and-the-nature-of-time/comment-page-1/#comment-10227 s. e. hoffmeister Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:35:53 +0000 http://butler-harris.org/archives/17#comment-10227 Hi Tim, I figured this may be the best place for the following: Having now worked a good part of my life at all parts of the day/night. I have come to the idea that like all things that were first given Time is effected by the entrance of Sin in the world. This effect God uses to cause Time to move very slowly , if not "seem" to almost stop, or go very fast to the point of a blur of forgetfulness. I have been working on very strange shift that, I all my experience I have never seen time move so slow and painfully. This observation is supported by others who. like me have worked different times of day and never had anything like we work now in time passage. It is during this time that, the work is paled by just the ability to get by the next hour, it is an strange experience. So I see this as sort of a judgment on man and the "by the Sweat of thy Brow" application of said sin. s.e. hoffmeister Hi Tim,
I figured this may be the best place for the following:
Having now worked a good part of my life at all parts of the day/night. I have come to the idea that like all things that were first given Time is effected by the entrance of Sin in the world. This effect God uses to cause Time to move very slowly , if not “seem” to almost stop, or go very fast to the point of a blur of forgetfulness. I have been working on very strange shift that, I all my experience I have never seen time move so slow and painfully. This observation is supported by others who. like me have worked different times of day and never had anything like we work now in time passage.

It is during this time that, the work is paled by just the ability to get by the next hour, it is an strange experience.

So I see this as sort of a judgment on man and the “by the Sweat of thy Brow” application of said sin.

s.e. hoffmeister

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