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    Default If You Could, Would You Go Back In Time?

    A comment in the 'What Are You Listening To Now' thread by Tyr prompted me to start this conversation. I wanted to respond but figured a separate thread about it might be better. But Tyr commented that if he could go back in time and live forever in a certain point, he would.

    I've often thought about going back in time, and to me, it gives me an uneasy feeling. I see myself going back with the knowledge and age of who I am now, because there wouldn't be much point in it if your memory was erased, but if I ever did go back in time, just the thought of it gives me an odd feeling as though I don't belong there. Not sure why that is, but it does. It might be different if I knew I could leave at any second back to the time I came from. Even though if I knew long ago what I know now, I could be a very rich man, I wouldn't want to live my life over again.

    I'm curious how others think about going back in time.
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    It all hinges on the ability to come back to the present. If not, then I’ll just stay right here. Just the lack of medical care back in the day, is enough reason.

    But, man, if I could make temporary trips, I’d go in a heart beat.

    First place I’d go is the Garden of Eden. How cool would that be?
    Second is Galilee or Jerusalem around 30 AD.
    Third? Maybe to see my long-ago ancestors in Italy or Greece.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    It all hinges on the ability to come back to the present. If not, then I’ll just stay right here. Just the lack of medical care is enough reason.

    But, man, if I could make temporary trips, I’d go in a heart beat.

    First place I’d go is the Garden of Eden. How cool would that be?
    Second is Galilee or Jerusalem around 30 AD.
    Third? Maybe to see my long-ago ancestors in Italy or Greece.
    Say you're limited to only going back in time to the period of your own life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by High_Plains_Drifter View Post
    A comment in the 'What Are You Listening To Now' thread by Tyr prompted me to start this conversation. I wanted to respond but figured a separate thread about it might be better. But Tyr commented that if he could go back in time and live forever in a certain point, he would.

    I've often thought about going back in time, and to me, it gives me an uneasy feeling. I see myself going back with the knowledge and age of who I am now, because there wouldn't be much point in it if your memory was erased, but if I ever did go back in time, just the thought of it gives me an odd feeling as though I don't belong there. Not sure why that is, but it does. It might be different if I knew I could leave at any second back to the time I came from. Even though if I knew long ago what I know now, I could be a very rich man, I wouldn't want to live my life over again.

    I'm curious how others think about going back in time.
    The idea of going back in time to my youth as a young man to live forever is not without certain restrictions, primary one being that doing so does not erase any of my current life and loved ones born.
    It to me was , being split into two people. One that continues here and thus dies, as we all do and the other that goes back to live a certain period of time forever.
    Yes,I'd do that in a heartbeat. -Tyr
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot View Post
    The idea of going back in time to my youth as a young man to live forever is not without certain restrictions, primary one being that doing so does not erase any of my current life and loved ones born.
    It to me was , being split into two people. One that continues here and thus dies, as we all do and the other that goes back to live a certain period of time forever.
    Yes,I'd do that in a heartbeat. -Tyr
    Being split into two people simultaneously living two lives but still the same person. Hard one to wrap the head around there, brother Tyr...

    I don't really have much of a reason to go back in time. My life is about as good right now as it's ever been. The only reason I could think of is financial gain, as in go back and get in on the .com explosion and create Amazon before Bezos does, and/or create Google and so on.
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    I would be torn on this one, on the one hand I obviously made mistakes in my life and the temptation to go back and fix those mistakes woud be there, but on the other hand those mistakes helped create the life I live today . For example, without the mistake of marrying my first wife perhaps my current wife wouldn't have been part of my life, and I would not do anything to risk that, including erasing my first marriage.

    Now, as far as going back in time to fix "man's" mistakes, that would take some time for me to find the exact moment when some the first man's wife said "I think........." and he didn't just backhand her, that moment right there would be the start of all our current problems.

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    Yes....Many "tweaks" I can apply....





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    Quote Originally Posted by High_Plains_Drifter View Post
    Say you're limited to only going back in time to the period of your own life.
    Less interesting to me, but here goes:

    I’d go back and run from the narcissist jerk I had the misfortune to date and get engaged to, pre-Russ. Or first quickly hire a Sicilian relative to “teach him a lesson”, then run.

    On a positive note, I’d love to see and re-live my 19th year. Sophomore in college, and I had the time of my life.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    Less interesting to me, but here goes:

    I’d go back and run from the narcissist jerk I had the misfortune to date and get engaged to, pre-Russ. Or first quickly hire a Sicilian relative to “teach him a lesson”, then run.

    On a positive note, I’d love to see and re-live my 19th year. Sophomore in college, and I had the time of my life.
    Question... do you think you'd feel natural being in a past time, or would it make you feel strange?

    Am I the only one that it makes me feel weird?

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    I have often wondered this topic.

    There are some things I would not do again, but others I would
    do in a heartbeat.

    Some things I would change, others I would leave alone.

    Experience can teach you both triumphs and regrets.
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    Quote Originally Posted by High_Plains_Drifter View Post
    Question... do you think you'd feel natural being in a past time, or would it make you feel strange?

    Am I the only one that it makes me feel weird?
    I feel strange for a couple of days when I travel, period, so I think it’s a given with time travel. But I also think I’d get over the angst-y part after a while.

    Yeah, having a modern brain and culture and being in a past time period would probably be weird.
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    The second you step back in time and alter anything you just changed history and will be living a completely different life. With the given that you possess the knowledge you do now. But you're the only one in on the joke for one thing. All you will have as an advantage is experience. Everything else will be new and to be dealt with as it is.

    I would not simply because of my kids/grandkids. Otherwise, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
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    So how about traveling into the future?

    I'm a little skeptical of what I'd see. Might not be so good.

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    What if you could make time stand still, and you were the only one that could move around?
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    Quote Originally Posted by High_Plains_Drifter View Post
    So how about traveling into the future?

    I'm a little skeptical of what I'd see. Might not be so good.

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    What if you could make time stand still, and you were the only one that could move around?
    F*ck THAT

    In the end, the left is going to win and bring about its own destruction. That's how history rolls. It's already doing both. I'll pass.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunny View Post
    F*ck THAT

    In the end, the left is going to win and bring about its own destruction. That's how history rolls. It's already doing both. I'll pass.
    Kinda the way history predicts it. Weird how the very ones that always win are the very ones that bring about the destruction.

    Like the saying goes... "THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS."

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