Common Good Café is a monthly get-together where we discuss topics related to those things we all possess in common, things like the weather, water, sunlight. We normally meet on the second Monday of the month, and this session is on Monday, November 10th, from 5:00 to 6:00PM. We will meet this time using Zoom Meeting, and you must register to join. To register, click this link: http://bit.ly/436njP3
November’s topic is Time. This was suggested by Café regular, Greg Sund. He gives us this thought: “I would like to start by exploring the statement ‘ I don’t have time’, when in fact, the amount of time available to each of us has never changed. The change is people’s priorities.”
Our concept of time involves the entire gamut of our existence. We can see it in the realm of apparent objectivity, as in physic’s exact seconds, minutes and hours, all the way to a vague, subjective and troubling property involving our self-worth, existential angst, fear of over-working, being productive or being lazy. It’s a concept that seems on the one hand to be obvious, but as we try to define it accurately, the question of “what is time, and what does it mean” is impossible to get our brains around. Does time exist outside our mental concept of it? Is time the ever-present companion of memory, and if memory ceases does time follow? Does time exist at all or are we simply moving from one distinct reality to the next? Is everyone’s experience of time the same? Is Time just a magazine?
We will meet on 2nd Monday of every Month, at 5:00PM via Zoom. Please contact Tom Potter for more information.
