This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions
Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.
There are essentially two ways to explore time: from the outside and from the inside. From the outside there is Newtonian absolute time (the time we continually measure) and Relative time, our gift from Einstein.
Then there is inside time, where the possibilities are almost endless.
THE PAST is dependent on the reliability of memory, record keeping and interpretation.
THE PRESENT lacks objectivity.
THE FUTURE depends on probability and cannot be examined until it becomes the present or the past and then we are not examining the future.
Our featured speaker on this topic, Elka Enola, is a poet and social activist who has been an atheist since she learned the words ‘why’ and ‘how’. Since she still knows those words, her life-long quest of learning continues.
On the topic of time, Elka is especially interested in our inner time. How do we ‘live in the future and in the past’ while we are in the present? What is ‘now’? What is reality? Is the past real? The future? For a healthy life, how should we balance our focus between the past, the present and the future? Do temporal categories exist or are they a human construct?
Here are some links to YouTube videos on Time to get you started thinking on this topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3tbVHlsKhs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P3Ous2IjiQ
Please RSVP on meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/bhgwksyccqbzb/
Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
This meeting has been recorded: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mJ1BolNr_PCXZFVWk2eBiFh4issxDqzs/view?usp=sharing