The Imperative Incumbent Upon Us as "Time Beings"

By Edwin L. Young, PhD
August 16, 2010

 As a ‘Time Being’, embrace all of it, present, future, and past.  It is all yours. 

The past and future are unseen. 

As a Being with thought and imagination, use these gifts from nature to reason about the past and envision the future and intentionally create a rational present.  Otherwise, you and we perilously are subjects to and of blind determinism.

The physical sciences of the observable present are exact but lack evaluative reasoning and intentional choices for our future.  The less physical sciences are those examining the past and predicting future and these are more inexact as well.  It is incumbent upon humans to be ‘Time Beings’ and use our reason and imagination with respect to the past and future. 

While humans had less power over the observable present due to less sophisticated science and more primitive technology, the limited use of reason and imagination with respect to the past and future was less perilous.  Our current level of scientific and technological power is now enormous and has encompassed the globe, including humans and all of nature.

Whether scientist, citizen, or politician, he who abdicates his nature as a ‘Time Being’ abandons himself and, to varying degrees, all of us to chimerical fate. 

 It is imperative that we appropriate our nature as ‘Time Beings.’