I personally noticed that around the year 2020, it had became increasingly more difficult to get numerous things done in one day. I never considered that time could’ve been moving faster, until I randomly came across this YouTuber talking about it.
Here's a playlist on it:
View: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcqIqeE4rn7VoN0nPeJAm9xreWJIEWOpM
I highly suggest you check out this playlist if you are interested in this topic. I’ve numbered my notes and ideas to better organise things. They are not all arguments for.
(KJV) Matthew 24:22
"And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened."
The youtuber talks about it from a biblical perspective, though I know in eastern religion (Kali Yuga) and also in Islam they talk about time speeding up.
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More Examples That Prove People Don't Age Like They Used To
This article shows people in the past looking much older than their age. I think it’s because a year back then would’ve been a much more longer duration of time than a year these days. So for a rough example, a 50 year old today would have been alive for a similar duration of time (ignoring the number of days) as a 35 year old in the 1950s (as a rough idea).
If time was always moving at a constant rate, we’d see the opposite - people of the past ageing better, and modern people ageing faster with all the pufa, chemicals in the water, micro plastics, emfs, fluoride, V…..s, low social morale around these days. I also doubt that cigarettes caused this either. I think in the past cigarettes would have been less toxic, and while in the long term they are costly to health, I think it has been discussed on this forum that cigarettes are a short term metabolic booster, so they were probably having just as much of an anti-aging effect than pro ageing effect, dare I say.
Something else I want to note, especially with above conditions considered, I think that puberty is happening even earlier due to these modern day toxins, but this is being offset by time speeding up, so the ages at which puberty begins are consistent with the past. People don't notice the earlier puberty. I think that’s the best explanation for why people seem to age much slower, but still hit puberty at the similar ages as those in the past.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J3SlZSLIZg
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In the 90s, people would count seconds using ‘Mississippi’s’ - but this no longer works for ten seconds. Nowadays, 10 Mississippi’s comes to about 14-17 seconds if you count them using the accurate tempo from the 90s. (note: its not about rushing them to fit them into ten seconds, its about the rhythm)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CdhrUDJm4I
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i am well aware of the concept of proportion and time alive being related to time perception. Please do not waste any energy explaining that ‘when ur 2 years old, a year is 50% of your lifetime, where as at 50 its 2%.’ (People on reddit love to comment this as if everyone isn’t already aware of this concept, they’re like automatons, its hilarious especially with Reddits logo considered)
There are many young people who comment on this feeling of time moving by too quickly, and gen z-ers have no reference of the 90s / how slow time was back then either.
I think this is beyond the mere proportion of time passing relative to ones total time alive. that is, i suspect that the day night cycle is literally speeding up.
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One criticism / test I thought of: If old videos aren't being sped up, the listed duration of a youtube video posted in, say 2005 - 2009 should have increased. I have not kept track / don’t seem to remember the specific lengths of any old youtube videos to compare with today.
I have checked old olympics and New Years countdown footage from different years in the past. They all seem to match todays time.
ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ_laZoMzxs - 1970 new years countdown
ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=ug8zgkq4WuQ - 2022 new years countdown
ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=ZviNK1OZnFU&t=650s - every new years countdown 1975-2022
ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=XcOPiLG6pFw - 1996 100 meter sprint
ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=1qot4u59ft4 - 1988 100 meter sprint
ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=P6I_Y3HyliI
ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=G63cab_WwQc - 2000s footage, with a timer on the footage
It’s worth considering is that if a vhs video is uploaded to youtube for example - the vhs tapes would have had to have been converted to a modern digital format - and the internal clocks on the vhs player would be running at the speed of time on the date it was being converted, not the date it was recorded. So a vhs video shot in 1990 converted and uploaded in the year 2009 would have been playing in ‘2009 seconds’. more on this later.
5.
At first I wondered that if recorded music from the past would be speeding up upon playback like other media, it would be out of tune with modern instruments and tuners, ie that the sound / pitch of a note, eg A=440hz, would remain the same throughout time despite seconds/ everything else speeding up. But i then realised that musical notes, being tuned to hertz - oscillations per second, and tempo being counted in bpm - beats per minute, would just speed up with everything else and so changes in it would only be able to be measured qualitatively by memory and not with a tuner device / bpm counter etc. I imagine that the clocks in the music playback devices would just match the present moments rate of time (clocks run using crystals).(and side note, it is the case that some songs are in 'in-between' keys eg 1/2 or 1/4 semitone sharp or flat due to tape machines / speed adjustments be it for taste / easier to sing, so there are some songs that have always been 'out of tune' in a sense)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9UwxUirVKU - old tuning fork matches a modern tuner, this would mean, that if time is faster, what ever has caused it, would have also made the elements in a tuning fork from the 60s resonate at the same rate today.
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In old black and white film footage people seem to move awkwardly fast - It would be because the frame rate is being played back to modern seconds, so the reel runs faster than when it was recorded, yet the same fps.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNvFpAgNBQA - 20s/ 30s footage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=knD2EhjGwWI - round hay garden scene 1888
This should also apply to movies as well - the voices would sound higher in pitch, and the movements would be a bit faster. Though I suppose this wouldn’t be as pronounced as it was in older black and white film. I'm not sure.
7.
A friend constantly mentions that social media / digital consumption is absorbing hours of the day and that it’d be the cause of this ‘fast time feeling’. I do agree that using social media will cause time perception to speed up, but I don’t think this idea adequately accounts for everything. I think many gen z-ers will gravitate towards this explanation, but like I said earlier I think it’d be because they have no reference of time being significantly slower in the 80s, 90s etc - regardless of if they do a task that has a low stimulation and information ratio to time passing (eg going for a walk, vs scrolling on tiktok)
(disclaimers: Some people may find the conspiracy content on the channel to be ridiculous, which is totally fine. Some may also notice that on the channel he refers to 33 being a coded number for satanists and freemasons, and then it may also noticed that I have 33 in my username. I am neither of those things. Its purely coincidental and I made the username before I was aware of that association. Please keep this discussion respectful )
Personally I find this idea to be a relief. I’m no longer ashamed about my feelings of not being as productive as I used to think I ought to be. Im comfortable spacing tasks out, and it makes me more selective about what I do / watch / read etc.
(for some of the youtube links you'll have to remove the space between the ws)
Im interested to hear what the people on this forum think about all this.
Here's a playlist on it:
View: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcqIqeE4rn7VoN0nPeJAm9xreWJIEWOpM
I highly suggest you check out this playlist if you are interested in this topic. I’ve numbered my notes and ideas to better organise things. They are not all arguments for.
(KJV) Matthew 24:22
"And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened."
The youtuber talks about it from a biblical perspective, though I know in eastern religion (Kali Yuga) and also in Islam they talk about time speeding up.
1.
More Examples That Prove People Don't Age Like They Used To
This article shows people in the past looking much older than their age. I think it’s because a year back then would’ve been a much more longer duration of time than a year these days. So for a rough example, a 50 year old today would have been alive for a similar duration of time (ignoring the number of days) as a 35 year old in the 1950s (as a rough idea).
If time was always moving at a constant rate, we’d see the opposite - people of the past ageing better, and modern people ageing faster with all the pufa, chemicals in the water, micro plastics, emfs, fluoride, V…..s, low social morale around these days. I also doubt that cigarettes caused this either. I think in the past cigarettes would have been less toxic, and while in the long term they are costly to health, I think it has been discussed on this forum that cigarettes are a short term metabolic booster, so they were probably having just as much of an anti-aging effect than pro ageing effect, dare I say.
Something else I want to note, especially with above conditions considered, I think that puberty is happening even earlier due to these modern day toxins, but this is being offset by time speeding up, so the ages at which puberty begins are consistent with the past. People don't notice the earlier puberty. I think that’s the best explanation for why people seem to age much slower, but still hit puberty at the similar ages as those in the past.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J3SlZSLIZg
2.
In the 90s, people would count seconds using ‘Mississippi’s’ - but this no longer works for ten seconds. Nowadays, 10 Mississippi’s comes to about 14-17 seconds if you count them using the accurate tempo from the 90s. (note: its not about rushing them to fit them into ten seconds, its about the rhythm)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CdhrUDJm4I
3.
i am well aware of the concept of proportion and time alive being related to time perception. Please do not waste any energy explaining that ‘when ur 2 years old, a year is 50% of your lifetime, where as at 50 its 2%.’ (People on reddit love to comment this as if everyone isn’t already aware of this concept, they’re like automatons, its hilarious especially with Reddits logo considered)
There are many young people who comment on this feeling of time moving by too quickly, and gen z-ers have no reference of the 90s / how slow time was back then either.
I think this is beyond the mere proportion of time passing relative to ones total time alive. that is, i suspect that the day night cycle is literally speeding up.
4.
One criticism / test I thought of: If old videos aren't being sped up, the listed duration of a youtube video posted in, say 2005 - 2009 should have increased. I have not kept track / don’t seem to remember the specific lengths of any old youtube videos to compare with today.
I have checked old olympics and New Years countdown footage from different years in the past. They all seem to match todays time.
ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ_laZoMzxs - 1970 new years countdown
ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=ug8zgkq4WuQ - 2022 new years countdown
ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=ZviNK1OZnFU&t=650s - every new years countdown 1975-2022
ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=XcOPiLG6pFw - 1996 100 meter sprint
ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=1qot4u59ft4 - 1988 100 meter sprint
ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=P6I_Y3HyliI
ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=G63cab_WwQc - 2000s footage, with a timer on the footage
It’s worth considering is that if a vhs video is uploaded to youtube for example - the vhs tapes would have had to have been converted to a modern digital format - and the internal clocks on the vhs player would be running at the speed of time on the date it was being converted, not the date it was recorded. So a vhs video shot in 1990 converted and uploaded in the year 2009 would have been playing in ‘2009 seconds’. more on this later.
5.
At first I wondered that if recorded music from the past would be speeding up upon playback like other media, it would be out of tune with modern instruments and tuners, ie that the sound / pitch of a note, eg A=440hz, would remain the same throughout time despite seconds/ everything else speeding up. But i then realised that musical notes, being tuned to hertz - oscillations per second, and tempo being counted in bpm - beats per minute, would just speed up with everything else and so changes in it would only be able to be measured qualitatively by memory and not with a tuner device / bpm counter etc. I imagine that the clocks in the music playback devices would just match the present moments rate of time (clocks run using crystals).(and side note, it is the case that some songs are in 'in-between' keys eg 1/2 or 1/4 semitone sharp or flat due to tape machines / speed adjustments be it for taste / easier to sing, so there are some songs that have always been 'out of tune' in a sense)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9UwxUirVKU - old tuning fork matches a modern tuner, this would mean, that if time is faster, what ever has caused it, would have also made the elements in a tuning fork from the 60s resonate at the same rate today.
6.
In old black and white film footage people seem to move awkwardly fast - It would be because the frame rate is being played back to modern seconds, so the reel runs faster than when it was recorded, yet the same fps.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNvFpAgNBQA - 20s/ 30s footage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=knD2EhjGwWI - round hay garden scene 1888
This should also apply to movies as well - the voices would sound higher in pitch, and the movements would be a bit faster. Though I suppose this wouldn’t be as pronounced as it was in older black and white film. I'm not sure.
7.
A friend constantly mentions that social media / digital consumption is absorbing hours of the day and that it’d be the cause of this ‘fast time feeling’. I do agree that using social media will cause time perception to speed up, but I don’t think this idea adequately accounts for everything. I think many gen z-ers will gravitate towards this explanation, but like I said earlier I think it’d be because they have no reference of time being significantly slower in the 80s, 90s etc - regardless of if they do a task that has a low stimulation and information ratio to time passing (eg going for a walk, vs scrolling on tiktok)
(disclaimers: Some people may find the conspiracy content on the channel to be ridiculous, which is totally fine. Some may also notice that on the channel he refers to 33 being a coded number for satanists and freemasons, and then it may also noticed that I have 33 in my username. I am neither of those things. Its purely coincidental and I made the username before I was aware of that association. Please keep this discussion respectful )
Personally I find this idea to be a relief. I’m no longer ashamed about my feelings of not being as productive as I used to think I ought to be. Im comfortable spacing tasks out, and it makes me more selective about what I do / watch / read etc.
(for some of the youtube links you'll have to remove the space between the ws)
Im interested to hear what the people on this forum think about all this.
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