"His epitaph is Athanasius contra mundum, 'Athanasius against the world.' ... It is his glory that he did not move with the times; it is his reward that he now remains when those times, as all times do, have moved away." -- C.S. Lewis, Introduction to Athanasius' On the Incarnation
The timeless recognize the times without being of them; they run laps around them because they're not caught up in them.
1 Chronicles 12:32
And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
You need to know what time it is in order to set an alarm. You need to know what's up in order to know what to do. Those who try to keep up with the times get left behind and in time are forgotten. There's nothing less cool than trying to be cool. There are few things more irrelevant than chasing relevance.
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