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#38957 02/27/02 07:01 PM
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consider the word 'jiffy', as in "I'll be with you in a ~"

there are several accepted meanings of this word, in various disciplines...

a) 1/100 of a second
b) one millisecond
c) approximately(!) one nanosecond
d) indeterminate time from a few seconds to forever

http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?jiffy


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> message: If you are a time traveler or alien disguised as human and or
> have the technology to travel physically through time I need your help!
>
>
> My life has been severely tampered with and cursed!!
> I have suffered tremendously and am now dying!
>
> I need to be able to:
>
> Travel back in time.
>
> Rewind my life including my age back to 4.
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> Be able to remember what I know now so that I can prevent my life from
> being tampered with again after I go back.
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> I am in very great danger and need this immediately!
>
> I am aware that there are many types of time travel, and that humans do
> not do well through certain types.
>
> I need as close to temporal reversion as possible, as safely as
> possible. To be able to rewind the hands of time in such a way that the
> universe of now will cease to exist.
>
> I know that there are some very powerful people out there with alien or
> government equipment capable of doing just that.
>
> If you can help me I will pay for your teleport or trip down here, Along
> with hotel stay, food and all expenses. I will pay top dollar for the
> equipment. Proof must be provided.
>
> Please be advised that any temporal device
> that you may employ must account for X, Y, and Z coordinates as well
> as the temporal location.
>
> I have a time machine now, but it has limited abilitys and is useless
> without a vortex.
>
> If you can provide information on how to create vortex generator or
> where I can get some of the blue glowing moon crystals this would also
> be helpful. I am however concerned with the high level of radiation
> these crystals give off, if you could provide a shielding or other
> crystals which give off a north polarized vortex field just as strong or
> strong enough to make a watch stop this would be great.
>
> I am aware of two types of time travel one in physical form and the
> other in energy form where a snapshot of your brain is taken using
> either the dimensional warp or an electronic device and then sends your
> consciousness back through time to part with your younger self. Please
> explain how safe and what your method involves.
>
>
>
>
> Also if you are one of the very, very, few beings with the ability to
> edit the universe PLEASE REPLY!!!
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>
>
>
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> Only if you have this technology and can help me exactly as mentioned
>
> please send me a (SEPARATE) email to: IneedTimeTravel@...
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> Please do not reply if your an evil alien!


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I wrote theorem today. It seemed Ok. Then I posted the letter and remembered it should be theorum. I was feeling pretty stupid until I saw this board.

So I googled and got both. I'm sure that I did something to do with theorums at university - did it change or is it just another of our differences?

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Since we're reviving an old thread I'll put my two cents in.

I once did a wagontrain that took 7 weeks to travel through Idaho, Montana and into Canada. When we were ready to go home we jumped in the van and traveled back to where we'd started in a day. It just felt weird.
When I take time to do things slower (like in a wagon) it seems I have the time. But when I don't, it seems I never have the time to get everything done. (The two hours a day I spend trying to catch up on the 1,000's of posts here have Nothing to do with it.)



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the perfect ending to
this thread.


Ah! But since we all seem to agree that this is, indeed, a "timeless" AWAD thread,
then where does the thread start...................?
and where does the thread end......................?

all non-linear pixels of an extra-ordinary reality emerging/converging out of a mutual arisal as they are... -I think



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and where does the thread end......................? Speaking of rags...[music notes icon] "Oh, it's the thread that never ends; it just goes on and on, my friend..." (Couldn't help it--it's so appropriate!)

Snoot, I like the way your mind works!


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Jo, you might have said "theorum" because that's how it sounds, but it's only spelled "theorem". Googling isn't a great way to check for spellings of words, because it seems that being able to spell and having a web page are two mutually exclusive states!


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>then where does the thread start...................?
and where does the thread end......................?


Knot here.



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