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evilblackbunny
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Well, it WAS one of my more outdated theories. I put it up more for others opinions than stating fact, really.

^^ thanks for the different viewpoints. I'm glad I don't lurk anymore. Embarassed

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MetalGearSamus
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Well, I think time travel is completely reasonable. We have seen what is most likely teleportation (when jay goes through the upper story of The House), and since time and space are linked, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to have Jay travel through space and time simultaneously.

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evilblackbunny
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After seeing more about Masky and what he does, I will say that time travel does seem possible, but my '2 Jays' theory has been rendered null and void. ^^ this makes me very happy. Masky is Tim, and I am good with that... for now.

After all, Skully has to be someone.

PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:18 pm
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Dray
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I'm feeling a little hazy here: somebody explain how if teleportation is the likely result for Jay's weird videos (discounting several other theories, such as Jay being hypnotized, Masky sneaking up on him and whacking him with a frying pan, 'losing time' in the sense of going la la due to Slender effects and coming to inbetween those bouts of la la-ness...) how is it not a stretch to throw in time travel? It just seems like it's mucking around things and making them even more complicated than they already are.

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JKatkina
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SticktheFigure wrote:
1) Slendy teleports. This could be because he is a mystic demon, or he has more time control than we originally thought. Think of it this way. If you could accelerate the time around something, that thing would stay where it was, while everyone else had their chance to move to the latter position.


Teleportation =/= time travel. They may be connected in concept, but saying one therefore ALWAYS the other doesn't really fly. We have no idea the mechanics of the Operator's apparent teleportation. You say maybe time travel, I say yeah, quantum physics is just as likely. Or mystic demon. Or aliens. The point is we don't know and have made little headway in any speculative direction, and so can't defend the "time travel" conclusion using any one theory about how the Operator moves through space.

SticktheFigure wrote:
2) Jay disappeared from his room for three hours. Did he really disappear, or was he accelerated while the world remained in current time.


Or did he just THINK he disappeared for three hours? OR did the UNDERPANTS GNOMES take him?! This is completely baseless speculation that substitutes a more complex answer for a simpler one and I don't get how it is a defense of time travel at all.

SticktheFigure wrote:
3) Finally, the camera clock jacking. Perhaps the clocks on cameras are accurate and aren't being jacked by slendy. Maybe he sped up time around everyone again but the people he was after. The camera would keep correct time, while viewers would interpret it as technical difficulties.


It's been shown time and time again that the Operator messes with electronics. It's far more likely that the random glitches in Entry #24 (I assume that's what you're referring to?) are caused by Slendy resetting the camera. Actually, I don't understand how this could be seen as time travel at all, since it doesn't jump forward as much as backwards to 0 while the scene on the screen doesn't change significantly from what it was before the timestamp jacking.

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Oh, and the getting darker theory is not likely. The clouds often dim the light of the sun.


And then you shoot down the single piece of commonly-accepted apparent evidence for time travel. That's really funny.

The problem is, none of these time-travel-tastic theories have the slightest shred of evidence. They're all weird, unnecessary speculation for things explained by much more universe-appropriate phenomena. If you don't think that time travel has anything to do with MH, why are you defending it? For that matter, honestly, why is it even coming up? I'm baffled. Saying "time travel yeah maybe" doesn't help our understanding of the story at all. Unless we get some much more concrete evidence of time travel being something that happens ever in the MH canon, I don't see why "keeping possibilities open" for every out-there theory is helpful or needed. Unless you're just speculating for funsies, in which case I'll cheerfully sitdown and shaddup.

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G.I.R
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You guys are confusing the things that are happening as Time-Travel, when its really Slender Man distorting SPACE.

From what we know Slender Man is NOT from this earth. He has qualities that normal people don't have, such as the lack of face, expendable and slender limbs, and unimaginable speed. From this we can deduce that either

A) He is an alien being from outer space.

B) He is an alien being from a different dimension.

If it were A, then he most likely wouldn't cause the crazy electronic errors, or the health problems on people, so I'll stick with B. When a camera captures the sight of Slender Man, his dimensional aura causes it to distort and break. Places where he has been for prolonged periods of time begin to distort themselves. I'll use Dr. Who as a quick example. When the Cybermen and the Daleks came through the Void to Torchwood, they were covered in "Void stuff". A residue left on them from the Void they traveled from. Because Slender Man travels dimensions, he becomes drenched in more of his own dimensional residue, or aura. The more he travels to our dimension, the more his dimensional aura becomes stronger and causes more problems. Places he has been will leave some of that residue, causing distortion on cameras (The hole, the basement, ect.) and they might also begin to affect the space around the area (the doors, day to night) even the people around him. Its not actually him traveling through time, its his aura bending space. Its not really a power, more like a side affect of him being around.

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Dray
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It could be that what the cameras are picking up is Slenderman's 'shadow' -- going back to that simple video that was posted about Sagan and 2D vs 3D spaces earlier. For all we know, what we see of him is like a tesseract's shadow and that 'aura' is from the parts of him that don't make sense to us.

Never the less, space-distortion seems more likely than time travel, I agree!

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SticktheFigure
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Well Jkat, first off, I'd like to inform you that I am pissed off by you and so it may end up coming through my post. Please understand it's not intended.

Now, as you said, I'm just coming up with things for fun. I have nothing to do, no new evidence to examine into, and no new ideas on the unsolved things.

I am still hoping they will throw in SSTV at some point though. That'd be fun.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:39 pm
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phantom321
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Stick, are you into radio? Smile

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SticktheFigure
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Well I enjoy a good listen to it. But no, I don't have much to do with ham radio. My father does though. He has a license and could teach me and get me a permit. Or help me I guess. Why?

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phantom321
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SSTV is a way to send images over the radio. Sorry, I'm a shortwave listener. Razz

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SticktheFigure
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/facepalm
I know what SSTV is. I wouldn't have brought it up if I didn't! I enjoy it more than any other form of sound and image puzzlery. It makes for confusing listening. I need to find something that records and has a line out jack. I might make a puzzle for myself, then others, to solve. Maybe if I can get ahold of a rapture diary?

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LostSkeleton
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oh wow doctor who. Through I see slendy as a more demonic presence which would give meaning to why he hunts, stalks, and supposedly kills people because he is evil.

Through being from another dimension is also a fine theory and it really reminds me of the angels from Doctor Who of how they only move in another dimension and their physical appearance is caused by their self defense and or unable to move when spotted. They're extremely fast through you never see them move cause they don't till no one is looking at them.

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metafor
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 w000t

http://www.youtube.com/user/MarbleHornets#p/u/0/Hn7Qow98Gr4

new entry Surprised

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JKatkina
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...oh, man, THIS is where this thread went.

Mods, this should probably be moved back to the MH subforum!

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