Before I can get started with my Mickey Mouse philosophy rant, are you willing to grant me that in philosophy and life in general we place our emphasis on space?  On our being a “being” or a “something” in this world that deals with all of these events that get thrown at us and all of these obstacles that we as “beings” need to go through?  I think that’s something that’s pretty taken for granted today…right?  Good, now that we agree, when you delve into that emphasis we place on space, on the material, that means that if you took time away for an instant and froze it, if you stopped time, then you should be able to grab the essence of what we’re all about, right? If what we are is material, space, with time stopped we should be able to find the “soul” of us, our true being should be contained in that instant of frozen time.  But we wouldn’t be anything different than a rock or piece of wood.  Time is what injects life.  I think we’ve been putting our emphasis on the wrong thing.  Instead of space experiencing time, we’re time experiencing space!  Then the question arises, how do we experience time without space…and the answer is we don’t…but time seems to be more fundamental than space and yet we seem to place less emphasis on it and view it as something that we simply deal with or as a means to get from one action to another.  Look at the time previous to our birth, before we came into existence, by viewing simply space, there’s no possible way to view how we came into being, there’s no way we existed as space 1000 years ago,but we had to of existed as time because we were involved in the continuum of life.  We eventually came into “being”…we eventually came into this space that we’re now experiencing, but yet, we view space that we came into, this body that we occupy, this world that we live in, as being fundamental, when in essence, its secondary and what we are, fundamentally is time, and space is simply a vehicle of our experiencing ourselves.  As hard as it is to define, we intuitively know that time is different from space and I think we’ve been putting our emphasis on the space aspect of life when we should be focusing on the fact that the material is more of a function of our existence rather than the object of our existence.  What does this mean?  I don’t know, let me go grab another 6 pack and i’ll get back to you on that.

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