20-05-2013, 09:09 PM
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Re: Time travel
Originally Posted by Robert Junior
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THats very nice.We renewed our wedding vows in church after 25 years.. We are up to 41 so have a good chance of repeating this at 50.
Yes time is a real puzzler, when you think some creatures live their whole lifetime in one day and others a hundred years or more. I remember one old fella who used to drink in our local before God took him, when anyone asked him what time it was he always used to say "It's anytime you want it to be, what is time anyway", and then he would hold out his wrist for them to see and say "You'd never think 'twas that time now would yeh.", I don't think he knew how to read the clock.
20-05-2013, 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Pats CG
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yet you haven't or that feeling of De'ja vu - an event you feel has happened before to you ....
20-05-2013, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Robert Junior
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Think about this-- My screen was blank before I typed this; however I had already thought what I was going to type. A future event, as envisaged in my thought passes quickly through the present then instantly becomes the past.Our grasp of what we understand as time is limited and moves forward only, or does it ? Consider this-- What if we could step outside of time?
What if the order became, future, present and past, doesn’t seem difficult as I have already described that order above, or present and present. Any of these last scenarios points at time being flexible, unstable even.
If the future comes first, the course of events in our lives must have been pre arranged. Already happened & therefore unchangeable/.
Present, future & past become one thing, pre existing & co existing.
Finally could it be that events we now think of as past are confirmation of events which have already occurred.
What do you think?
Although our concept of time is fixed, time itself isn't; however, one problem I can think of is (sorry, it's an obvious one): that if you could move freely between the three, then what you see in the future could be changed by your next visit to the past - wouldn't that put us in a state of constant flux? What would happen if you 'jumped', say, 5 years into the future to find you were no longer alive? Could you exist after that 'jump' and thereby, bring about an earlier death or the jump itself is what precipitated your death!
Or have I got the wrong end of the stick
20-05-2013, 10:11 PM
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I definitely wouldn't want to go into the future, I fear for my grandchildren in the future, it certainly doesn't loo good.Robert why renew your vows? I really can't see the need, I think if you really meant it in the first place, why renew, we have been happily married for 54 years in July, and it has never ever crossed our minds.
Convince me and maybe we will.
20-05-2013, 10:12 PM
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There are hundreds of events in the past I would like to observe...but this journey would have to be in a protective bubble of some sort. Can you imagine without?I don't think we would survive long without it.Trying to explain how you have suddenly appeared on the outskirts of Waterloo or in the desert near the Great Pyramid might be a bit dodgy.
Knowing my luck I'd finish up being hung as a spy,burned as a witch...or at the least catch some interesting disease or plague.
And as for going back even further...the first time I sheltered in a cave I'd be bound to pick one with a cave bear in it.
20-05-2013, 10:35 PM
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Re: Time travel
Originally Posted by Wrinkly
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I definitely wouldn't want to go into the future, I fear for my grandchildren in the future, it certainly doesn't loo good.Robert why renew your vows? I really can't see the need, I think if you really meant it in the first place, why renew, we have been happily married for 54 years in July, and it has never ever crossed our minds.
Convince me and maybe we will.
Why renew our vows?
Why not Wrinkly ?
You have a heart of stone.
Congratulations on your 54th
20-05-2013, 10:46 PM
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Re: Time travel
Originally Posted by poohdog
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There are hundreds of events in the past I would like to observe...but this journey would have to be in a protective bubble of some sort. Can you imagine without?I don't think we would survive long without it.Trying to explain how you have suddenly appeared on the outskirts of Waterloo or in the desert near the Great Pyramid might be a bit dodgy.
Knowing my luck I'd finish up being hung as a spy,burned as a witch...or at the least catch some interesting disease or plague.
And as for going back even further...the first time I sheltered in a cave I'd be bound to pick one with a cave bear in it.
in the words of the great Ron Moody as Fagin 'I think I'd better think it out again' 
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