What if you had the ability to gaze into the past...
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This. Surprised it took it this long for that to be posted. If we knew, it could make some things so much easier.omicron1 said:
If he wasn't, then millions of lives lost in the past/present/future would've been for nothing, no one can use it as a method of manipulation or justification, just helping stuff get sorted out. Kinda sucks that there will be no afterlife, but at least people won't be threatening people in the name of a now-proven invisible non-existent man in the sky that pulls the strings.
If he was, well shit I guess they were right.
Well, I guess the other answer to this would be to go to the absolute beginning week of creation. If we had balls of gas floating in space and maybe Earth not even existing vs animals and man prancing around in a fully-formed Garden of Eden (since it DID take 7 days for God to create everything, 1 week would be perfect to fully see if that really was how it happened if at all).
Two problemsRaggedstar said:
First of all, who the hell will believe you? Admittedly, it would be nice to confirm the matter to one's own satisfaction, but the only ones who will fall behind whatever you claim are the more delusional members who already believe it.
Secondly, religions are here to stay, even in the event that you manage to conclusively prove one is false, more will take its place.
Man, ninja'd. Yeah 15 BYA and see how many theories you can prove/disprove. Go contribution to modern science!Rhymer said:
I'm tempted to say a war, but I wouldn't be able to stomach all that death. I dunno, there's not much in history that lasts about a week and doesn't involve grisly death. The first Olympic games I guess, although that did involve a copious amount of oily exposed man-weiner. Greeks, huh?
I'd use it to see all the times my ex cheated and or lied to me. There are a lot of unanswered questions that I'll never get a truthful answer to. I just really want to know where, when, and why she did those things, and what exactly I did to make her do them.
I like this question but I feel like I'd end up holding onto the power for quite a while. I'd probably end up using it on something in my own life eventually because I feel you'd need to at least know the date and general area you want to visit but I guess it depends on your interpretation of the ability (I kind view it as theater mode in Halo, only without a rewind or a record function). I just see it being hard to visit the beginning of time since it would be hard to gauge exactly when something like that was, down to a week. Whatever I end up looking at, it will probably be more for the sake of nostalgia than for any particular insight, after all, learning some great secret and never being able to get people to believe you would almost be too aggravating to even bother knowing in the first place.
Bingo. This.Right Hook said:
I ... I really don't have any particular interest in reviewing the past. Everything that I want to know about, I already know about. I really don't care whether it was Brutus who struck the final blow; or if Joan of Arc really could choose the future king out of a crowded room of strangers; or if Hitler really did die in the bunker or escaped to Argentina. Although I am interested in the past, it seems ... well ... it seems like a waste of such a gift.
I'd rather give it to someone else who does have some pressing need or obsession to view a particular week in history.
((Now, if you gave me the same power but for a certain week in the future .... that I would take. If we have any ability to interact with this future world (rather than simply ghostly/non-corporeal observer) I'd simply go year or two into the future, and go Marty McFly / Sports Almanac on the Internet and rig the biggest lotto in the next 12 months, whilst figuring which companies will provide me the best ROI in that time.))
I'd take a look at some point in my past, too see what I was like as a kid to other people. The person we are to other people, who don't know what we're thinking and have different values than we do, is very different from the person we are to ourselves.
The watching the birth of the universe and watching the Roswell crash came to mind, but other people already suggested that. Maybe watching some famous scientist make his great discovery... Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Isaac Newton... so many people to choose form. But who shall I pick?SckizoBoy said:You've had a few responses now, what's your pick?!