 Time Travel, watched donnie darko one too many times |
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  Dec 13 2003, 06:40 AM
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 get to know yourself.  Group: New Members Posts: 136 Joined: 4-November 03 From: san diego Member No.: 700  |
so, i've seen the movie donnie darko like 50 times and this is really irking me.. i bought about 10 books and guides on time travel, philosophy, and the philosophy of time travel and i think that i am slowly but surely going insane.
 so, i just wanted to know  thanks for your opinion!by the way, if you havent seen the movie donnie darko RENT IT RIGHT NOW. it's the most amazing thing i've ever seen. mmkay, i'm out. much love. -------------------- |
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Dec 13 2003, 07:15 AM
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 like peppermint aftertaste Group: New Members Posts: 263 Joined: 15-November 03 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 714 Gender: Female |
Donnie Darko is a great movie.
It's got all the deep questions. Plus the whole discussion of the smurfs' the lack of sexual equipment.  But Princess Bride has better quotes Whats wierd with that movie though is that the end prevents the entire movie, but without what it prevented, it could never have happened. If the time travel thing in it is correct, it's like a closed loop in a way. What about the whole theory of branching realities? Where in one reality you make a different decision that you did in this reality? (If you're into the whole time travel thing, check out Night Watch by Terry Pratchett. It's got time travel elements to it too.) -------------------- Medae is my n00b!
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Dec 13 2003, 07:55 AM
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 a hoopy frood who really knows where her towel is Group: New Members Posts: 1,203 Joined: 26-February 03 From: saskatchewan! Member No.: 46 |
yay pratchett! if you're into time travel you should watch star trek too, there's a time travel epi like every second show!
me, i wouldn't be able to live without my sci-fi, but do i believe time travel is possible? no, not really. if time is truly a fourth dimension, then we are as stuck in it as the other three. we can't step out of the dimensions of length, width or depth, so why would we be able to step out of time? and even if we could, we would exist in a realm where time has no meaning. in essence, time would stop- so without time, how would we be able to move back into corporeal space? we would become none entities. that would suck! how would i be able to operate my digital watch then?! ..erm, guess i can't pick the "never really thought about it" option huh? -------------------- i don't need eternal truth, i've got shadow puppets!
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Dec 13 2003, 05:58 PM
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 Ai Ravana-hime Group: New Members Posts: 1,834 Joined: 30-June 03 From: Satomi Tadashi Member No.: 421 Gender: Male |
I nulled my vote. I really can't even BEGIN to fathom what it would be like to travel in time. If you think of Time as an X axis (or do people use Y more for it? Oh I dont care) then it's a straight line. How would you travel through time? It's obvious that we're propelled forward through time. How would you go to the future or to the past? Would you essentially have to take the "thread" and connect your time to the time you want to go to? Good god, I'm making no sense. This kind of talk makes me go crosseyed....same with talking about infinity in the universe. Further proof I'm an uneducated clod
-------------------- Pimping Lolo and ridin' teh Trout since 2003. Dominated by Tigersong, e-hubby, since 2004.
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Dec 13 2003, 06:12 PM
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Has been kidnapped by gerbils and forced to post on here repeatedly Group: Validating Posts: 1,075 Joined: 13-July 03 Member No.: 451 Gender: Male |
Time is just our way of measuring the fact that one thing happens after another. Time travel is total balony as far as I understand it. A mismatching of concepts...
-------------------- Smileys don't mean not destuctive and not vicious
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Dec 13 2003, 06:35 PM
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 Remorseless posting machine Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male |
I read somewhere that time travel is indeed possible. In almost impossible-to-engineer circumstances, highly localised, and across an infinitisimally small period. But possible.
-------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
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Dec 13 2003, 06:43 PM
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get to know yourself. Group: New Members Posts: 136 Joined: 4-November 03 From: san diego Member No.: 700 |
QUOTE (Twitching @ Dec 13 2003, 07:14 AM) Whats wierd with that movie though is that the end prevents the entire movie, but without what it prevented, it could never have happened. If the time travel thing in it is correct, it's like a closed loop in a way. What about the whole theory of branching realities? Where in one reality you make a different decision that you did in this reality? well, see.. obviously if you travel backward in time, it's going to loop and play over indentically to how it happened before. unless of course the first time you are guided out of harms way by a 6 foot rabbit, but that's a different story. if you really think about it, traveling forward in time is virtually impossible, because the future is based on the decisions that we make right now, but i really do believe backward time travel and that it is very much possible. as for traveling forward a couple seconds in time, or even just seeing the future being represented in the present (the energy beams [which by the way is not ficticious] in donnie darko) oh man my brain needs to shut up. -------------------- |
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Dec 13 2003, 06:44 PM
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get to know yourself. Group: New Members Posts: 136 Joined: 4-November 03 From: san diego Member No.: 700 |
should this have been in issues instead of daft?
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Dec 13 2003, 06:46 PM
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Remorseless posting machine Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male |
QUOTE (mcsimong @ Dec 13 2003, 06:43 PM) should this have been in issues instead of daft? Depends how serious you want the discussion to be. If you'd like it moved, just ask a mod. -------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
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Dec 13 2003, 06:53 PM
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 Social Introvert, Sporatic Poster Group: New Members Posts: 249 Joined: 30-November 03 From: School, East Coast, Canada Member No.: 747 |
I have no opinion. This is a very good question. Donnie Darko is definitely on my top favorite movies list. Especially that part when he umm...well nevermind. It was just discustingly hilarious.
It would be cool if you were crazy. I think I may be crazy as well. But I don't let it get to me. I ignore it. Perhaps I should provoke the craziness though. I could go into thousands of my philosophies on time and space, but...nothing would make sense. Because.....well...insanity and...the like. Personally, I am not sure that time exists at all. But it is all very mathematical and I am not...so...I may never find out. |
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Dec 13 2003, 10:44 PM
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 Empowe(red) Group: Established Members Posts: 1,588 Joined: 1-October 03 From: New York Member No.: 614 Gender: Female |
yesm
deja-vous did i spell that right?... anyways yesm.. -------------------- Squeaky swings and tall grass
The longest shadows ever cast The water's warm and children swim And we frolicked about in our summer skin Where I roam... |
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Dec 14 2003, 02:48 AM
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get to know yourself. Group: New Members Posts: 136 Joined: 4-November 03 From: san diego Member No.: 700 |
QUOTE (cait @ Dec 13 2003, 06:52 PM) I have no opinion. This is a very good question. Donnie Darko is definitely on my top favorite movies list. Especially that part when he umm...well nevermind. It was just discustingly hilarious. yes, i know what part you're talking about and YES I love it too it's... pretty hot.
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Dec 14 2003, 03:17 AM
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Social Introvert, Sporatic Poster Group: New Members Posts: 249 Joined: 30-November 03 From: School, East Coast, Canada Member No.: 747 |
*giggles* Even the part about his family.
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