Lonely Loneliness

What happens when time stops?

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In article <djaisv$cg…@theodyn.ncf.ca>, bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA says… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->"Michaela Mackenzie" (michaelamackenzie05072…@yahoo.com) writes: >> OTS >>> Last night I dreamt that the sky went strange, and then it cleared up, and >>> then someone wisely said "It isn’t the end of the world, but time’s just >>> come to an end.". >>> It was curious, because, in the terms of this dream, you could still go down >>> the pub, or have a walk in the park, only, no-one, I mean No-One cared what >>> happened anymore. Humanity wasn’t being watched. We weren’t on telly any >>> more. >> You had me up til here… >> – Michaela >Don’t look now, but you are in a time loop: this was posted three >consecutive times… >Hm. Din see if the time stamp was the same…. >Mppft, would be funny if it was going backwards;-)

Time will stop, when there’s absolutely no activity, no motion of any sort anywhere. No molecules moving… etc Harvey

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -"paneon" (paneon@sdf_dot_lonestar.org) writes: >>> OTS >>>> Last night I dreamt that the sky went strange, and then it cleared up, >>>> and >>>> then someone wisely said "It isn’t the end of the world, but time’s just >>>> come to an end.". >>>> It was curious, because, in the terms of this dream, you could still go >>>> down >>>> the pub, or have a walk in the park, only, no-one, I mean No-One cared >>>> what >>>> happened anymore. Humanity wasn’t being watched. We weren’t on telly any >>>> more. >>> You had me up til here… >>> – Michaela >> Don’t look now, but you are in a time loop: this was posted three >> consecutive times… >> Hm. Din see if the time stamp was the same…. >> Mppft, would be funny if it was going backwards;-) > It’d be scary it was counting down…

Is it not…?;-) Talking about scary things, with halloween coming… Today, I thought of the sickest maddest most awful halloween prank of them all. It happened because some window washers busy working on the side of a sky scraper were using hot water on a cold day. It made so much steam and vapour that  forst thought it was smoke as in "fire" on some floor of the building next to ours where the smoke would be escaping through windows…. But then I saw a shape if I could not make out the shape of what with the really think vapor and smoke "extending outode the building" and I could not help but think of how it all was reminescent of a 9-11 scene…. I even wodnered f it was some kind of sick prank until I finally figured out what it was. Bt imagine that? Someone doing a fake plane tail to let oput of the building windows (or pretending tht it sticks out from the windows/floor), and then a while lot of smoke coming from the plane tail??? Am I sick or what….(please do NOT answer that…….I try and be positive LOL:)) > (-paneon)

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->>> Last night I dreamt that the sky went strange, and then it cleared up, >>> and >>> then someone wisely said "It isn’t the end of the world, but time’s just >>> come to an end.". >>> It was curious, because, in the terms of this dream, you could still go >>> down >>> the pub, or have a walk in the park, only, no-one, I mean No-One cared >>> what >>> happened anymore. Humanity wasn’t being watched. We weren’t on telly any >>> more. That’s what it means for time to come to an end. In that dream. >>> In other gnews, there’s nothing in the Standard Model to prevent >>> spacetime >>> coming up unexpectedly against a sharp boundary. One man’s singularity >>> is >>> another man’s subject of a thesis. >>> Am I making sense? Yes, I’d like another slice of Otter Crumble, please. >>> OTS >> Well – I’m currently occupying that spiritual wasteland known as "Sitting >> in >> a university computer lab on a Friday night" (TM) and the feeling of >> timelessness is slightly overwhelming. >> I can see a clock on the computer screen – but does the time actually >> mean >> anything to me? (Not really, now I think of it…) >> The difference between 3am and 12pm in this place is largely a matter of >> population density. There’s a world moving along outside – but you’d >> never >> know it if you didn’t spend the necessary 5 minutes to find your way out >> of >> this Escherian nightmare of lab-rat laboratories. >> (-paneon) > So you also work late hours, Pan? > (Like Cemrav mentioned also) > I guess that after a while oen forgets which came forst, loneliness or > overtime….where after a while both get interelated, most likely. > Both each other;s cause and consequence.

Overtime is like putty – it’s sticky and it fills up the gaps in your life. > Maybe that is what a-time is: cause and consequences are one same thing, > no longer differenciated in time measure. > Odd how you mention the life outsode foing on…That woudl eman that space > rmeains if you take time out, which of course can not REALLY be… > And that then time hads become for you a spatial thing. > Have you checked your mass lately??L:) > ;-)

I try not to – I’m afraid that my body-shape is turning into that of E.T. (-paneon)

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In article <8Iw7f.11764$6i4.4…@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net>, noth…@omegapoint.com says… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->The telly bit is an allegory. If we aren’t being watched, "cared" about by a >largely disinterested audience, or a vainly prayed to deity, we think we’ll >suddenly stop existing. Fact is, there’ll still be wasps trying to climb >inside my wineglass. >OTS ><Michaela> wrote in message news:842dndp-xpyaIsbeRVn-hw@is.co.za… >> Ollie Sandcastle wrote: >> > As to the end of time thread above, it is just a feeling from a >> > dream. It might be important, or it might be utter nonsense. >> What’d it mean to you? It made kinda sense to me except for >> the telly bit. I mean. Imagine no telly. That’s really stupid. If you >> tell someone else about that dream perhaps you can leave that bit >> out? >> – Michaela

You can convince yourself of ‘anything’ if you really want to. Millions of ‘believers’ believe in this or that religion – and if you really look at what they believe – it simply isn’t as true as they claim it to be. Such is the human imagination – it can be utilized towards insiduous ends. You can if you wish to, convince yourself ‘life’ is but a dream, only problem is, you keep on waking up to this same old life, and you have a collective memory of previous days waking up again to this same old life, that gets added to, day by day. Only your memory tells you, it is not a dream – it is ‘real’, as long as you are conscious and breathing. Harvey

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The telly bit is an allegory. If we aren’t being watched, "cared" about by a largely disinterested audience, or a vainly prayed to deity, we think we’ll suddenly stop existing. Fact is, there’ll still be wasps trying to climb inside my wineglass. OTS – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -<Michaela> wrote in message news:842dndp-xpyaIsbeRVn-hw@is.co.za… > Ollie Sandcastle wrote: > > As to the end of time thread above, it is just a feeling from a > > dream. It might be important, or it might be utter nonsense. > What’d it mean to you? It made kinda sense to me except for > the telly bit. I mean. Imagine no telly. That’s really stupid. If you > tell someone else about that dream perhaps you can leave that bit > out? > – Michaela

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"Ollie Sandcastle" <noth…@omegapoint.com> in news:LaT5f.3227$S_1.868@newsfe5-win.ntli.net: > What happens when time stops?

sorry.. i can’t tell you, because i can’t recall what happened the last time time stopped… — "Every time a lightbulb breaks, a little argon gets it’s wings."

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Ollie Sandcastle wrote: > As to the end of time thread above, it is just a feeling from a > dream. It might be important, or it might be utter nonsense.

What’d it mean to you? It made kinda sense to me except for the telly bit. I mean. Imagine no telly. That’s really stupid. If you tell someone else about that dream perhaps you can leave that bit out? – Michaela

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Sklenge wrote: >>>>> It’s just gone noon here at this end… "time is an illusion, >>>>> lunchtime doubly so". I wish I could put the clock back to 15 >>>>> minutes ago and relive the decision to make a toasted cheese and >>>>> quorn >>>> wassat? >>> quorn? >>> I think it’s some kind of fungus that they’ve discovered that can be >>> grown into specific forms and has the texture of meat fibres. So >>> quorn is your vegetarian equivalent to [in that case] bacon. >> For a split second I thought I saw the word "vulva" there. >> What would Freud say? > Which bit did you read as vulva?

Does everyone read by noticing patterns or unusual letters, thereby reducing the amount of time it takes to read? Cos that’s how I got it from "vegetarian equivalent" >>> but you can also get it in lamb, chicken, ham, beef, turkey, burger, >>> sausage etc form. >> Great. Well done, Emma. I’m such a fussy eater as it is. >> [To the crowd. I have resorted to blaming Emma for my every >> fault/problem/hitch. Such a relief.] > Tha’s okay, I can take it… I have my security blanket and… and… > my teddy… hang on… where’s my teddy? [runs off whimpering > incoherently]

I’m a mess since I met you. >> And to Emma, something I forgot to say in an e-mail: yes, I am a >> fraud. > Tha’s a relief [teddy found]. So am I. As Mr. Darkfalz would have > it… "two hypocritical bitches" wasn’t it? See, memory like Memorex > – is it live or is it evil?

I am vile. – Michaela I found this in apt and haven’t found a place to drop it off yet. The Old Man (Lao-zi) advocates the dropping of knowledge and learning in stark sayings. "Doing away with learning, one does not worry" (20). "When one studies, one’s learning benefits daily; but when one practices the Way, one whittles down [learning and knowledge] daily, and after whittling [them] down, one whittles [them] down some more, until one gets to not-doing" (48). "Eradicate saintliness, forsake knowing" (19). It is in this radical spirit of forsaking knowledge and learning that we attain to non-doing (wu-wei, bu-zuo, wu-xing, an-abhisamskara). This is the perspective from nowhere, which does not stop at anything and does not stand on anything. It so to speak floats above all things, is free of them and leaves room for our basal feeling of calm, peace, serenity, grace, which comes to us for free when we stop our mentation, in other words drop our knowledge and learning. Strangely it also redeems our knowledge and learning, because it puts them in perspective, the right perspective. From its perspective our knowledge and learning become transparent and not opaque. There is no conflict. All swims in harmony.

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>>>> It’s just gone noon here at this end… "time is an illusion, >>>> lunchtime doubly so". I wish I could put the clock back to 15 >>>> minutes ago and relive the decision to make a toasted cheese and >>>> quorn >>> wassat? >> quorn? >> I think it’s some kind of fungus that they’ve discovered that can be >> grown into specific forms and has the texture of meat fibres. So >> quorn is your vegetarian equivalent to [in that case] bacon. > For a split second I thought I saw the word "vulva" there. > What would Freud say?

Which bit did you read as vulva? >> but you can also get it in lamb, chicken, ham, beef, turkey, burger, >> sausage etc form. > Great. Well done, Emma. I’m such a fussy eater as it is. > [To the crowd. I have resorted to blaming Emma for my every > fault/problem/hitch. Such a relief.]

Tha’s okay, I can take it… I have my security blanket and… and… my teddy… hang on… where’s my teddy? [runs off whimpering incoherently] > And to Emma, something I forgot to say in an e-mail: yes, I am a > fraud.

Tha’s a relief [teddy found]. So am I. As Mr. Darkfalz would have it… "two hypocritical bitches" wasn’t it? See, memory like Memorex – is it live or is it evil? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> Hey, I just found a load of hidden posts! > – Michaela

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Michaela wrote: > Sklenge wrote: >>It’s just gone noon here at this end… "time is an illusion, >>lunchtime doubly so". I wish I could put the clock back to 15 minutes >>ago and relive the decision to make a toasted cheese and quorn > wassat?

quorn? I think it’s some kind of fungus that they’ve discovered that can be grown into specific forms and has the texture of meat fibres. So quorn is your vegetarian equivalent to [in that case] bacon. but you can also get it in lamb, chicken, ham, beef, turkey, burger, sausage etc form. Hey, I just found a load of hidden posts!

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -sklenge wrote: > Michaela wrote: >> Sklenge wrote: >>> It’s just gone noon here at this end… "time is an illusion, >>> lunchtime doubly so". I wish I could put the clock back to 15 >>> minutes ago and relive the decision to make a toasted cheese and >>> quorn >> wassat? > quorn? > I think it’s some kind of fungus that they’ve discovered that can be > grown into specific forms and has the texture of meat fibres. So > quorn is your vegetarian equivalent to [in that case] bacon.

For a split second I thought I saw the word "vulva" there. What would Freud say? > but you can also get it in lamb, chicken, ham, beef, turkey, burger, > sausage etc form.

Great. Well done, Emma. I’m such a fussy eater as it is. [To the crowd. I have resorted to blaming Emma for my every fault/problem/hitch. Such a relief.] And to Emma, something I forgot to say in an e-mail: yes, I am a fraud. > Hey, I just found a load of hidden posts!

- Michaela

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"They" say that molecules will stop moving when absolute zero, 0 Kelvin, is attained. Quantum theory appears to prevent this absolute minimum from accurring, however. It isn’t so strange, after all: how much worse can reality television get, and the answer is, there’ll always be a new nadir of disgust. As to the end of time thread above, it is just a feeling from a dream. It might be important, or it might be utter nonsense. However, even utter nonsense is an idea. One of the stranger things about being alive is how the dog’s breakfast is full of ideas, and most of the time, one is entranced by concepts, but one cannot positively recall if this or that was part of a dream. But, if That or Those who make it Their business to dream us up, choose to find another occupation, then, I think we probably can independently exist despite their boredom. I got the feeling that the kids won’t notice it, for at least a while, but we will. OTS "Your Name Here=Harvey" <k…@ing.notin.aus> wrote in message news:djblfg$q68$2@lust.ihug.co.nz… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> In article <djaisv$cg…@theodyn.ncf.ca>, bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA says… > >"Michaela Mackenzie" (michaelamackenzie05072…@yahoo.com) writes: > >> OTS > >>> Last night I dreamt that the sky went strange, and then it cleared up, and > >>> then someone wisely said "It isn’t the end of the world, but time’s just > >>> come to an end.". > >>> It was curious, because, in the terms of this dream, you could still go > down > >>> the pub, or have a walk in the park, only, no-one, I mean No-One cared > what > >>> happened anymore. Humanity wasn’t being watched. We weren’t on telly any > >>> more. > >> You had me up til here… > >> – Michaela > >Don’t look now, but you are in a time loop: this was posted three > >consecutive times… > >Hm. Din see if the time stamp was the same…. > >Mppft, would be funny if it was going backwards;-) > Time will stop, when there’s absolutely no activity, no motion of > any sort anywhere. > No molecules moving… etc > Harvey

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Sklenge wrote: > It’s just gone noon here at this end… "time is an illusion, > lunchtime doubly so". I wish I could put the clock back to 15 minutes > ago and relive the decision to make a toasted cheese and quorn

wassat? > sandwich, given the option I’d just go with the coffee. I like that > joke at the end of "Hitch Hiker’s" btw… "Noooo! The restaurant’s at > the /other/ end of the universe!"

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -"paneon" (paneon@sdf_dot_lonestar.org) writes: >>>> Last night I dreamt that the sky went strange, and then it cleared up, >>>> and >>>> then someone wisely said "It isn’t the end of the world, but time’s just >>>> come to an end.". >>>> It was curious, because, in the terms of this dream, you could still go >>>> down >>>> the pub, or have a walk in the park, only, no-one, I mean No-One cared >>>> what >>>> happened anymore. Humanity wasn’t being watched. We weren’t on telly any >>>> more. That’s what it means for time to come to an end. In that dream. >>>> In other gnews, there’s nothing in the Standard Model to prevent >>>> spacetime >>>> coming up unexpectedly against a sharp boundary. One man’s singularity >>>> is >>>> another man’s subject of a thesis. >>>> Am I making sense? Yes, I’d like another slice of Otter Crumble, please. >>>> OTS >>> Well – I’m currently occupying that spiritual wasteland known as "Sitting >>> in >>> a university computer lab on a Friday night" (TM) and the feeling of >>> timelessness is slightly overwhelming. >>> I can see a clock on the computer screen – but does the time actually >>> mean >>> anything to me? (Not really, now I think of it…) >>> The difference between 3am and 12pm in this place is largely a matter of >>> population density. There’s a world moving along outside – but you’d >>> never >>> know it if you didn’t spend the necessary 5 minutes to find your way out >>> of >>> this Escherian nightmare of lab-rat laboratories. >>> (-paneon) >> So you also work late hours, Pan? >> (Like Cemrav mentioned also) >> I guess that after a while oen forgets which came forst, loneliness or >> overtime….where after a while both get interelated, most likely. >> Both each other;s cause and consequence. > Overtime is like putty – it’s sticky and it fills up the gaps in your life.

Lots of people that have a family and everything else that many in here dream of still want to do overtime…. To be away from it all. So OT can be escapism in more than one way, I guess… >> Maybe that is what a-time is: cause and consequences are one same thing, >> no longer differenciated in time measure. >> Odd how you mention the life outsode foing on…That woudl eman that space >> rmeains if you take time out, which of course can not REALLY be… >> And that then time hads become for you a spatial thing. >> Have you checked your mass lately??L:) >> ;-) > I try not to – I’m afraid that my body-shape is turning into that of E.T.

I hope yo run faster than Harvey then!;-);-) (He is fascinated with ETs) So long as you don’t turn the same greyish green color….There still is hope with such great big eyes to find a catch this weekend:):) Which remidns me of the ET and Earthling science weekend joke. A martian couple lands by a farmer’s house. They tell the farmer and his wife that they were sent for a special exchange weekend, where the female martian is ready to ahve sex with the farmer, and the male martian is ready to ahve sex with the farmer’s wife, if that is okay with them, "in the name of science". The old farmer looks at the female martian and is all for it. She is rather shapely. So he asks his wife if that woudl be okay with her. She looks at the ale martian and finds him just the perfect greyish-green color;-), and so she tells her hubby the farmer that well…If it is in the name of science…She is all for it. So the female earthling and the male martian leave for a motel while the farmer and the female martian stay at the farm, for a scientific weekend sex time. At the motel, the female earthling is laughing till she can not breath, seing the martian naked. -It’s so short, how am I supposed to do anythign with…that? Hahaha! -Oh, you just have to pull on my right ear to make ti grow to the lenght you want… So she tries and sure enough, she can make it so the lenght is her Life Ideal. But she laughs again saying it is so thin, no it looks like a spaghetti. So he says she only has to pull on the other ear to make it the woidth she wants. After a few adjustements and experiments in the name of science, always;-), she ends up havign the wekend of her lifetim, and is rather sad to have to go home… But as they head back to the farm that Sunday evening she wodners how her hubby foudn the martian and if he will be there or have taken off in their spaceship! They finally arrive at the farm…The hubby is there with the martian female. They all kiss good bye and the martian couple gets in their spaceship and leaves. Curious, the farmer asks his 3wife: -So, hum…How was it maw…? -Oh, she says downplaying it a bit, it was..okay. -It was..okay? -I reckon it was…okay…But how about you, paw? -Ah missed yer. -Yer missed me??? -Yah. Thatd anr martian creature she was not much good in the sack, I tell ya… -She was …not? -Nah. In fact she did not look like she cared for sex at all…. -What do you eman? -Well, she spent the entire weekend just pulling on my ears… > (-paneon)

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Ollie Sandcastle on 20/10/2005 8:33 pm wrote: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Last night I dreamt that the sky went strange, and then it cleared up, and > then someone wisely said "It isn’t the end of the world, but time’s just > come to an end.". > It was curious, because, in the terms of this dream, you could still go down > the pub, or have a walk in the park, only, no-one, I mean No-One cared what > happened anymore. Humanity wasn’t being watched. We weren’t on telly any > more. That’s what it means for time to come to an end. In that dream. > In other gnews, there’s nothing in the Standard Model to prevent spacetime > coming up unexpectedly against a sharp boundary. One man’s singularity is > another man’s subject of a thesis. > Am I making sense? Yes, I’d like another slice of Otter Crumble, please. > OTS

Would you like ketchup or brahn sauce on that?

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Last night I dreamt that the sky went strange, and then it cleared up, and > then someone wisely said "It isn’t the end of the world, but time’s just > come to an end.". > It was curious, because, in the terms of this dream, you could still go > down > the pub, or have a walk in the park, only, no-one, I mean No-One cared > what > happened anymore. Humanity wasn’t being watched. We weren’t on telly any > more. That’s what it means for time to come to an end. In that dream. > In other gnews, there’s nothing in the Standard Model to prevent spacetime > coming up unexpectedly against a sharp boundary. One man’s singularity is > another man’s subject of a thesis. > Am I making sense? Yes, I’d like another slice of Otter Crumble, please. > OTS

Well – I’m currently occupying that spiritual wasteland known as "Sitting in a university computer lab on a Friday night" (TM) and the feeling of timelessness is slightly overwhelming. I can see a clock on the computer screen – but does the time actually mean anything to me? (Not really, now I think of it…) The difference between 3am and 12pm in this place is largely a matter of population density. There’s a world moving along outside – but you’d never know it if you didn’t spend the necessary 5 minutes to find your way out of this Escherian nightmare of lab-rat laboratories. (-paneon)

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OTS > Last night I dreamt that the sky went strange, and then it cleared up, and > then someone wisely said "It isn’t the end of the world, but time’s just > come to an end.". > It was curious, because, in the terms of this dream, you could still go down > the pub, or have a walk in the park, only, no-one, I mean No-One cared what > happened anymore. Humanity wasn’t being watched. We weren’t on telly any > more.

You had me up til here… – Michaela

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -"paneon" (paneon@sdf_dot_lonestar.org) writes: >> Last night I dreamt that the sky went strange, and then it cleared up, and >> then someone wisely said "It isn’t the end of the world, but time’s just >> come to an end.". >> It was curious, because, in the terms of this dream, you could still go >> down >> the pub, or have a walk in the park, only, no-one, I mean No-One cared >> what >> happened anymore. Humanity wasn’t being watched. We weren’t on telly any >> more. That’s what it means for time to come to an end. In that dream. >> In other gnews, there’s nothing in the Standard Model to prevent spacetime >> coming up unexpectedly against a sharp boundary. One man’s singularity is >> another man’s subject of a thesis. >> Am I making sense? Yes, I’d like another slice of Otter Crumble, please. >> OTS > Well – I’m currently occupying that spiritual wasteland known as "Sitting in > a university computer lab on a Friday night" (TM) and the feeling of > timelessness is slightly overwhelming. > I can see a clock on the computer screen – but does the time actually mean > anything to me? (Not really, now I think of it…) > The difference between 3am and 12pm in this place is largely a matter of > population density. There’s a world moving along outside – but you’d never > know it if you didn’t spend the necessary 5 minutes to find your way out of > this Escherian nightmare of lab-rat laboratories. > (-paneon)

So you also work late hours, Pan? (Like Cemrav mentioned also) I guess that after a while oen forgets which came forst, loneliness or overtime….where after a while both get interelated, most likely. Both each other;s cause and consequence. Maybe that is what a-time is: cause and consequences are one same thing, no longer differenciated in time measure. Odd how you mention the life outsode foing on…That woudl eman that space rmeains if you take time out, which of course can not REALLY be… And that then time hads become for you a spatial thing. Have you checked your mass lately??L:) ;-) —

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Escher dreaded going up to bed. OTS "Sklenge" <skle…@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message

news:BF7E8D92.96A2%sklenge@yahoo.co.uk… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> paneon on 21/10/2005 10:44 am wrote: > >> Last night I dreamt that the sky went strange, and then it cleared up, and > >> then someone wisely said "It isn’t the end of the world, but time’s just come > >> to an end.". > >> It was curious, because, in the terms of this dream, you could still go down > >> the pub, or have a walk in the park, only, no-one, I mean No-One cared what > >> happened anymore. Humanity wasn’t being watched. We weren’t on telly any > >> more. That’s what it means for time to come to an end. In that dream. > >> In other gnews, there’s nothing in the Standard Model to prevent spacetime > >> coming up unexpectedly against a sharp boundary. One man’s singularity is > >> another man’s subject of a thesis. > >> Am I making sense? Yes, I’d like another slice of Otter Crumble, please. > >> OTS > > Well – I’m currently occupying that spiritual wasteland known as "Sitting in > > a university computer lab on a Friday night" (TM) and the feeling of > > timelessness is slightly overwhelming. > That reminds me of the Monster Mash song… "I was working in the lab late > one night when my eyes beheld an eeeeerie sight" or summink. > > I can see a clock on the computer screen – but does the time actually mean > > anything to me? (Not really, now I think of it…) > > The difference between 3am and 12pm in this place is largely a matter of > > population density. There’s a world moving along outside – but you’d never > > know it if you didn’t spend the necessary 5 minutes to find your way out of > > this Escherian nightmare of lab-rat laboratories. > I like Escher. > > (-paneon) > It’s just gone noon here at this end… "time is an illusion, lunchtime > doubly so". I wish I could put the clock back to 15 minutes ago and relive > the decision to make a toasted cheese and quorn sandwich, given the option > I’d just go with the coffee. I like that joke at the end of "Hitch Hiker’s" > btw… "Noooo! The restaurant’s at the /other/ end of the universe!"

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> OTS >>> Last night I dreamt that the sky went strange, and then it cleared up, >>> and >>> then someone wisely said "It isn’t the end of the world, but time’s just >>> come to an end.". >>> It was curious, because, in the terms of this dream, you could still go >>> down >>> the pub, or have a walk in the park, only, no-one, I mean No-One cared >>> what >>> happened anymore. Humanity wasn’t being watched. We weren’t on telly any >>> more. >> You had me up til here… >> – Michaela > Don’t look now, but you are in a time loop: this was posted three > consecutive times… > Hm. Din see if the time stamp was the same…. > Mppft, would be funny if it was going backwards;-)

It’d be scary it was counting down… (-paneon)

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"Michaela Mackenzie" (michaelamackenzie05072…@yahoo.com) writes: > OTS >> Last night I dreamt that the sky went strange, and then it cleared up, and >> then someone wisely said "It isn’t the end of the world, but time’s just >> come to an end.". >> It was curious, because, in the terms of this dream, you could still go down >> the pub, or have a walk in the park, only, no-one, I mean No-One cared what >> happened anymore. Humanity wasn’t being watched. We weren’t on telly any >> more. > You had me up til here… > – Michaela

Don’t look now, but you are in a time loop: this was posted three consecutive times… Hm. Din see if the time stamp was the same…. Mppft, would be funny if it was going backwards;-) —

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paneon on 21/10/2005 10:44 am wrote: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> Last night I dreamt that the sky went strange, and then it cleared up, and >> then someone wisely said "It isn’t the end of the world, but time’s just come >> to an end.". >> It was curious, because, in the terms of this dream, you could still go down >> the pub, or have a walk in the park, only, no-one, I mean No-One cared what >> happened anymore. Humanity wasn’t being watched. We weren’t on telly any >> more. That’s what it means for time to come to an end. In that dream. >> In other gnews, there’s nothing in the Standard Model to prevent spacetime >> coming up unexpectedly against a sharp boundary. One man’s singularity is >> another man’s subject of a thesis. >> Am I making sense? Yes, I’d like another slice of Otter Crumble, please. >> OTS > Well – I’m currently occupying that spiritual wasteland known as "Sitting in > a university computer lab on a Friday night" (TM) and the feeling of > timelessness is slightly overwhelming.

That reminds me of the Monster Mash song… "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eeeeerie sight" or summink. > I can see a clock on the computer screen – but does the time actually mean > anything to me? (Not really, now I think of it…) > The difference between 3am and 12pm in this place is largely a matter of > population density. There’s a world moving along outside – but you’d never > know it if you didn’t spend the necessary 5 minutes to find your way out of > this Escherian nightmare of lab-rat laboratories.

I like Escher. > (-paneon)

It’s just gone noon here at this end… "time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so". I wish I could put the clock back to 15 minutes ago and relive the decision to make a toasted cheese and quorn sandwich, given the option I’d just go with the coffee. I like that joke at the end of "Hitch Hiker’s" btw… "Noooo! The restaurant’s at the /other/ end of the universe!"

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Last night I dreamt that the sky went strange, and then it cleared up, and then someone wisely said "It isn’t the end of the world, but time’s just come to an end.". It was curious, because, in the terms of this dream, you could still go down the pub, or have a walk in the park, only, no-one, I mean No-One cared what happened anymore. Humanity wasn’t being watched. We weren’t on telly any more. That’s what it means for time to come to an end. In that dream. In other gnews, there’s nothing in the Standard Model to prevent spacetime coming up unexpectedly against a sharp boundary. One man’s singularity is another man’s subject of a thesis. Am I making sense? Yes, I’d like another slice of Otter Crumble, please. OTS

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