Do you have the time?

If you would like to understand where the thinking is behind these articles, then ask yourself this question: Why is it that this solar year is called '2014'? The answer is that it is an arbitrary number, it actually has very little meaning. The very idea of '2014' is a human creation, forced on us by power struggles, religious bigots and wars. It is merely an expression
of time, one loaded with religious connotations. The year of our Lord? What? Even if you accept that it is based on a Christian religious event, it is inaccurate.

We blindly accept that it is '2014' and very few people give it any thought. We do, however, need to think about these sort of questions. Let's put a little perspective on this. The Universe is 13.7 BILLION years old, the Earth 4.6 billion and Homo Sapiens evolved approximately 200,000 years B.P. Many cultures and religions have come and gone before the invention of the major religions that we seem to cling on to today. Different cultures have different calendars and maybe we need to agree on a global time-scale, one not connected to inaccurate, religious, so-called milestones. I'm not saying that we have to do it now, but we at least need to acknowledge the problems with our present system.

That is the sort of conversation I want us to have. To think about things, to ask what they really mean. To realise that we have created many fallible systems, maybe even come up with something better and more suitable for an advancing society. That is why you will not find any reference to 'b.c' or 'a.d' here. They are numbers that are not helpful to a rational thinking person. 50,000 years 'before present' (B.P) makes much more sense. How do we make sense of the world when we are seeing it through such obviously tinted glasses. Religious superstitions pervade through our society in many ways and we need to be able to see past their limitations.

 The Universe, the Solar System, the Earth, extinct lifeforms and species and Human Beings all exist on a timescale that is not connected to the made up concept of it being '2014'. Understand that and you can start to see the depth of thought required to view our existence through logical eyes. Maybe then we can start to update our 'traditions', making them more suitable to our levels of advancement.