by
R.M.
Abstract:
This article
deals with the mondial opposition of cultural
time-respect. It stresses the importance of a
conscious dualistic and holistic approach that
does justice to all legal, religious and profane
claims of time-management. The resulting full
calendar of order is discussed as an ideal
contribution to a solution for the problem of
time-management of the New World
Order.
Contents
1:
Sunnies and Moonies.
2:
The nature of our mondial
schizophrenia
2.a:
Consciousness
3:
The cure
3a:
The week
3b:
Logic
4:
Implementation
1:
Sunnies and Moonies.
At the end of
the year 1999 I bought myself a new calendar:
the year 2000 in print. I was pleased to have
this calendar as I noticed that something was
restored with it. The calendar I bought the year
before was not available anymore: it was a handy
type of week by week calendar that was fixed on
a black plastic board so it could be hung and be
written on. It had only one little defect: it
did not show the phases of the Moon. Although at
the time I had no special interest in the Moon
it nevertheless struck me as an example of
cultural impoverization. It was at the time of
the war in Kosovo. But that handy plastic board
was not available anymore this year. The new one
I bought did not have the handy plastic board,
but just a cardboard back with an irrelevant
logo printed on it: it said EFFICIENCY.
Well I wasn't sure of that since it lost its
plastic and gained in advertising itself. But
still it also had regained the original
tradition of respecting the Moon. The phases
were neatly displayed week by week. The
tradition had won! Although almost the complete
of our christian western culture has no idea at
all of how to respect the phases of the moon,
still we maintain this tradition. And I was
pleased to see this. Not annoyed because of an
attachment to the past or something. No I
understood why.
The war in
Kosovo is over, Serbia has been defeated by the
power of the western alliance. By sheer
technical scoring the enemy had to withdraw and
Kosovo was liberated from its oppression and
terror. Two other wars though drew attention
since: the war between India and Pakistan about
the territory of Kashmir and the war of Russia
against the rebel forces of Dachestan and
Tsjetsjenië in '99. It reminds one of the
medical problem of fighting symptoms realizing
that the disease has not been defeated. As we
cure from the wounds of one war a war almost
alike pops up at another place. Although it has
a different place on the political map, the
present war of Russia against terrorism has the
same ring as the war of the Serbians against
other rebel forces. The war in Northern India
was of the fundamentalist kind: two likewise
systems quarreling about the historical
uncertainty of a territorial claim with Islam
opposing Hinduism. Both cultures are
(religiously spoken) lunar cultures, but the
Islam religiously has a 'purely' lunar calendar
repeating itself after 32.5 years while India
has an intercalated lunar year aligning with the
seasons with a regular 13th month added. Between
Christianity and Islam there is a more striking
difference of timerespect as with the opposing
politics of the lunar system to itself. The wars
between Islam and Christianity are more
'promising', more threatening than an internal
lunar conflict. The war in India was quickly
settled by some diplomacy. Not really a threat
to the world peace, although there was a nuclear
potency that was new in the game. No, more
dangerous is the opposition between Islam and
Christianity. Not just because of all kind of
historical connotation. We are old enemies
always prepared to continue the quarrel where we
left it, but we still have enough science,
politics and econonmy in common interest to keep
the diplomacy open and progressive. Rationally
on the material level the historical differences
are not the real problem. It is more the elusive
psychology of the systems of belief, the
fundamentalist materialist and the
fundamentalist moralist systems, that is
threatening.
This
psychology can be analyzed as an opposition of
sunnies against moonies. Christianities only
virtue of timerespect is the respect for the
length of the solar year. That is about all that
Christianlity has accomplished in two millennia
of experimenting with time next to the byproduct
of a political monster of historical attachment
called the standardtime of the clock and the
julian/gregorian roman calendar. Opposed to that
sunny virtue of ego-culture - the sun is the
symbol of the ego - we have the moonies of the
Islam. They also have as one of their major
virtues of timerespect the respect for the
regularity of the Moon [not mentioning their
respect for the sundial with their prayer-times
that makes them an alternate kind of sunnies
too, in this case bound to the irregular hours
of the seasons] with the byproduct of an age
long quarrel about what exactly a lunar year
would be with e.g. lunisolar personalist India.
The moon symbolizes the fixation - fixed as it
is on the sun with no spin - and Islam therefore
rejects the imaging of man and beast. Pakistan
and India could have a war with their lunar
differences - as India wouldn't deny the Sun,
the ego, the person (or Kashmir) with the Moon -
and the West could hardly understand or take
this serious from the perspective of healthy
economic and political ego. To them the lunar
quarrel seemed childish and incomprehensible.
What is the economic ground for the differences?
Is Kashmir of such an economic or strategic
importance? Not really. It is a lot of
mountains. Thus an end to that. Simple. The
sunnies aren't that crazy. Of course. They are
rational, pragmatic and economic and the moonies
are sentimental, principal, unpractical and
childish .... At the other hand as shown by
first Serbia and later by Russia is the West not
really innocent either in its ego-politics of
claiming territory in Islam regions. Of course
those rebels only need social security, but make
a need for an independent state of it being
urged to that security. Western ego-politics
then turn out to be more destructive, repressive
and also economically irrational than the
internal lunar differences of the eastern Lunar
calendar-systems to themselves, personalist or
not. Western ego-politics even have the power to
unify all those lunar claims in a world war of
moonies declaring that the onesided, not to the
real moon connected sunnies [and also not to
the real sun as for the weekorder and the clock
thus] are godless and possessed by the
materialist devil. There are many Islam
fundamentalists who see it this way already. Can
the world heal from this threat of total
alienation and destruction?
2:
The nature of our mondial
schizophrenia
Christians are
smart politicians: they know how to be graceful
with the material sins to the point of being
accused of the materialism themselves. The Pope
would be just another businessman repressive
about his own moralist manipulations of time and
peoples. The sun-God J.
worshipped on the heathen sun-day weekorder of
Babylon sanctified (?) by the true solar year
and a perfected leaping method, would be denied
all relevance of calendering to the other lunar
wealth and happiness of loving and maintaining
to the actual grace of the natural order of God
our Creator (with the exception of the lunisolar
date of Easter). This is how a moony can see the
sunny fool of repression and denial. He makes
serious arguments right against the holiness and
backbone of the other half of the world this
way. Christianity reformed because of these
arguments, seeing them in an internal conflict
about what the freedom of worshiping
J.
would be. To the Islam the whole personalist
practice was wrong. To them, although
practicallly the mooncalendar is only respected
for the ramadan, descended J.
from
heaven because the roman Moon-calendar was
repressed and denied its divine reality of
respect for the Creation - the will- of God- by
means of the Julian reform 46 B.C. that made the
original romulan roman lunar calendar solar over
night. Losing ones grip on the moon the division
of the jullian version of our calendar had no
reference to nature, the will of God, any longer
apart from the date of New Year. The division of
the year had become a matter of political ego as
evidenced by the naming of the month's to
emperors (July and August) to such an extend
that all rationality of the reform was
immediately thereafter thrown over board
skipping the 30-31- solar month regularity with
the socalled augustian reform at the time of
J.,
which was a travesty of what a calendar reform
should be and was a prelude to the actual fall
of the roman empire in 410 A.D.: the total
demise of the original roman order of time less
than a century after the roman abolishing of the
civil solar weekorder of Ides and
Nones.
Time -
management is typically what unites politics
with religion. It is what priests and
politicians have in common. The state or the
religion sets the clock and the calendar and the
civilian population simply has to respect and
follow the command of order. For the sake of the
New World order we have to face this basic
cultural problem of political/religious claims
of undemocratic and unscientific 'pragmatic'
commands and (historically Roman, Napoleonic,
Fascistic and Communistic) dictatures of
time-management. Analyzed to its historical
reality the timeproblem can be boiled down to
the difficulty of having as well a solar year as
a lunar division of month's and moonphase type
of-weeks to settle for the legal days of
fruitive action. Sun and Moon make discrete
rhythmic events of nature that do not determine
one another. This is also true for the celestial
sky that is a third factor of discrete
regularity to count with, but which has not this
historical and cultural weight as has the
sun-moon opposition (see the book Calendar of
D.E.D..
for an historical account). The very reality of
discrete natural events is a challenge to the
world culture: for practical purposes we need a
mondial respect for the seasons: agriculture
needs this kind of time-respect planning for
harvesting and sowing. Also much of our state
order is set to the seasons: holidays and times
for legal and commercial actions like collecting
taxes or drawing statistics and having political
debates, or selling season specific products.
This makes a solar calendar indispensable: we
not only need a solar year with calendered days,
but also a division of that year in regular
seasons, month's and weeks.
2a:
Consciousness
We could say:
what is the difference between a weekorder that
goes against the solar year like with the
phases of a moon calendar or with the Babylonian
weekorder that was settled by Emperor
C. in
the fourth century A.D. (321), and a weekorder
that is a logical division of the solar
year as with the ancient cakra-calendar
offered in the Hindu-bible the Bhagavata
Purâna
(which is not the same as the Bhagavad
Gîtâ that can be compared to the
sermon on the mountain of Lord J.
)? It
is a matter of consciousness. For the sake of
consciousness one needs to know of a difference.
In time-consciousness that is the difference
between two types of regularity or cyclic time.
Without the choice one is driven by the system
and in consonance not really in control or
conscious of it. As a world citizen one has in
fact the choice of the western style contrasting
culture with nature making babylonian
commercial/religious culturally fixed weeks
against a gregorian division of the solar year
in fixed dates and month's. One can also
contrast the eastern-style natural lunar phases
of a lunar calendar against the reality and
(another possible) division of the natural solar
year. One could this way thus speak of a
cultural time-consciousness and a natural
time-consciousness. But this is not what we see
in the present world culture at the end of the
millennium. What we see is moonies against
sunnies losing (their claims of) consciousness,
blaming one another of the one-sidedness of
their own (social-control of) ego-politics
(personalist or not). The lunar calendars are
aligned with either the sun in a lunisolar way
like the Chinese and the Indians making for
personalist dictates or are religiously going
against all sun-management [apart from the
solar prayer-times] in a what
M.
ordained to be a 'purely' lunar calendar
[that is to say, a 'lunar year' of twelve
lunar months arbitrarily starting somewhere not
being validated to any natural phenomenon]
that has no respect for the seasons at all
derailing in a fundamentalist moralist
dictature. At the other hand the sunnies go for
the chaos-theory of freedom and liberation in
free enterprise and glorification of the
individual (or commercial) ego in defiance of so
it seems all belief and social coherence and
continence, suffering from ever increasing crime
rates, cultural alienation and moral decay. What
the world in total is suffering from is of the
schizoid state of being psychologically drawn to
the extremes of consonance to ones own
system.
Mental disease
individually or collectively can be recognized
as a blocking of progress. If from our
selfinterests we attain to pride and honor in
defense of our cultural ego's, we run into
problems if we miss the wisdom of a holistic
mind that can account for the total complexity
of the cultural oppositions. Progressing on
selfhood alone or on a single one-sided
subcultural ego, one will never realize peace
and equality among the classes of positively
being identified with ones age and vocation. No
world order is really possible if this holistic
respect of relativizing the ego to the command
of real progress to the wisdom of the soul is
not achieved. Never will one system dominate the
world but the system that comprises at least the
duality of the - in this case - sun-moon
opposition of cultural-natural consciousness
thus lessening the reductionism inherent to the
consonance of any system. In the end also such a
holistic non-repressive culture to the moon-sun
duality will have to find a third relative to
the celestial sky. But first things first. For
the sake of a realistic concept of world-order
one cannot escape the matter of political and
religious timing.
At present -
at the end of the millennium the world is in a
schizophrenic state: by means of the media we
are constantly talking to ourselves without
really having a proper sense of control over
what is reflected in the media. The cinema sells
complete nightmares. Populism and commerce
demands everything to be revealed and our
psychologies are directed for non-repression to
prevent another tide of the unconscious. But the
schizophrenic patient is always fighting with
himself. Numerous wars are taking place all over
the planet and there is no collective
selfconfidence of seeing a possibility of ever
getting out of it. We even have a love-plague
called Aids that blocks our less virtuous
sexuality (the blocking which is also a mark of
schizophrenia). Westerners cling to their
clime-dependend wealth and try to forget the
necessity to share also at a mondial level. As a
psychiatrist would say: only if the patient will
accept a proper life-discipline of feeding,
socializing and housekeeping, that person could
be considered cured from his alienation and
internal strife. But individually treated our
world problem of talking to ourselves and
fighting with ourselves to a point that no one
understands anymore of how and what, can hardly
be cured but by chemical straightjackets that
(seem to) have to be kept for ones lifetime
since there is never enough of a healthy, free
associating social control in a society
consciously keeping to human values in proper
respect for animal weaknesses and the greater of
natural order. If individually the problem of
schizophrenia can't be cured, then could we cure
this rampant disease at a collective level? Can
we stop having an organized hallucination by
means of television sets, radio's and
GSM-phones? Can we stop all warfare in the world
and share the wealth with all worldcitizens
having equal rights to a fair share? Is there
any chance of curing from our modernist
alienations and crime-rates and restore to
self-confidence and social control in a wiser
and riper concept and reality of local community
and cultured discipline?
3:
The cure
Facing sun and
moon and our cultures of personalist and
impersonalist ego there about, we have to say
that there is quite a job to do. As said the
motive must be for wisdom: a proper
recollection
of our past experiences aligning it to
scriptural truth's and communal
confirmations.
With the wrong concept of progress along the
lines of liberal self-interests only or
singleminded democratic ego-interests and
defenses next to them, we can never attain to a
worldorder of proper human sanity and justice.
We have to face the psychology of natural and
cultural time-consciousness: both options make
cultural ego's that have to embrace a holistic
approach in order not to regress and fall in
unrighteous actions of repressions and denials
about one's own one-sidedness. First of all
these ego's are not wrong in themselves. Just as
one leg is not wrong to another one or even
better or worse. To begin with the cure is as
said to be found in the dualistic option (see
also the article A
New Dualism)
that commands a gregorian calendar with
moonphases as well as a moon calendar [in
the sense of being set to the division of the
moon] set to gregorian dates. And next this
natural option of the sun and moon needs to be
consciously contrasted with the cultural options
of weekorder, solar month's and standard timing.
Of course this at first hand is a matter of
personal respect for the 'will of God' as well
as expressed in nature as in the devotion of
cultural systems there about. Scientifically
this means that simply one has to accept the
dictum of validity: what are we talking about
and what are we measuring?
3a:
The Week
As such, from
the scientific point of view, the babylonian
weekorder of Constantine is in jeopardy of being
abolished by scientific logic. There is no
scientific ground for it. The fact that
theologically it is prescribed to have a day of
rest after six days of working does not say
anything about how such a concept of a single
week should be used as a unit of measurement in
a division of time (to the month and the solar
year). From the social science of theology we
cannot do without such a unit of measurement,
but it is as with the atomic time unit of
measurement expressing the length of the second
in cycles of the Cesium atom: the unit of
measurement still demands for a reference point
of measurement with a scale to know exactly what
one is measuring with the division of time thus
achieved. If we say Sunday e.g. on a calendar,
we still need a definition of that day that does
not depend on an arbitrary authority for its
implementation. We won't ask the pope, because
the pope will have no answer, as the Holy Bible,
i.c. the christian practice, simply does not say
what date would define the Sunday (be it that
the sabbath factually should begin at the ninth
of the month-Lev.23:32). He just graced the
pagan babylonian weekorder, after the roman
abolishing of the from the moon alienated Nones
and Ides of the reformed julian calendar. Nor
can we call the day of a moonphase the new
Sunday as that wouldn't make for a seventh day
at all, irregular as the moon is to a date. For
a scientific respect for the order of a week we
have two options: 1) scriptural truth: is there
any scripture of social and religious importance
in the world proclaiming what date of a natural
phenomenon - an independent variable thus -
would make a Sunday? 2) Logic: from the rules of
formal logic one can try to arrive at a
parsimonious reasoning for a division of time
that is in line with the seven-days
concept.
1: There is
scriptural proof of a division of the year that
leads to a fortnight of half a (lunar?) month.
The Bhagavata
Purâna
, the 'Vishnu-Bible', describes
(canto
3 chapter 11)
a so called paksah or panca dasa that belongs to
a solar year or vatsara, a year described by the
Sun 'traveling North to South and back'. But
there is no mention of a seven days week or a
prescription of taking rest: one would rather
have a sacrifice for the altar of God every day.
Work is worship and why should one stop with
that? The Bible as such is a progression in the
history of relating to God when it comes to
time. From the Veda's we have the real sun God
(called I
or S.,
but also
Lord
K.
claims to be the light of the
sun),
telling us
in other chapters to respect as well as the
solar year as the moon and the celestial sky as
the visible part of God (see Bhagavad
Gita).
From the dispersed scriptural truths we have to
assemble a complete order: the year and the
month as its division in 12 and the 15-day
fortnight (half a month) are taken
from
the Veda's.
The week is taken from the Holy Bible and the
exact durations are taken from astronomical
tables.
The discrete events of the moon do not seem to
be of the same solar division, but from the
holistic point of view they should according to
the ancient romulan roman calendar make for
signal days that settle the days of legal and
commercial fruitive action. Thus we have a
weekorder for 'solar' purposes of ego-management
(christian birthdays e.g.) and lunar phases for
'legal and religious ' purposes of setting the
days of work. This is a completely different
outlook at the history of mankind relating to
the 'God of Time'. From a non-repressive
approach all these arguments of point no 1 are
of equal value. The next point no 2 of formal
logic would have to answer the practical
question of what kind of calendar our history
actually and holistically has amounted
to.
3b:
Logic
Logically we
want a system as parsimonious as possible that
still is in respect with the full complexity of
natural discrete events and cultural precepts
and traditions. Such a full
calendar of
order
does as said abolish illogic and arbitrariness.
That is the reduction necessary to satisfy all
options as well as the intellect about it.
Logically the pagan weekorder does not have to
complain of losing Thor's day- Thursday- or
Wodan's day -Wednesday-. The christian Bible
assures the continence of this definition of the
week. What changes is arriving with the concept
of the 15-day fortnight: an extra day of the
week named after its origin: Cakra (affiliated
with chakra, the energy-knots), the vedic term
for the celestial sky (meaning wheel or disc or
order of time). This so called
'Sisumara-Cakra', in fact the milky way -
is considered the visible of the Lord of Time
(see
quotes).
Thus one would have an extra 'sun'-day every
fortnight for which no specific actions are
known to be prescribed, with which one could
(should) study the spiritual, filognostic
(loving-the-knowledge) literatures. Being set to
the sun these Cakra-sundays would make for a
(Cakra)
calendar
of 48 weeks of 7-8 days leaving 6 (celestial
star-)days to be divided equally over the year
according to another division in the same
Purâna of having 6 seasons. That way after
each two months from the 22 dec. (the beginning
of the astronomical and logical Cakra-year) one
would have one extra season day except for the
midsummer seasonday that will have to be omitted
for having a solar in stead of a celestial
calendar. Thus leaping the weekorder to have a
lunar division on a solar calendar we have
24
fifteenth days (FD's) and 5 season-days (SD's)
next to 48 normal weeks of six working days each
with 48 normal
sundays
as we were used to with the old
gregorian/babylonian weekdivision
(see
table).
Such a renewed gregorian/vedic logical and
astronomically founded division of the year
would comply with all demands of logic and
theology available. The full calendar of order
thus would consist of a gregorian indication of
dates and the solar year, thus respecting our
millennia old history of calendering. Second the
calender would get a new weekorder abolishing
the babylonian pagan option of unaligned, not
leaped, linear weeks that is from then on
differently respected by means of the
Cakra-division in 48 weeks, giving each day a
fixed date (other
reforms
for fixing dates to days can be considered
arbitrary as they are not founded on any other
logic but the pragmatical). Thus one would have
less sundays than originally was the case and at
these social-solar-ego-sundays it would be legal
(see
footnote *)
to work under the condition that it serves the
social ego and free association of social
control. This means that the whole culture of
keeping distance with the media would have an
arrest on those sundays. Those days are meant
for free socializing and the restoration of
social contacts in the public sphere to affirm
the communal bond, whether one works for it or
not. In the evenings of those sundays one should
watch no television, have internet of radio
attendance or telephone sessions. Thus the
problems of social alienation with the modern
media will be properly dealt with. Thirdly that
calendar will still maintain its days of closing
shops and offices and refraining from fruitive
action individually at the phases of the moon
that are simply indicated already on each
gregorian calendar worldwide. Those days are fit
for contemplation, religious services and study
of the (lunar) cultural fixations. Thus is the
respect honored for as well the (till then
still) legal traditions and the religious
traditions of sun and moon-respect, as well as
the respect for the pagan traditions of naming
the weekdays in a full concept of order (for the
actual look of it go
to tables)
4:
Implementation
This new
calendar having so many familiar traits like
having the same gregorian dates to the same
gregorian year with different less religious
solar socialization sundays and more
religious/contemplative studious moonphase days
of legal refraining from salaried work and the
same (but less) weeks with the same pagan names
of the days, offers a completely renewed and
historically correct vision of the total
worldorder relating to God in the form of time.
It seems to be an ideal solution if it were not
for the fact that taking four weeks out of the
division of the solar year seems to slow the
tempo of work to a more stress-less point that
there could be a negative economic or
psychological effect from it. But that is an
illusion. The full calendar does offer a slower
tempo of work but really not more days of
leisure. Against 235 working days on the old
gregorian calendar derived from 52 working weeks
of 5 working days and 25 holidays, one would
have 237 days of work derived from 48 work weeks
of 6 work days and 25 holidays in
the
year 2753 AUC
(including 48 sometimes coinciding free lunar
signaldays). The two working days more would be
compensated for a more convenient use of
holidays. In the year 2000 e.g. one only has to
take 10 holidays to stay away for 19 days at a
row. Thus this calendar not only offers a more
relaxed tempo with fewer (but one day longer)
weeks but also offers more easy holidays through
a better economic use of them. Because one can
also do work at Cakra-days the amount of hours
worked per day can economically be reduced to a
better balanced 6 hours a day in stead of the
usual 8 hours/day. Thus the implementation would
give no serious economic effects and could even
bring an improvement, because of possibly less
sick-leave with a more sane division like this.
Politically though this system cannot be
imposed, only subculturally, by individuals and
individual companies and social systems of
organization this can be tried out. Only after a
reasonable majority of the people are practicing
this full calendar of order and are enjoying the
benefits of a greater social cohesion and better
temporal dualistic and mondial intercultural
logic, the government can [for itsself]
try to represent and settle it formally. It must
not be forgotten what is warned against in the
Holy Bible that impositions of time are a mark
of the beast religiously and an intrusion in the
private lives of people legally and a breach
with the mature option of selfdetermination
psychologically (see
quotes).
As such all politics can do to begin with is to
liberalize, deregulate and abolish all legal
setllements of time, thus addressing the
individual responsibility of the mature citizen.
Also it must not be forgotten that just changing
the calendar might not be enough to motivate and
reinforce an individual alternative
time-consciousness, as without implementing
a
likewise reform to
clocktime-management,
not the whole system of conditioning to the
onesided schizoid conflictuous warfaring option
has been overcome (therefore at the
tables of the full calendar of
order
there is given the
equation of
time
that is needed to set a reference clock to the
Sun).