Finish this sentence please

[blondebear]

“The Aristocrats!”

[Baal_Houtham]

@Grrr

Hour by hour, day by day, month by month, year by year, decade by decade, century by century, millennia by millennia…

…the gate is straight, deep and wide, break on through to the other side!

[markn_1]

… And thereby hangs a tale.

[Kimstu]

@Spice_Weasel

Kalpa by kalpa.

If I remember this concept correctly, a kalpa is the length of time it takes for a condor flapping its wings to gently brush a mountain over and over every day until the mountain is ground to dust.

Hmmm, I don’t think you remember the concept correctly, or else the source you saw was mixing up a poetic figure of speech with a formal quantitative definition.

The kalpa is formally defined in classical Indian cosmology as a period of 4,320,000,000 years. Yes, that period can be broken down into standard subunits such as mahayugas or manvantaras. But there’s nothing more intrinsically weird about its structure than about defining a century as 100 years or a millennium as 1000 years.

[Cervaise]

1972 - 1993 Days of Our Lives open

[Thudlow_Boink]

@Grrr

Hour by hour, day by day, month by month, year by year, decade by decade, century by century, millennia by millennia…

Why did we switch to plural at the end? Shouldn’t it be “millennium by millennium”? (Or, if we’re going the other way, “Hours by hours, days by days…”)

[solost]

@Grrr

Hour by hour, day by day, month by month, year by year, decade by decade, century by century, millennia by millennia…

…until the heat-death of the universe.

THE END

[Son_of_a_Rich]

Every episode seemed to last a Kalpa.

[Telemark]

Days of our Lives was my first thought as well.

[Gyrate]

[Jasmine]

@LSLGuy

It’s reasonable for the OP to ask us to continue the sentence. Because of the way numbers work we’ll never finish it.

No, and that’s why he’s snickering over his morning coffee at this very moment! LOL

[Quondam_Mechanic]

…creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time.

[Just_Asking_Questions]

…I have awaited a question.

[Q.Q.Switcheroo]

…gonna make this garden grow.

[Spice_Weasel]

@Kimstu

Hmmm, I don’t think you remember the concept correctly, or else the source you saw was mixing up a poetic figure of speech with a formal quantitative definition.

Yes, it was a poetic figure of speech. I can’t remember the original source, but it came from my Zen teacher.

[LSLGuy]

@3AxisCtrl

@Grrr

… millennia by millennia…

Shouldn’t this be “millennium by millennium” ?

@Thudlow_Boink

@Grrr

Hour by hour, day by day, month by month, year by year, decade by decade, century by century, millennia by millennia…

Why did we switch to plural at the end? Shouldn’t it be “millennium by millennium”? (Or, if we’re going the other way, “Hours by hours, days by days…”)

And here is proof that history moves in circles. Those who fail to study it are doomed to repeat it.

… and the beat goes on.

The Whispers - "And The Beat Goes On" (Official Video)

[Chronos]

@Kimstu

The kalpa is formally defined in classical Indian cosmology as a period of 4,320,000,000 years.

Which, as it turns out, is a surprisingly convenient unit, being approximately both the half-life of uranium-238 and the current age of the Solar System and everything in it.

[Whack-a-Mole]

@Kimstu

The kalpa is formally defined in classical Indian cosmology as a period of 4,320,000,000 years.

Is this a modern word/concept someone came up with recently (say…last few hundred years) or a much older word?

[Kimstu]

Much older. The “kalpa=1000 mahayugas” and related chronometrology appears to be part of a late-BCE/early CE synthesis of cosmology and astronomy, with some influence from Hellenistic and Babylonian base-60 period relations models.

The Indologist Luis Gonzalez-Reimann wrote a book.

[Whack-a-Mole]

Wow…I wouldn’t think ancient peoples would be contemplating such big amounts of time. Heck, even today there are some religious nuts who think the earth is only ~6,000 years old. 4.3 billion years is way out of that ballpark.

Also, happy cake day! 26 years…one of the ancients!