Love At The Foundation Of Time
I was just thinking about the complex interaction between a timeless perspective and a time bound perspective, and something about the interaction feels like an important flag. Whether time is established by authority or agreement, it is a "rule" in reality, but this does not suffice to explain how time is felt. If the timeless perspective could conceivably take infinite turns between one moment and the next, then time would be a kind of one-sided concept, meaningless and likely quite structurally different than how we actually experience time.
Consider the analogy of playing a game where, in between each of your single turns, the other player could take as many turns as they wanted; it would be impossible to establish a meaningful game in this fashion if turns themselves carried benefit and no penalty, but benefit without penalty would be an analogy for omnipotence. It seems to me that the tension within time, what gives it value and makes it felt (resulting in both benefit and penalty being inherent to each turn/moment), would necessarily be the mutually agreed upon meaning within the system, ultimately the value one holds in the eyes of the other.
Without this meaning, infinite turns, no turns, etc. would all be equivalent in their expression, meaning that timeless and time bound would not be distinguishable from each other; they would be equally meaningless. I am now realizing that this is saying that love sits at the foundation of time, because love- one's interest in the other's perspective- gives purpose to taking a specific number of turns in relation to the other, a kind of dance that expresses as temporal synchronicity once accomplished, once the system is optimized. If viewing time as one of a functionally infinite plethora of agreements that might be made or not, I am now realizing that the loss of love would mean the complete desynchronization of time, as the tension in this system would disappear, the tightrope would snap. If this were to happen, it feels like an unknowable number of turns might need to be taken to recover it, if it can be recovered at all in a vast dimensional field. It feels like it would be like finding a one dimensional object in an X dimensional field, where X is both limitless and potentially variable from one turn to the next.
This is not a road that I am inclined to see, but I imagine it would be the most difficult path possible within reality if it could actually happen. I believe, however, that love is the most powerful force in Creation, so there would be no force capable of actually severing it in this way. Approximations might be discovered, however, for what I describe, resulting in functionally infinite detours that might explain the shape of reality.
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