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«jaye» well, i voted for time travel. but i originally just wanted to stop time (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:44pm) «renita» I voted for flight. I've always wanted to be able to that. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:44pm) «jaye» jaci's lovely & amazing can't even read her own mind (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:44pm) «renita» time travel requires too much responsibility. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:44pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» I think being able to stop time would be lonely... (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:44pm) «Andrea Krause» I fear with flight you're way too likely to be shot down by some farmer with a big gun. :) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:45pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» ...and being able to stop time...does technology still work? I mean, what good does it do to stop time if you need to *walk* everywhere? (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:45pm) «renita» mollie craves insanity ;D (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:45pm) «Mollie» oh yes renita (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:46pm) «Mollie» and as crazy-making as mindreading would be, i think that time travel would be harder. because with mindreading you wouldn't have the responsibility of hurting/erasing people. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:47pm) «Mollie» some farmer with a big gun? that's funny, andrea, and probably too true. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:47pm) «jaye» i walk everywhere anyway. -and- i'm lonely anyway. so those don't really matter (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:47pm) «Andrea Krause» I want selective mindreading. The ability to turn it of to avoid being overwhelmed and/or want to be surprised sometimes :) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:48pm) «Andrea Krause» Yeah, that sentence structure bit the wax tadpole. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:48pm) «jaye» mostly i want to stop time so i can clean my house and catch up on sleep =) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:48pm) «renita» mollie. THAT'S what I'm talking about. skeery responibility. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:48pm) «Mollie» oh yes, and you can't use movies for clues, because they always mess up the time-travel logic. :) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:49pm) «renita» so unreliable. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:50pm) «Andrea Krause» I'd have no use for super-strength. I'm too awful a person to go be a superhero and save people with it. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:51pm) «renita» I already AM super-srong! *flex* (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:53pm) «renita» Super Strong too ;D (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:53pm) «Andrea Krause» And invisibility...well I have enough problems with being visible as it is. I don't need help disappearing. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:53pm) «renita» (no laughing) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:53pm) «Andrea Krause» yes you ARE! :) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:53pm) «renita» hee! thanks Andrea :) *hug* (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:54pm) «nate...» yeah, I'm leaning more and more towards just time control in general.... stopping time mainly. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:55pm) «nate...» assuming that technology would still work and just time and everyone around you would freeze. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:55pm) «Mollie» that would be fun (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:56pm) «nate...» aside from the obvious benefit of being able to try out really nice cars and such..... it would be SO much fun to mess with people's minds by stopping time, taking, like, their tv and moving it to the (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:56pm) «nate...» other side of the room.. then starting it again. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:56pm) «nate...» also, of course, assuming that you stopped aging during that time.... (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:57pm) «jaye» yeah, i wondered about the aging thing (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:57pm) «nate...» nate: Move 'zig' nods (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:58pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» sadly, i think i'd end up using that mostly to get more sleep. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:58pm) «nate...» there are a lot of variables that I'd need to verify before-hand... and I would need the contract in writing.... (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:58pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» I'm curious about the mechanics of stopping time. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:58pm) «nate...» ;) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:58pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» I mean, is it just anything you *touch* that doesn't get affected by the stopped time? (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:59pm) «Mollie» On one hand I think i'd use it to get more sleep. On the other hand, I think the same things that keep me compulsively awake and doing things would take over and keep me from getting enough sleep. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:59pm) «jaye» melinda - that's the main thing i want it for *yawn* (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:59pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» I mean, because if your clothes are frozen in time, it'll do you precious little good to be active. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:59pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» actually, if you think about it, you'd never have to sleep in conventional time if you didn't want to... you could always stop time for sleeping and have the whole natural day and night to do whatever you wanted. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 12:59pm) «Mollie» that's cool melinda (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:00pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» ...and if anything you *touch* becomes active, then where does the radius end? (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:00pm) «jaye» so if i could stop time i'd just use it to read fan fic and watch movies? that's probably true. the dishes would still pile up and i'd still be consta-sleepy (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:00pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» I mean, I'm indirectly touching the entire earth right now... (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:00pm) «jaye» well, that's what i was thinking. if you were motivated you could be insanely productive and 'successful' (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:01pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» I'd use the stopped time for personal gain. I'd rob banks and steal things. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:01pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» Jaci: Well, yeah, but if I were motivated, I could be insanely productive and "successful" now. :-) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:01pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» after a while, i'm afraid the "stopped" portions of life would get lonely, though... i'd be sad never to be able to bring my husband with me, for instance. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:02pm) «jaye» hrm. i guess, in spite of the perverse bit, i don't have a criminal mind (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:02pm) «jaye» see, the lonely thing wouldn't be any different from normal for me (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:03pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» yeah, i don't think i'd steal things... but with all that time on your hands, you could make a lot of money just with the extra work you could do. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:03pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» Yeah... I don't think I'd enjoy stopped time very much. Too much like going on a trip alone... No one to share it with. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:05pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» well... i'm a big hermit and can spend months happily not seeing anyone... or at least i could before... now i think i'd miss paul. but in the past i could have been insanely happy as a hermit and this would not have bothered me at all. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:05pm) «renita» what bothers me about the 'stopped time' thing is that I'd continue to age while everything else was stopped. so. if I did it enough. I'd age before all my family and friends and die earlier.. etc. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:06pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» i'm not sure stopping time is a great thing for someone who is alone and NOT happy about it, though. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:06pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» well the age thing is a question, isn't it? DO we continue to age? (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:07pm) «jaye» i'm not a happy hermit. that's my brother. but i'm a used-to-it hermit (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:07pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» (keep in mind, i'm still choosing flight as my power. i'm just in this for the discussion) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:07pm) «jaye» i'd rather die earlier anyway =) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:07pm) «jaye» and it owuldn't be earlier for you. it would just be earlier for them (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:08pm) «jaye» wouldn't, even. but. i don't know. the age thing is pretty interesting. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:08pm) «Mollie» maybe immortality should be on the list? (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:09pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» no way. Immortality is a curse. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:10pm) «jaye» i -definitely- don't want to be immortal. life is too long already =) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:10pm) «renita» no. I wouldn't want it if I could have it. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:10pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» i thought of that... immortality. another lonely thing... still, could be pretty great as long as you don't have to worry about someone trying to chop off your head all the time. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:10pm) «renita» *L* (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:10pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» unless we can make other people immortal, too. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:10pm) «jaye» no way to that too. hell is other people (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:11pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» i wouldn't want to be immortal unless there were other people who were immortal too. people who could understand and wouldn't disappear like everyone else eventually would. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:11pm) «Mollie» yes melinda. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:12pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» Goodness, Polyanna, what's gotten into *you*?! (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:12pm) «lawrence» immortality would be cool as long as you could turn it off. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:12pm) «lawrence» "Hmmm, all my friends are gone. The earth is going to be burned up by the sun in 5 billion years. It's time." (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:12pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» and what would happen in at 5 billion years i wonder? when you think about it, all our mythical immortals have had SOME thing that could kill them... decapitation, wooden stake etc... what would happen to the truly immortal when their planet burned up? (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:14pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» would they just float in space forever? (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:15pm) «jaye» i just wonder how there could be true immortals. every base of power is a limitation. every power comes with its own responsibilities. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:16pm) «jaye» of course, in five billion years they'll probably have found other inhabited planets. so you could just move (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:17pm) «lawrence» actually, I can prove that I'm immortal. well, to anyone who accepts death as oblivion and no afterlife. :) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:17pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» well it certainly comes with its downsides... most immortals would probably go insane eventually. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:18pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» Well, they say that eventually the universe itself is going to collapse on itself...what then? (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:18pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» lawrence: oh? (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:18pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» heh, good point jaci. :) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:18pm) «lawrence» yeah - consider that if you were to at some point in your life suffer from *complete* amnesia, you would simply wake up. then. you wouldn't experience anything right now because you wouldn't remember it. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:19pm) «lawrence» the same is true of death. since it erases all consciousness, if I were to die at some point in the future, then there'd be no way for me to experience things right now because I already will have been dead. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:19pm) «Jºnªthªn» in that case shut up (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:21pm) «lawrence» wow, so glad you could join this conversation in such a pleasant way. your input is appreciated. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:22pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» What?! (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:22pm) «Jºnªthªn» I was kidding... (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:24pm) «lawrence» Michael - yeah, I know, it's totally full of holes. especially since no one knows what death is like... (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:24pm) «lawrence» oh. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:25pm) «lawrence» still, it's fun to believe I'm immortal - well, not immortal, just that I'll never be in a situation where death could reuslt. like, if you shot me in the head, I would die. but this "proves" that you won't shoot me in the head. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:26pm) «lawrence» :) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:26pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» i wish i COULD believe that. i'm sure it would improve my life... to not fear death. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:28pm) «lawrence» you'd think that with a belief like that I'd also be much less afraid of flying.... (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:28pm) «lawrence» (in reality, even believing I'm not immortal, I don't fear death - I fear knowing about it ahead of time. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:29pm) « Previous 100 entries | Next 100 entries »
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