I have had an interesting perspective on time, since I had a near-death experience. The experience was electrocution.

An arm-to-arm path. It was over in a microsecond, according to witnesses who saw me picked up as if by an invisible hand, and thrown back in the air about 10 feet, where I hit my head on a pool table, and was knocked unconscious. I had no recollection of any of that. However, what I did have a recollection of was that the moment seemed to last for a LONG time. I was aware of the electricty coming up my arm, passing through my heart, and down the other arm. I wanted to let go of the metal, but I couldn't force myself to do anything. The muscles wouldn't work.

I had the thought during that time ( which seemed like 5 minutes ) that Huh! there really isn't any time. It was as if time was like rubber and it just stretched to timelessness.. So I can well imagine that what you say is somehow true, that time does not exist.

Your cloud was probably trying to make a point George. Peoples’ concept of time is screwed up by watching too much Star Trek with the time-travel mumbo-jumbo. That and clocks that seem to have no beginning or end ( until they die of course, but that is readily ignored. ) Time as it is viewed by most people, simply does not exist.

Do you know how a second is measured? Via the vibrations of microwaved Cesium atoms ( http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cesium.html ) . Now let’s drop the word time for awhile .

What allows the atoms in Cesium to vibrate? Space ( in which to move ) and Energy ( propulsion ) . How long ( as in How long till dinner? ) it takes to get there is a measurement of _distance._ Now look at a sundial. What is being determined is the distance a shadow has traversed . How _long_ is a day? The clock on the wall or desk or your wrist seems to have continuity, as though it measures something that has reality beyond space and energy, however, it also is only telling you how far the quartz has vibrated ( or whatever else has unwound.. )

Now someone may say: Nonsense, when I drive my car, I’m going a certain number of miles per hour. So that hour must be a thing that can be measured. I submit that hour is but a numbered collection of vibrations of the Cesium atom and not an external, unpalpable reality. It is simply the distance of your movement counted against the distance of the atom’s movement.

Now someone else may say: Well then, if what we’re measuring is distance, then I should be able to turn around and go back to a place in the past. Depending on scale, this is partially true. If you walk across a room and come back, time can seem to have been reversed. However while you did this, a bird jumped from your windowsill and flew off, your kids ran down the stairs just outside the door, the earth has traversed a measure of space around the sun whilst the sun flew through the Milky Way and our universe has passed through the void further toward it’s destination. Thus to actually get back to the place you were before you first walked across the room, all the energy that has been unwound and all the distance covered wound have to be thrown into reverse and rewound to get back to the PLACE IN TIME you had been before. ( Which is of course impossible! )

The reason this is important is that people spend so much time and effort and worry on something that does not exist anymore ( the Past ) and something that has NEVER existed ( the Future. ) While forgetting that all there really is, is NOW. The same NOW that existed when God said: LIGHT…..BE! The same NOW that is here with us. The same NOW to be present at the day of judgment.

Take your time, think about.

I recently bought 40% Siver coin from Monex ( Physical Delivery ) because of the insurance factor ( A silver mountie? :- ) ) i.e. They can only go as low as the face value. Yesterday, on Monex's site the price went up 37 cents. Silver only went up a few cents or so. Anyone hazard a guess as to why the disparity? They ( Monex ) really would have preferred that I sign up for the leveraged account, but it really is not my style. I prefer to buy and hold. Perhaps there are more like me?

Question 2. I hear references to junk silver. My understanding from reading here is that 90% silver coin is being referred to. Then what is 40% coin referred to as Really Really Junk? It seems to me that since the 40% coin has less silver, than it is closer to face, and that is a good thing for limiting downside risk.

I have opted to hold 40% coin for my Y2k Stash instead of FRN's because they are:

1 ) In small denominations ( no change problem )

2 ) Have limited downside risk

3 ) Are US Currency

4 ) Could appreciate if silver takes off ( Unlike FRN's )

Specifically, TD refers to the time and date instabilities that will occur in the year 2000 and beyond on some personal computers and some embedded systems. These time and date instabilities occur when BIOS time and date routines improperly access a non-buffered RTC during startup, resulting in a personal computer or an embedded system that has difficulty calculating or retaining the correct time and/or date in the year 2000 and beyond.

Rest at: http://www.kiyoinc.com/WRP99.HTM

Note on the Time Dilation Effect - just one more formerly unknown problem that has recently surfaced, more to come. GET GOLD!

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