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by reify 602 days ago
1. stare death in the face, Accept the inevitable. to know death is to know life

2. stop using chronos time and change to kairos time.

Chronos = chronological time Kairos = appropriate time

It is perhaps significant that, of the two, the western world has adopted chronological time as a linear measurement of time rather than the concept of appropriate time.

Thus, chronological time becomes functional: we spend time, lose time, waste time, serve time, being on time and even kill time.

I have always been a Kairos man myself, being with time.

It is so much more liberating