{"id":12530,"date":"2011-05-23T17:09:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T22:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12530"},"modified":"2011-05-23T17:09:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T22:09:17","slug":"its-about-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12530","title":{"rendered":"It’s about Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friends recently were raving about a 3D film they saw at the Louisiana Film Festival called Cave of Forgotten Dreams<\/a> where filmmaker Werner Herzog went with a group of scientist who discovered the cave paintings in Chauvet, France, that are 32,000 years old. At one point, they discover a painting that is on top of the paintings done 1,000 years later.<\/p>\n

I was thinking of my middle age spread as I watched three young women walking across the park this morning. They were in their mid twenties and had Venus shapes while I am fighting the loss of my Venus and the onset of the full moon look. I’m 52 years old, a mere spec in the time frame of nearly 6000 years on the Jewish calendar and to think that in one place some artist painted a rock and a thousand years later some other artist painted the same rock is a little mind blowing.<\/p>\n

If I’m dealing with time in my own metaphysical sense, what is time in its enormity telling any of us?<\/p>\n

Today, leaving the gym I saw the Louisiana Citizens Disaster and Evacuation Preparedness pamphlets – oh yeah, that time again – Hurricane Season begins on June 1st but right now the news has been on tsunamis, tornados, rising rivers, and earthquakes. Is this cycle of weather we are going through the Rapture, it is an “era” as in the Pleistocene, now that we are keeping records outside of caves, will people 1000 years from now know of our existence if all of our data is in the cloud?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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