{"id":278,"date":"2026-01-31T15:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omoo.nl\/?p=278"},"modified":"2026-01-31T15:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:33:14","slug":"investigating-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/investigating-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigating &#8220;patience&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems to me that humans have a particular relationship to time. Some people say &#8220;time is a concept,&#8221; &#8220;time does not exist,&#8221; or &#8220;time is an illusion.&#8221; For practical purposes this seems a key point to analyse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In earlier studies we discussed the topic of Hope, which also seems to relate to time if one assumes that change is something that manifests in time as opposed to change being extratemporal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hope then is a belief about the future which is expected to be positive. Patience in this context could mean that one suspends his judgement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aristotle would connect the topic of time to his theory of <em>teleology<\/em> which infuses the universe with intelligence. That is why he is considered to be the <em>first teacher<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that humans have a particular relationship to time. Some people say &#8220;time is a concept,&#8221; &#8220;time does not exist,&#8221; or &#8220;time is an illusion.&#8221; For practical purposes this seems a key point to analyse. In earlier studies we discussed the topic of Hope, which also seems to relate to time if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}