The 2000 year run of the Catholic Church is a major exception, not the rule.

The smallest time frame I have directly observed was in the game Rock Band. I could easily detect video/audio synchronization issues to about 30msecs. People easily deal with 200msec intervals, they just don’t think they do. Time how long a pass in basketball takes – now do hockey. But ask someone about it and they’ll say “about a second.” Conversely, ask someone how long it took to slam on the brakes after seeing a problem driving. They’ll say “instantly”, but it is about 200msec (260 or so for us old folks).

I can barely deal with 1000s of years. 40,000 years of agriculture is a nearly meaningless statement to me. A 4,000,000,000 year old planet is a meaningless statement to me. The fact that the universe is three to four times older than that means nothing. It’s just too long. Going the other way is worse. Eventually, all the stars burn out, then all the black holes evaporate. The time between now and then might as well be infinite.