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Superlagg · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:56 am Post subject:

But what if the entity in question dosent die from age, like Ent's in my story? One that has no known beginning and an unforseeable end? One that inhabits the minds of anything sentient and acts through it? How would a creature like that be?

Tygon · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:27 pm Post subject:

We're talking about societies here, not single beings.

For single beings the entire idea does not apply since no-one knows how a mind will work if it has been active for hundreds or thousands of years.

Superlagg · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject:

Tygon · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:20 pm Post subject:

Still the idea does not apply. You are talking about a whole different kind of beings. One could not tell how they or their society evolve. Only the one who is writing them can.

Superlagg · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:03 pm Post subject:

Shoobie · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:37 pm Post subject:

Vee Are Are Schee · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:47 pm Post subject:

kodayu · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:02 pm Post subject:

Shoobie · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:03 pm Post subject:

Vee Are Are Schee · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject:

Oh, same here!

... but that might be because zombies find certain body parts attractive that you can't actually see without taking them out of the body first...

... this is going very far off topic.

Tygon · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject:

Vee Are Are Schee · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 8:12 pm Post subject:

Don't knock it 'till you try it. Razz

Anyway, err, on topic? Uh... perhaps time is cyclic and no society lasts long enough? Darn people, we go from talking about time and societies to intercourse with vital organs... although I'm largely to blame for that... oops.

Shoobie · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:05 pm Post subject:

I'm still stuck on the whole zombies and "opinions about time" thing. Zombies experience time...?

Vee Are Are Schee · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:22 pm Post subject:

Most zombies don't know how to perserve their bodies, and ergo, rot. They feel the effects of time in the same way the living do, only sped up. Living beings and zombies both head towards a point at which they shall no longer function; for most zombies, this time is much faster. On the other paw, most zombies aren't intelligent enough to comprehend the fact that they are rotting, nor are their brains capable of creating any real memory to record things in a time-line view... but that's not universal, as it depends on the type of zombie and so forth...

In a zombie society, time would be largely meaningless though, yes, as even docile, demi-sentient perserved zombies would be largely oblivious, or at the least, apathetic, to it. The only time they'd have to worry would be when they started to fall apart again, and that's taking for granted the fact that they have the intelligence to recognize this, take action against it, and possess the philosophy that falling apart into nothing is a bad thing.

So, yes, zombies experience time, we just largely ignore it.

Shoobie · Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:10 am Post subject:

Zombies...preserving themselves...so they can have normal lives...

I think I'm going to be sick...