Religions > Atheism > Suppose you could slow down your own personal perception of time relative to others....
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21 Jan 2007 02:43:31 PM |
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Suppose you could slow down your own personal perception of time relative to others.... |
Suppose you had the ability to slow time down for yourself relative to others.
You know, like that ancient TV special, "The Girl, The Gold Watch and Dynamite"
- you use your ability, the world around you slows down and you can take your
time to do whatever you want. You could keep everything around you suspended
forever if you chose (from -your- frame of reference). Ignore the fact that you
wouldn't be able to breathe or see and that most likely, you'd instantly freeze
solid. This is an hypothetical, so just assume that somehow with your power,
you've also been blessed with all the powers needed to overcome those tiny
little obstacles.
Such an ability would be a wonderful way to make sure you're on time for work
every morning, or that you can sleep as long as you like and the rest of the
world will never know it. You can stop everything for an entire year if you
want, just to explore the world of time-frozen people, places and things.
Would you do it? And if so, how often?
You see, if you did it a lot, what you would eventually notice - and so would
those around you - is that relative to those who don't share that time-frozen
state with you, you are aging much faster than they are. You'd get more time
for yourself, but much less time with those others in the world you might care
about. You'd probably be considered a medical oddity (assuming your powers
remained secret, in which case screw -medical- oddity, you'd be a "FREAK OF
SCIENCE" or some such) because depending on how often you paused time so that
you could take yours, you might be aging as much as three or four times as fast
as those around you. But not from your perspective - from your perspective,
they would be staying younger far longer than you'd ever normally see them like
that.
It's an interesting notion to play with in the back of one's mind, all the
little details involved. I welcome the speculations and insights of others as I
slide along this lonely thread. :-)
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L8r,
Uncle Clover
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: Suppose you could slow down your own personal perception of time relative to others.... |
21 Jan 2007 03:26:39 PM |
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On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:43:31 -0500, Uncle Clover
<UncleClover@SpamMeNot.com> wrote:
Suppose you had the ability to slow time down for yourself relative to others.
You know, like that ancient TV special, "The Girl, The Gold Watch and Dynamite"
- you use your ability, the world around you slows down and you can take your
time to do whatever you want. You could keep everything around you suspended
forever if you chose (from -your- frame of reference). Ignore the fact that you
wouldn't be able to breathe or see and that most likely, you'd instantly freeze
solid. This is an hypothetical, so just assume that somehow with your power,
you've also been blessed with all the powers needed to overcome those tiny
little obstacles.
Such an ability would be a wonderful way to make sure you're on time for work
every morning, or that you can sleep as long as you like and the rest of the
world will never know it. You can stop everything for an entire year if you
want, just to explore the world of time-frozen people, places and things.
Would you do it? And if so, how often?
You see, if you did it a lot, what you would eventually notice - and so would
those around you - is that relative to those who don't share that time-frozen
state with you, you are aging much faster than they are. You'd get more time
for yourself, but much less time with those others in the world you might care
about. You'd probably be considered a medical oddity (assuming your powers
remained secret, in which case screw -medical- oddity, you'd be a "FREAK OF
SCIENCE" or some such) because depending on how often you paused time so that
you could take yours, you might be aging as much as three or four times as fast
as those around you. But not from your perspective - from your perspective,
they would be staying younger far longer than you'd ever normally see them like
that.
It's an interesting notion to play with in the back of one's mind, all the
little details involved. I welcome the speculations and insights of others as I
slide along this lonely thread. :-)
If you were really slowed down in a total sense, you might have a
little problem with gravity, with specific respect to your frame of
reference acceleration. "Splat"!
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"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".
attrib: Pauline Réage.
http://www.city-of-dis.com/p_q.asp?I1=69597&I2=69121
The begining...
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Suppose you could slow down your own personal perception of time relative to others.... |
21 Jan 2007 03:24:13 PM |
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Uncle Clover schreef:
Suppose you had the ability to slow time down for yourself relative to others.
You know, like that ancient TV special, "The Girl, The Gold Watch and Dynamite"
- you use your ability, the world around you slows down and you can take your
time to do whatever you want. You could keep everything around you suspended
forever if you chose (from -your- frame of reference). Ignore the fact that you
wouldn't be able to breathe or see and that most likely, you'd instantly freeze
solid. This is an hypothetical, so just assume that somehow with your power,
you've also been blessed with all the powers needed to overcome those tiny
little obstacles.
Such an ability would be a wonderful way to make sure you're on time for work
every morning, or that you can sleep as long as you like and the rest of the
world will never know it. You can stop everything for an entire year if you
want, just to explore the world of time-frozen people, places and things.
Would you do it? And if so, how often?
You want me to suppose I am a God?!?!
Please! I do not want all that responsibility
With great powers comes great responsibility
If I am able to go have a look at anyone secret files (within a blick
of an eye I could read Bushes memo's)
I would have tje responsibility to go check, and expose whomever was
doing the wrong thing.
I think I would go topple the Burmes Junta first, cause I (politically)
love Aung San Suu Kyi
Kim Il Sung would be next on my list.
No bother about Castro unles I felt sorry for him and would practice
some euthanasia,
but I do not think he wants that. So I would let him die "normally".
Bly me, I would have to set the world in motion a lot of time,
to find out whether my actions had the results I inteded,
and whether the people were happy with them.
So I would still die of old age before I was ready with everything.
And the food I had to steel
You get awfully hungry walking (everything stands still so walking is
the only option)
from Holland to Rangoon, from Rangoon to Pyongyang,
back home again to start the world up, and make love to my wife.
Than do the whole thing over again, because I made some stupid mistake
the first time.
Spare me all that work please,
lets hope some people do it in their normal life-time!
Peter van Velzen
January 2007
Amstelveen
The Netherlands
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| User: "JTEM" |
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| Title: Re: Suppose you could slow down your own personal perception of time relative to others.... |
21 Jan 2007 04:01:42 PM |
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Uncle Clover wrote:
Would you do it? And if so, how often?
The greatest spy? The perfect assasin?
Heck...
I would amass a huge furtune selling nude pictures
of celebrities & sports stars.
I'd freeze time, stroll into the New York Yankees
locker room & sell Derek Jeter glossies by the
inch. I'd sneek into hollywood dressing rooms
and then sell Angelina Jolie spreads (and I do me
"Spreads") to the highest bidder.
In a <ahem> nutshell, every year I'd collect nude
photos of People magazine's "World's Most Beautiful
People," and sell them to tabloids, magazines, cable
TV and websites -- whomever pays the most.
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| User: "JTEM" |
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21 Jan 2007 04:27:58 PM |
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JTEM wrote:
I'd freeze time, stroll into the New York Yankees
locker room & sell Derek Jeter glossies by the
inch. I'd sneek into hollywood dressing rooms
and then sell Angelina Jolie spreads (and I do me
"Spreads") to the highest bidder.
In a <ahem> nutshell, every year I'd collect nude
photos of People magazine's "World's Most Beautiful
People," and sell them to tabloids, magazines, cable
TV and websites -- whomever pays the most.
In my own defense, I would be ethical about this (in a
GOP style, hair-splitting, creatively interpreted version
of "Ethical"). I wouldn't collect photos out of malice, for
ridicule, but for the wanking crowd. In other words,
photos that would appeal to admirers.
If I was going to shape society enough to make & break
the careers of our celebrities, I might as well go all the
way and assasinate bad guys.
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