Serious What if...? - Time Travel was possible?

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TOPIC: Time travel is possible. Where are you going? Past or future?

TOPIC WARNINGS: None

 

[Nah]

I'm going back to sometime in the 1700's to try to set America on the right path instead instead of it being set up to be the absolute monster that is has been for the past 250 years

 

[Devalue]

Future. Worries about a medical condition acting up. Doubts any good treatments even 20 years ago.

 

[Alex_Among_Foxes]

Nowhere. Things would be no different for me no matter what era I'm in, so why bother? *Shrug*

 

[Sheep]

Past. I'd be too scared to go to the future, because if anything awful is occurring it'd impact my entire life knowing that and I'm not sure I'd survive mentally. I feel like sometime between the 1600s and 1700s?

 

[Cyddeon]

I'd go to the past, Would try making a difference to the "future" I already know

 

[𒈟Lavemu𒐫]

I would silently kill the person who started slavery, and if that doesn't work i'd silently kill everyone who steals people for slavery, By being completley secret and silent, i'll make them believe i'm some sort of ghost that takes the souls of those who partake in inslaving people, that way out of fear, no one inslaves people.

 

[Zeostar]

I'm probably going to use it so I can speak with my dad who passed away.

 

[Explorer of Time]

I already know most of what happened in the past, but nothing about the future. My first destination is to go as far in the future as I can until the history books stop being legible in 21st-century English, so I can get a better view of history and learn about all of the scientific advancements the present has yet to invent.

 

[Harmonie]

I'm a history nerd and a music history nerd so I always want to think about going back and seeing early music and classical music performed authentically on authentic instruments of the time. Alas, the reality that I'm a woman always hits me when thinking of such things. It would not be what it seems like in my fantasies. Not to forget that also a lot of classical music was performed in courts or in events only for royalty.

Going back in time but only experiencing it as invisible might be neat. Otherwise, I guess if I really wanted to I'd do what many women in the past did - I could pretend to be a man. I naturally (unfortunately) have a bit of a wide frame, so I'd just need to tie up my hair and use a binder and I'd probably pass pretty well. lol. But the risk of being found out would be awful.

Otherwise, I'd like to go back and see how religions started. I want to see if there actually was a figure that Jesus was based off of. I'd want to see how in the world the writers of the Bible thought he was resurrected or if they're just all straight-up dishonest (or I guess they could have been tripping lol). I'm curious. I also want to see the texts as they originally were, and lost apocrypha.

There are also things in my past I'd love to change. My decision for college (which breaks my heart to say, as I'm so glad I got to learn as I did and all of the experiences I had, but, I was not in the right frame of mind. I was not thinking about the future, and I had no idea what my future was going to be like. I frankly didn't think there was one, so I was going to school purely for learning), certain mistakes I made with an ex I really loved (but things probably'd still turn out the way they have, I suppose. We were becoming different people.), and a very personal family matter unrelated directly to me that I dearly wish could be prevented.

There are many things I don't think I have the power to change. Like my grandpa falling for prosperity gospel/faith healing nonsense and not taking care of himself when the time came, but I wish I could do that, too. Curse those vile ministries (who have also now practically taken over my country).