Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 16:59:46 -0500 Message-ID: <5B05E453.66B1@ix.netcom.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 14:59:47 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,alt.astronomy Subject: Re: There is no future References: <5B026269.76CC@ix.netcom.com> <5B02F16D.7CA2@ix.netcom.com> <5B03129B.3A04@ix.netcom.com> <856a4c94-8427-4571-b1d1-004bccde00bd@googlegroups.com> <5B0438EE.675B@ix.netcom.com> <5b691b95-2484-4b32-aa11-bee1f5cfdc24@googlegroups.com> <5B048277.22D6@ix.netcom.com> <7o4NC.219025$br4.64945@fx34.iad> <5B05065A.7411@ix.netcom.com> <5B05AB0D.574E@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 180522-4, 05/22/2018), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 86 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-7FbV4B/mQc0EUuYdBp2G5ztZ3aBtPf55q49fAfnGRyqclHu9NbmgjhRQ39P+8JWOb9t02AUIB5KWCw8!Bhvh2pw9B22F/bOIJM9ATq9b0sWM2lD6px1SlNj9Mh84QC/VRDPq1jOLzaSPa2qn4nkNzOQbwlSm!J9+seDVit1Q= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 4191 Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:492437 sci.physics:686833 sci.physics.relativity:459013 alt.astronomy:298890 benj wrote: > > On 5/23/2018 1:55 PM, The Starmaker wrote: > > The Starmaker wrote: > >> > >> benj wrote: > >>> > >>> On 5/22/2018 4:49 PM, The Starmaker wrote: > >>>> Mark Earnest wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> On Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 10:37:37 AM UTC-5, The Starmaker wrote: > >>>>>> Mark Earnest wrote: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> On Monday, May 21, 2018 at 1:40:31 PM UTC-5, The Starmaker wrote: > >>>>>>>> Mark Earnest wrote: > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> On Monday, May 21, 2018 at 11:19:02 AM UTC-5, The Starmaker wrote: > >>>>>>>>>> The Starmaker wrote: > >>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>>> There is no future... > >>>>>>>>>>> or proof that a future exist. > >>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>> I know you people haven't given it....much thought. > >>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>> If you're not certain about the future, how do you know there is one? > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Have you ever known tomorrow not to come? > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> The rotation of the earth has nothing to do with...future. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Rest easy. The future will get here. It always does. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Let me know when it gets here, I'm always here now in the present. > >>>>> > >>>>> It will get here on pay day. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> benj 'the science guy' is probably stuck somewhere in some probable future...who knows where...the possibilities are endless... > >>>> > >>>> of course, if there is no future he's probably still here somewhere. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> (you know that scene in the movie "Get Out" where the guy is floating in space? that's benj...) > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> everytime benj sits down in his chair he falls down through outer space... > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> benji, what is longer....the future or the past? > >>>> > >>> I'm the science guy so I naturally know that the units of time are not > >>> distance. The questions is science nonsense. > >> > >> 'if we thought the past was a long time, the future seems longer' --richard feynman > > > > > > > > > > I wonder where benji got this idea i'm using a ruler to measure...time? > > YOu used the words "farther" and "longer". > > > it's been a lonnnng time since i used a ruler for anything.. > > > > What time does your ruler say?? > > You are obviously not my ruler. > > > It's half past a cows ass... > > > > it's 12 inch o'clock. > > Come on Faker, libs like you love to manipulate words and meanings. > Making sense in never a requirement. I never used the word.."farther", I don't even know how to spel it! How long is the past?