September 13th 2009
Philip Hilton scribbles,
C. S. Lewis once said that one of the proofs for the soul’s immortality was the way we perceived time. Sometimes we perceive time as practically infinite — an hour can seem like an age — but sometimes we see time as infinitely small. Anybody who has spent an intensely fun day can tell you about the feeling at the end — can tell you that it all passed in an instant. Because we see time in these different ways, says Lewis, it is clear that we are ‘timeologically disoriented.’ And what reason could there be for this? The only possible reason is that our immortal soul is not ‘used’ to dealing with finite periods — hence the disorientation.
