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Author Topic:   Age Correlations and an Old Earth: Version 1 No 3 (formerly Part III)
kuresu
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Message 26 of 357 (346158)
09-03-2006 1:45 AM
Reply to: Message 25 by anglagard
09-03-2006 12:09 AM


Re: What?
I think he has the idea that time is a concrete substance, like dirt is, and not just an abstraction.

All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences

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kuresu
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Message 29 of 357 (346333)
09-04-2006 1:25 AM
Reply to: Message 28 by Hughes
09-04-2006 12:15 AM


Re: Tree Rings -- your move.
do you not understand the concept of testing the passing of time?
start at 0. at point 60, you know that an hour has passed (if using minutes).
Throuhgout the day, twenty four hours pass. time has gone by. But how do we know this? well, we can look at the sun. in the morning it was in the east, it went down on the west. we can look at the moon. (i think it follows the same pattern as the sun, but as I never really pay attention to it). or better yet, you can look at how the moon changes. And realize from one night to the other, that, hey, it's different. we can look at your age. Do you dispute that x many years have passed since you were born? Do you dispute that the Roman empire was around 2000 years ago?
That's what all this stuff tests--the passage of time, how much time has gone by from point x to point y.
and if you dispute the passage of time, well, . . .

All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences

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kuresu
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Message 32 of 357 (346337)
09-04-2006 1:50 AM
Reply to: Message 31 by anglagard
09-04-2006 1:44 AM


Re: Last Thursday
thank my viking ancestors and the indians (american) for the tricksters.
You know, if God really is Loki, then we're pretty much screwed. After all, Loki is responsible for the ragnarok--apocalypse. and if I recall correctly--the sole survivors will be two people.
I predict the ragnarok will occur this thursday, seeing as how Loki is mad that we can see through the trick, and will wish us destroyed after only a week's worth of existence. either that, or in 2012.
equally as valid, equally as pointless

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