Poll: You're given a two-way trip back in time to change one thing. You...?

[Adzma]

Simple enough scenario. So omnipotent force X gives you the option of taking a two-way trip to any point and location in the past you desire. You're able to retain all of your current memories plus the new ones you inherit for the altered timeline. My question is do you choose to selfishly change an event from your own past, or alter Earth's history for better or worse?

I myself realise that the world is fucked anyway and going to run itself into the ground within the next few decades at best and would opt for the former option selfishly returning to when I was fifteen to act on something I chose not to and have since regretted every day of my life afterwards.

But hey, maybe you're all better people than I.

 

[Mr. Grey]

I'd not change anything, why? Because that's bad juju, man. Real bad.

Unless I get a reset option, I'm not changing anything.

 

[Pielikey]

Well I would stop myself from throwing a stick of lead in the air only for it to smash through the skylight of my neighbor's car, ruining our friendship.

 

[arc101]

You cannot change the past, it all fits together like one big jigsaw. If you go back in time and kill your father, you will not end existence, because that event would have lead to your timeline anyway. Unlike is often thought, time is perfectly linear, you cannot create other paths and outcomes by changing the past, so Ray Bradury and all the doctor who writers are wrong. Sorry.
In conclusion, time cannot be changed any action that you make in the past has already been made when you are born, your action created the time line you live on.

OT: I'd kill Harvey Lee oswald

 

[Adzma]

You cannot change the past, it all fits together like one big jigsaw. If you go back in time and kill your father, you will not end existence, because that event would have lead to your timeline anyway. Unlike is often thought, time is perfectly linear, you cannot create other paths and outcomes by changing the past, so Ray Bradury and all the doctor who writers are wrong. Sorry.
In conclusion, time cannot be changed any action that you make in the past has already been made when you are born, your action created the time line you live on.

OT: I'd kill Harvey Lee oswald

You brightened my day good sir. Kudos for that laugh.

 

[Cargando]

Somehow prevent my birth. Just to see what happens.

 

[Kajt]

I'd go back in time to save a certain family member's life.

 

[Emilin_Rose]

I'd buy a winning lottery ticket and get rich, so hopefully i can keep my mother from moving us into this stinkhole relatively halfway between nowhere and narnia.

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

Stop myself from getting married...

 

[teisjm]

I'd find the biggest (as in bigge$t price) lottery i would be able to acces, find the wining numbers, go back in time and participate, and ther eyou go, i'm a billionair or something, mayeb even check which stocks sky-rocketed shortly after, so i could (whil estill in the past) invest the money and get a big-ass payout, so i had even more money.

Then i would go back to the rpesent and use the money to live happily ever after, and do something good for the world as well.

 

[Caliostro]

You cannot change the past, it all fits together like one big jigsaw. If you go back in time and kill your father, you will not end existence, because that event would have lead to your timeline anyway. Unlike is often thought, time is perfectly linear, you cannot create other paths and outcomes by changing the past,

That's assuming a different model of time traveling. Honestly time traveling itself seems impossible, and I hope it is.

BUT, assuming it was for the sake of this thread, I'd just go back, take a spy-filming camera and show everybody how they wrote the first bible. The end of religion would usher in a new renaissance.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

I would go back and do the whole back to the future thing with the gambling to make loads of money. then i would put it in the bank to make a fuckton on interest so when i go back to the present i have even more money

 

[Flishiz]

On monday of this wekk, I would go back in time to withdraw my entire savings and invest in AMD stock. After the announcement of the 1.25B settlement from Intel, the stock rose 25%. Following a few days of relative climb, I'd sell. Then I'd return to the present day, and use my heaps of money to pay for college.

 

[ReincarnatedFTP]

I'd go back in time somewhere between 6th and 12th grade (provided that by time travel we mean I go to my physical form at the time but with my current knowledge) and change a couple of things.

Not that it's been overwhelmingly bad but I've made mistakes here and there and there's no point in going back in time just to let everything play out the exact same way over again.

And I guess the trip back would be in case I badly screwed up in the "second life".

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

I'd follow myself around, and direct me from making fuck-stupid mistakes.

 

[Adzma]

And here I was thinking I was the only selfish bastard on the planet.

 

[neznajko]

I would go back in 2004 and invent an online magazine covering video games, gamers, the gaming industry, and gaming culture. I would call it "The Escapist". Then, I'd be rich! Wait, what? It's already been done. Noooooo!!!

 

[wooty]

You cannot change the past, it all fits together like one big jigsaw. If you go back in time and kill your father, you will not end existence, because that event would have lead to your timeline anyway. Unlike is often thought, time is perfectly linear, you cannot create other paths and outcomes by changing the past, so Ray Bradury and all the doctor who writers are wrong. Sorry.
In conclusion, time cannot be changed any action that you make in the past has already been made when you are born, your action created the time line you live on.

OT: I'd kill Harvey Lee oswald

You brightened my day good sir. Kudos for that laugh.

Have you not seen Red Dwarf, that could be disasterous!

OT: I'd probably go back to being 14 and start getting fitter from that point, rather than wait until 18