The 12 Purposes of Life: A Down-to-Earth Guide for the Mortal Traveler

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He ends up accused of the crime and the subject of a nationwide manhunt. Based on the Stanley Shapiro book. Aditya is a time machine, invented by an absent-minded professor Ram Das. Krishna, a young post-graduate, Hema and a smuggler, Raja, want to procure the machine for their own reasons. In , Skynet sends a shape-shifting terminator back to to kill year-old John Connor , while future Connor sends a T Schwarzenegger back to protect his past self and prevent a nuclear holocaust.

Terrorists from the year seek to destroy Japan and prevent it from becoming an economic superpower. They travel to and replace Godzilla with three genetically-engineered creatures, which become the monster, King Ghidorah. Ash Bruce Campbell , a supermarket employee, is sent back in time by a specific book to the 14th century to fight an undead army.

In a future where time travel has been invented, the rich snatch people from history a moment before their death in order to use the bodies as hosts for their own minds after death. Ben Wilson and daughter, Hillary, are visited by a strange group of travelers looking for lodging. The travelers are from the future, intending to witness an impending catastrophe. Moore , and was released on video as Grand Tour: The turtles go back in time to feudal Japan to retrieve their kidnapped friend, April.

A 12th-century knight and his servant are mistakenly transported to the 20th century and find themselves adrift in modern society. A disastrous experiment in sends a stealth aircraft through a time portal into Germany. A sailor is pulled into the portal at the same time, and finds himself in a version of where the Nazis won World War II. Barry Thomas is an average office worker who witnesses the murder of a woman that he is attracted to. That night, during a storm, Barry gets a shock from a lamp's faulty power wire at exactly In the next few days, he realizes that the world is trapped in a time loop , with himself the only one aware of it.

Barry must prevent the murder and stop the time loop, or be caught in time forever. Weatherman Phil Connors Bill Murray is trapped re-living February 2 in Punxsutawney , Pennsylvania, leading him to re-examine his life and priorities. An amateur inventor goes through time with an airplane to stop a villain from changing history for profit. A probe from the year to the year goes wrong, creating a plague-ravaged, alternate timeline whose inhabitants are locked in a constant battle with killer robots. The hero must find a similar time machine in this alternate world and prevent the disaster from ever happening.

Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard, meet through the effects of an energy ribbon. This causes a dilemma for the hero, Max Walker, who has to prevent time-travellers from altering time, but is tempted to do so himself, to prevent his wife's death.

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James Cole is sent back in time to acquire an unmutated form of a virus that has nearly wiped out humanity. A selfish teenager is forced to relive the same Christmas every day until he comes to understand the true meaning of the holiday season. The Doctor , in his eighth incarnation, has a showdown with the Master at the turn of the millennium, December 31, The USS Enterprise follows the Borg back in time to stop them from altering history and preventing Earth's first warp flight and first contact with the Vulcans.

An FBI agent repeatedly travels back in time to prevent a crime. The situation worsens each time around, until she decides to let things play out. A US submarine runs into a time rift and a special unit goes on a mission to see what's on the other side. They find themselves in an alternate dystopian America, now a one-man dictatorship and decide to help the rebels. Lola has to acquire , Deutsche Mark to save her boyfriend from the mob.

The film follows one attempt after another to raise the money, each failure resetting time and restarting her run through the streets of Berlin. In , a family undertakes a voyage to a nearby star system to begin large-scale emigration from a soon-to-be uninhabitable Earth, but are thrown off course by a saboteur and must try to find their way home. Rebirth of Mothra III. Mothra travels back to the Cretaceous period to defeat the evil space monster, King Ghidorah , while he is younger and weaker.

It transports her from back to the same place in other years, depending on the order of buttons pushed. In , she meets Victoria Walker, a girl her own age in need of assistance with her own family problems. Together, Susan, Victoria, and her young brother, Robert, succeed in changing both the past and the future.

The Spy Who Shagged Me. Evil is back and invents a time machine that allows him to go back to , so he can steal Austin Powers' mojo. A jump back in time of 13 seconds is all the time lead actor, Jason Nesmith Tim Allen , needs to save his crew from being killed. A reporter notices that the same faces keep appearing in photographs of 20th century disasters.

Deducing that they are time travellers, he tries to save the history he knows. Peter Kris Lemche wins a trip to a Medieval park. As Peter and his friends tour the castle, Lord Drakin casts a spell and sends the Peter and his friends back to where they have to stop Lord Drakin from taking the castle. The English pop group, S Club 7 and are transported to a desert town in the year that is under the control of a gang with a corrupted sheriff as an ally.

The group learns about the fate of a local chef at a diner and tries to prevent bad things despite threats against them from both the sheriff and the gang. A TV movie about a young woman who, during her family's Passover Seder, finds herself transported back to Poland in and sent to a death camp. An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.

A New York woman with a string of failed relationships meets a time traveler from the year Two people separated in time are somehow able to talk to each other using an amateur radio.

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The people in question are two students in the same school, one in , the other in A year-old image consultant Bruce Willis finds himself being visited by his year-old self. A middle-aged man stumbles across an antique watch that transports him to He falls in love, and decides to stay. He breaks the watch, then sees the situation in a new light as complications occur. Two protagonists live in a lake house two years apart in time, but are able to communicate through a mysterious post box.

This movie inspired the American film, The Lake House. After falling into a theme park's fetid moat, a custodian Martin Lawrence crawls out into fourteenth century England. A teenager unknowingly re-lives October and is forced by a man in a demonic bunny suit to commit crimes in order to re-set the timeline. A medieval knight and his serf travel to 21st century Chicago, meeting the knight's descendant. But they must travel back to their time to ensure her birth. Remake of the French movie Les Visiteurs. The film focuses on Celebi who travels to the future with a Young Professor Oak while being chased by a hunter.

In this Disney Channel movie, Marnie Piper travels through time in Halloweentown to find a spell book that will help her counteract the evil spell placed on Halloweentown. To return to present time, both Marnie and Luke travel through a time tunnel on a broomstick. Lost Memories loseuteu maemorijeu. The human race is on the edge of annihilation after decades of war with an alien force. In an outpost in Tibet, mankind's last hope of survival is a time travel device. In this remake of the s version of the film, directed by H. Wells ' great-grandson, Dr.

Alexander Hartdegen travels to the future hoping to find a time where they have learned how to change the past. In the year ,, he becomes involved in a struggle between surface-dwelling Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks.

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A Bible professor from comes forward in time to the present via a time machine and cannot believe the things that he sees. Austin Powers in Goldmember. A group of strangers mysteriously awakens in a giant cubic structure in which each room warps space-time in a different way. In Israel, a student in archaeology is seeking a video camera hidden years ago by a mysterious time traveler. Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour. In this film adaptation of the book by Michael Crichton , archaeologists travel to medieval France to rescue their professor, and find themselves in the middle of a battle.

Rise of the Machines [17]. In , Skynet sends another Terminator back in time, this time to , in a final attempt to kill John Connor before the inevitable nuclear holocaust on mankind. Hermione Granger receives a Time-Turner from Professor McGonagall , so she can attend more classes than time would normally allow. Two friends build a time machine that allows them to create multiple, co-existing timelines. The effects and consequences of these interacting timelines, change the personalities of the characters and ruin their friendship.

A college psychology student Ashton Kutcher learns that, by reading his childhood journals, he can temporarily travel to the past and inhabit his younger body. By changing his past behaviours, he changes his current life, with unforeseen consequences. Distraught over his girlfriend's drug addiction, small-time dope peddler, Art Jay Baruchel , uses a time machine to journey into the past in a desperate gamble to change her future. An amnesiac, Persian Gulf War veteran Adrien Brody is subjected to an experimental treatment which moves him forward 15 years.

A Sound of Thunder. For an extraordinary price, Time Safaris, Inc. The plot is based loosely on the short story by Ray Bradbury , with the butterfly effect portrayed as much more pronounced. Summer Time Machine Blues. Five college boys in a sci-fi club break their air-conditioner's remote control.

The 12 Purposes of Life: A Down-To-Earth Guide for the Mortal Traveler

In the sweltering clubhouse, a time machine appears and they go back in time to retrieve a functioning controller, but this causes complications. A slasher film in which a group of present-day teenagers are sent back to , and discover a summer camp which is stuck reliving the day a demented killer went on a rampage. A time-travel romance where two people living in the same house at a lake, at different times, are able to exchange letters through its mailbox and fall in love.

Adam Sandler is given a remote that lets him fast forward, pause, and rewind his life. Denzel Washington is an ATF agent investigating a terrorist act, who is invited to assist in a government time-travel surveillance project. In a remake of Christmas Every Day , a father has to repeat Christmas Day over and over until he realizes how selfish he has become and changes his ways.

After finishing the graveyard shift at a convenience store, Claire is murdered in her home only to wake up in the convenience store, and start the cycle over again. An official selection of the Sundance Festival. Alien scammers discover the code for time travel tattooed on Philip J. Fry 's buttocks, and use it to send Bender back in time to steal priceless artifacts.

Young Lewis is taken to the year by his future son, Wilbur, to stop a "Bowler Hat Guy" who has stolen Lewis' memory-scanning machine. A housewife Sandra Bullock discovers that she is living the days around her husband's death in a non-chronological sequence, and attempts to prevent his death. A high school music student discovers that she can travel forward in time with the help of a mysterious piano piece called "Secret".

The Last Day of Summer. Three high-school outcasts use a time machine to save their classmates from embarrassing moments. Their time travel creates a black hole, which could destroy the world.

A Disney Channel Original Movie. In a direct-to-video film in the Stargate franchise, Ba'al Cliff Simon changes the timeline so that SG-1 never existed. Three people were unaffected by the change but are unable to do anything until Ba'al and the system lords arrive. Spock's attempt to prevent a supernova fails, resulting in the destruction of the Romulan homeworld. The captain of a Romulan mining ship blames Spock, and both the Romulans and Spock fall through a black hole to the past, creating an alternate reality.

A romantic drama about Nemo Nobody Jared Leto , a year-old man and the last mortal on Earth, who remembers alternate versions of his life and three ages when his life was changed by a decision. A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian Eric Bana with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage. Based on the Audrey Niffenegger novel. Three friends attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub. Anna Faris plays a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion.

Land of the Lost. A disgraced paleontologist, his research assistant, and a macho tour guide find themselves in a strange, alternate world inhabited by dinosaurs, monkey people, and reptilian Sleestaks after they are sucked into a space-time vortex. A woman who went on a yacht trip with her friends, jumps to another ship after a mysterious weather condition, and gets caught up in a terrifying time loop.

A young man named Bunty uses a time machine created by his girlfriend's grandfather to meet his own parents before they were married, and help them develop a more loving relationship. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. Kyon is the only one who knows that two of his classmates are missing and reality has changed. To restore his life, he gathers several keys to power an alien device and travel back three years. Hot Tub Time Machine.

Four friends spend a crazy, drunken night in a hot tub at a ski resort only to travel back in time to They are each presented with an opportunity to alter their futures. A group of inmates at a rehabilitation facility are forced to repeat the same day over and over again. The Sands of Time. Disney 's adaption of the video game of the same name.

Prince Dastan Jake Gyllenhaal has to prevent someone from changing history using a special dagger which when fueled with a special "Sand of Time", allows its wielder to experience time differently. Series protagonists Yusei Fudo , Jaden Yuki and Yugi Muto encounter Turbo Duelist Paradox , who is from the future, and who believes the only way to prevent his future from happening is to stop Duel Monsters from existing.

James is a guy from the year who comes back in time with a custom-made watch that is a time machine. He travels back in time to fix his life but fails. Captain Colter Stevens died in a helicopter crash and has been inserted in a computer program Source Code which transfers him to the body of a deceased person for the last eight minutes of his life. He cannot change the past, but he can alter events and change the future to avoid a terrorist attack.

Scott Fitzgerald , and Gertrude Stein. Kate finds herself reliving Christmas Eve including a blind date with a man named Miles over and over again. She must discover how to break the cycle — should she attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend Jack, or should she pursue Miles, or something else? When a brilliant physicist inadvertently creates a time machine, he goes back 20 years to the party where his girlfriend left him.

Changing the events of that evening have effects that he didn't anticipate. A comedy film inspired by a , classified ad in Backwoods Home Magazine from a person asking for someone to accompany him in time travel. Agent J travels back in time to MIB's early years in the s in order to stop an alien from assassinating his friend, Agent K, and changing history. Criminal organizations hire contract killers, called Loopers, to kill humans sent to them through time travel. Time travel, love and betrayal in s England. Jealousy, desire and greed surround him, clouding his judgement and sending him spiralling towards madness.

Roman architect, Lucius, repeatedly travels to present-day Japan, where he is inspired by modern baths and toilets. A group of friends vacationing in the woods discover their own corpses and realize they are trapped in a time loop. In a dystopian future, citizens without jobs are sent to work camps and never heard from again.

Adam Leben is a laid-off factory worker. To save his life, he answers an ad for a medical test experiment, plunging down a rabbit hole of genetic engineering, mind control, and time travel. Based on the epic poem by Eric Kopatz. A year-old girl discovers that she has inherited her family's time-travel gene. To time-travel safely, she has to cooperate with a secret order of time travelers who have a special task for her in the 17th century. The ghost of a teenager, Lisa Johnson Abigail Breslin who, along with her family, keeps reliving the same day although she is the only one aware of it tries to protect a young girl, Olivia Eleanor Zichy and her family from a dead serial killer, the Pale Man Stephen McHattie who can possess the living.

I'll Follow You Down. A present-day professor disappears, traveling back in time to visit Albert Einstein. Twelve year later, his college-age son follows him to find out why. As part of an experiment, a man unknowingly travels into the future only to find out that he is going to be framed in a series of killings. In this short film, a young girl travels into the future to find the ancient Ark of the Covenant and prevent it from falling into the hands of an evil army.

On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Tim's father tells his son that the men in their family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim makes numerous trips to is past to change his circumstances and those of his friends.

A team of scientists and military personnel travel back in time to the s to change the past and prevent a major terrorist attack on present day New York. A group of time-travel researchers at a deep-sea facility make their first test run 24 hours into the future, only to discover the facility close to destruction. They escape back to the present but have less than 24 hours to avert the coming tragedy. The time-travelling adventures of an anthropomorphic canine and his adopted human son, as they endeavor to fix a time rift that they created. Days of Future Past [37].

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The X-Men send Wolverine's consciousness to to prevent a war between the Sentinels and mankind from starting. An officer Tom Cruise finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with an alien race. Michael and Peter Spierig. A temporal agent goes back in time to catch an infamous terrorist known as the "Fizzle Bomber", and meets different versions of himself. A group of friends discover a machine that can take pictures of things 24 hours into the future and the troubles that this machine causes. Set in the near future, a crew of astronauts travels through a wormhole to find a suitable new planet for humanity, experiencing time dilation on multiple occasions.

On one of the most important days of his life, Rob, a high school senior, finds himself in a time loop that is triggered every time he ejaculates.

The 12 Purposes of Life: A Down-to-Earth Guide for the Mortal Traveler

A man's attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfires when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop. A group of teenagers construct a time machine, based on blueprints that the main character's father was developing for the United States military. Hot Tub Time Machine 2. The sequel of Hot Tub Time Machine. A physicist who invents a time machine must travel back to the past to uncover the truth about his creation and the woman who is trying to steal it.

A scientist in invents a time machine and, to prove its capability, sends it back to However, the machine is discovered by three people who use the machine for reasons of their own. The first Indian Tamil science fiction movie. When Reese arrives in , he finds a whole new chronology, where Sarah was trained in combat from childhood. They try to figure out how to prevent the nuclear holocaust. When a scientist on a team working on a time travel project successfully travels one hour into the future, he returns with shocking news.

The Flash travels back in time to warn Bruce Wayne of future apocalyptic events. Trapped in a lab and stuck in a time loop, a disoriented couple fends off masked raiders while harboring a new energy source that could save humanity. A scientist named Sethuraman invents a time machine in the form of a watch but his evil twin brother, Athreya, will go to any lengths to get the device for himself. Doctor Strange enters the Dark Dimension and uses the Eye of Agamotto to create a time loop around himself and Dormammu.

After repeatedly killing Strange to no avail, Dormammu finally gives in to Strange's demand that he leave Earth. A popular high school senior finds herself reliving the same day over and over. A snobby young woman finds herself murdered at her birthday party. She wakes up the morning of her death, alive, facing the same day over and over again. A naked man is caught in a time loop on the day of his wedding.

A Wrinkle in Time. Thirteen-year-old middle school student Meg Murry struggles to adjust to both her school and home life ever since her father Alex, a well-renowned scientist, mysteriously disappeared. Scientist Captain Z-Ro, working in his remote laboratory, safeguards mankind and history from impending harm. He has a time machine, the ZX, both to view history and to send someone back in time when the past has been altered. Accompanied by a number of companions , the Doctor combats a variety of foes , while working to save civilisations and help people in need.

Two astronauts who break the speed of light, accidentally travel back in time to prehistoric Earth. Unable to return, they make friends with the cave-people they encounter. When they do return, they inadvertently bring some of the cave-people with them, who must learn to get along in the s. In a demonstration, a scientist turns on the experimental time tunnel, where he finds himself on board the R.

Another joins him and both are stuck in time. Each week they have a new adventure in history. An 11th-century wizard accidentally travels to England. He makes many humorous mistakes while trying to find his way back home. Two time-traveling, inter-dimensional agents protect and guard the order of time in this British drama. A member of a league of time travelers, called Voyagers, and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world history.

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Five cowboys of the s are sent to by a lightning strike. With no way to get back home, they start a detective agency to make a living. A girl travels to the past with the help of a moondial, where she meets two children from earlier centuries and helps them with their unhappy lives. After 3 million years, Dave Lister leaves stasis as the last human being alive. He is aboard the ship Red Dwarf, in deep space and travelling at nearly the speed of light.

Mystery Science Theater In the later seasons, Mike Nelson and his robot co-stars find themselves traveling through time, ending up in places including ancient Rome. Additionally, throughout the series, movies with time travel as a major theme are shown. Sam Beckett becomes stuck in his past during a time-travel experiment and, in his attempts to return to the present time, temporarily takes the place of other people and corrects historical mistakes, thus triggering the next time jump.

In his travels, he is aided by a hologram of his friend, Al. In his warm and engaging style, author Jay A Parry identifies twelve specific reasons why we were sent to earth and tells how we can have a richer, happier life- and a greater blessing in t As Latter-day Saints, we seem to share a universal desire to find meaning in everyday living and to know what we can do to improve our time in morality by focusing on what matters most.

In his warm and engaging style, author Jay A Parry identifies twelve specific reasons why we were sent to earth and tells how we can have a richer, happier life- and a greater blessing in the life to come-as we understand God's purposes and begin living up to our individual possibilities. Using stories, examples, and scriptural support, The Twelve Purposes of Life shows what we can do to fulfill our life's purposes. Hardcover , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

To ask other readers questions about The 12 Purposes of Life , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The 12 Purposes of Life. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jun 06, Kristina rated it really liked it. We existed as intelligences before this mortal life. We came to earth to get a body and were physically separated from God. In this life, we knew we would sin, And therefore become spiritually separated from God.

It is through the atonement of Jesus Christ that we become reunited physically and spiritually with God eternal father. Jun 16, Erin rated it really liked it. This was not one book I would have bought for myself, I was given the book as a gift, so thought it would be good to read it. I was amazed at how much I liked it. The chapters are concise, and it is easy to read. There are many profound thoughts in this book. I found that it gave me a new perspective on life and how to live in it. I would not put this book in the category of "life changing", although some people might.

However, I have found it to be be very helpful. At times you may feel that yo This was not one book I would have bought for myself, I was given the book as a gift, so thought it would be good to read it. At times you may feel that you need to adjust a little bit, but you do not know where to start to adjust. This book will point you in the right direction and assist you. After reading, I wish I had made notes in the margin, so I could go back and begin to change some things in my life.

I will end up going back, re-read and take notes. Jun 10, Heather rated it liked it Shelves: I enjoyed this book. It has questions at the end of each chapter to make you think about the principles that have been spoken about within the chapter. I think I could have got more out of this book if I had taken the time to really answer them. But it was an enjoyable read with short stories throughout to help teach principles. Jul 21, Lindsay rated it it was amazing.