Originally Posted by Odin
I am tired of the statement "There's another 5 minutes of my time I can't have back"
Solely because you didn't have it to begin with. There is nothing so vague and stupid as the ownership of time.
The future is a place that is ever ahead, the past is something behind. So if you spend 5 minutes looking at something those 5 minutes don't exist any more and you can't borrow 5 minutes in the future to trade against something in the past.
As well as the fact that the future is limitless and by that same token non-existant. I can't get to the future because by getting there it turns to the present. The same applies to the past. See paradox.
As a matter of fact you can't actually even divide that decision making, into a second as you can't accurately predict when or at what time the decision making happened. What about the milisecond, a second below that?
Did it happen at.... 12:05 .04.85.78.23.53? It's an ever presenting system of minutia representing by drawings of items supposed to represent something that isn't tangible at all. 12:05 could mean the same thing as AA:34 or perhaps Zimbabwe. If everyone in the world called that particular moment Zimbabwe, then we would all think of time as in Zimbabwe, or maybe even after Zimbabwe.
Terminology is the greatest hinderance of all.
Example - Zeno
In this fashion it would be more appropriate to say that there isn't anything which is a waste of time. Thus there isn't anything that is or isn't a waste of time.
ALSO
That means that time cannot be precious, treasured, or valued. It can't be wasted, hurried or danced away.
and you cannot, most CERTAINLY HAVE IT BACK!
