I would want to go back and change something bad so that it would cause a good
thing and possibly cause a different and positive change for our future.
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“...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.”
I'd go be my eighth/ninth grader self for a while, sleep till my bones ache and breathe without the weight of real work. Play basketball with friends who're just letters on messaging apps now, and bring back DaVinci's zombie in our lunchbreak story making. ^_^
I'm scared to see the future, because I might not be ready to accept what's waiting now.
"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo." -- Terry Pratchett, "Wyrd Sisters"
After reading Timeline by Michael Crichton (READ IT IT'S AMAZING), I hesitate to choose the second option, but I must. The future seems too scary.
John 14:27: Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
Everyone has such a dismal view of the past! What about the great moments of accomplishment? Times Square after WWII ended. The World's Fair in Paris. The moon landing. These moments I was unable to witness in my lifetime, and I wish I could have.
I chose to go the the past. I think I've watched and read enough time-travel to understand how to not create a paradox. I wouldn't interfere with what's around me; I would merely be an observer in the crowd. (Also assuming I would be prepared with the right period of dress so I do not stand out.)
I do not want to go to the future because I do not want to know the future. I like surprises. Also, how do we know any of our future selves won't be there? We can look to the "Back to the Future" films, Doctor Who, or other time-traveling premises. Their future selves are there if they return to their present time safely or at all.
Every book you've ever read is just a recombination of 26 letters.
1963. That's always been my favourite year and I'm going there when time travel happens. I love the sixties so much, the music, clothes, cars, homewares, art style, television *cough* Doctor Who *cough* and everything!!
I bought acactus. A week later it died. I got depressed because I thought Damn, I am less nurturing than a desert. -Demetri Martin
I'd wanna go to the past. Future is toooooo scary for me to even think of.
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ― Sylvia Plath
I want both! The past, so I can actually verify a bunch of genealogy work I've done (that one of great grandmothers started on one side, a cousin did on another), assuming I can be passive and simply observe, not be directly involved. There's things I don't think I could stomach seeing, so I'd have to be able to choose carefully when and where I go.
The future! I wanna see space travel! My not so secret sci-fi nerd wants the future and spaceships and other worlds and everything I love reading in speculative fiction. But, again, I'd want to be a passive observer here, too. Well, mostly. I'd definitely want to explore, like, a space station or something, but not like, be directly involved.
***Under the Responsibility of S.P.E.W.*** (Sadistic Perplexion of Everyone's Wits)
Medieval Lit! Come here to find out who Chaucer plagiarized and translated - and why and how it worked in the late 1300s.
Always thought it'd be cool to see the Sermon on the Mount. Then maybe tour Rome or something.
The only thing that could make me go to the future is if I know for certain there are quarians in it. If not, then the future sucks.
My life was described in the Halo 3 Machinima, Flag Campers: "The last two hours of travel are confined to a small, hilly area. And it's all squiggly..."
I don't understand why you people keep saying that the past is horrible.
Just because they didn't have things that we have now doesn't make it bad; the people were happy with the technology that they did have. Some of you say that the present is good enough... well in the future people are going to insult our time and the primitive devices we used, just as you are doing to the past. Sure, there were wars and conflicts. There are wars and conflicts now.
The past has amazing things. Imagine seeing the Parthenon just after it was completed, imagine being present while a medieval king was crowned. Imagine dancing to rock and roll music when it had just been discovered.
Sure it had its ups and downs just like the present time, but the past was and is fantastic and you must never say anything bad about it.
Rant over.
I bought acactus. A week later it died. I got depressed because I thought Damn, I am less nurturing than a desert. -Demetri Martin
I'd go to the past just because there are still things left unknown about ancient civilizations and it would be cool to actually know what those secrets are. Like the Library of Alexandria.
In addition, the past is already concrete. Any changes you might make would affect the future more than what little thing you did in the past. Which is why I wouldn't want to see the future, because there's always the chance that what I would see would just be one option of what it might be, rather than the only option. Therefore, I feel like it would just be a waste of a trip if I don't even know if it's the real option or not.
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