a healthy take on time

fatalism

The doctrine that all events are predetermined by fate and are therefore unalterable.

hedonism

Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses.

resonate

To evoke a feeling of shared emotion or belief: "It is a demonology [that] seems to resonate among secular and religious voters alike" (Tamar Jacoby).

divinity

1. The state or quality of being divine.
2.
a. Divinity The godhead; God. Used with the.
b. A deity, such as a god or goddess.
3. Godlike character.
4. Theology.

sermon

1. A religious discourse delivered as part of a church service.
2. An often lengthy and tedious speech of reproof or exhortation.

predicament

1. A situation, especially an unpleasant, troublesome, or trying one, from which extrication is difficult.
"Werner finds himself suddenly in a most awkward predicament" (Thomas Carlyle).

circuitry

The design of or a detailed plan for an electric circuit.

spectrum -- spectra/spectrums

1. Physics The distribution of a characteristic of a physical system or phenomenon, especially:
a. The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, as by an incandescent body, arranged in order of wavelengths.
b. The distribution of atomic or subatomic particles in a system, as in a magnetically resolved molecular beam, arranged in order of masses.
2. A graphic or photographic representation of such a distribution.
3.
a. A range of values of a quantity or set of related quantities.
b. A broad sequence or range of related qualities, ideas, or activities: the whole spectrum of 20th-century thought.

stangle

1.
a. To kill by squeezing the throat so as to choke or suffocate; throttle.
b. To cut off the oxygen supply of; smother.
2. To suppress, repress, or stifle: strangle a scream.
3. To inhibit the growth or action of; restrict: "That artist is strangled who is forced to deal with human beings solely in social terms" (James Baldwin).

pledge

A solemn binding promise to do, give, or refrain from doing something: signed a pledge never to reveal the secret; a pledge of money to a charity.
1. To offer or guarantee by a solemn binding promise: pledge loyalty to a nation.
2. To bind or secure by or as if by a pledge: pledged themselves to the cause.