If you could time travel...

Started by Jolene August 19th, 2009 8:34 AM
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If you could time travel, where would you go and what would you do?

The only rule is that you can't change the world in a way that would result in you not travelling back in time to begin with.

Personally, I would round up all of the current religious leaders and take them back to the start of the world to prove to them that it wasn't made by any god. Then we'd return to the present time and use the evidence we saw as grounds to put an end to religion once and for all. That would end a lot of wars and suffering.

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Well, your thing easily tells you're an atheist.

Well,
Not that I really approve of time travel because you could EASILY screw up time,
I would go back to certain points to fix what I said.

Like things I said, did, for the better.
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Personally, I would round up all of the current religious leaders and take them back to the start of the world to prove to them that it wasn't made by any god. Then we'd return to the present time and use the evidence we saw as grounds to put an end to religion once and for all. That would end a lot of wars and suffering.
Very well said. I believe this is what I would do as well.

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If you could time travel, where would you go and what would you do?

The only rule is that you can't change the world in a way that would result in you not travelling back in time to begin with.

Personally, I would round up all of the current religious leaders and take them back to the start of the world to prove to them that it wasn't made by any god. Then we'd return to the present time and use the evidence we saw as grounds to put an end to religion once and for all. That would end a lot of wars and suffering.
That has to be the most naive thing I've ever read. Even if you were to show all the religious leaders the Big Bang occurring, they'll still say that it was God who made the matter that was expanded during the Big Bang. The thing about God is that by many people's definitions, he's invisible and acts in ways that are indistinguishable from natural processes. You can't disprove anything like that because it's simply not falsifiable. Science will never be able to disprove the existence of God because science is limited to what we are capable of observing, which God by definition is not.

And even if you were to end religion by that means, we'd still have just as many wars as we do now because that's not how history works. Religion isn't the reason for war, it'san excuse for it. If religion were gone, aggressive nations would just find another excuse, be it economics, security, ethnicity, or any number of other incentives.

As for the question, I wouldn't worry about preventing the existence of time travel because paradoxes by definition cannot exist. Any changes that anyone will make to the past have already happened, so there's no need to worry about preventing anyone from being born or anything like that. It's possible that certain things only happened because of time travelers, and we don't know it. I think I would go back to observe the first human flight in Kitty Hawk.
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Well, your thing easily tells you're an atheist.

Well,
Not that I really approve of time travel because you could EASILY screw up time,
I would go back to certain points to fix what I said.

Like things I said, did, for the better.
Well, when the dark ages put a giant hole in the advance of science, you can't help but feel angry. I disagree with your statement Jolene. First, you would die in the primordial Earth(not 6,000 years old!), and second of all, other people would make up religions, either by epiphany, deception(L. Ron Hubbard became famous and rich because of scientology.), or delusion.

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On a personal note, I'd go back to New Years 2004 to prevent my personal and family life from imploding in on itself.

For the lulzy answer that this thread was probably meant to bait in, I'd go 1889 Austria and Falcon Punch pregnant Klara Hitler in the stomach. >_>
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On a personal note, I'd go back to New Years 2004 to prevent my personal and family life from imploding in on itself.

For the lulzy answer that this thread was probably meant to bait in, I'd go 1889 Austria and Falcon Punch pregnant Klara Hitler in the stomach. >_>
And it turns out that you are the cause of hitler's evil! Time travel is confusing.

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Personally, I would round up all of the current religious leaders and take them back to the start of the world to prove to them that it wasn't made by any god. Then we'd return to the present time and use the evidence we saw as grounds to put an end to religion once and for all. That would end a lot of wars and suffering.
What if you got there and there was a God?
You would look like one hell of an idiot wouldn't you.

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No rule against going forward?

I'd go to the exact second Sarah Palin dies and rearrange her hands in an awkward position.
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Personally, I would round up all of the current religious leaders and take them back to the start of the world to prove to them that it wasn't made by any god. Then we'd return to the present time and use the evidence we saw as grounds to put an end to religion once and for all. That would end a lot of wars and suffering.
I agree with your intentions, just not how to go about it.


Religion, no matter how evil one may see it as, is a central piece of control in the modern and ancient world. Most humans pick their actions out of self interest, even if its just to make them self feel better. Order has been kept through control from government, religion, and a host of other things like a person's base beliefs as a whole. Religion should be taken out of the equation eventually, but in good time. Something sudden will likely cause lots of disruption in the world's order. People might lose their morals because they grew up with that religion telling that those were good because their God wanted it like that. They also might refuse the evidence and more violence could erupt. However much I'd prefer it not to be, its a major pillar of stability. It needs to be removed slowly.

Though is is from an American's point of view. I'm not sure how countries notably more liberal on the subject would react. Then there are all the extremist area throughout the world.

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Personally, I would round up all of the current religious leaders and take them back to the start of the world to prove to them that it wasn't made by any god. Then we'd return to the present time and use the evidence we saw as grounds to put an end to religion once and for all. That would end a lot of wars and suffering.
What if you got there and there was a God?
You would look like one hell of an idiot wouldn't you.

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Yeah, that is what I was thinking. Have you ever considered that YOU could also be the wrong one?

Jolene, I'd like you to read the post quoted below. It may help change your logicless sense of athiesm...
That has to be the most naive thing I've ever read. Even if you were to show all the religious leaders the Big Bang occurring, they'll still say that it was God who made the matter that was expanded during the Big Bang. The thing about God is that by many people's definitions, he's invisible and acts in ways that are indistinguishable from natural processes. You can't disprove anything like that because it's simply not falsifiable. Science will never be able to disprove the existence of God because science is limited to what we are capable of observing, which God by definition is not.

And even if you were to end religion by that means, we'd still have just as many wars as we do now because that's not how history works. Religion isn't the reason for war, it'san excuse for it. If religion were gone, aggressive nations would just find another excuse, be it economics, security, ethnicity, or any number of other incentives.

And as for this topic, I would do a lot of things or change a lot of things if I could go to the past of future.
I would specially correct a lot of mistakes that I did in my life in the past, or things wrong in the world itself in the past could be fixed.
And as for future, I would find out the answers and solutions to a lot of questions and problems.

For now only, I think I would just go to the past and change something related to technology that got me into a huge mess in my past life, and another one would be the last exam of mine that went by, and work hard and improve the results.
In the future, I would find out if I ever got a job, if I ever got married, and how and when did I die, and what will cause the end of this world.

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I dunno what I'd do. I don't have any major interest in seeing the past. Reading about it is fun but the most interesting things are all plagues and wars and whatnot--and I'm not entirely keen on heading back into the centre of any of that. XD;
I would go back to 1995 or so after looking up the winning lottery ticket numbers. After winning the lottery I would use my knowledge of the future and the money I won to bet and play the stock market.
:( Except your ID would show you were like 6 years old and they wouldn't sell you any tickets... and anyone you tried to convince to do it for you would just keep the money to themselves, lol.


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