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I read Slaughterhouse 5 a few months ago and it really made me think about the concept of time. I agree with many of the previous posters in that what we commonly think of as time (minutes, years, hours etc) is of course a man made creation.
However, I was thinking about it, and how time relates to my own life. For instance, my body is composed of proteins from the fish I ate last "week", from the water I drank which came from the local watershed when it rained a "month" ago. At some point I will die and the carbon will be released from my body and become part of something else such as a tree etc.
If the fish existed before it became a part of me, and I exist now before I become a part of the tree, perhaps the linear infinite <-----fish--------ME-----------tree---> model is somewhat useful. Perhaps that tree already exists in the future and I in my current form am the past relative from the tree's perspective.
This is somewhat of a rambling post, but I thought I would just share some of my thoughts.
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"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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