age and numbers
when i was 25 years old, my mother was 50 years old. she was exactly twice my age. 25 x 2 = 50. i am 26 now and she is 51. 26 x 2 = 52. when i am 50, she will be 75. she went from being twice my age to only being 1 1/2 times my age.
our idea of time is violated. numbers work, but our ideas attached to them contain fallacies.
sure, she was 25 when she had me, so you add 25 years to my age to always find her age. i'm talking about ratios here. why are ratios not a constant? why does this only occur when i become the age she was when she had me?
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