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*** A great civilization is not conquered from without until it
has destroyed itself from within. ***
- Ariel Durant 1898-1981

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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:27:37 -0400, "Icebound"
wrote:

Time, arguably, has length. It is true that memory may be able to operate
only on the recent past time-span, and not on the long past time-span as
well ....but what is worse: even if it can operate on a long past
time-span,
that operation may be innacurate.


There is no time in a any sense that can be expressed in length.
Time is only a word we use for measuring change.

Things just exist. Just becaause a rock in space has spun around
another rock n times does not imply some "length".

You are not older than you were 30 years ago. Your cellular structure
has simply changed.

Time (sic) to re-requote one of the more astute observations in this
sub-thread:

"It is certainly longer than it needs to be, and a shorter thread would
have been better."

:-)