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Posted By: samhael, on host 128.250.185.130
Date: Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 18:10:20
In Reply To: Re: Random Thought... posted by Philbee on Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 13:24:14:

> > Actually, there would be no way for it to be unbroken. You hit the button, all time stops, there would be no way to hit the "Restart time" button. Also, speaking of going back in time, it would be impossible. Because, say, you go back in time to save yourself from some tragedy (Maybe you get in a car accident when you were young or something). You go back in time, save yourself, fine and dandy. You go back to your time, but the past you that needed to go back in time to save yourself won't, because they were never in the car accident. Therefore, the car accident would happen, so they would need to go back in time, but then they solve it, so the car accident didn't happen, so they don't need to go back in time, but then they don't go back in time and the car accident happens, and on and on. Now, if you went back in time and just looked around, that might work.
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> You have no idea how much I love reading these threads. Watching as people try their best to make sense of their past, future and past-future-present-conditionally-inflective-subjunctive tenses (and getting extraordinarily confused) is so much fun. By the way, it is also amazingly confusing trying to read them. I love that too much.
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> Phil-"Warm fuzzy confused feeling - or is that just tiredness?"-bee

I'm wondering if it harder or easier to explain in another language, where tenses are more rigid?
sam"anyone?"hael

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