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« Reply #40 on: May 16, 2005, 06:17:30 AM »





wasnt SLC a cute child? hihi hihi hihi hihi hihi hihi hihi hihi


I went in my time machine back to when SLC was running in this race, I was cheering so loud while he was running, I was his biggest fan like that fat bitch in "Misery"
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« Reply #41 on: May 16, 2005, 07:16:25 AM »

You guys are crackin' me up with these pictures? hihi

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« Reply #42 on: May 16, 2005, 03:48:15 PM »

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I believe the Bible to be the word of God as long as it is translated correctly.

oh wow look at me im the grammer police.... lol... yes im one to be talking.


wouldnt interpertation be a better concept to explore. it could be translated properly and we jsut dont read it correctly


but as Q said the only way for time travel to exist is for a multiverse to exist. that is where ever possible outcome sets off its own timeline from those points. If i went back in time i would be simply travelling back to a point in the past and existing in that time line as though it was my own. and on a different path that would not alter your existance in travelling back in time.... what time travel actually becomes i more along the lines of dimensal travel.... if that makes sence at all...... the following is somethign that i replied to back in april on some relative questions which have some need here .



On reality glitches;  Aside from proving anything, I have a question or three;
1)   Can the past be changed?  (or does time have more than one dimension?)
2)   If so, can it be changed so that two or more people have differing
memories?
3)   What effects do recording have?
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I went into some relative areas before about this, not dealing with reality in its self, though it can be easily expanded into. I?m not sure if I ever covered this on the list but ill do one up here now.


Reality:
1.   The quality or state of being actual or true.
2.   One, such as a person, an entity, or an event, that is actual: ?the weight of history and political realities? (Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.).
3.   The totality of all things possessing actuality, existence, or essence.
4.   That which exists objectively and in fact: Your observations do not seem to be about reality.
Truth:
1.   Conformity to fact or actuality.
2.   A statement proven to be or accepted as true.
3.   Sincerity; integrity.
4.   Fidelity to an original or standard.
5.   
a.   Reality; actuality.
b.   often Truth That which is considered to be the supreme reality and to have the ultimate meaning and value of existence.
Time:
a.   ?  A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
b.   An interval separating two points on this continuum; a duration: a long time since the last war; passed the time reading.
c.   A number, as of years, days, or minutes, representing such an interval: ran the course in a time just under four minutes.
d.   A similar number representing a specific point on this continuum, reckoned in hours and minutes: checked her watch and recorded the time, 6:17 A.M.
e.   A system by which such intervals are measured or such numbers are reckoned: solar time.
a.   ?  An interval, especially a span of years, marked by similar events, conditions, or phenomena; an era. Often used in the plural: hard times; a time of troubles.
b.   times The present with respect to prevailing conditions and trends: You must change with the times.
?  A suitable or opportune moment or season: a time for taking stock of one's life.
a.   ?  Periods or a period designated for a given activity: harvest time; time for bed.
b.   Periods or a period necessary or available for a given activity: I have no time for golf.
c.   A period at one's disposal: Do you have time for a chat?

Human memory is a very interesting and deceitful thing. Though we may believe that what remember is the exact and unaltered truth of what we saw, done, read, in the past it does not make it so. It has been documented through several experiments that over a given time the suggestibility of human memory will cause a change in our long and short term memory. Sometimes the most unreliable thing to have in a police investigation is an eyewitness. Dealing with memories of a event with multiple eyewitnesses comes down in some terms that of having to use the process of observation defined in quantum astronomy. Where an object must be viewed by several different observing devices and combined in order to see the actual object for what it is.  i.e. We take 100  people and get them to look at a basket ball bouncing on a court. Then take tem in separate rooms and get them to describe the ball and its actions, you will get 100 different observations of the ball. Combing these 100 different observations we will get a more complete and accurate observation of what the basketball actually looked like while bouncing on the court.

To observe is to change the object in question by adding the observer to the observation then a more accurate image can be created. Simple enough right. Nope. No matter how many observations are done we will never get a complete and fully accurate picture of the ball, let alone what the ball was doing. Was it bouncing? Was it rolling? The entire problem is that of those 100 people 1 person could accurately see and describe the ball, and another the way the ball bounced. The other 98 people will have varying observations that will distort the purity of the image of the combined 2 observers.

Truth, I heard it once being described as, ?As long as the subject believes that what he says is the truth then to him it will be the truth, regardless to what everyone else has seen, and what the tape shows.?

It reminds me of Plato?s Cave theory. I found a relatively good explanation of it here http://theosophy.org/tlodocs/AllegoryoftheCave.htm . i have  included a excerpt below.

The allegory begins with a graphic picture of the pathetic condition of the majority of mankind. We are like chained slaves living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den. Here we have been from our childhood, unable to move or to see beyond, being prevented by the chains from turning round our heads. Above and behind us a fire is blazing at a distance, but between the fire and ourselves there is a low wall like the screen which marionette players have in front of them to foster the illusion necessary for a puppet-show. We are like the strange prisoners in this den who see only their own shadows or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave. To them the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images, and they cannot distinguish the voices of one another from the echoes emanating from the surrounding darkness.

Given this allegory, we might think that if only the prisoners were released from their chains by some external agency, they would cease to mistake shadows for realities and would be automatically disabused of their former errors. The allegory points out that no such simple deliverance from illusions is possible. At first, when any of the prisoners is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains. Further, the glare will disturb him and he will be unable to see the realities he formerly identified with their mere shadows. If he is now told that what he saw before was an illusion and that now he is approaching real existence and has a clearer vision, he will be perplexed. He will continue to fancy that the shadows he saw for so long were truer than the objects which are now shown to him. If he is compelled to look straight at the light, the pain in his eyes will induce him to turn away to take refuge in the objects of vision that have acquired a false but greater reality than the things which are now being shown to him. If he is dragged up a steep ascent and forced into the presence of the sun, his eyes will be dazzled and he will not be able to see anything at all.

The liberated prisoner will obviously require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world. He will first see the shadows best, then the reflections of men and objects in the water, and then the objects themselves; and then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars by night. At last he will be able to see the sun. He will come to see that the sun is the guardian of all that is in the visible world and in a certain sense the cause of all that he and his fellows had been accustomed to behold. He would remember his old habitation and the delusions of his fellow prisoners, pity them and felicitate himself on the change in himself and in his position. He would no longer care for the honors conferred upon one another by the ignorant prisoners on the basis of who were the quickest to observe the passing shadows.



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« Reply #43 on: May 16, 2005, 03:48:32 PM »

The first test that the liberated prisoner has to face is to get accustomed to his new condition and to forsake his long-cherished illusions. The second test is to see the unity of all things. The third is to show compassion towards his fellow prisoners and not merely revel in his own happiness. The fourth is to detach himself completely from the false valuations and hierarchical distinctions made by the men in the den. His fifth and much more difficult test comes if he is then made to re-enter the cave of darkness, for he would appear ridiculous to the prisoners who still cling to their former illusions centered on the shadows. They would say that he had become blind to realities since leaving the cave, that it is better not even to think of ascending, that they would be entitled to put to death anyone who tried to free another and lead him up to the light.

The allegory then explains that the prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun, and the journey upwards is the ascent of the soul into the intellectual world. In the world of knowledge the archetypal idea of Good appears last of all and is seen only with an effort. It is only then inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, the lord of light in this visible world and the immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual world, the power upon which the eye must be fixed in private and public life in order to act rationally. It is not surprising, we are told, that those who attain to this beatific vision are unwilling to descend to human affairs; for their souls are ever hastening into the upper world where they desire to dwell. Those who do descend from divine contemplations to the underground den will not find it easy to deal with those who have never yet seen Absolute Good or Justice.

I think Plato's sample reaction is rather accurate. Most people would adjust to the light and then try to understand the light, and then go on what you'd call a converting mission. And you lose people on every step... People who are too afraid to even look at something different, people who die instead of accepting it, people who're too selfish and keep it for themselves, or don't know how to persuade others. And then you have the question of what the light is, and if it's really there... There's always something like this with contrasting ideologies, politics, and then you come to a bigger picture, with God or something similar. You can get a lot out of it - it depends on what you're looking for. I agree with it, and then I don't - it works for some things and not for others.


There is a definite parallel with the matrix concept. The multi-verse concept that Gary put forth is a little different IMO. However its something that has personally bounced on my court a few times as of late. The best that I could come up with, was almost word for word what ahs been brought up by Gary. Though in mine once we do carryover into the new universe we, overall we forget what the other universe was about and only remember the past of the universe that we are now apart of. However there are a few that tend not to accept the new ?reality? that they are thrust into, though they do not remember the reality that they have departed, they feel as though some things just don?t fit in the puzzle that they live in now.

Time in its self is a conceptual construction of the conscious mind of man. It is an observed occurrence and to observe means that we are now part of the observation. And because of that our perception of time exists. With out us time would still exist. Time is fluid and is able to change, however to change time no matter how small will have a ?butterfly effect? on your own future, which would be your past, and would cause you not ever coming back into the past, so the change would not occur. The only way for temporal tampering to occur would be in a multi-verse concept, and what would occur would be your ?present? would be moved to the universe of the path that was chosen by the temporal tampering that was conducted. And if this is the case then reality glitches as they have been used, would simply not exist in a manner that could be recorded unless you could devise a way to travel between universes.

Well im not sure if this at all helps.. I think my head ran away with my hands there for a bit?.
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« Reply #44 on: May 16, 2005, 04:00:44 PM »

here are 3 relative threads too for you all to read back on.... beating a dead horse?....... not much eh?

does time exist

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=11890.0

do you beleive in god

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=13286.0

Do you think religion will eventually become extinct

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=10371.0


heck maybe a mod can merge some of these threads when they start up... casue its nothign worse the beating the dead horse with these new people coming into the board... not my fault they wont go back and look and see if somethign relevent has been done before




oh and to teh  "through christ is teh onlly path to salvation" crap.... try reading some other relgious texts and see if you notice the similarties.... fucking relgion..... wish ye would all just work together instead of agnist oneanother...... your tring to get tot eh same spot..... but just cant seem to understand that if we are all equal then all relgion must be as wellll..... and all science cause as "nut sack" or what ever his name is has said its only through god that we have any knowledge..... funny didnt we eat the "bad" fruit?


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« Reply #45 on: May 16, 2005, 04:56:25 PM »

The Church of Satan? Cheesy

Seriously though, good points by Prometheus

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« Reply #46 on: May 16, 2005, 05:06:24 PM »

Prometheus, there has never been a thread anywhere on the net about God's existence related to time travel. You picking a few different threads to say mine is old news is the lamest attempt I've seen at labeling something a dead horse. Take your dead horse bullshit somewhere else.
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« Reply #47 on: May 16, 2005, 06:21:43 PM »

I dont think time travel could work due to all the paradox's

By goin back in time u may accidentally fuck up something and when u get back to your own time everything could be completely different and even your family may not exist which would mean u didnt exist

total paradox

If there were a potential of time travel, u may be able to go forward, but u couldnt go back due to the paradox.
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« Reply #48 on: May 16, 2005, 08:33:16 PM »

Can you translate this for me?

However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you.? You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land.? You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance.? You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way.? (Leviticus 25:44-46 )

How about this one?

When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.? If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again.? But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her.? And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter.? If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife.? If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment.? (Exodus 21:7-11 )

These are straight out of the bible. So if your bible is the absolute truth then you claim that slavery is ok. Maybe I am translating this incorrectly?

I can give you more barbaric acts from the bible if you'd prefer.

It seems to me that if you hold the bible to be the one true path, then you must embrace passages as those above as well. If not, then you are a hypocrite and you only pick what you think is ok, and then judge others with it.

Who-da-thunk?

Aaahh....and the trap is sprung!

OK, SLCPUNK, fair enough.? I'll attempt to answer your questions (more like objections) as best I can, knowing full well we still won't come to any sort of mutual understanding or agreement.

Although the words are of the more "modern variety," your renditions of Leviticus 25:44-46 and Exodus 21:7-11 are basically correct.

First off, we must remember that God gives laws and commandments to a people only as quickly as they can receive them.? He gives His children "line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little," as fast as they are willing to hearken unto Him.

Originally God desired to offer the higher law, i.e. the fullness of the gospel covenant, to Israel through Moses.? The people of Israel quickly showed that they were unable to live the higher law, and so, were given a lower law insted - the Law of Moses.

In light of the higher law that given (actually re-offered) by the Savior Himself some 2,000 years ago, the Mosaic Law indeed does seem very backwards, harsh, and extreme.? However it was a law that the people were willing to live, and one designed as a "schoolmaster" in order to prepare them for the higher law and the coming of Christ.

Although there are many elements of the Old Law or Covenant which are eternal principles, such as the ten commandments, there were others that were fulfilled through the New Law, i.e, Covenant or Testament.

I said I believe in the Bible, and I do.? However, I also believe in continuing revelation through the Lord's appointed servants.

As such, just as the principles of the New Covenant fulfill and supercede the Old, so do further revelations given since the New Testament was compliled fulfill, supercede, and expound those books.? ?

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« Reply #49 on: May 16, 2005, 08:42:25 PM »

lol

your right..... but not knowing the nature of the way that people on this forum tend to hit every point or at least discuss teh aspects that are mentioned.... I think you miss the point here.... just because you call it "I am the Greatest" and you had one called "do you think I am the greatest", most points will ahve been covered in the previous thread. If you have new and amazing info based in that same line of thinking then add it to that thread...... making needless rewrite threads are a waste of time. Just you think that your ideas are so profound that no one has thought of it before just remeber that there are alot of more people out there that have thought of it too. your jsut a hack like everyoneelse including me.... we are unorgional..... always remember that.
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« Reply #50 on: May 16, 2005, 08:46:00 PM »

How do you know it's not his ego talking?

You bring up an excellent question.

If someone is truly speaking by the proper authority and under the influence of the Holy Ghost, that same Spirit will witness to the one reading or hearing that what the person is saying is true.

However, for that "Spirit to spirit" communication to work, one must be open to some extent for the Holy Ghost to operate. ?

Many are not. ?

That's why, for many today, the holy scriptures are nothing but words on a page.
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« Reply #51 on: May 16, 2005, 08:46:20 PM »

Can you translate this for me?

However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you.  You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land.  You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance.  You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way.  (Leviticus 25:44-46 )

How about this one?

When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.  If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again.  But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her.  And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter.  If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife.  If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment.  (Exodus 21:7-11 )

These are straight out of the bible. So if your bible is the absolute truth then you claim that slavery is ok. Maybe I am translating this incorrectly?

I can give you more barbaric acts from the bible if you'd prefer.

It seems to me that if you hold the bible to be the one true path, then you must embrace passages as those above as well. If not, then you are a hypocrite and you only pick what you think is ok, and then judge others with it.

Who-da-thunk?

Aaahh....and the trap is sprung!

OK, SLCPUNK, fair enough.  I'll attempt to answer your questions (more like objections) as best I can, knowing full well we still won't come to any sort of mutual understanding or agreement.

Although the words are of the more "modern variety," your renditions of Leviticus 25:44-46 and Exodus 21:7-11 are basically correct.

First off, we must remember that God gives laws and commandments to a people only as quickly as they can receive them.  He gives His children "line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little," as fast as they are willing to hearken unto Him.

Originally God desired to offer the higher law, i.e. the fullness of the gospel covenant, to Israel through Moses.  The people of Israel quickly showed that they were unable to live the higher law, and so, were given a lower law insted - the Law of Moses.

In light of the higher law that given (actually re-offered) by the Savior Himself some 2,000 years ago, the Mosaic Law indeed does seem very backwards, harsh, and extreme.  However it was a law that the people were willing to live, and one designed as a "schoolmaster" in order to prepare them for the higher law and the coming of Christ.

Although there are many elements of the Old Law or Covenant which are eternal principles, such as the ten commandments, there were others that were fulfilled through the New Law, i.e, Covenant or Testament.

I said I believe in the Bible, and I do.  However, I also believe in continuing revelation through the Lord's appointed servants.

As such, just as the principles of the New Covenant fulfill and supercede the Old, so do further revelations given since the New Testament was compliled fulfill, supercede, and expound those books.


Hmmm seems to me that you are judao-christan is the only bus............. ever think that maybe jsut maybe that your god... our god has enlightened others in a manner that they understand and accept so that at some time they will all come together to futher the human race.... not the 100,000 that reside in zion to have the freeride to the next round
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« Reply #52 on: May 16, 2005, 08:51:52 PM »

How do you know it's not his ego talking?

You bring up an excellent question.

If someone is truly speaking by the proper authority and under the influence of the Holy Ghost, that same Spirit will witness to the one reading or hearing that what the person is saying is true.

However, for that "Spirit to spirit" communication to work, one must be open to some extent for the Holy Ghost to operate. 

Many are not. 

That's why, for many today, the holy scriptures are nothing but words on a page.

we are nothing more then vessels by which the holy spirit operates, and interacts with everyone to spread itself to the masses. (the willing) What you fail to realise that god working though us makes what we do no matter what correct and a function of God... so long as your spirit to spirit connection occurs.... doesnt that work with cults that are not based toward you relgion?
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« Reply #53 on: May 16, 2005, 08:55:55 PM »

Hmmm seems to me that you are judao-christan is the only bus............. ever think that maybe jsut maybe that your god... our god has enlightened others in a manner that they understand and accept so that at some time they will all come together to futher the human race.... not the 100,000 that reside in zion to have the freeride to the next round

I try not to get caught up in the whole "this religion vs. that religion" thing.

What you're saying is totally correct. ?All are children of God and He desires the salvation of each one.

I think there is truth and relative value in most, if not all, religions.

However, make no mistake about it. ?The "one true Gospel," so to speak, does exist. ?

Some have been blessed to have more of it than others.
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« Reply #54 on: May 16, 2005, 09:01:27 PM »

we are nothing more then vessels by which the holy spirit operates, and interacts with everyone to spread itself to the masses. (the willing) What you fail to realise that god working though us makes what we do no matter what correct and a function of God... so long as your spirit to spirit connection occurs.... doesnt that work with cults that are not based toward you relgion?

Everybody has the gift of free agency, free will, etc.

That is what the war in Heaven was fought over after all.  Lucifer wanted to take it away while the Father and the Son both knew that free agency is an eternal principle and one that could not be dispensed with if this period of mortal testing we call "life" was to work.

Both the Spirit of God and the Adversary have the ability to influence us for either good or evil. 

It's how we respond to those influences, as well as using our own reasoning as best we can, that makes us responsible for our actions and the choices we make.
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« Reply #55 on: May 17, 2005, 12:10:47 AM »

"However it was a law that the people were willing to live"

haha, who? The slaves?

Crack me up with your bullshit man.

See you around.
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« Reply #56 on: May 17, 2005, 04:00:56 AM »

has any1 seen the episode of south park when they got a time machine and they wanted to go back to the 3rd grade. it was funny cartman said "kiss my ass" and noone else did and then the time machine didnt work.  hihi matt stone and trey must read alot about time travel and crap cause there was also an episode about a parellel universe
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« Reply #57 on: May 17, 2005, 11:34:43 AM »

Man, obviously none of you 'got it'.

I got it.
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« Reply #58 on: May 17, 2005, 04:09:47 PM »

All these paradoxes never cease to amaze me. I am writing a trilogy, and the second novel in the trilogy deals with the issue of time travel. I haven't finished it, but I know how the story ends. And of course, it creates a damn paradox. In the story, the character goes back in time and completes his mission. End of story, right? Wrong! This is where a paradox occurs. If the guy goes back in time and completes his mission, wouldn't he be stuck in the past? By completing the mission, it would mean that the mission never existed in the first place, so there would have been no reason to go back in time. Confusing shit. Have you guys noticed how books and movies dealing with time travel always conveniently bypass these paradoxes?
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« Reply #59 on: May 17, 2005, 04:56:18 PM »

All these paradoxes never cease to amaze me. I am writing a trilogy, and the second novel in the trilogy deals with the issue of time travel. I haven't finished it, but I know how the story ends. And of course, it creates a damn paradox. In the story, the character goes back in time and completes his mission. End of story, right? Wrong! This is where a paradox occurs. If the guy goes back in time and completes his mission, wouldn't he be stuck in the past? By completing the mission, it would mean that the mission never existed in the first place, so there would have been no reason to go back in time. Confusing shit. Have you guys noticed how books and movies dealing with time travel always conveniently bypass these paradoxes?

the resulting timeline would be a different one...in theory, any elements that are unresolved would return to its new timeline...ie if you were not meant to be there at the oldest split of the timelines then you wont be...you would be returned to where you should be in the new timeline with no knowledge of the previous one but the oldest split would still remain....of course thats just my theory lol
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