How picturing chairs affects your ability to schedule a meeting (part 2)

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Written By Jason Valendy

If you missed last post take a moment to read that.  It is cool, we will wait.

Okay now that we are all caught up, the question is how is it that imagining a simple action have an impact on the way we understand time? 

If you were like me it took me a while to figure it out in my head to make sense, but here is what I got.

Imagine you are pulling the chair toward you:



When we do this then the chair/meeting is moving "forward" from Wednesday to Monday.


Conversely if we imagine pulling your self forward along the rope:

The final post in this little series will be an attempt to connect this above study with Christianity.  Feel free to make your own connections and leave comments to share.
Jason Valendy

Husband, father of two boys, pastor in the United Methodist Church, and guy who is interested in the desert mothers and fathers. The idea of Orthocardia is the pursuit of having a “right heart” over the pursuit of having a “right belief” (orthodoxy) or a “right action” (orthopraxy).

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