A Piece of Gandalf's Wisdom - How Not to Be Devoured By Time
We transform Cronus to Kairos when we use time to rise above time.
Cronus, the father of Zeus, was a Titan. He is also known for devouring his own children. Later, he was conflated with Chronus, the Greek personification of time (Father Time in the Roman lore). This conflation wasn’t accidental - time does devour its own children as well. It gives them birth and consumes them.
When Alexander Filonenko, a philosophy prof…
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