Death- your views?

[Romulus111VADT]

Interesting...though if we were to have the capability of time travel, wouldn't we be seeing people from the future come back to see what the nineties were like? Or what the fashion fads were in 2004?

I would think that anyone with the knowledge and ability to do so would be well aware of the temporal paradox theory. If you were to time travel, how could you tell anyone and not end up in a straight jacket. If you were to time travel you couldn't interfere with the known past or you could cause a paradox and litterally destroy your own time. Like as much as I would love to have gone back and prevented the "Titantic" disaster. By doing so I would cause a temporal paradox. The theory goes like this and carries allot of "what if's"- If I stopped it, one of the passengers might have killed an ancestor of mine- say my grandfather (born 1907). This would immediately make my existance change and the path of my life or make it so I was never born- therefore I wouldn't have been able to invent the time machine and go back in time.

Got a headache yet? ...

The fear of death is rather unwarrented, if there is a god and an afterlife. However if there is no god to find out wat it was like before you were born, do you remeber... and thats what death with no god is like

Your on the right track....

[jordonj]

When talking time travel, are you thinking what Bruce Willis experienced in 12 Monkeys?

Stephen King wrote another interesting take on time travel in The Langoliers.  In that story, the past was this desolate place where these things would eat up what was left.  A plane got flown through a time rip and came to an airport that looked as if it had been deserted for centuries.

[Romulus111VADT]

[quote]When talking time travel, are you thinking what Bruce Willis experienced in 12 Monkeys?

Stephen King wrote another interesting take on time travel in The Langoliers.

[Jared]

lol, true mate, perhaps we don't want them to reveal themselves..

THat langoliers movie is okay, but definately way too long...in terms of time travel movies I'd much rather see The Final Countdown...much more interesting..;-)

And of course who hasn't seen all 4 or 5 of the back to the future movies? they deal with that as well...

[Romulus111VADT]

lol, true mate, perhaps we don't want them to reveal themselves..

THat langoliers movie is okay, but definately way too long...in terms of time travel movies I'd much rather see The Final Countdown...much more interesting..;-)

And of course who hasn't seen all 4 or 5 of the back to the future movies? they deal with that as well...

The movie "Final Countdown" made for an interesting study in time travel as only Hollywood could do. It also brings to light a profound problem with human nature. If you were to go back and prevent the assignations of say Lincoln or Kennedy. How would that impact history? Would it be better or worse? That and as in the remake of the "Time Machine" (2002) when Dr. Hartdegen goes back and prevents his fianc

[jordonj]

Firstly...you don't "see" The Langoliers...you read it (it's a novella in Four Past Midnight).

Stephen King also wrote an epic spanning over seven books (and some of his other stories are indirectly connected to it) in his Dark Tower series.  In the fifth book...Wolves of the Calla, there is this thing called "Black Thirteen".  In a certain cave near a town exists this door which Black Thirteen can open.  Priest Callahan comes into possession of this item which wispers to him to use it to go through that door.  It can send him anywhere and he thinks of preventing the Kennedy assasination.

But as another character says "it takes a great man to make a great mistake".  They debate over what the consequenses would be.  The thing to realize is that at its core, Black Thirteen is evil and the consequenses would have probably been dire.

Edit:  I forgot they made a movie version of The Langoliers....try the book instead.

[Romulus111VADT]

Firstly...you don't "see" The Langoliers...you read it (it's a novella in Four Past Midnight).

LOL....Well can you tell I didn't read the book and that I don't get out much....  ;D

[beefhole]

No, The Langoliers was also a movie, undoubtedly based on the book. Thought I'd mention  ;)

[Romulus111VADT]

[quote]No, The Langoliers was also a movie, undoubtedly based on the book. Thought I'd mention

[TacitBlue]

I really like Micheal Crichtons book on time travel, Timeline. Read the book, dont see the movie, I heard the movie is really bad.

[JerryO]

The Langoliers was a movie - or a TV-series, actually - but it wasn

[Jared]

Firstly...you don't "see" The Langoliers...you read it (it's a novella in Four Past Midnight).

Ummm...the movie was long enough, I can't imagine reading the book!!! :-)

[zeberdee]

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[Romulus111VADT]

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`` When I die, I want to die peacefuly in my sleep, just like my uncle. Not like his passengers......SCREAMING

[jordonj]

Edit:  I forgot they made a movie version of The Langoliers....try the book instead.

I thought I said that...