Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Clock vs. Anti-Clock

So, we were out for dinner tonight, three RTS trainers and one of us noticed that the clock on the wall was running backwards. The second hand was actually going counter-clockwise instead of clockwise... And the minute hand and hour hand were going backwards as well. One trainer said they must have put the batteries in backwards... And then the third trainer noticed that the clock was actually a backwards clock... the numbers were reversed... So, although it looked like it was actually running backwards, it was just telling time in a counter-clockwise manner... not a clockwise direction... To see a picture, go here...

http://www.thebackwardsclock.com/?gclid=CIbpzIHcuaACFSZHagodOiouTw

And that got us to thinking... not how many trainers it takes to figure out a problem like telling time... but how it is that we have certain ways of looking at the world that just seem normal to us... What would it be like to use a backwards clock in our house... how hard would it be to shift our thinking around it? It's like driving on the right side of the road vs. the left side. Who's to say which is the "right" side? Same with a clock... who's to say that clockwise is the right way to go... why not have it go counterclockwise... What difference woul that make. Same with reading... we read horizontally left to right... but the Jews read right to left and vertically... who's to say which is the right way?? Which got me thinking... we get so used to things being a certain way in our world, to doing things a certain way that we just take that for granted. We can't even see another way of doing things. Whether it's telling time or reading or handling issues in our lives... What if we looked for something different in our lives?? Something "counter-clockwise"... We joked that if our clockwise clocks were the "clocks"... then this backwards clock would be an "anti-clock"... you know, matter vs. anti-matter... something like that... Anyhow... what could be done "counter-clockwise" in your world, rather than the standard "clockwise"??

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