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Post by BigPapaJoe on Aug 30, 2016 1:53:28 GMT -5
The only time I think about time travel is if I could make the conscious choice to go back and change decisions in my life without retaining that knowledge of the present. Do I think I got married and had kids too early? Yes. Would I change it if it meant meeting a different woman and not having my sons as I know them? No. Yes...even if one could go back...it would be too much to try and orchestrate your livelihood so that the outcome fits into your boxes of desires and distastes. If don't meet my wife to be on a certain date at a certain time, do we not ever get together? I haven't had children yet, but having sex on a different day and having that day be the day she gets pregnant would result in a completely different child. Or maybe you don't make certain friends at certain time specifically and they end up in a car crash because you guys didn't hang out that day. The ramifications of just existing again with present day knowledge of how certain events would unfold would be daunting enough. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 30, 2016 10:00:38 GMT -5
The only time I think about time travel is if I could make the conscious choice to go back and change decisions in my life without retaining that knowledge of the present. Do I think I got married and had kids too early? Yes. Would I change it if it meant meeting a different woman and not having my sons as I know them? No. Yes...even if one could go back...it would be too much to try and orchestrate your livelihood so that the outcome fits into your boxes of desires and distastes. If don't meet my wife to be on a certain date at a certain time, do we not ever get together? I haven't had children yet, but having sex on a different day and having that day be the day she gets pregnant would result in a completely different child. Or maybe you don't make certain friends at certain time specifically and they end up in a car crash because you guys didn't hang out that day. The ramifications of just existing again with present day knowledge of how certain events would unfold would be daunting enough. For me it would be a hard choice, because in my life now, I don't regret who I have in my life, but other aspects of my life. Would I like to go back and remember that college would or could be important? Or make better career decisions like getting work in the field I went to a technical school for? Sure. But with that knowledge, I would have to remember the future, and to try and, as you mentioned orchestrate all that to fit with the future I just came back from would be difficult and possibly impossible. Because going back in one's on timeline is usually about regrets. And while I may regret decisions made that got me in the lot I am in life, I don't regret the people I have become close to in that time; but that they share the consequences of my lot in life along with me. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2016 11:28:18 GMT -5
Yes...even if one could go back...it would be too much to try and orchestrate your livelihood so that the outcome fits into your boxes of desires and distastes. If don't meet my wife to be on a certain date at a certain time, do we not ever get together? I haven't had children yet, but having sex on a different day and having that day be the day she gets pregnant would result in a completely different child. Or maybe you don't make certain friends at certain time specifically and they end up in a car crash because you guys didn't hang out that day. The ramifications of just existing again with present day knowledge of how certain events would unfold would be daunting enough. For me it would be a hard choice, because in my life now, I don't regret who I have in my life, but other aspects of my life. Would I like to go back and remember that college would or could be important? Or make better career decisions like getting work in the field I went to a technical school for? Sure. But with that knowledge, I would have to remember the future, and to try and, as you mentioned orchestrate all that to fit with the future I just came back from would be difficult and possibly impossible. Because going back in one's on timeline is usually about regrets. And while I may regret decisions made that got me in the lot I am in life, I don't regret the people I have become close to in that time; but that they share the consequences of my lot in life along with me. It's just a bad idea overall trying to change your past. Say you had a heart attack at 50 yr old so you go back in time & start jogging to prevent it but then get hit by a car while out jogging at 40 yr old instead! |
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Post by dupersuper on Aug 30, 2016 20:51:48 GMT -5
First I'd go to the 24th century or so in the hopes we've developed Star Trek level medical technology so that I can get a hypospray full of nanites designed to somehow prevent me from spreading my germs to other time periods and killing off massive amounts of people, or succumbing to their germs and dying horribly myself. Otherwise, time travel seems ill-fated.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 30, 2016 21:14:26 GMT -5
I'd travel to the past and make copies of all my posts that disappeared at the old CBR and have them published, become a best-seller pundit, appear on the talk-show circuit, have those posts adapted into a block buster major motion movie, buy this forum from Shax, have access to every member's personal e-mail, personally invite every member but one to the biggest and best party in creation and we'd all have pudding throughout the night
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 31, 2016 21:34:18 GMT -5
Any body watching the venom spewing from Trump's mouth right now and listening to the crowd doesn't need to go back in time to know what it was like in the days leading up to Kristallnacht.
This is not a choice of the lesser of two evils, my friends. This is a vote against pure evil.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 1, 2016 0:07:09 GMT -5
Pure evil vs pure cronyism. Lies on the left, lies on the right
I'd take a time travel ride to skip the next administration completely
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 1, 2016 6:26:52 GMT -5
Pure evil vs pure cronyism. Lies on the left, lies on the right I'd take a time travel ride to skip the next administration completely That makes the choice even clearer. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 1, 2016 10:08:16 GMT -5
Pure evil vs pure cronyism. Lies on the left, lies on the right I'd take a time travel ride to skip the next administration completely That makes the choice even clearer. I agree. Cronyism has been part and parcel of politics forever. Evil should not be allowed any rein. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 1, 2016 10:25:05 GMT -5
That makes the choice even clearer. I agree. Cronyism has been part and parcel of politics forever. Evil should not be allowed any rein. Egg-ZACK-ly. Thank you. Here's a bravura performance by Claude Rains as everyone on Fox, CNN and MSNBC: |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 1, 2016 14:16:13 GMT -5
That makes the choice even clearer. I agree. Cronyism has been part and parcel of politics forever. Evil should not be allowed any rein. But... but... The Weimar Republic was so inefficient!!! |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 1, 2016 14:36:31 GMT -5
Hooray for cronyism, pay-for-play, lies, Wall St and big business sellouts. Hip Hip Hooray !!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 0:43:12 GMT -5
I would go back 25 years ago and bought 100 shares of Microsoft Stock at $21 a share and left the monies alone and I would been $750,000 richer today.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 24, 2016 13:38:02 GMT -5
Plagiarism ... not out of a desire to become a famous author (although that'd be nice, too) but to see what would happen if certain stories were told earlier. Just looking at comics: What would Roy Thomas have written if The Invaders had been published in the 40s? What would Alan Moore have written if Watchmen had been published in the 70s (with different characters from some minor 60s publisher)?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 24, 2016 23:14:16 GMT -5
Plagiarism ... not out of a desire to become a famous author (although that'd be nice, too) but to see what would happen if certain stories were told earlier. Just looking at comics: What would Roy Thomas have written if The Invaders had been published in the 40s? What would Alan Moore have written if Watchmen had been published in the 70s (with different characters from some minor 60s publisher)? Watchmen really couldn't have been published much earlier than it was. The Comics Code just wouldn't have allowed for it. |
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