1.What would we do if we had no alarm clocks?

2.What would we do without a way to tell time?

3.Can there be an absence of Time?

4.What would we do with infinite time?

Also this led me to think about time travel, and how it could be an answer for one of the questions. I never came up with any answers, besides some smart@$$ stuff. Everything I thought of just kept leading down other paths, and never came to an end.

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I guess these were dumb questions cause knowone really even looked at it, so I guess I'm gunna have a conversation with myself, feel free to listen on, or even better, comment!

1.What would we do if we had no alarm clocks?
The alarm clock seems to be a pretty important invention, other that the sun, there is not really a way to wake up. I guess you could somehow train your body to wake up at the right time, but it would be hard for it to be anywhere near exact, because you would require different amounts of sleep depending on the work you did the day before. I guess we would not have the kind of society we have today, because stuff wouldn't ever be open on time, it would be more of a get started when we get their and stay till your done kinda world.

2.What would we do without a way to tell time?
We would learn how to use the sun, but we couldn't be on time anywhere cause we wouldn't know the time.

3.Can there be an absence of Time?
I think so, If you were traveling through time, you would be experienceing an absence of time, thats kinda dumb and it doesn't make sense. I guess the question should be can their be an absence of space,, for if their is it would mean there could be an absence of time. But what would an absence of space be, a wormhole? the botom of a back hole?

4.What would we do with infinite time?
I don't know I guess I would see everything their is to see and do everything their is to do, then kill myself. Not trying to sound sadistic or anything, I just assume, that It would suck having done everything, the only thing, i hadn't done was die. But if space is infinite, and my time was infinite, I guess ou couldn't ever do everything, or see everything. we(humans) would probobly all kill each other, if we had infinite time, out of bordom.

I guess these were kinda dumb questions, hence the lack of responses.

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"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." -V

1.What would we do if we had no alarm clocks?
Make some

2.What would we do without a way to tell time?
Invent a way

3.Can there be an absence of Time?
I guess...since it's a man-made invention

4.What would we do with infinite time?
What we're doing now, only for a longer time.

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"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less." - Robert E. Lee

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3.Can there be an absence of Time?
I guess...since it's a man-made invention

4.What would we do with infinite time?
What we're doing now, only for a longer time.

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"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." -V

Time is a tool we use to organize and measure ourselves in my view of it.

I'm sorry, I misunderstood the infinite time question. Well, I'd probably continue living the way I live currently. Because I'd still have to pay the bills...man that would blow to be in a situation like that...

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"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less." - Robert E. Lee

You forgot about:
"Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care... about tiiiime?"
I hate that song BTW.

Time in the specific manner we measure it is only important due to the fast-paced industrial environment we have created.
In reality only a few professions truly need time measured in this neurotic manner. The rest of it is basically discipline and the way our minds have grown up around time.
I admit that even when it does not matter what time it is, I often find myself preoccupied about it.
And, yes, even though I do not wear a watch anymore I am regularly looking at my wrist.

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"It's never over... BOY!"
The Tall Man, Phantasm III

What would we do without alarm clocks?

Function as usual. We would be fine without alarm clocks. I usually wake up around the same time with or without an alarm clock. I can make a pretty good guess about what time it is throughout the day. I guess everyone would be on flex-time.

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I've been informed....don't blame Bush, he's "not in control"
That must make him out of control

Time is on my side ... yes it is

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"The key difference between cats and lies is that cats only have 9 lives" - Mark Twain

Time is what we make of it. Our modern concept of time is something we ourselves have created (well, actually, our forebears of the last two or three centuries created it for us, and we have almost unthinkingly accepted it, because it is part of the mental furniture we were raised with) to meet the needs of the modern industrial era. In pre-modern times, before we had clocks and watches, things were done by sun time. You got up when the sun was up. You worked on your own farm. You had some idea of what work there was to be done, based on what part of the agricultural season it was. As we entered the modern world, people started becoming employees of others and assembled at places of work called factories where each person had a designated job so everybody had to be there at the same time. Hence, there arose the need to know some pre-agreed upon designation for what time it was. Hence, there arose the need for clocks and watches and the need for the standardization of time. With the rise of big businesses which had operations in widely disparate geographic areas, such as transcontinental railroads, came the need for the creation of time zones. And that, my good man, is how modern man has come to be a prisoner of measured time. Time, of course, will always exist. The question, however, is whether we can abolish our modern concept of time. It could be done, I suppose, but it would mean reverting back to a very localized existence. And I leave it to each individual to decide for himself or herself whether that is good, bad, or indifferent. I'm not sure what we would do with infinite time, because no individual would ever have such. Our time is finite and each individual will die someday and, by then, whatever you have done with your time on this earth you have done and whatever you have left undone you have left undone.

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Theodore Lamar Heiks
BA, History/Political Science, Western State College, 1984
MBA, Entrepreneurship/Marketing, City University, 1993

I think this ia bout sociology, and perhaps physics. Not sure how it's about religion!

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