Guilty as Charged

So I'll start off by admitting, I am very late this week with my post. My apologies.
Well that gets me thinking. What would the world be like without time? Without a way to document what happened when? How was the concept of time created? Would life be able to go on is it does now without the perception of time? Maybe things would be better off! We could move on from a terrible moment in our lives with ease, because what's now is all that matters if there is no past tense. Could this work, a world without time? Ideas?

Substitutions for Religion

To me it seems that religion is a way for people to answer the great unknowns in life. How else do people cope with these questions? Obviously there are answers like science, but are there other ways as well?

Another post about Running...

How is it that people can love running? Bill Bowerman said this to his Oregon running team, including the great American distance runner Steve Prefonataine, "Running, one might say is basically an absurd pastime upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life."  In this one statement Bowerman says first how ridiculous running is and makes it seem pointless, then tells us that running can help us truly discover the meanings of our lives.  Obviously it is more than "an absurd pastime," and has greater meaning, but what is it, and why do people love it so much?

Friendship Between Runners

"As we've seen, Aristotle says that developing a friendship based on virtue requires time, familiarity, trust, mutual good will, and mutual sacrifice.  Running provides an excellent setting in which these requirements can be met.  Running with the same person gives you the chance to spend time with them.  Of course, merely spending time with someone doesn't necessarily lead to friendship, much less the type of friendship Aristotle argues is necessary for livinga good life.  But running together, because it involves meeting challenges together, and being with your running partner away from computers, cell phones, and television frees you up to develop a deeper friendship.  Running five miles with someone on a regular basis provides ample opportunity for familiarity, trust, mutual good will, and mutual sacrifice to develop." - Michael W. Austin - from Running & Philosophy: a marathon for the mind

Premise 1 - Friendship is based on many key qualities.
Premise 2 - Running is a good way to exhibit these qualities.
Conclusion - Running is a good way to create and develop friendships.

After running on cross country and track teams for two years I am a firm believer of this conclusion, but does it truly follow from the premises, and have I stated them correctly as they appear in the quote without changing their meanings?

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern."

So you might ask what the name of my blog means, well I took the name from this quote by William Blake.  Now I have a question for all of you, when you read this, what does it mean to you? Personally these two sentences are very important to me and have great value.  But I'm not interested in my thoughts, what are yours?

Fun Fact: Jim Morrison used this quote as inspiration to name his new music group, The Doors.