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   From: DenzilG@nowhere.com   
      
   "Steve Hayes"  wrote in message   
   news:rp85q3t29dm5hdl5sk6mlvf09ed79tseup@4ax.com...   
   > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:03:55 -0800, Tim Bruening   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:05:45 -0800, Tim Bruening   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> >Just after Edmund was rescued, Peter wanted Edmund, Susan, and Lucy to   
   >>> >go back to Earth.  During the climatic battle, when all seemed lost,   
   >>> >Peter ordered Edmund to take the sisters and go back home.  How in the   
   >>> >world did Peter expect his siblings to explain his absence?   
   >>>   
   >>> That would surely have been the least of his worries.   
   >>   
   >>Here's a similar question: If Edmund et al had returned to Earth without   
   >>Peter, how would they have explained their absence to their parents?   
   >   
   > Their parents would not have noticed their absence, as time in our world   
   > passes at a different rate, and no matter how long they spent in Nania,   
   > practically no time had elapsed in our world. But if they returned without   
   > Peter, his absence would presumably be noticed.   
   >   
   > The real conundrum woudl be, if Peter had remained longer in Narnia, and   
   > then   
   > returned, to which "present" in our world would he return -- the "present"   
   > in   
   > which the others had returned, in which case his disappearance would be   
   > forgotten, or the present in which the others had missed him for several   
   > days   
   > or more.   
   >   
      
   If that's our Peter you are torkin' about he can fly back to earth by using   
   his parrots.   
      
   --   
   Denzil   
      
   "I get a really good laugh when I think of how much of their time we are   
   wasting.  It only takes an off-the-cuff one liner from any one of the   
   intelligentsia in u.l.s and the passed-its-sell-by-date Chief Collard and   
   his ADC (Another Dozy Cunt) DribblingBuffoon01 spend hours thinking up a   
   response, and even then they can only come up with mindless bollocks.   It's   
   like having radio controlled muppets at your disposal.  Push their little   
   buttons and watch them go.  Too funny!" - Dave The Fat Sarge in uls.   
      
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