BS: Time - - is it slowing down?

Subject: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 02:51 AM

Some folks think that time may be speeding up,

but as far as I'm concerned

time is going sloooower-

especially at certain times

like right now-

when I wake up in the early morning

and I can't go back to sleep.

When does it seem to you

that time is slowing down?

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 02:55 AM

Okay I have real proof that time is slowing down.

Four words-

Day light saving time.

I hear some Canadian invented this tradition.

Because of Day light saving time alot of people lose an hour in the fall.

That means time is slowing down.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 02:59 AM

I've got another example:

When you're looking forward to something great happening,


but when it's going to happen is months away


and you want it to happen right now.


It sure seems that time has slowed down.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 03:19 AM

Am I alone out here?

Are there any other examples?

Am I the only one who thinks that

sometimes time slows down?

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Mr Red
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 08:35 AM

tell you in a minute - but I may be some time..................

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 05:30 PM

Well. I would imagine that it would be a very long night indeed if you were clinging to a tree while flood waters raged beneath you and lightning flashed all around you and you heard the crash of things breaking up both near and far and you had to wait until morning to see whether others had survived... But that example is a bit extreme, isn't it.

These days time to me is a quick silver slippery thing. Sometimes the aptest image in my mind is of a large icecube sputtering on a hot stove.

I've been in Alaska not quite 18 years. I will be 70 this year. I am taken aback when I realize that quite possibly I don't have another 18 years left!

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 06:53 PM

There is only one time. The present. Try being anywhere else, and see.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 07:08 PM

It's all quite simple - go to Ireland or find an Irish landlord of a pub. You will soon find that time is an illusion and closing time is doubly so...
Quack!
Geoff the Duck.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 07:47 PM

Thash the (*hic*)...truth! I'll have another double.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Don Firth
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 09:13 PM

Uh . . . I'll have to get back to you on this.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 09:47 PM

Okay.

How about the fact that there are all these different time zones in the world.

What's up with that?

How can we be ahead of some people in some places and behind others at the same time?

No dirty jokes please.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: *Laura*
Date: 12 Nov 05 - 06:42 PM

Yeh - like my cousin born on the other side of the world. In our time she was born on thursday, but in their time it was wednesday!
oooh - when was she REALLY born!?!?

xLx

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 12 Nov 05 - 07:03 PM

Time only exists to keep everything from happening at once....

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Nov 05 - 07:20 PM

I have always had the impulse when talking to someone in a different time zone from me: OK- tell me what happened the rest of the day!

But really it's kind of like fingers. Spread out your hand and look at your fingers. They are separated and in different places but they are still all the same thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Gurney
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 02:16 AM

Time isn't slowing down, but the Earth's rotation is. Consequently, noon is a little later each day, and every now and then, authorities have to add a leap-second to make it when the Sun is overhead in London.
Some American scientists are agitating for this to stop being added, possibly because it makes then have to adjust their atomic clocks. If they get their way, in umpteen million years, noon will be in the middle of the night.
Greenwich Meridian rules OK, so far
That was on the news just one hour ago.

Azizi, the only time time slowed down for me, I came down the next day.....

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 12:35 PM

Time has come today.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 12:58 PM

Gurney, well alright, now!

If that other thread about "time speeding up" can get all intellectual and scientific, this thread can too.

Except, um well maybe that is..Did you mean your comments to be a snark...sometimes I'm kinda slow to get the punch line, I can't really tell if you are serious or not.

Btw: I hope you're impressed that I used a new word for me. I think "snark" means a joke or sarcastic remarks or something like that, but I'm not really sure.

****

And Ron Davis,

Time came today for what?

Oh well, better late than never.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 06:17 PM

Azizi - not sure what you intended to say in the previous posting. The Snark is an imaginary beast from a poem by Lewis Carroll - of Alice in Wonderland fame. Mind you - his characters had problems with most of reality.
Find a copy of the text here :-


THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK

                   by Lewis Carroll

                         1872

Quack!
Geoff the Duck.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 06:31 PM

Me again - I just found This page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snark which contains a meaning similar to your usage (a cross between sarcastic and snide). I'll admit it is a new one on me.
Gurney is referring to a news item broadcast in the UK a couple of days back about the slowing of the Earth's rotation.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 06:35 PM

Well it's about time that someone figured out that I wasn't just whistlin Dixie!

And Quack back to you, GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Nov 05 - 07:31 AM

I am familar with previous Aussie use of 'Snarky'.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: *Laura*
Date: 14 Nov 05 - 10:09 AM

"Time is a river, the resistless flow of all created things. No sooner is one thing borne along, than it is sweept away, and another borne along in it's path"

*sits back feeling satisfied and even slightly smug*

xLx

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 14 Nov 05 - 11:44 AM

As I used to say on stage, "If it wasn't for time, we'd have to do everything all at once!"

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Cluin
Date: 14 Nov 05 - 08:36 PM

Steve Gillette quoted you on that one in his book on songwriting, Uncle Art.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 15 Nov 05 - 04:06 AM

Time is not slowing down ....we are just getting older by the minute or..........


is it by the 59 seconds.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 01:04 AM

Gimme an E!
gimme an N
Gimme a T
Gimme an ARG
gimme an OH
Take a Pee
Ask Wye
Watta ya got--Entropy! You can't beat it, so you might as well accept it.

Subject: RE: BS: Time - - is it slowing down?
From: Azizi
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 08:32 AM

EBarnacle,

That was a good one.

So you and Bush have at least one thing in common-

Were you a cheerleader too?