If you could travel back in time, would you?

Question

If you could travel back in time, would you?

Answer 1

I'd love to experience the European Enlightenment, or perhaps travel back in time to early Pennsylvania, but I would not. I believe that my presence would indirectly change modern history, but I have no method of proving that.

Answer 2

i would say no, because ,let's think a little:

-what happens if u REMAIN  stuck in the past?

your family ,your parents your kids

but there is your opinion that's  mine:)

Answer 3

As much as I would try to change something, I can't. If you think about it, let's say I go back to Genesis in the Bible (a supposed situation) and I stop Adam and Eve from eating the forbidden fruit, thus preventing the evil from entering man, and humans will still be in Eden right? No.

Somewhere along the line, if you stop an invention, holocaust, or even a war, it's inevitable that those things will happen, regardless of what you do. If you kill Albert Einstein before his Theory of Relativity was developed, another one would come later to do it for him. If you stop Eve from eating the fruit, another one of the human beings much later will be tempted also. If you stopped The Revolutionary War, by stopping Washingtn and the Sons of Liberty, there would be a group later on to take their place. The Events in history cannot be altered, because they are the climax of years of conflict and struggle. Change one thing, and it will only occur much later on.  

Answer 4

Probably back to the tudor England to see how King Heney VIII court really was and to see if Anne was as tempered as they say.  

Answer 5

It would have to be on a ship with a sentient computer, roughly the size of an RV, that could travel absolutely anywhere.  The inside would probably have to be much like a Zen style Japanese apartment, what few large ones there are.  It would also have to be indestructible, made by a Class IV civilization so it would be impossible for me to mess with anything.  Yeah, similar in concept to that corny kids movie from way back in the 1980's "flight of the navigator."  God that movie was so retarded; I thought it was retarded back when I was a little kid however I DID like the idea of an omnipotent ship that could go anywhere, including transcend time.

If it could keep itself invisible, and be able to pass through matter, or be detected by any tracking systems outside that Class IV civilization, yeah I would travel back in time.  I would not risk leaving the ship though; the world was a very different place prior to the modern era, and a very dangerous one, especially Europe.  Michael Crichton explored this idea in his book "Timeline," stating that modern people were too weak and soft to last very long in the Middle Ages.  The one modern era character who got stuck there, a scientist, ended up developing a savage mentality just like the people of that era.

Why would I want to travel through time?  I would want to see if the Atlantis myth is true for one.  I would also like to know the truth regarding the diaspora of 70 A.D. after the burning of the second temple; I do not trust the ashkenazi, or their stories, so, I would want to travel backwards through time and see what happened for myself.  I would also like to meet a few historical figures; Abraham Lincoln, Hung Hei Kung the greatest Shaolin monk ever, Charles Atlas, and of course take Esther's virginity before that Persian king got to her.  Better she be deflowered by a fellow Jew than some Persian animal!

It would not change history because I'd ask the computer to scan her body to see if she was ovulating.  I'd probably set it up holodeck style so she would think she was having a mystical experience or something.  Absolutely I would; I'm a huge history buff, and one person above all I would love to meet, namely, Miyamoto Musashi.

I think a lot of people would, especially people who are really into history.  Of course some people are more passionate than others; a history professor I had once, when our class was watching "1492" when that scene came on where the boats sailed to the new world and the Vangelis song was playing, she was crying.  No joke; fat tears.

Now THAT, is a history buff right there.

Also you know how they say "there are always three version to a story; his, hers, and the truth?"  I would want to see exactly what happened, during colonial era Europe.  If I was making plans of exterminating white people, say, before going through with it, for the sake of fair play, I would want to go back in time and see them in the colonial era.  If I like what I see, I wouldn't do it, but if I didn't like it, I would go on ahead and do it.

However fair play demands that if the technology existed to be able to do it, that it be done.  Ultimately though only God has that kind of perception of things, and if whites do deserve to die, God will see to their extinction.  Ultimately though willing separation from God leads to extinction all the same regardless of race, and it is not an issue of religion either.

later.

Answer 6

No, I would not.  Over the course of History everyone has had their chance to make a difference, good or bad.  I respect that.  I am happy, not entirely, with how today has turned out through the past, and I wouldn't change that.  It is the past that defines today, and I don't want to change the present.

Answer 7

Wouldn't it be cool to go back say 1000 years and show them a cell phone or something? They'd totally freak out. Although it may totally s***w up the future.

Answer 8

I would go back to the mid 70's and stay back there till 1992. To me that is the best time period in history.

Answer 9

Yes. I'd love to witness the big bang/building of pryamids/sphinx/stonehenge/ dinosaurs....

Too many other things from the past, to list, that I'd like to witness first hand.

Answer 10

No. In the past, people like us had the opportunity to change the world. They made their decisions, and those decisions make up what we now call "history." Other than learning from history and past mistakes, history is just that: history. It is our time now and we need to do what we can to make the present the best it can be.

Answer 11

No.

I'd rather learn from something and move on than go back, correct it and lose that lesson. There's much to be learned from the past, yes, but I think there's more to learn from learning to move on and life for the future rather than the present.

Answer 12

i would like to go back to the 70s as long as it was just a visit and could return back to my loved ones now. like a holiday but instead of going to another place you went to another time for a couple of weeks, that sounds good.

Answer 13

yes by the time when they was building piramids.

Answer 14

no can i go forward in time??