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The Amondawa language has no word for “time”, or time periods such as “month” or “year”. The people do not refer to their ages, but rather assume different names in different stages of their lives or as they achieve different status within the community.
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Before I learned that time was going to stand still for 48 hours, I would want to learn how to fly an airplane so I could fly wherever I wanted and do some serious exploring without any interference.
Hey, a boy can dream, right…?
What do you think your plan would be?
Folks on AskReddit talked about what they would do if time stood still for 48 hours.
Let’s take a look!
“About a half hour of not realizing, 47.5 hours of existential crisis, followed by years of therapy.”
“Rob drug dealers.
What are they gonna do? Report it to the police?”
“I would be a bank robbing mofo!
I could amass one hell of a stack in 48 hours.”
“Tie people’s shoe laces together.
Pick up all of the dog cr*p in my neighbor’s yard and put it in her living room.
And…. steal the Declaration of Independence, then hide it in Nic Cage’s house.”
“I’d steal a bicycle (because I don’t own one) and ride around enjoying the quiet and stillness.
Maybe an electric bicycle, because I’m old and fat, and in reality I’d probably last 10 minutes on a regular bike.”
“Move everyone slightly off the ground not enough to get hurt but enough to realize you’re falling making sure everyone is in the exact same position.
Except one person hanging off of something very visible so everyone gets a weird falling feeling except that guy who really can’t explain why he’s in a harness hanging of 2 light posts.”
“Walk around naked with no shame.
Do a helicopter every now and then.
Find a nice spot, drinks some beers, whilst having some music on.
A basic way to spend my 48 hours, but a peaceful one.”
“Have some fun.
Change things ever so slightly like switching peoples’ clothes, turning them around, turning cars around, put a dog leeah in random peoples’ hands.
So many minds are going to be blown!”
“I would think about doing illegal things, but then I would wonder if people were just not able to move but could still see what I’m doing, so I would be too scared to do anything.”
“I’d “go shopping”! I would hit all the big corporate stores and just steal everything of use. I’d finish my Christmas shopping.
I’d steal a fridge and a few freezers and stock my garage with food for a year. I’d steal items that are going to be rare favs this Christmas and then resell them on ebay once time unfroze.
I would hit the dispensaries and steal all of the weed. I’d take cash from all corporate stores. I would be set up for a long time.”
“This might be kind of weird, but I steal all the really good toys from Walmart that are on the hot lists right now.
Not like every single one, but quite a few. Walmart can take the hit.
Then I donate all that sh*t to Toys for Tots.”
“Be confused.
I would jump from one idea to another and won’t be able to start until the times over.
So basically nothing…”
“First thing I do, get in my car and drive somewhere ~10 hours away from me.
I then start going around to jewelry shops and I start taking the precious metals. Mostly ignore the gemstones, those have lesser value on the resale and also have the possibility of getting tracked (gemstone chemical signatures and such are tracked to some extent for this reason).
I spend the bulk of the next 20 hours or so just loading up on gold/silver/etc before driving back towards my hometown.
Somewhere ~2 hours away from home (probably on the opposite side of where I did my thefts) I go to a spot in the middle of nowhere and I dig a hole in the ground in some very out of the way spot and I bury the metals there. I then head home and at that point I should have a few hours left. More preparation is needed.
The MOMENT that time resumes, I go to my car and I head out into town to my various usual shops. The Starbucks, the Subway, the grocery store, the hardware store, etc. And I make it a point to chat with the people there, maybe I hit on some of the employees (while dying inside, that’s not really something I do) just to make it a little more memorable in their minds. Pay for EVERYTHING using my credit cards. Stop by my bank and do something, like buying more checks or something.
The whole point of all of this is that if I left any DNA or anything behind, or somehow there was other indication that I was there, I have this alibi. Sure, you might have my DNA at the scene of the crime(s) but how do you explain that I provably was in my hometown 10 hours away from the crimes? I definitely don’t have a twin!
Either way, after a year or two (even if there’s no sign that they are onto me) I go and pick up the metals. From that point I set up a little home-forge (they are pretty easy to make for <$200 using random materials). From that, I melt all the metals down and I cast them as “artistic sculptures”.
Little things like a pound or so. Then from this over time, I drive around and go to pawn shops wanting to sell “my art”. Inevitably they won’t give a sh*t about the artistic value of these things but will likely pay for them in terms of “It’s a 1 pound solid gold statue. I’ll pay for the 1 pound of gold.”. And slowly but surely I convert all these things into cash. Never visit the same pawn shop twice.
As far as the cash is concerned, basically just start paying for everything in cash, though I don’t go ONLY with my ill gotten cash. Withdrawn money from my bank account now and then and when I’m paying for things, go 50/50 between the dirty money and the real money. Either way, I hide the sudden existence of the money by spending it slowly over time effectively reducing my expenses.
In this way my bank accounts have no real visible difference in behavior other than I appear to be living a bit more frugally. It wouldn’t be enough to trigger any audits so I should be good.
In the end, the reason I end up being able to buy something flashy is because it LOOKS like I saved up money over time, and I did if only because the dirty money helped me reduce my visible expenses.”
How about you?
What would YOU do if time stood still for 48 hours?
Talk to us in the comments. We’d love to hear from you!
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Physicists have recently shown that time is self-healing – that if you did travel back in time, you would be unable to prevent the events that led you to travel back in time in the first place.
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Flicker fusion rate explains why time is perceived differently among different creatures. This is why it’s so hard to kill flies; time is perceived 600% slower for them.
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A woman from the turn of the 20th century would sell people the time by letting them look at her watch. Ruth Belville, sold people the time. This was done by setting a Belville’s watch to Greenwich Mean Time, as shown by the Greenwich clock, each day and then “selling” people the time by letting […]
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The great Grouch Marx once said, “Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.” If you don’t get it at first go back and read it a few more times. It’s a delightfully confusing quote about time that keeps rolling through my head in an era when nobody, including me, seems to have any idea where we are chronologically, ever.
At least the people on Twitter are being funny about it. Here’s 14 examples of tweets about how we’re all sort of lost in the wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey stuff.
Yeah I think I remember these from The Bible.
How we quarantine:
– forget what day it is
– charger handy for all iPads 24/7
– wash hair SPARINGLY
– eat all day so you never have to cook a meal
– drink a LOT of clear liquids, vodka counts
– sleep. A lot.
– cry. Also a lot.
– FaceTime friends & see your double chin in action— MomTransparenting (@momtransparent1) April 17, 2020
If my phone breaks I think I’ll actually lose my soul.
it's that time again! time to look at my phone to figure out what day of the week it is
— Kristen Arnett (@Kristen_Arnett) April 18, 2020
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
I got a new planner because I choose to live in a world (denial) where writing shit down in a calendar provides the precious illusion that I am in control of my life, of time, and of absolutely everything, thank you.
— Anne T. Donahue (@annetdonahue) April 20, 2020
We can start drinking even earlier! Or later? I don’t know how it works now.
FRIDAY NIGHT Y’ALL!!! Which basically means nothing now.
— mark (@TheCatWhisprer) March 28, 2020
We need a whole new set of idioms.
Whoever said, "the days are long but the years are short" did not know about 2020.
— The Salty Mamas (@saltymamas) March 22, 2020
It’s always now.
Clock: 2:01 PM
Me: OHMYGOD THIS DAY IS DRAGGING.[3 hours later]
Me: [looks at clock]
Clock: 2:02 PM— Rodney Lacroix (@RodLacroix) April 17, 2020
Quit trying to take Rebecca Black’s job, she has this ONE THING.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but today is Friday.
— Laura Marie (@lmegordon) March 21, 2020
I don’t know what “take your time” even means anymore.
2020 so far:
January – 31 days but felt like three months
February – 29 days but felt like 10 minutes
March – somehow not over yet but has literally been 76 years long— Betches (@betchesluvthis) March 30, 2020
For as long as you both shall live.
Remember when 10 years of marriage seemed like a long time?
— Laura Marie (@lmegordon) April 10, 2020
Whoa there buddy, I’m on Twitter to have a good time.
Not to get political or anything but it's Thursday
— henchbeaver (@henchbeaver) April 23, 2020
I wonder how Garfield feels about this latest revelation.
mondays? an illusion. time is now divided into two categories: Laugh at Meme and Cry at News
— keely flaherty (@keelyflaherty) March 23, 2020
Even our robot butlers are bored.
Alexa is getting tired of me asking what day it is.
— Rodney Lacroix (@RodLacroix) April 17, 2020
Nobody likes a bragger.
Calm down, people who know what day of the week it is. Calm. Down.
— Jessie (@mommajessiec) March 25, 2020
But the other tweet said…ah, nevermind.
Every day is Monday now
— Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) April 21, 2020
Maybe it’s time to invest in the sundial market. That seems about as sensible as anything else right now!
Oh, also, what day is it?
Tell us in the comments. We genuinely don’t know.
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The holidays can be a blur of family reunions, gatherings, workplace end of the year dinners, food, and fun. Then, January 2nd comes along and makes us feel like the holidays slipped past us in a curious haze.
Why does this happen?
Well, holidays can change our perception of time. Part of this is because people tend to visit their families and stay in their childhood rooms. Reunions with high school and college friends make us feel farther from the past or make us look forward to the future.
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Anthropologists and psychologists have also been working to answer the question of how different cultures interpret time. Their discoveries show us that time is actually a social construct.
In Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception, author Claudia Hammond writes,
“Time perception matters because it is the experience of time that roots us in our mental reality. Time is not only at the heart of the way we organize life, but the way we experience it.”
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Time as we know it today, a 24-hour span divided into increments of 60 minutes with 60 seconds each, technically began as a way to help industries and trains. Soon, all industries used clocks to decide when you should get to work, catch a flight, and do other tasks.
Many people get time off during the holidays. This allows them to experience life without the constraints of a clock – which is totally different from almost every other part of their lives. So don’t worry if you feel that the holidays change your perception of time because you are definitely not alone.
What are your thoughts on time and how it seems to warp during the holidays? We want to know your thoughts!
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You experience your billionth (1,000,000,000) second of life during your 31st year.
Timeless physics is the controversial view that time, as we perceive it, does not exist as anything other than an illusion. Arguably we have no evidence of the past other than our memory of it, and no evidence of the future other than our belief in it.
In October 1971, a physicist and an astronomer took 4 cesium-beam atomic clocks aboard commercial airliners. They flew twice around the world and when reunited, the sets of clocks were found to disagree according to the predictions of the relativity theory. So, Einstein accurately predicted that time moves more slowly the faster you travel. 00