If you could go back in time, what would you change?

[brien]

Quote by: weasel A very hypothetical question to be sure, what would you change if you could travel back in time and how would this make today's society better? Also, maybe think about what else your choice would change. No holds bar here; just post an idea and support it. Your comments are appreciated.

Ahhhhh to disturb the space time continueum, there in lies the dilemma. I think I would agree with Osborn and seek to bring back the current knowledge of how the US Constitution has been subverted and undermined. Conversing with Jefferson, Madison, the Generals, and the Philosophers, would be a fine thing. Pointing out the pitfalls of the Constitution as it was written would be invaluable to the evolution of the US. Revealing simple medical knowledge like penicillin would do wonders for the people. Hell. OS, we would probably end up Presidents!

Do we get to come back after we make our changes or are we stuck there?

[phoenix_fire]

If I could go back in time, I guess I'd kill a snake.

[Plasma Snake[D]]

Oh yeah, if I went back, Id kill a phoeni.... yea. this is childish. BTW, are you a female or male there Mandy? just curious. And if youre wondering yes, I am a perverted psycho stalker.

[phoenix_fire]

I didn't mean you, PS. I was referring to the Garden of Eden thing. You know: prevent humanity's fall, etc. These are the jokes, friends: feel free to laugh.

I have mentioned my gender before many times...

Oh, and good luck on finding a phoenix to kill...say, have you ever hunted snipe?

[underbear1]

The founding fathers were very specific, WE THE PEOPLE meant white heterosexual adult males who owned property.No one else had any rights guaranteed, nor could they vote. There were exceptions for that heterosexual part, if they were secretive like Alexander Hamilton and George Washington they did get rights.

[phoenix_fire]

Who asked?

[Plasma Snake[D]]

Sorry, my fault. Care to contemplate the silent freeway? Would you like to call the cops? Why are you running away?

[phoenix_fire]

:eek:

[Protostar]

I'd go back in time and tell my parents to invest every dime they had in Microsoft. And I'd tell them to tell their parents and the rest of the family to do the same.

[Osborn F Enready]

underbear said: The founding fathers were very specific, WE THE PEOPLE meant white heterosexual adult males who owned property.No one else had any rights guaranteed, nor could they vote. There were exceptions for that heterosexual part, if they were secretive like Alexander Hamilton and George Washington they did get rights.

I say:
That is total bunk. The people you should be placing the target on are the creators of the Federal Reserve, who have been stealing your money through inflation and income tax while at the same time making YOUR MONEY in YOUR POCKET worth less, by printing more, with no backer.

Educate yourself.

[bishop]

i'd go way back, maybe to ancient, enlightened greece.. bringing along weapons solely to convince the people that i was sent by the gods - as well as crates full of science books. instead of waiting centuries for electricity to be harnessed, i'd speed that process up big time. and then the present wouldn't be nearly as ripe with ignorance and superstition as it currently is - and who knows how much the science would evolve in the meantime...

[dreamer]

I would like to go to, "here and now" were time begins and time ends.

Dreamer

[Mia]

I guess I'm terribly self-absorbed. I thought the thread title was referring to things in our own life.

There ar a few things I'd like to go back and do differently, but not many, because I don't want to go too far back and relive too many years.

[Chris]

Quote by: bishop i'd go way back, maybe to ancient, enlightened greece.. bringing along weapons solely to convince the people that i was sent by the gods - as well as crates full of science books. instead of waiting centuries for electricity to be harnessed, i'd speed that process up big time. and then the present wouldn't be nearly as ripe with ignorance and superstition as it currently is - and who knows how much the science would evolve in the meantime...

I wonder how you could make sure that the dark ages wouldn't come about. Maybe it was the introduction of Christianity that started the dark ages.

I always found it odd that back in ancient Greece and Roman times, people took baths on a regular basis, We had men of pure genius like Archimedes. And then in the middle ages, you have people not taking baths for months at a time, and human knowledge seemed to take a step back. I wonder where we would be now if human scientific knowledge continued to advance in its normal state from ancient Greece. Would we be on Mars already? Or would it be further? Unmanned spacecraft being sent to Alpha Centauri? Other planets outside our solar system?

[CoffeeSaint]

I'd go back to the beginning and watch. Of course, according to what I've heard about quantum mechanics and such, the very act of observing (or measuring?) matter changes how the matter acts, or something like that, and so maybe my presence at the beginning would change it. Then again, if the question is, how did a consciousness arise from nothing to set the universe in motion . . .

Maybe it'll be me.

Then I'd go watch true genius at work: Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Dante, Shakespeare, Edison, Newton, Einstein, etc., etc.

If I could change anything, I would remove the Bible from a place of prominence. I think anyone with a faith should come to it personally, instead of through dogmatic instruction; plenty of people have a personal revelation from the Bible, but many more have suffered because of it and the arguments in engenders -- not to mention the number of times that promising threads die in the war of obscure Scripture quotations. It should just be a piece of historical literature, no more influential than Beowulf or the Canterbury Tales.

[underbear1]

I'd take a morning after pill back 60 years and drop it in Barbara Bush's morning coffee.

[dsanthony]

Quote by: weasel A very hypothetical question to be sure, what would you change if you could travel back in time and how would this make today's society better? Also, maybe think about what else your choice would change. No holds bar here; just post an idea and support it. Your comments are appreciated.

I'd go back to 1861, and convince Lincoln to carry out his idea to repatriate the ex-slaves to Liberia. The century of racial violence which followed the civil war, and the continuing decay of our urban culture, is the biggest drain on America...

[Trotsky]

Quote by: dsanthony I'd go back to 1861, and convince Lincoln to carry out his idea to repatriate the ex-slaves to Liberia. The century of racial violence which followed the civil war, and the continuing decay of our urban culture, is the biggest drain on America...

Yes send the Kaffir back to where they belong! :rolleyes: Maybe perhaps then you can send the crackers, the spics, the yids, the slavs, the wogs, the kykes and the micks back too. Then it would only be the Native Americans, and sure they got along fine till everybody else showed up

[Trotsky]

If I coud go back and change things, I would go back 5 years and ensure I didn't waste 5 years on a total waste of space ex g/f.

[CliveStaples]

I'd go back and kill Ishmael. No more Islamofascism.