Contemplating a year of Timefulism
Ok, most of you had fair warning. Starting tomorrow, you’ll get a post from Timefulism every day for the next year, giving suggestions for what to be thankful for that day, and perhaps ways of building community around that gratitude. As you know, Timefulism maps the life of the universe onto a single year with this formula:
2032 – (1.06605715821365-n + 365 – n)
Using this formula, the “timespan” of January 1 is nearly a billion years (-13.8B to -12.94B), but timespans decrease pretty rapidly — March 1 is about 20 million years (-316.8M to -297.2M), June 1 is about 55 thousand years (-879.3K to -824.7K), September 1 is about 150 years (540 BC to 387 BC), November 1 is about 4 years (1921 AD to 1925 AD), and the last days of the calendar, covering the last few years, are just over one year each. This post provides more explanation.
The daily entries will likely be based on events set forth in this chart – events that have contributed to our present, and which are therefore worthy of contemplation – but there will likely be deviations. If you have an idea for a post about an upcoming date, let me know, and I will probably suggest that you write a guest post on it (Timefulism is open source, after all). But if you don’t have time for that, I’ll be happy to give it a try.
Feel free also to forward posts to friends and encourage them to subscribe. If Substack asks you or them to pledge money, just say no. That not the point.
If I get better and quicker at it, I might start making youtube videos again. In fact, I’m making one for Jan. 1 — a guided meditation on the Big Bang. Of course, you’re supposed to close your eyes while meditating, so it’ll be up to you whether you decide to actually watch the video.
If you’re new to this Substack, the core of Timefulism is gratitude for Time and Luck, since Time and Luck can both be seen as “higher powers” that have given us everything we have. Our gratitude, in turn, should impel us to try to make the world an even better place for those we share it with and for those who come after us. There are introductions to aspects of Timefulism in the archive.
Happy New Year!