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The illusion of Time: When To Submit To Time, And When Not To by Reverseng(op):
There is no time. Because the sun went out of sight for some 'time' shouldn't necessarily make it day 1 for you.

One has to know when to submit to time and when not to. You don't have to wait till your birthday to make your favorite hairstyle or prepare your favorite food, (knowing fully well you can afford it on days that aren't your birthday), but you do have to wait till month's end to receive your paycheck. shocked

There has to be context to your timing. Context to your referring to it as day 1, especially when planning your daily activities that primarily concern you

Why wait 4 hrs for your food to digest because your dieticians told you so?

What that dietician didn't tell you was that 4 hours after eating that food, you should feel hungry for the next food. But imagine you still didn't feel hungry after those 4 hours; should you eat on a full stomach, all because you were advised to?
Imagine you begin to feel hungry before that 4hrs elapse grin

That up there is how to use time with context. That's how to use time with situations. There's No Time. smiley

The secret I've come to understand is that Time is a container for events to happen.
The events that happen inside that time container are what cannot happen inside another time container. Valentine on February 14th isn't more special than a rainy night indoors with your partner on January 10th because you can also show love to your partner on days that aren't Feburary 14.


Time is matched to situations ( An example: women don't strictly need 9 months to grow babies in their womb. They could grow a baby in 3 weeks or In 11 months, as is said to be the case of Albert Einstein. It depends on how fast the baby is able to absorb nutrients from its mother and use it efficiently, amongst others. This isn't strictly tied to 9 months)

AND
situations can be matched to Time (NYSC takes a calendar year, a football match happens in 90 minutes)
See it like a X and Y graph.

Old age doesn't make people wise and has never done so.
People become wise from learning from their foolishness and the foolishness of others. The pain that comes from their foolishness 'should' teach them to take necessary steps not to feel that pain anymore. This learning is then wrapped in 'Time'

That's why people mistakenly think that Time heals. NO!
Time doesn't heal. An understanding of yourself wrapped in time does.

Scientists around the globe seem to have cracked this concept of "no time" by creating a variety of food (GMO) that doesn't spoil with "time."
What makes food spoil should begin to hint at you that it definitely isn't "time."
Why exactly do women wait 9 months for a baby to grow? Why submit to that time? There should be a sense in that as to why people see it as a norm to submit that long.

See it this way: Why is rainy season important, especially to farmers?
Answer: Because it brings rain that supports the crops that need water.

Why did you wait for '1 day' to make yourself happy?Because it's your birthday??
So if it wasn't your birthday, you'd remain sad throughout?
If you had said, "It's my birthday, and well-wishers sent me money to afford a trip abroad; that's why I'm deciding to travel on my birthday" that's you submitting to time—with context.

Discern when to submit to time, and also discern when not to submit to time, because sometimes, there is 'no time'

Begin to see Time as a container for events. It's the activities that happen inside the 'time'/container that matters. Some activities need a certain container to happen( salary at month end, etc) while some activities don't!

Re: The illusion of Time: When To Submit To Time, And When Not To by Reverseng(op): 8:27pm On Dec 01, 2025
On Discerning: When to and when not to
https://www.nairaland.com/8547610/spirit-discerning-inside#137244876

Content of the post in the link above was extracted from my ebook: Calculus of Christianity = God Won't Help You Commit Suicide

Link to purchase the affordable ebook in my signature
Re: The illusion of Time: When To Submit To Time, And When Not To by Reverseng(op): 8:00pm On Dec 06, 2025
Today's Saturday. A lot of people wait till this day to wash their clothes. Some of these people were less occupied on other days that weren't Saturday, but still they choose to wash on Saturday...like there is an unwritten rule that Saturday is a day for washing clothes.
But guess what?
Those category of people just wasted Time shocked

Similar to those who wait for the next day, tomorrow, which is Sunday, to become good holy people grin
They wasted Monday to Saturday.

Time is a gift doesn't mean it should be misused.
If I give you a gift (pair of shirt) and you convert it to rag, it spells that you don't need that shirt. It tells me that you lack rag at home. So next time, you'll be gifted rag grin

I hope this analogy unlocks an understanding in you. smiley
Re: The illusion of Time: When To Submit To Time, And When Not To by Reverseng(op): 7:54pm On Oct 17
Time, as I've said, is a container for events to happen. But there's so much that one can do or can happen in that container.
This brings us to the term Time Saturation a situation where time has held the maximum number of events that it can hold.

Flip this and you'll get 'Unsaturated Time'
Re: The illusion of Time: When To Submit To Time, And When Not To by Reverseng(op): 7:57pm On Oct 17
What Saturation means.

Lol. This might seem funny to you because it isn't taught in school or in books. This is like mad science...I just figured it out. Hahahahaha

Re: The illusion of Time: When To Submit To Time, And When Not To by Reverseng(op): 8:04pm On Oct 17
This concept of Time Saturation and Unsaturation lead to 2 unique terminologies like Time Distortion and Time Consolidation.

Time Distortion: A period in an Unsaturated time container where events need to speed up to accommodate the closing time restriction. For example, a football match at 90 minutes will have you see players performing their very best 10-15 minutes to the closing bell...because that's like die-minute

Time Consolidation: ... To update later
Re: The illusion of Time: When To Submit To Time, And When Not To by Bfly: 4:36pm On Oct 19
The concept of time has being created already, y’all have to live by it.
Re: The illusion of Time: When To Submit To Time, And When Not To by Reverseng(op): 8:06pm On Oct 19
Read to understand, not to hastily reply.

Crops that takes 5yrs+ now take 2-3yrs, all because of agricultural engineering.
If time was a constant and its concept has been "created already', then why this change in crop maturity period?

You're asking people to live by something that hinders their progress—the uniform progress of civilization itself because few people know and are actively using this advanced knowledge of time.

You're living by a rule book that you might not even understand or could even be imaginary
Bfly:
The concept of time has being created already, y’all have to live by it.
Re: The illusion of Time: When To Submit To Time, And When Not To by Thebird01: 5:04pm On Oct 22
Reverseng:
Read to understand, not to hastily reply.

Crops that takes 5yrs+ now take 2-3yrs, all because of agricultural engineering.
If time was a constant and its concept has been "created already', then why this change in crop maturity period?

You're asking people to live by something that hinders their progress—the uniform progress of civilization itself because few people know and are actively using this advanced knowledge of time.

You're living by a rule book that you might not even understand or could even be imaginary
Time is a constant, regardless of how you put it.
It has been designed in such a way that everything lives by it (this is where your argument becomes logical, it's how you spend your time that matters).
The same crops that now take 2-3yrs instead of 5yrs won't grow if they're planted a particular season - they are obeying the concept of time.
Whether you like it or not, you'd live to an extent where your time becomes 'saturated' and you'd have no choice but to obey time.
The concept of submitting to time does not exist - time itself decides if you submit or not.
The only thing you have over time is what you choose to do with it.
The people that choose Saturday to wash clothes thereby 'wasting' Monday to Saturday, did not submit to time.
They only made a choice which in your opinion, is a wasteful one.
The woman who is pregnant and according to you "submitted to time" for 9 months has no choice.
Any attempt at not being submissive can be fatal to both her and the baby.

The point I'm trying to drive at is, time cannot be submitted to, just lived by.
Re: The illusion of Time: When To Submit To Time, And When Not To by Reverseng(op):
The same crops that now take 2-3yrs instead of 5yrs won't grow if they're planted a particular season - they are obeying the concept of time....

The time is the container.
That's what I'm hinting at. They're obeying the concept, but more specifically, the activities that happen inside that container of Time.
If humans can find a way to engineer night time, by first understanding that night is not the absence of morning, but an opposite active force in itself,
(read this concept here— https://www.nairaland.com/8757091/truth-not-less-lie-man)
then we can make the animals that naturally come out at night (nocturnal) to do so because the environment has been engineered.

Time is a container for events. Football matches takes 90 minutes. If possible, 50 goals can be scored inside of that 90 minutes. At this point, we're concerned with the event—the goals itself.
NYSC takes 1 year. After that period, one can no longer call themself a corper.

The footballers and the corper have to submit to time. But It'd be wrong to always think time is responsible for everything and just surrender agency to it without doing anything on our end. After 90 minutes, and the footballers don't kick the ball, there'd be no goals scored. But hey, they submitted to time, right? grin

How long does it takes to heal from a heart break? Some take 1 year, others less.

You don't have enough time in this world to always submit to time. What's the life expectancy of the average man. 55-60 years. Imagine you use 5 years to heal from a break up and miss out on other exciting relationships?
That's you reducing your life expectancy to -5 years. What are you waiting for exactly?

You could celebrate your days on the period that aren't your birthday, but some say no, and deny themselves so much self treatment all because of they're waiting.

Officially, officially—that is twice, no mistakes there—man cannot engineer night, neither can he engineer rainy seasons and all that comes with it yet, strongly due to how nature precisely seeks to balance her complementary forces. But knowing that he cannot, he has to know that another time it is and fill it with events or activities...like farmers.

They say that he patient dog eats the fattest bone, but what is neglected is that the patient dog was patient because it knew that there was a fattest bone—that's why it waited. People saw its waiting as patience

Thebird01:
Time is a constant, regardless of how you put it.
It has been designed in such a way that everything lives by it (this is where your argument becomes logical, it's how you spend your time that matters).
The same crops that now take 2-3yrs instead of 5yrs won't grow if they're planted a particular season - they are obeying the concept of time.
Whether you like it or not, you'd live to an extent where your time becomes 'saturated' and you'd have no choice but to obey time.
The concept of submitting to time does not exist - time itself decides if you submit or not.
The only thing you have over time is what you choose to do with it.
The people that choose Saturday to wash clothes thereby 'wasting' Monday to Saturday, did not submit to time.
They only made a choice which in your opinion, is a wasteful one.
The woman who is pregnant and according to you "submitted to time" for 9 months has no choice.
Any attempt at not being submissive can be fatal to both her and the baby.

The point I'm trying to drive at is, time cannot be submitted to, just lived by.
Re: The illusion of Time: When To Submit To Time, And When Not To by Thebird01: 5:43pm On Oct 22
Reverseng:
The same crops that now take 2-3yrs instead of 5yrs won't grow if they're planted a particular season - they are obeying the concept of time....

The time is the container.
That's what I'm hinting at. They're obeying the concept, but more specifically, the activities that happen inside that container of Time.
If humans can find a way to engineer night time, by first understanding that night is not the absence of morning, but an opposite active force in itself,
(read this concept here— https://www.nairaland.com/8757091/truth-not-less-lie-man)
then we can make the animals that naturally come out at night (nocturnal) to do so because the environment has been engineered.
Is it that you're so consumed with not being submissive to time that you now come up with terms like "engineering the environment"?
Now let's go by your logic.
If we say that night is not the absence of morning, and "engineer" the environment in such a way that night becomes morning and nocturnal animals are now found at noon, do you know that that same environment will be disrupted?
According to reddit, Nocturnal animals come out at night primarily to avoid predators, escape intense daytime heat, and find food with less competition.
If the environment is altered, these nocturnal animals wouldn't exist, because where would you put the predators?
Overtime they would be hunted down.
Let's not talk about animals now, let's say humans.
If the environment is altered in such a way that night becomes day (for lack of a better term to use), how then do we sleep?
Ever heard of circadian rhythms and sleep-wake homeostasis?

Even the very act of 'engineering the environment ' is controlled by time itself.
There are certain scientific procedures that cannot be done a certain time/weather/season.
Re: The illusion of Time: When To Submit To Time, And When Not To by Reverseng(op): 5:54pm On Oct 22
I'm not consumed but excited. Truth inspires choice—to act or not to act, although it shouldn't be told at all times, because sometimes its absence is not its opposite.
This is a time when it should be told, and a time when silence should be observed.

The reason why nocturnal animals come out at night is farrrrr from what is being circulated, even on Reddit you quoted. The absence of X is not automatically the presence of Y. Your example is working on that logic,and that's why you need to go through the link I posted in my previous comment.

The absence of sickness is not the presence of good health. Rest is not just the absence of work. Night is not just the absence of morning
https://www.nairaland.com/8757091/truth-not-less-lie-man

Yes, the world would be thrown out of balance with this kind of knowledge, especially with the level of consciousness of people in this world. I understand. But the effective use of this content is for our personal everyday lives. We don't have enough time as we think for live to hand us everything we want because we're "submitting to time"
We should know when to discern when we're wasting time too in the guise of submission
Thebird01:
Is it that you're so consumed with not being submissive to time that you now come up with terms like "engineering the environment"?
Now let's go by your logic.
If we say that night is not the absence of morning, and "engineer" the environment in such a way that night becomes morning and nocturnal animals are now found at noon, do you know that that same environment will be disrupted?
According to reddit, Nocturnal animals come out at night primarily to avoid predators, escape intense daytime heat, and find food with less competition.
If the environment is altered, these nocturnal animals wouldn't exist, because where would you put the predators?
Overtime they would be hunted down.
Let's not talk about animals now, let's say humans.
If the environment is altered in such a way that night becomes day (for lack of a better term to use), how then do we sleep?
Ever heard of circadian rhythms and sleep-wake homeostasis?

Even the very act of 'engineering the environment ' is controlled by time itself.
There are certain scientific procedures that cannot be done a certain time/weather/season.
Re: The illusion of Time: When To Submit To Time, And When Not To by Reverseng(op): 6:00pm On Oct 22
If the environment is altered in such a way that night becomes day (for lack of a better term to use), how then do we sleep?
Ever heard of circadian rhythms and sleep-wake homeostasis?


Yes. There's be consequences, but nature has a way for correction.
Its in the modification of Isaac Newton's 1st and 3rd law of Motion
https://www.nairaland.com/8757166/science-alert-modification-isaac-newtons
Thebird01:
Is it that you're so consumed with not being submissive to time that you now come up with terms like "engineering the environment"?
Now let's go by your logic.
If we say that night is not the absence of morning, and "engineer" the environment in such a way that night becomes morning and nocturnal animals are now found at noon, do you know that that same environment will be disrupted?
According to reddit, Nocturnal animals come out at night primarily to avoid predators, escape intense daytime heat, and find food with less competition.
If the environment is altered, these nocturnal animals wouldn't exist, because where would you put the predators?
Overtime they would be hunted down.
Let's not talk about animals now, let's say humans.
If the environment is altered in such a way that night becomes day (for lack of a better term to use), how then do we sleep?
Ever heard of circadian rhythms and sleep-wake homeostasis?

Even the very act of 'engineering the environment ' is controlled by time itself.
There are certain scientific procedures that cannot be done a certain time/weather/season.
Re: The illusion of Time: When To Submit To Time, And When Not To by Thebird01: 10:03pm On Oct 23
Reverseng:
If the environment is altered in such a way that night becomes day (for lack of a better term to use), how then do we sleep?
Ever heard of circadian rhythms and sleep-wake homeostasis?


Yes. There's be consequences, but nature has a way for correction.
Its in the modification of Isaac Newton's 1st and 3rd law of Motion
https://www.nairaland.com/8757166/science-alert-modification-isaac-newtons
Very random question, are you Nigerian?
Re: The illusion of Time: When To Submit To Time, And When Not To by Reverseng(op): 7:00pm On Oct 24
Random question? I'm lost

Also, regarding the question you asked, I understand it'd have to be important for you to have asked, but I'm yet to understand your reason for wanting to know
Thebird01:
Very random question, are you Nigerian?
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