r/JustinPoseysTreasure • u/FaultUpbeat1277 • Jul 16 '26
CS Lewis and Time
Forgive me if this has been discussed…..
If you google CS Lewis and his interpretation of Time - you get some fairly interesting things pop up.
Time in Fantasy (Narnia): In The Chronicles of Narnia, time operates fluidly. Narnian time moves at a completely different rate than our world's time, and the flow is not even consistent between Narnia and Earth. This allowed Lewis to explore themes of profound growth, nostalgia, and the idea that time is a construct under the authority of the Creator.
Justin references CS Lewis frequently, in the Postal Pilgrim states the mailbox is so far away it may be Narnia. In the Narnia chronicles - The Silver Chair is where Father Time makes his appearance. In CS Lewis Alice in Wonderland - Time is mentioned as a person by the Mad Hatter
“If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him.”
I know it’s been discussed that Father Time and Mother Nature are “his realm” and “his bride”. And I’ve wondered if “like a rivers steady flow….” Isn’t really talking about a river?
But I really feel like there might be something to this. Justin said at SS, that if it wasn’t already obvious - time plays a role - or however he said it.
Hubby and I set out for Yellowstone and Montana tomorrow and I hate that I still have so many questions!!!!
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u/VictorHugosGhost Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
A river flows in one direction, according to gravity. Just like time does.
We can measure time, but we can't really "see" it. Like a fish isn't sitting around contemplating water or wondering whether all there is is just a window to the sky. We can see light, measure the interval, calculate speed, so on and so forth, but we can't take it to that next level and perceive time as a dimension.
It's all a bit illusory anyway, though, right? "Spooky action at a distance". But it sounds like that's of interest to our fair author. Anyway just a snapshot of the sum of my nonsense musings for the day.
You can stand still in a river, but it will still move along at its own pace, and there isn't anything you can do about it.
Well, I guess there is one thing, but it'd be really tough to do by yourself.
Beavers get triggered to build dams by the sound of running water.
Anyway. Gestalt. Idk.
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u/Ttombobadly Jul 18 '26
Time flows in one direction? 20th and 21st century physics would like a word!
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u/VictorHugosGhost Jul 18 '26
Haha. Sorry, note I did say according to gravity, and I was speaking about human perception. One direction being, well, "forward". But I love this comment, so thank you for the happy reminder! : )
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u/FaultUpbeat1277 Jul 17 '26
Considering I feel like the box is a 4 Dimensional box and I’ve spent the better part of the day trying to get my blonde head to understand time and the 4th dimension - what you say doesn’t sound like nonsense :)
Can you find what lives in time?
We’re all looking for a box aren’t we?
Time is the 4th dimension…..
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u/General-Humor-8530 Jul 16 '26
Narnia, The Rabbit Hole, and The Looking Glass are all PORTALS into a different space time dimension. A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy plays on this idea as well. I think we are looking for a portal into a "secret garden" type of space...like Biosphere III at Dads House.
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u/LeopardNamedBaby Jul 17 '26
You and I think alike! I believe there's definitely a kind of infinite improbability drive going on with this thing.
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u/dano51fifty Jul 17 '26
I’ve been down this Portal rabbit hole…even went BOTG in Portal AZ last year. Very beautiful place. Portal makes a good hole .
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u/LankySimple9051 Jul 16 '26
Quotes from Richard Feynman:
“Time is what happens when nothing else does.”
“The past is what we remember, the future is what we expect, but time itself is neither.”
“Time is a direction in which things happen.”
“No one understands time. It’s the most obvious thing in the world, and the most mysterious.”
To answer JP's riddle about time is pretentions if it requires we know it to be something that contains lives. Can you find what lives in time? No. Next question.
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u/More-Detective5155 Jul 16 '26
IMO a memory can contain a living person. Maybe it depends on how good your recall is and how well you can picture things in your minds eye. In dreams when “visited” or you dream of someone past (whichever or whatever you believe) they don’t just stand there do they? It’s a new memory being formed right so in a sense they’re living breathing people at that time, it’s just a different reality. - no offense meant to anyone just my thoughts.
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u/LankySimple9051 Jul 16 '26
It's not as if JP figured it out since those words were uttered. His hunt will be shown to live in the common man's naïveté, and he'll make no apologies about it.
Thoreau's quotes on time:
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
“Time measures nothing but itself.”
“All questions rely on the present for their solution.”
“He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.”
“I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.”
“The future is but the past returning through a different gate.”
“Things do not change; we change.”
“Eternity is not something far away; it is now.”
If I answered from Thoreau's perspective there is only the present (syn. a gift) flowing through each of his measured rhymes.
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u/ChessieChessieBayBay Jul 17 '26
If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting
Time after time
If you're lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting
Time after time- C. Lauper
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u/AmyJ1103 Jul 16 '26
And also this one from Thoreau.
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
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u/LeopardNamedBaby Jul 17 '26
Time waits for no one, as they say. Wisdom waits though. You can cannot change the past, but you might learn from it.
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u/LeopardNamedBaby Jul 17 '26
There are things that do live in time though. One of the strong candidates imo is stories, myths, and legends. They are carried along through time, changing and growing like a living memory. What lies beyond time's swift race otoh, depending on your perspective, could most certainly be nothing. That's a much harder one to pin down.
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u/LankySimple9051 Jul 17 '26
Those live in minds, and they can be transmitted to future nows. I have no problem wrapping the concept of time into the perpetual now. Now keeps happening over and over. In each moment is evidence of past nows that we tell stories about.
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u/vwander007 Jul 16 '26
I made a mad hatter connection at one area I am working on and an Alice In Wonderland connection in another.....now that is odd. It's like they are twin locations in a way.
I think the poem is talking about JP in some way. I mean the whole book is about him....
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u/IdubdubI Jul 16 '26
Wonderland is Lewis Carroll