Because I spend more time talking about them than is healthy.

The thing about it is that neither of them really exist. I have to mention that at least once a week, for some reason. The two most important things in our moderen society and they're both just concepts! Says something about the world these days, doesn't it? And people wonder why the world's such a mess these days.

Anyway, I'm going to use the rest of the space here to explain myself to the people who are like "Hey!! I've got a dollar in my pocket and a watch on my wrist!! What does this freaky Lemon Merchant mean that they don't exist?". Yup, going to devote a section to each of them. That's exactly what I'm going to do. Starting..........now.

Since I brought it up, I'm going to explain away time. Things change. They go through stages and pass on. It's the nature of the universe. It's not so much that time itself doesn't exist that our concept of time is wrong.

Back in the day (way back), somebody noticed that people grew older and died. That the weather made gradual but striking changes. That stuff changed. That person decided that these things went in cycles, and started to attempt to measure them. Of course, this person was flawed - like we all are. He noticed something that he could barely understand and tried to limit it. The thing is that the rest of the people around decided that this was pretty spiff and started using it themselves. Eventually, someone else came along and changed it. Again and again until it was what it is today. That is the extraordinarily brief, incredibly unreasearched accout of the history of time.

So here we are today, living our lives in thirty day increments (or thirty-one or twenty-nine, or twenty-eight according to what year it happens to be)in a three hundred and sixty-five (or sixty six, again according to what year it is) frame. Of course, those however-odd amount of days all have twenty-four hours in them (execpt during daylight savings, when we have to correct the system). If time was so concrete, then why should we need to make allowances for it?

Because we are wrong about time. That's why.

It's not like I have any better idea about how it should be done, just that time as we know it is as accurate as we let it be. Time is merely a concept. Something that we'll probably never really understand yet we try to measure it anyway. Sounds more than a bit inane to me. Oh well, people have always been like that. Time is a joke.

Again, back in the day, people traded things they didn't need for things that they did. It was called bartering and it worked well for many a year. Then people noticed that some rocks were prettier than others. Then they noticed that some of the pretty rocks were harder to find than others. Thus was the birth of money.

Of course, people didn't want to carry loads of pretty rocks on their persons, so proxy prettty rocks were invented. Poeple called this money and an evil empire was born. Pretty soon, people were robbing each other for proxy pretty rocks. Killing and plundering for them. It wasn't nice. And it still isn't.

So we have people giving away things that could be useful to them (like cows, pieces of machinery, or what have you) for things that represent pretty rocks. Yet more evidence of Man's stupidity. Our entire lives are completely ruled by pieces of paper. Small green pieces of paper. It's just silly is what it is. Again, we as people let a concept rule our lives.

The two largest most important things in society today are products of our imagination. The most amusing thing is that time IS money (or so they say). So we have one abstract concept equating to another. How stupid is that?

To apologize, I've had very little sleep today. If I had slept, I would've been a bit more accurate with my ranting and probably made more sense to anyone reading this (not to mention catching the horrible amount of spelling errors that I'm sure are there). Oh well, I do tend to do my best thinking when I don't have a clue.

So there it is - an extremely simplified version of my argument that time and money don't exist - except in our minds.