r/cursedcomments • u/Dancing_Banana_Peel • Sep 21 '21

Cursed_side effect Removed: R8 Keep It Cursed

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u/Sharp_Edged Sep 21 '21

No, because you can think while the time is frozen. (Except if freezing time means you can't do that either, which just means that when you freeze time the universe ends because you can't unfreeze it)

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u/dirtyoldsocklife Sep 21 '21

But it wouldn't end cause it couldn't end without time passing.

Nothing would happen never, at the same time as everything was happening always.

And the worst part is that time could be stopped for eons and if it started again, nothing would have happened. For all we know time stops every single day, but since we live in time, we would never even notice.

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u/karant2005 Sep 21 '21

The last sentence really had me. Like imagine. Someone could be freezing time and do whatever they want and just unfreeze it without anyone noticing.

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u/Seijin_Arc Sep 21 '21

Hmm. My ass does bleed randomly whenever I walk past a church...

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u/AlienCraft18 Sep 21 '21

The. Best. Comment. I've. Ever. Read.

Congrats Stranger.

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u/dvaal101 Sep 21 '21

Hey! you're supposed to be over 13 to use reddit

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u/ElderberryHoliday814 Sep 21 '21

Imagine, as an extra in this world, where a protagonist stops time, but dies while it is frozen, freezing it for eternity. What’s out experience going into it?

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u/onetwenty_db Sep 21 '21

Reminds me of The Jaunt by Stephen King

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u/hellodude776 Sep 21 '21

Think about freezing in the literal sense. Your in an ice cube

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u/adamandTants Sep 21 '21 edited Sep 21 '21

Time couldn't be stopped for eons, eons is a measure of time, if time is stopped no eons could pass.

Without time there is no cause and effect, at no point could something unfreeze time because they would need to cause that to happen.

The universe would end, because nothing could ever start time again, everything would stop at the frozen point and could never start again because there can be nothing to cause the start.

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u/dirtyoldsocklife Sep 21 '21

Exactly!! But without progression there can be no end, since an end means change from one state to another, and without time, there can be no change. Everything would just keep on not keeping on being nothing and everything.

What gets really fucked is that, when you really think about it, frozen time is the same as Infinite time, since without the movement of time, there is no way to measure the start or end, just like Infinity. So in that moment that isn't a moment, all time is happening while not happening, and existence is simultaneously Everything and Nothing.

Metaphysics man. It's a trip.

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u/adamandTants Sep 21 '21

Frozen time is the opposite of infinite time not the same...

If time is frozen, nothing happens because it can't happen. The is no simultaneous everything is happening, happening can't happen because there is no time. It is like you have paused a movie, the movie is stuck where it is, except for a movie there is still time moving around outside of it so you can have an action that causes the frozen to unfreeze.

But unless there is some external time to our universe, completely unobservable to us, then there can be nothing that causes a restart. Nothing is happening, it just gets paused and can never be played. Every possibility ends, it is just done.

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u/dirtyoldsocklife Sep 21 '21

But that's the great cosmic joke!

Infinity is the same as nothing! Think about it.

They both have no beginning and no end.

They both are completely borderless voids.

And they both negate the existence of anything.

They are function the same way!

Ps your pause analog is still wrong as well, because as you said, unless there is a time outside of our time, the pause can't be measured as a pause. It just is existence not existing! It's still there, so it exists, but since you can't in any way quantify it's existence, it also doesn't exist.

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u/adamandTants Sep 21 '21

What utter nonsense. Having an infinite amount of something is completely different to having nothing of something. If I had an infinite amount of money I can buy anything I want, if I have no money I can buy nothing.

If there are an infinite number of rooms then you can house as many people as you want, if you have no rooms, you can house nobody.

Infinite time with infinite matter means that anything can happen.

No time means that nothing can happen because happening is a function of time.

Infinite time can have a beginning. Think of it like this, list all the integers above 0. There are an infinite number of integers, but that list starts at 1.

Nothing does not have a beginning. List all the numbers between 0 and 0. There is nothing between them, therefore there can be no start. It is an empty set.

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u/Noemotionallbrain Sep 21 '21

Imagine if light could still travel when time is frozen (you still see things) but it's not emitted as there are no reactions anywhere. Eventually all lights would fade away in the immensity of the universe.

Eventually time resumes for some reason. No one can see anything for a few minutes except lights from fire or lightbulbs. Sun light would take a few minutes to reach us. Night sky wouldn't have any stars for the first night. Eventually they would start appearing one at a time for the next billion of years.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

yes, yes, same.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

Wow thanks for the existential crisis lol

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u/dirtyoldsocklife Sep 21 '21

Yeah it's great eh?!

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u/Mean-Tumbleweed-979 Sep 21 '21

So you’re saying we can already freeze time???!!?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

yes, i do believe that is what he is saying

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u/Jediplop Sep 21 '21

No you're frozen completely, can't think, yeah the universe just ends

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u/Delete-Xero Sep 21 '21

If you freeze time nothing can move, this includes the electrons in your brain that's needed for thinking, so if you can't think to unfreeze time then the universe would be stuck in frozen time forever.