Mindcloud:This week's featured article/Week 8, 2007

KILL time!

While I generally do not advocate murder, I am all for murdering some inanimate things and concepts.

Time is one of them. Smart people, and people who wish to sound like they are smart, can always be heard saying things like, 'Hnyyyesss, time doesn't exist. Mwa. Haha.' Smarter people and people who want to sound smarter will always say, 'But what of CAUSALITY?'. Even smarter people know what the concept of causality means, and can even discuss time travel, with such long words inserted as paradoxically and causality loop and Einstein. No person alive actually understands the underlying principles behind time and indeed, what it is made of or how many dimensions it squats in. Following the usual human reaction to things beyond comprehension, I propose that we destroy, crush, or completely maim time in some satisfactory way...(more...)

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