If you could travel through time...

[cityboy-stl]

I would try to prevent the assasination of President Kennedy.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Would you change anything? Perhaps an event in your life? A historical event?

and driven by unknown force that once went wrong.

damn so many things to change.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

I would try to prevent the assasination of President Kennedy.

but kennedy needed to die.

it was history.

 

[loveguys72]

I'd be happy to observe, but I don't think I'd want to change anything, as there's no guarantee that the new timeline would be a better outcome.

 

[zoltanspawn]

I'd go back and try and prune the Tree of Life such that the bonobos might produce evolutionarily super offspring, rather than our brand of Homo.

I have smaller fantasies, though. I'm suffering badly from one poor work-related decision right now that I would happily undo.

 

[palbert]

I'd check out Vlad Ţepeş.

 

[zoltanspawn]

I'd check out Vlad Ţepeş.

You mean like, you'd whistle at his butt?

 

[birddog7]

I'd change everything about my life. I'd also change quite a few historical events...

 

[ArseYouLikeIt]

I would try to prevent the assasination of President Kennedy.

You`d have to assassinate LBJ instead.

 

[gsdx]

It'd be great to be able to travel back to the early 80's and try and warn everybody about the upcoming AIDS epidemic.

Though they'd probably think i was a loon.

They tried, but nobody paid any attention until Rock Hudson confessed to having it.

 

[JayHawk]

I'd go back, seduce and then fuck the shit out of River Phoenix.

save the world from danger....pfffttt. You all ever heard of the law of unintended consequences? What if someone less bucking futs showed up in Hitlers place and that person was sane enough not to invade russia? The Eu wouldnt have had to wait 70 years to become united but they would all speak German. Kennedy almost got us into WWIII with Russia and involving nukes. What if he had lived long enough to actually get the job done?

 

[nycguydowntown]

but kennedy needed to die.

it was history.

Yeah, plus there'd be no group called The Dead Kennedy's

 

[PATMAN]

funny, I JUST saw this...

 

[zoltanspawn]

You all ever heard of the law of unintended consequences? What if someone less bucking futs showed up in Hitlers place and that person was sane enough not to invade russia? The Eu wouldnt have had to wait 70 years to become united but they would all speak German. Kennedy almost got us into WWIII with Russia and involving nukes. What if he had lived long enough to actually get the job done?

Maybe. Maybe not. I'd give some of these propositions a whirl, never knowing for certain what's gonna happen. We navigated our way through a lot of possibilities to arrive at this rather crappy state of affairs. Things might have ended up worse. Or with some calculation, things might have ended up better.

Read this critique of the implication borne in the law of unintended consequences that any other possible series of events would certainly be worse.

 

[JayHawk]

Oh they could be better or they could be worse... but you dont know do you? Willing to gamble?

 

[zoltanspawn]

Oh they could be better or they could be worse... but you dont know do you? Willing to gamble?

Well, we already are. Let's roll 'em!

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

is thinkin

"ooh nooooo"
okay stop thinkin
& Kool &

thankyou

 

[ronboy]

I would have convinced my Vincent to stay home that night rather than go out without me and die in that crash.
-or-
I would have been with him. maybe he wouldn't have died.....

 

[syoBsUtsuJ]

If I could turn back time ... if I could find a way, I'd find a way to make cro-magnon and neanderthal to get along

without extraterrestrial interference, we would all have strong brows and hairy chests!

 

[borg69unimatrix]

I think it'd be interesting to see what would have happened if Alexander the Great had lived longer.

...or, what if Paganism stayed ?

What if Santorini and Crete was warned of their doom in ancient times?

I would see what really happened at Roswell.

I would watch the pyramids being built.

I'd visit the Parthenon when it was new, visit the Oracle at Delphi, watch the original Greek Olympics, and the gladiators fight in the colosseum in Rome.

I'd get to know my grand, and great grand parents better.

And I would relive a few of those incredible sexual nights nights of my past, and perhaps be even more adventurous.