Since I have to be places at certain times, I really need to know what time it is so I can get there. I really can't even imagine living without clocks. There'd be no way to time things while they're baking, so people couldn't get stuff done while it was going on.

I hate clocks myself. They are very important because they tell what time it is so I can leave for important dates, or when I have to be exact in cooking.

I hate them because clocks make everyone stressed and rushed. You got 5 minutes left before you're next class that's 10 minutes away!!! You flip out and get stressed. You have 20 minutes left to get to work and are stuck in a traffic jam 30 miles away! You get stressed. When I see clocks, they annoy me. People get so stressed out over the simple concept of time when it's shown to them physically...

the whole universe is based on time, we need time for everything
time is used to record birth/ death, time is used to know when to wake up/ and when to go to sleep time is use to record any event. time helps us remember past event as well.....

Clocks serve to stop me from going insane, which may or may not be as effective as I imagine.

I do like clocks. There's something fascinating about how they work, both structurally and in abstract. Clocks represent uniformity - the efforts of man making sense out of chaos. It's what we're really good at. We organize. Our clocks are also symbolic shrines to the sun, which basically lords over everything on this spinning, lonely little planet. We've been here long enough now to adapt to the movements of the sun; we as humans are ourselves clocks, waking in the day and sleeping at night, as per natural patterns. Our bodies are adapted to sunlight at its natural capacity on the Earth. The sun feeds life, but like all bloody powerful things, it has the power to destroy. So, too, do clocks, when taken away. Imagine a "tomorrow" where, suddenly, all the clocks - the shadows of the sun and the positions of the stars included - were to just disappear. Chaos returns. All of life is a ticking clock. You'd best hope the clockwork doesn't wear thin on this universe.

They are not, they are burdened on our society and we act like robots obeying to commands around the "clock". If used as a reference to coordinate plans with others, etc... they are great tools and they give us a reference and reminder of age and cycles however, humans have revolved their own lives around the clock and lost a sense of freedom and living. I don't have to be awake or asleep at a certain time, or eat or drink or do anything according to a clock. God has given me an internal clock that I cycle to. In society, we are restricted according to the clock for food, banking, shopping, etc. The earth revolves around the sun very accurately and we are given a finite amount of time, use it wisely and don't be a clock watcher for it's a waste of time in itself.