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Have you ever thought about a world without clocks?

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Read Daniel Boorstin's book "The Discoverers"
originally we didn't have clocks, time was determined by the seasons and solstices/equinox etc. Days were from sun up to sun down.

Clocks started in monasteries as alarms for prayer times, I think it was seven divisions, then industry and electricity divided the day into smaller increments to be able to work day and night and so our modern time got severely compressed.

Macro to micro.....really screws up the biorhythms.
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Posted Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:32PM
Wouldn't make a difference. We'd just go back to sunup-sundown schedules.
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Posted Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:35PM
What about a world that was situated between two suns... so there was permanent day, and then take away the clocks... I love chaos.
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Posted Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:33PM
actually the world is a clock.
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Posted Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:32PM
yup, people are in too much of a hurry, we need to slow down a little.
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Posted Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:27PM
Now, That would be intesting!
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Posted Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:27PM
That'd be awesome, cause you would never be late for work!
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Posted Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:27PM
I would go bat s*** f****** loco without clocks
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Posted Oct 9th, 2009 at 11:52PM
The Mayans had an extremely accurate understanding of time, dependant upon the astronomy and seasons; but their day started at sunrise and finished at the next sunrise, yet they had no clocks... Their days and their lives were tied in to the natural cycles.

Jose Arguelles made a good case for the idea that "Gregorian Time" and clocks suppressed the humans' spirituality by de-coupling them from Nature, and thus made materialism be more important to them.

For myself, I would welcome a world where we did not constantly refer to the clock to tell us "when it was time to do" certain things - but I can't imagine our "modern civilisation" existing without clocks. You only have to think a little about this to realise how completely our calendar and clocks dominate almost our every activity.

Never mind - all this is likely to be "severely disturbed" for everyone in a few years time, when Planet Nibiru comes by us, and turns everything upside down! We may easily find ourselves going by sunup and sundown again...
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