Articulate a shocking truth.

[SheleKnights]

Spoiler: Here we go

Whenever you use a computer, you are simply observing a pattern of lights and sounds. When you use a keyboard, you are just pushing buttons to make the pattern of lights and sounds more favorable. Now think about how much time you've spent on your computer.

Spoiler: Is that so?

You now realize that books are simply dried pulp laid into sheets, with generic, repeating characters printed on them using fluids. How many hours have you spent reading books?

Spoiler: They call me the bamboozler

Its not just the patterns, fluids, lights or character, its what those characters mean when placed in a certain order, the human brain takes note of this and gives out messages explaining what they mean through pictures that you have seen or other words you have learnt throughout your life.

These words that once meant nothing to you, but strangely can be imprinted in your mind due to what you have learnt over the years of your young life. If you got taught these words, or different words in a completely different order, with completely different associations, only then would they mean nothing and be jumbled.

This also applies to everything we see, hear, touch, smell and taste.

I absolutely agree, but what I was trying to do was draw a parallel between books and computers. I was trying to imply that both of them can sound pointless when bathed in a certain light.

 

[SheleKnights]

Make sure you spoiler it, here is mine.

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If time travel were possible someone would have stopped Hitler from coming to power. Also, time travel results in contradictions. If someone goes back in time to stop Hitler from rising to power, the time traveler would never have heard of Hitler so he would have never gone back in time to stop him from rising to power. So then Hitler would rise to power so the time traveler would go back in time to stop him. So Hitler both would and would not rise to power, and the time traveler both would and would not have prevented him from coming to power, which is absurd.

Edit: Swollen Goat said I needed to edit my post, so I edited it.

You arn't creating matter. You are transporting existing matter through some manner to another point in time. You could be using a wormhole or perhaps bending a dimension.
Not possible to time travel. Because you would be creating an alternate universe in so doing just by even sending an apple back in time. This would mean that you are creating matter, and as my science teacher told me, you can not create nor destroy matter. So in a science-fiction reality then yea it's "possible". However like I said before Time traveling would have to create a similar universe for any of it to be possible, and any action that is taken in that universe then spawns countless numbers of similar universes all unique but yet slightly different.

 

[adakias]

Make sure you spoiler it, here is mine.

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If time travel were possible someone would have stopped Hitler from coming to power.

Edit: Swollen Goat said I needed to edit my post, so I edited it.

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Hitler's rise to power may have been ensured by a time-travelling Nazi.

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A time traveling Nazi would have installed a leader who would have lead Germany to victory in World War 2. Besides time travel results in contradictions. If someone goes back in time to stop Hitler from rising to power, the time traveler would never have heard of Hitler so he would have never gone back in time to stop him from rising to power. So then Hitler would rise to power so the time traveler would go back in time to stop him. So Hitler both would and would not rise to power, and the time traveler both would and would not have prevented him from coming to power, which is absurd.

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Unless that's what the timetravelling Nazis want you to think, and the whole Hitler incident was part of their overall plan.
[sub]Also I'm aware that time travel to the past is improbable... but if Einstein's universe is accurate, travelling to the future is possible but infeasible[/sub] ^.^

 

[rhyno435]

The truth is that Time-Travel will be possible. Someday.

But if that's true, then why hasn't anyone from the future come back to our time?

 

[Nouw]

The truth is that Time-Travel will be possible. Someday.

But if that's true, then why hasn't anyone from the future come back to our time?

Because they would know the consequence of interacting with people or even being sighted in the 'present.' If they did, we wouldn't know.

 

[feather240]

America isn't the shining land of liberty and equality for all.

Oh so true.

...

'Woah', you're so smart for being able to look down at America. Yeah it's not perfect, but hating it doesn't make you funny or cool. -,-

um....I wasn't looking down at America. There are things about America I love. I'm just say that he is right with that he says. I'm not smart because I trash America, I'm smart because I dont'.

Fine, being condescending isn't cool. I get tired of this crap after a while. Little jokes like cash-in of duty or M$ put into the most irrelevant thing just to work as a 'take that' have really been bothering me lately. Maybe I'm just seeing that in your post because I've seen it so many times before, but its just so freaking annoying looking.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I didn't mean to make it sound like I was bad mouthing America, I was just saying that like every country, its got some problems. Sorry about the misunderstanding man.

It's fine. Have a good sir day.

 

[rhyno435]

The truth is that Time-Travel will be possible. Someday.

But if that's true, then why hasn't anyone from the future come back to our time?

Because they would know the consequence of interacting with people or even being sighted in the 'present.' If they did, we wouldn't know.

Ahh, touche.

(Can't do the accent on the "e")

 

[Nouw]

The truth is that Time-Travel will be possible. Someday.

But if that's true, then why hasn't anyone from the future come back to our time?

Because they would know the consequence of interacting with people or even being sighted in the 'present.' If they did, we wouldn't know.

Ahh, touche.

(Can't do the accent on the "e")

Thank you good sir!

 

[thenoblitt]

Make sure you spoiler it, here is mine.

Spoiler

If time travel were possible someone would have stopped Hitler from coming to power. Also, time travel results in contradictions. If someone goes back in time to stop Hitler from rising to power, the time traveler would never have heard of Hitler so he would have never gone back in time to stop him from rising to power. So then Hitler would rise to power so the time traveler would go back in time to stop him. So Hitler both would and would not rise to power, and the time traveler both would and would not have prevented him from coming to power, which is absurd.

Edit: Swollen Goat said I needed to edit my post, so I edited it.

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People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.

one of the best episodes of doctor who ever

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Global warming is actually a load of crap. http://www.wnho.net/global_warming.htm

 

[Mesca]

The truth is that Time-Travel will be possible. Someday.

Ahh, touche.

(Can't do the accent on the "e")

Hold down Alt, then on your number pad, the one on the right side, mind you, type in 138. Release Alt. Yay! It's one of those little things that makes doing online spanish homework that much easier. I still despise spanish though..

Shocking truths.. Uhh.. Having trouble thinking of 'shocking' and not 'bleak.' Hm..too much trouble.

 

[Jekken6]

The answer to life, the universe and everything is

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42

 

[enriel]

Spoiler

She never loved you.

 

[enriel]

The answer to life, the universe and everything is

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42

The answer to THE QUESTION OF life the universe and everything.

=(

 

[enriel]

And really,

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Either time travel is impossible or the many universes theory is correct, because if time travel were possible, we'd already know, because time travelers would already have come back and proved it.

It's a silly thing to argue about.

 

[OptimisticPessimist]

Make sure you spoiler it, here is mine.

Spoiler

If time travel were possible someone would have stopped Hitler from coming to power.

Edit: Swollen Goat said I needed to edit my post, so I edited it.

Spoiler

Hitler's rise to power may have been ensured by a time-travelling Nazi.

Spoiler

A time traveling Nazi would have installed a leader who would have lead Germany to victory in World War 2. Besides time travel results in contradictions. If someone goes back in time to stop Hitler from rising to power, the time traveler would never have heard of Hitler so he would have never gone back in time to stop him from rising to power. So then Hitler would rise to power so the time traveler would go back in time to stop him. So Hitler both would and would not rise to power, and the time traveler both would and would not have prevented him from coming to power, which is absurd.

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Another one:

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There's no evidence that free will exists. It's an illusion, because everything in the Universe is bound by the laws of physics - even chemistry in your own brain.

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We experience decision making every day of our lives, if that isn't evidence for freewill, what is?

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No, what we experience every day is a strict progression of events, each one ultimately causing the next, and each of those events is regulated by the laws of physics. Essentially, life is just one enormous series of multiple-choice questions with all but one answere crossed out. Bow before my logic! BOW!!! No...curtsy

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Nah, I'm just fuckin' with ya. There's a kind of logic to that, true, but it's loose at best. No, constrained as it is by the limits of physics and curcumstance, free will does exist.

 

[C95J]

Spoiler: Here we go

Whenever you use a computer, you are simply observing a pattern of lights and sounds. When you use a keyboard, you are just pushing buttons to make the pattern of lights and sounds more favorable. Now think about how much time you've spent on your computer.

Spoiler: Is that so?

You now realize that books are simply dried pulp laid into sheets, with generic, repeating characters printed on them using fluids. How many hours have you spent reading books?

Spoiler: They call me the bamboozler

Its not just the patterns, fluids, lights or character, its what those characters mean when placed in a certain order, the human brain takes note of this and gives out messages explaining what they mean through pictures that you have seen or other words you have learnt throughout your life.

These words that once meant nothing to you, but strangely can be imprinted in your mind due to what you have learnt over the years of your young life. If you got taught these words, or different words in a completely different order, with completely different associations, only then would they mean nothing and be jumbled.

This also applies to everything we see, hear, touch, smell and taste.

I absolutely agree, but what I was trying to do was draw a parallel between books and computers. I was trying to imply that both of them can sound pointless when bathed in a certain light.

and you too were right

 

[Jekken6]

The answer to life, the universe and everything is

Spoiler

42

The answer to THE QUESTION OF life the universe and everything.

=(

But, what IS the question? wait, don't answer that. haven't finished the fourth book yet.

 

[Aedes]

Hmm, I don't have any shocking truth but...

Spoiler: I dare you to click this!

If you reached this far, you probably really like clicking on spoiler tags.

 

[Droa]

You are now manually breathing.

<link=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view>This... thing makes everyone mad the instant they see it.

People who don't understand HTML wizardry all hate me now.

Everyone who clicks <link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0>this link will instantly regret it.

Dam shmuck bait!!! I did like find it entertaining at least, good show

 

[Nyaliva]

Spoiler

People are naturally inclined to take a black/white approach to any serious question they face. For example, most people have decided whether they are theist are atheist. The rest don't want to get into it because they realise there are arguments for or against and they don't feel like they can sit on the fence but they don't want to be one or the other either. This is why people will take in all arguiments which agree with their view and ignore all others, because they can't handle the fact that they might be wrong and don't consider that there might be some middle ground. Also, people often make the assumption that if you believe something, especially if you went to uni or something on the subject, then if you can't answer something, your entire concept is false.

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The notion that the middle-road is by default the correct one is actually a logical fallacy (as is the idea that there being two possible options means the odds are 50-50).

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I didn't mean that the middle road is always right however, it is often closer to the truth than going one way or another. I simply meant that going one way or another is the most common thing people do and they then warp everything they hear on the subject to fit their belief which, when you think about it, is logically insane. By listening to both sides of the argument and considering all the facts in their entirety, you have a better chance of finding out which side is the right one or if the right side is somewhere in the middle. However, most people are so egotistical that they subconciously ignore anything which would counter their arguments or they just switch sides every now and then without a second thought.

Why did I just put all of that in a spoiler?