Time

**Odin** · 02-22-2006, 04:54 AM

I am tired of the statement "There's another 5 minutes of my time I can't have back"

Solely because you didn't have it to begin with. There is nothing so vague and stupid as the ownership of time.

The future is a place that is ever ahead, the past is something behind. So if you spend 5 minutes looking at something those 5 minutes don't exist any more and you can't borrow 5 minutes in the future to trade against something in the past.

As well as the fact that the future is limitless and by that same token non-existant. I can't get to the future because by getting there it turns to the present. The same applies to the past. See paradox.

As a matter of fact you can't actually even divide that decision making, into a second as you can't accurately predict when or at what time the decision making happened. What about the milisecond, a second below that?

Did it happen at.... 12:05 .04.85.78.23.53? It's an ever presenting system of minutia representing by drawings of items supposed to represent something that isn't tangible at all. 12:05 could mean the same thing as AA:34 or perhaps Zimbabwe. If everyone in the world called that particular moment Zimbabwe, then we would all think of time as in Zimbabwe, or maybe even after Zimbabwe.

Terminology is the greatest hinderance of all.

Example - Zeno

In this fashion it would be more appropriate to say that there isn't anything which is a waste of time. Thus there isn't anything that is or isn't a waste of time.

ALSO

That means that time cannot be precious, treasured, or valued. It can't be wasted, hurried or danced away.

and you cannot, most CERTAINLY HAVE IT BACK!

**Svengali** · 02-22-2006, 05:17 AM

I'm guessing that you disapprove of "Daylight Savings Time"
p.s. Evelyn Woodhead just saved me atleast 4 minutes

**vinzclortho** · 02-22-2006, 06:43 AM

a) let it go man. gonna have to just let this one go.

b) can I buy some pot from you?

**Odin** · 02-22-2006, 07:20 AM

HEY, if you can somehow get to the past or the future without invalidating it and making it the present, I want to see that.

**bklyn** · 02-22-2006, 07:20 AM

Toot toot hey beep beep...
Hey mister, have you got a dime?
Mister, do you want to spend some time, yeah

**Woodsy** · 02-22-2006, 07:33 AM

I may not own the time but I own my attention to what goes on in it.

and if i'm here and Your here, isnt this our time?
now whats wrong with a little feast on our time?

**Free Range Lobster** · 02-22-2006, 07:48 AM

I did not read this because it would take time.

**vtdownhiller** · 02-22-2006, 07:48 AM

I would like the time back that it took me to read that post!...but alas, gone forever, wasted, never to return.....oh, woe is me.

**irul&ublo** · 02-22-2006, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by Odin

I am tired of the statement "There's another 5 minutes of my time I can't have back"

Solely because you didn't have it to begin with. There is nothing so vague and stupid as the ownership of time.

The future is a place that is ever ahead, the past is something behind. So if you spend 5 minutes looking at something those 5 minutes don't exist any more and you can't borrow 5 minutes in the future to trade against something in the past.

As well as the fact that the future is limitless and by that same token non-existant. I can't get to the future because by getting there it turns to the present. The same applies to the past. See paradox.

As a matter of fact you can't actually even divide that decision making, into a second as you can't accurately predict when or at what time the decision making happened. What about the milisecond, a second below that?

Did it happen at.... 12:05 .04.85.78.23.53? It's an ever presenting system of minutia representing by drawings of items supposed to represent something that isn't tangible at all. 12:05 could mean the same thing as AA:34 or perhaps Zimbabwe. If everyone in the world called that particular moment Zimbabwe, then we would all think of time as in Zimbabwe, or maybe even after Zimbabwe.

Terminology is the greatest hinderance of all.

Example - Zeno

In this fashion it would be more appropriate to say that there isn't anything which is a waste of time. Thus there isn't anything that is or isn't a waste of time.

ALSO

That means that time cannot be precious, treasured, or valued. It can't be wasted, hurried or danced away.

and you cannot, most CERTAINLY HAVE IT BACK!

You assume time is linear.

**shane-o** · 02-22-2006, 02:01 PM

I don't think he's assuming it's linear. More like monotonic.

**Art Shirk** · 02-22-2006, 04:20 PM

Remorse can be ubiquitous. Then again, it is ironicaly hypocritcal to be remorseful of time ill-spent as remorse is, in fact, time ill-spent.

**Elkhound Odin** · 02-22-2006, 04:56 PM

Reading this thread was 5 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

**MakersTeleMark** · 02-22-2006, 05:06 PM

I found out last night that an acquaintance's birthday coincides with the leap year. Talk amongst yourselves ...

**Art Shirk** · 02-22-2006, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark

I found out last night that an acquaintance's birthday coincides with the leap year. Talk amongst yourselves ...

You just blew my mind.

**Big Blue** · 02-22-2006, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark

I found out last night that an acquaintance's birthday coincides with the leap year. Talk amongst yourselves ...

Everyone has a birthday on the leap year. It's the leap DAY that's unusual.

**The AD** · 02-22-2006, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by Svengali

I'm guessing that you disapprove of "Daylight Savings Time"

Daylight Saving Time, you JONG!

**Alioops** · 02-23-2006, 09:57 PM

"The main problem with this great obsession for Saving Time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save every bit of it, he ends up wasting the whole thing."