BS: Language indicates time travel?

Subject: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 02:02 PM

Consider the term "OK"

Let us postulate that there ARE time travelers from our future visiting today and in the past. At some time in the future, it is reasonable to assume that the metric system is being used in most cases. Would something that was brand new, never used, and hence (thought to be) perfect be referred to as having zero kilometers.

This could then be referred to as "0 (zero) K", and interpreted by someone in our ( recent) past as "O (letter) K".


So, is this term indicative of time travelers?

And can you think of other phrases that would seem to be remembered phrases of future tourists?

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 02:08 PM

"Up Yours" --referring, of course, to the return settings on another's Time Machine.

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 02:16 PM

hahhaha

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 02:19 PM

BB, I think you're on to something. "At this point in time" has always sounded totally stupid; but it could make complete sense if it was meant as a reference to a destination on a map of time.

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 02:19 PM

Perhaps naughtycal miles-

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: MMario
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 02:26 PM

Those words and phrases for which only Urban legend exists about origin - such as posh; copecetic; "store high in transit", etc....

Quite obviously circular transmission through time.

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 02:32 PM

If reincarnation is a fact, we are ALL time travelers.

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 02:34 PM

Ebbie,

But only in one direction. By Time Travel, I am referring to travel outside of the normal one-way stream of moments.

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 02:46 PM

I know. On the other hand, how do we know that spirits/entities/re-carnators are allowed to go in only one direction? *G*

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 02:49 PM

Ever hear of someone remembering a "Future" life?

Everyone has memories of PAST lives, it seems. Of course, most seem to have been nobles, rulers, or significant historical figures. I guess the peasants and connon fodder don't get reborn much...

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: MMario
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 02:50 PM

Merlin and Notredamus were both reputed to "live backwards" and to remember future events. So Ebbie may be onto something.

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 02:51 PM

Did either ever use the term "OK"?

( really wondering, not sarcasm)

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Amos
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 03:01 PM

I doubt it. But there have been experients involving people remembering the future. I would hazard that the human spirit is not constrained by ordinary spatial frames of reference except to the degree he/she decides to be, and probably the same is somewhat true of time. There are some models that indicate that time is not actually linear, but simultaneous, and we use unidirectional filters tokeep the hecticness level down to our comfort level. I am sympathetic to this idea.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 03:31 PM

So, if you "could keep time in a bottle", what vintage would you prefer?

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Amos
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 04:27 PM

I would choose Walt Kelley 1959:

The Front label has only a single couple:

The moon is a madness, a madness of mine;
I made her of mustard and mulberry wine.

While the back label has a picture of Okefenokee and the lines,

Once you were two, dear birthday friend,
In spite of purple weather.
But now you are three and near the end
As we grewsome together.
How fourthful thou, forsooth for you,
For soon you will be more.
But 'fore one can be three be two;
Before be five be four.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 05:50 PM

This may be a good place to ask tis: Do any of you know what I mean when I say that sometimes when my mind is turned OFF (as in almost asleep or just in transition)sometimes a visual scene pops up in my mind that has no relevance to anything I ever experienced, saw, read, thought about?

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 06:46 PM

I can't imagine why there should be any assumption that reincarnation, aassuming for discussion's sake it was a reality, should be tied in to a one way temporal arrow.

Maybe if the reincarnation was in an earlier period it'd be better to call it preincarnation.

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 10:29 AM

Can't be no reincarnation....a famous beer commercial already said "You only go around once, so grab for all the gusto you can get"

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Amos
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 11:31 AM

Ebbie:

I think so, yes.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Grimmy
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 12:29 PM

"PHLEGM"

Only a highly advanced society could come up with a spelling like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Bee
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 12:59 PM

Ha! Grimmy, I think you're right.

On a related topic, I remember years ago reading a list of things people say which indicate they're aliens. Unfortunately the only one I remember was a snippet of conversation overheard by the writer on the subway: "Terrible weather we're having." "Well, it's better than no weather at all." The response led the writer to wonder on what planet there was no weather at all!

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 01:07 PM

One with no atmosphere?

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Grimmy
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 01:13 PM

Hmmm, interesting - presumably, sometime in the future, when we have colonies on the moon, no-one will talk about the weather.

OTOH if we have colonies on, say, Saturn then that's ALL people'll talk about!

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 02:38 PM

http://johntitor.strategicbrains.com/

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Soldier boy
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 08:57 AM

Microsoft,gigabyte,google,liquid crystal,digital,pod,ark,ship,pyramid,cherub,chariot,zoom,hovver,in the beggining....

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 09:11 AM

a, the, an, as, is, if, and, or, but, with, yes, no, up, down, off, on, left, and all other non-nouns and non-verbs with four or fewer letters.

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 04:19 PM

Who were the very first people re-incarnations of, then ??

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Amos
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 05:28 PM

Initial incarnations are not reincarnations; they are just the first time an individual tries to run a body. The beginning of a long, unhapy chain occasionally interrupted by delights.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: folk1e
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 05:41 PM

knocked into the middle of next week
see we had TT in the 60's!

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 07:03 PM

"Initial incarnations are not reincarnations; they are just the first time an individual tries to run a body."

so...how many 'individuals' are there? If one individual has run more than one body, where were they all when the world population was, say....1 billion instead of 6 billion? Who--or what 'chooses' whether to come back or not? Is overpopulation the result of 'individuals' not having the good sense to give others a turn? *grin*

My...all sorts of metaphysical conundrums once you take that first step.

Subject: RE: BS: Language indicates time travel?
From: Bert
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 10:41 PM

...it is reasonable to assume that the metric system is being used...

Aw, and there was me thinking that people in the future might be smart enough NOT to copy that madman.