TiMER, would you get one?

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2012-02-07 04:28pm

http://www.timerthemovie.com/
[youtube] http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri= ... WtOjWH84ok [/youtube]

So, if there was a company selling timers, which would, with a proven 100 % success rate, make people find their one true loves, would you do it?

There is the caveat though, that you could get a blank timer if your one hasn't joined up yet, and you could get a timer that doesn't count down until another 20 years from now.

Simon_Jester · Post by **Simon_Jester** » 2012-02-07 08:37pm

What's deeply problematic about this one is free will. Also, the definition of "true love-" is it something you find, or something you make?

Post by **Kuja** » 2012-02-07 09:00pm

Buy one unprogrammed and mail it to my GF with a handwitten note saying the device immediately began displaying the date 08/15/10 and is assumed to be defective.

Because I don't believe love is something that just happens, and if I'm wrong, if there -is- some invisble cosmic hand out there pulling strings to guide the puppets along to their nice little destinies, I don't want to know about it.

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2012-02-09 04:46am

Kuja wrote:Buy one unprogrammed and mail it to my GF with a handwitten note saying the device immediately began displaying the date 08/15/10 and is assumed to be defective.

Because I don't believe love is something that just happens, and if I'm wrong, if there -is- some invisble cosmic hand out there pulling strings to guide the puppets along to their nice little destinies, I don't want to know about it.

Unless your girlfriend is willing to bolt the thing into her arm personally, you might have a problem with that. The timers in the movie are installed by someone who works at the timer store, and is described like having your ears pierced, it hurts at first, but after that, you get use to having it in your wrist.

Simon_Jester · Post by **Simon_Jester** » 2012-02-09 06:59am

FaxModem1 wrote:Unless your girlfriend is willing to bolt the thing into her arm personally, you might have a problem with that.

...It's a romantic gesture, a kind of flattering, friendly joke, you hopeless hyper-literalist you.

AMT · Post by **AMT** » 2012-02-09 07:24am

If it was actually 100% guaranteed effective?
Sure. Why not?

jollyreaper · Post by **jollyreaper** » 2012-02-09 08:12am

This reminds me of a dream I had. I could see the life remaining on people as glowing numbers floating above their heads, kind of like the countdown timer on Lemmings when you decide to blow them all up. Some people have decades, some people have years, some have days. I can never see numbers above my own head.

I'm at the airport and notice a few people with numbers that are just hours away. I can't say anything to them, of course. And then I get to my gate and realize everyone's numbers are the same, less than an hour to go.

I decide to take the train.

Zixinus · Post by **Zixinus** » 2012-02-09 10:02am

How high is the price?

Because if it is reasonable, I would figure it would be less humiliating and troublesome than online dating.

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2012-02-09 10:17am

If I remember right, 80 bucks for installation, with 2 bucks a month afterwords.

Post by **Eternal_Freedom** » 2012-02-09 10:23am

Not to sound overly smug, but even if this did work 100%, I wouldn't need one.

However, the implications are disturbing, as Kuja said. It means that there is indeed some freaky force at work in the Universe. Maybe I could quantify it and get a Nobel prize out of it; "The Universal Love Field." Wait, thats sounds too hippie...

hongi · Post by **hongi** » 2012-02-09 11:21am

jollyreaper wrote:This reminds me of a dream I had. I could see the life remaining on people as glowing numbers floating above their heads, kind of like the countdown timer on Lemmings when you decide to blow them all up. Some people have decades, some people have years, some have days. I can never see numbers above my own head.

I'm at the airport and notice a few people with numbers that are just hours away. I can't say anything to them, of course. And then I get to my gate and realize everyone's numbers are the same, less than an hour to go.

I decide to take the train.

There's a Nickleback *shudder* video with the same idea.

Simon_Jester · Post by **Simon_Jester** » 2012-02-09 11:39am

AMT wrote:If it was actually 100% guaranteed effective?
Sure. Why not?

I can think of a reason why not.

What would it do to your sex and dating life if you got one, and it read "thirty years from now?" It's not like you can't meet your 'true soulmate' or whatever at sixty, but you'd be an idiot to spend your entire adult life waiting to meet them.

Post by **Eternal_Freedom** » 2012-02-09 11:43am

And in that situation, does the timer show long long until you meet them and fall in love, or can there be random chance meetings earlier that knock years off?

I mean, suppose you saw your timer and it said "25 years." You decide to say sod it, I'm goign out dating anyway. You go to a bar and happen to bump into a girl whose pretty etc and you get talking. Turns out her timer reads the exact same as yours in terms of when it will happen and she is in fact your solumate. What happens then?

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2012-02-09 11:55am

Eternal_Freedom wrote:And in that situation, does the timer show long long until you meet them and fall in love, or can there be random chance meetings earlier that knock years off?

I mean, suppose you saw your timer and it said "25 years." You decide to say sod it, I'm goign out dating anyway. You go to a bar and happen to bump into a girl whose pretty etc and you get talking. Turns out her timer reads the exact same as yours in terms of when it will happen and she is in fact your solumate. What happens then?

The movie operates under the premise that everyone has exactly one soulmate.

Simon_Jester · Post by **Simon_Jester** » 2012-02-09 12:21pm

Yes- but might you meet her early? How strong is predestination in this premise?

Post by **Eternal_Freedom** » 2012-02-09 12:31pm

That was the question. Exactly one soulmate is fine, but what effect woudl a chance meeting ten years early have on things?

jollyreaper · Post by **jollyreaper** » 2012-02-09 08:45pm

hongi wrote:
jollyreaper wrote:This reminds me of a dream I had. I could see the life remaining on people as glowing numbers floating above their heads, kind of like the countdown timer on Lemmings when you decide to blow them all up. Some people have decades, some people have years, some have days. I can never see numbers above my own head.

I'm at the airport and notice a few people with numbers that are just hours away. I can't say anything to them, of course. And then I get to my gate and realize everyone's numbers are the same, less than an hour to go.

I decide to take the train.
There's a Nickleback *shudder* video with the same idea.

Oh my god. You just ruined my life. I'm used to finding out that ideas I've had have been done before. It doesn't feel so bad to get scooped by good, talented people. But to be scooped by Nickleback? I'm afraid if I try to describe how I feel you'll tell me they've already been used as lyrics by an emo band.

Darmalus · Post by **Darmalus** » 2012-02-10 03:24am

Eternal_Freedom wrote:However, the implications are disturbing, as Kuja said. It means that there is indeed some freaky force at work in the Universe. Maybe I could quantify it and get a Nobel prize out of it; "The Universal Love Field." Wait, thats sounds too hippie...

If it exists everywhere, we can possibly draw power from it. Our war machines shall run on the power of love!

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