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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]liorean said:[/b] Okay, clarification seems necessary. I mean that you get either: 1. Unlimited time between a moment and the next to do something (as much time as you wish/require/need to do that single thing), while no real time passes and you are not aging. 2. Unlimited clock-time where you will not age, or have to be interrupted for reasons such as money, to do some specific thing. Once you are finished, life will go on as if from this moment on. This does not extend to people around you - if you choose the in-between-moments path, then you can consider people frozen in time for the duration. If you chose the clock-time path, then everybody around you will go about their business as usual, with aging and all. [/quote] Eh, this is a far less interesting philosophical question, in my opinion. Since we have the option of stopping at any time, and we are not forced to do this thing, basically it boils down to asking "What is your favorite thing to do?" It's just dressed up in a weird construct, that's all. I think it would be far more interesting to contemplate what it would be like to live in either of these time spaces. If time has literally stopped (as in the first option), and we are somehow outside of it, then technically we should not be able to interact with anything around us--since interaction happens in time (sorry Petskull, no cheerleaders for you). I'm not really sure that I get the second option, but apparently we can stop the aging process for ourselves while everyone else goes on aging. I'm trying to wrap my brain around this, and the only analogue I can come up with is faster-than-light travel. Far more interesting than what we would do with this time, I think, is how we would react to the consequences of the flow of time being changed in these ways. Just my opinion, of course. [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/sigs/suho_taegeuk_sig2.gif[/img] ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] Loading...
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