If Time Travel Really Was Possible...Would You Really Want To??? / myLot

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September 21, 2008 5:56am CST

I just finished watching the 2002 version of The Time Machine based of course on the book by H.G. Wells. This isn't of course the first version movie of his book. I had loved both the earlier and newer versions of both movies. Being the science geek all my life I can't help wondering...like wow, wouldn't it be great, if time travel really was possible. We could go back into the past to our favorite times in history and get a real perspective of what life was really like, say in Ancient Egypt, Greece, Roman, Medieval, or Renaissance times. We could experience first hand the Revolutionary times of a young American or the Civil War times (periods of history by the way I've always been fascinated by). Or maybe you would like to travel to the future...how is our Earth say in the year 2136?..Is there an Earth? Or have we blown ourselves to smithereens due to petty hatreds due to race, religion and so forth?...Is the human species still here?..how much have we changed..are we are a more loving, caring, compassionate species? Does war still exist? The petty intolerances and hatreds...do they still exist? Or have we finally come to an understanding that the Earth is the only planet we know and therefore we have a more loving compassion for all living things and have a humble respect for everything in our world? Or maybe you don't want to get so grandiose...maybe you would like to travel back in time and right the wrongs in your own life...the detours, the setbacks, the pain and misery you may have gone through. Would you want to go back in time and try to change that...so you wouldn't have to go through that pain, fear, anger, misery in your life? They (whoever they are) say there are no accidents in life, that everything happens in life in general for a reason and if we didn't go through those experiences we wouldn't grow, know, learn. In other words, our greatest teacher in life is precisely through our mistakes, our setbacks, our detours. So with that in mind....would you really then want to change the past? What is the saying? If we don't learn from the past, we are condemned to repeat the past....So have we learned? With this heavy duty thought in mind...if time travel were really possible.. and you could especially travel through the past into your own life, with the knowledge of what period in your life went really wrong and wanted to change it...would you? Do you think you would be a better person for it? Or do you see that everything in your life had a reason behind it? And there was some purpose for it?

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grandpa_lash

@grandpa_lash (5225)

• Australia

1 Nov 08

I would initially want to go forward in time, and find an era when we have learned how to rejuvenate humans. Then I would spend several years learnign a whole batch of skills I don't now have, and memorising some important facts and figues (like the winners of all the major races in Australian racing history lol). Then I would like to go back to 1951 in Sydney, Australia, and use my knowledge of the races to make the money I need to set up a quiet utopian commune and co-operative industries and businesses, where I would train people in the skills I had learned and hopefully inspire them to creating an equally utopian society. I would keep them under the radar, place them in public service jobs, the military, universities, all forms of public life, and have them recruit new members until by 2000 there is a large core group of dedicated people of all age cohorts, some in positions of significant power and influence, with major financial and business resources and research facilities, and then come out of 'hiding' and set about creating my utopia. The 'under the radar' bit has two purposes, firstly not to affect the flow of time too directly, and secondly to avoid opposition as far as possible. One of my favourite fantasies. Lash

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