If you had a choice,would you want to travel to the past or into the future?

Definitely future. I want to see what happens in that time.
And I cannot wait!

I would have to say the past, but not to change it, i think that would be disastrous. Everything happens for a reason even the terrible bad things. the future i dont really want to know what is going to happen, that is too scarey.

I would want to go to the future. I am so tired of this presidential stuff. I want to know already who is going to win. I am sure it's Hilary but still the future.

Definitely the past. That way I could see my Dad and Grams. I am talking the late 60's here, so there was still war going on in the world. Not too many thoughts of terrorism though.
I had a blast in my past and would like to do it again.
As far as going ahead into the future, that is a bit scary to me. I think I would just like to wait for that. I may not like what I learn and it would make me extremely sad, anxious and scared. On the other hand, things could turn around for this world, (though I doubt it, as we have had centuries to become a descent world for everyone and have failed miserably) but I would still like to live through it and not jump to it!
PEACE

i choose to travel to the future.i want to know people's lives after 100 years,also i want to know whether there is life after death.

I would like to visit the past, and re- live my happiest times.Sometimes I wish at night when I go to sleep that this would happen to me. Kinda like a movie playing in my head. I bet when I woke up in the morning I would be a much happier person and have a bounce in my step and a smile om my face.

I would like to go to the past... not the recent past though. I would like to go back to when my parents were children and see how they lived, when they met, how they dated. I have heard stories but I would love to see it all for myself.

I certainly wouldn't want to go to the future. It may freak me out.

Hello Sarahruthbeth,

Absolutely I would! Not only am I a history buff, but I am also a Behavioralist. So, having first-hand access to mankind's developmental baby-steps as well as leaps, is of the utmost interest to me.

I would like to travel back in time to so many particular moments and era's. And, I'm equally intrigued to travel forward to see how mankind learns to deal with it's inherent character flaws.

Oh yes, time travel would be the ultimate in 'grins & jollies' for me. And, although I too enjoyed the 80s (gotta' love those hair bands), I'd be more inclined to travel back to the Garden of Gethsemane, or 2nd century central Turkey, or Ancient Greece. Though, it would be fascinating to visit Ancient Egypt or Arabia. Even the creation of the mindset that is now Islam, i.e. the time of Muhammed. Or to relax under a tree with Lao Tzu, while he pondered nature and its relationship to mankind. Or to have been present when Sun Tzu penned "The Art of War", or when Machiavelli penned "The Prince". Perhaps a cup of tea with Nostradamus, or Leonardo Davinci. Or, a moment in time to see Michealangelo paint the Cistine Chapel. Though, I'd about give my left pinky finger nail to be present as The Founding Father's hammered out the foundation of these United States of America. Geeze, there are so many moments in time that I would love to experience first hand. Though I can think of few more enticing than a simple dinner with Benjamin Franklin.

Indeed, I am very much in line with your desire to travel through time. And, if I had to choose one or the other, I would also choose the past. For it is only in really understanding our past that we can forge our future.

Great topic!!!

I would like to go to the future. As the past was fixed and I might not change it. I look forward to see the future. It will be so nice what will it be at that time. How my son looks like and how we are. That's something very interesting for me.

I think the future would be too eye opening and scary. At least if you were to go into the past you'd know a little of what to expect. It would be interesting to see the small unrecorded details of history and see how interpretation changed from fact.