You can go back in time, what would you do?
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As a historian, with an interest in public discourse, mentality and nationalism, I'd probably take a peek in the 19th century.
One reason for this is that, with the knowledge and skills I have now, fitting in will be less troublesome.
As for a silly suggestion: I would go back in time to make sure that people in the future will understand that human society evolves (Metamorphoses) instead of progresses (which implies a future, final state of humanity which simply does not exist), so that people will finally stop using fallacious ideas of historical development.
One reason for this is that, with the knowledge and skills I have now, fitting in will be less troublesome.
As for a silly suggestion: I would go back in time to make sure that people in the future will understand that human society evolves (Metamorphoses) instead of progresses (which implies a future, final state of humanity which simply does not exist), so that people will finally stop using fallacious ideas of historical development.
I would go back and prevent anyone from building a time machine. Nothing good ever comes from time travel.
I would force my parents to move to Latvia before i was born...
Long distance relationships suck, but i love this girl so much i can't imagine losing her. it would just be so much easier if i lived closer to her
Long distance relationships suck, but i love this girl so much i can't imagine losing her. it would just be so much easier if i lived closer to her
It would be worth it. Pink Floyd blew my mind.Betancore said:
I'd go back and tape a load of missing, presumed wiped shows from TV, then blackmail the BBC into giving me a part in a TV show (preferably Doctor who, or something like that,) and then enjoy spoils.
Also get me a winning lottery ticket. That'd be great.
You from Liverpool?Nickolai77 said:
My grandma was a dancer in 1930's Berlin. The stories she's told me about the fun, the excitement but also the fear and uneasiness with Hitler coming into power makes me absolutely want to go there and experience it all. Or 1930's Harlem to go swing dancing. Men looked good back in the day.
Apart from that I'd probably want to go see Rome during its heyday, for the architecture, and probably ancient China and Japan.
To those who said "kill Jesus": It would be a lot simpler, and a lot more fun to go back in time to the Battle of Milivian Bridge and arm Emperor Maxmillian's army with machine guns, so they defeat the army of Constantine, the Emperor who would convert the empire to Christianity.
I wouldn't kill Jesus personally, i'm not that much of an anti-thiest, but i would go to meet the man himself. And then record my meeting with Jesus and the absence of miracles and preserve it to history. That should cause a few headaches.
My grandmother worked in the post office and was dating my grandfarther during the war. She has a few stories about the blitz, one of the most...alarming i should say, is when their relatives house took a direct hit from a bomb, and blasted my great-uncle Bobby, who was in the bathroom at the time, out of the window and onto the cabbage patch above the Anderson shelter. He got away unscratched by some miracle, but of course the house was less lucky.
I wouldn't kill Jesus personally, i'm not that much of an anti-thiest, but i would go to meet the man himself. And then record my meeting with Jesus and the absence of miracles and preserve it to history. That should cause a few headaches.
This is maybe one of my favourite sugggestions so far.HerrBobo said:
I'm from the Wirral, to be exact, what about you?lettucethesallad said:
My grandmother worked in the post office and was dating my grandfarther during the war. She has a few stories about the blitz, one of the most...alarming i should say, is when their relatives house took a direct hit from a bomb, and blasted my great-uncle Bobby, who was in the bathroom at the time, out of the window and onto the cabbage patch above the Anderson shelter. He got away unscratched by some miracle, but of course the house was less lucky.
This, this - a hundred times this!J03bot said:
That and check the lottery numbers for mega rollover jackpots every few years or so, so I can maintain a damned fine lifestyle as 'The Luckiest Man on Earth!'
Nickolai77 said:
I'm Swedish, but I used to live in Liverpool, always found the WW2 stories with the blitzing really interesting. My grandma dated a German pacifist who was trying to avoid the draft by hiding, but was found by the Gestapo a week before they were going to elope to Canada and get married. Such sad stuff. She did see Hitler at one point in a parade and described him as 'short and ugly'.
Wow, that story about your great-uncle's so funky. Statistical improbabilities like that are totally weird.
