If you could go back in time to fix all the wrongs, would you?

I'm pretty much talking about 'The Butterfly Effect' thingy here, you have blackouts when your a kid so you write everything down in journels then reliese you can go back in time to fix the wrongs, would you?

I would.

Like in Quantum Leap? Yeah

No. I wouldn’t. I’m who I am today because of my past, despite my past or whatever wording you like.

NO I wouldnt

nope

Originally posted by BlackC@t
I'm pretty much talking about 'The Butterfly Effect' thingy here, you have blackouts when your a kid so you write everything down in journels then reliese you can go back in time to fix the wrongs, would you?

I would.

Well, I hated the movie because it was just another clone of time travelling storylines. And Ashton Kutcher can't act. 😛

Anyways, I would travel in time. Try to change the events? Maybe, but if I had the power I would stop certain assasinations of the past. Ghandi, MLK, JFK, Lincoln, The PM of Israel (forgot his name), Fedinand, Zapata, Romero.

WindDancer> (As far as I interpreted the answer it was changes in my OWN past).

But you would change things in the past. How do you know it would change anything for the better?

I don't think it would save the World. But for me those men didn't deserve to be assasinated. There are others, but those are the only ones I can think of right now.

if you could go back, theoretically speaking-then you will have learn nothing to benefit your future...we are the sum of our past good or bad, that sets our path towards the unknown future....changing our past just changes what and who we are and our reality...

Nope, i would not.

I would save Lee Harver Oswald and question him so I could find out the real killer of JFK, BTW..........It's the mafia who dunnit

Originally posted by Fëanor
if you could go back, theoretically speaking-then you will have learn nothing to benefit your future...we are the sum of our past good or bad, that sets our path towards the unknown future....changing our past just changes what and who we are and our reality...

My thoughts are that if the future hasn't happen it could be manipulate it. But then that's a lot of time traveling ideas. 😖

There's people I'd stop from being killed or perhaps getting into events that would lead to their death. I'd also go and kill some people who should be dead.

I'd have Lee Harvey Oswald sitting in Kennedy's car so that when he gets shot LHO can stand up and shout "I TOLD YOU ****S IT WASN'T ME!"

-AC

No, I wouldn't. There are a shitload of things that nobody is happy about having happened, but every event, good or bad, adds up to create the present. No, JFK didn't deserve to be shot, but I believe that what happened happened and shouldn't have happened any other way.

I’m with Darth here. What we are, you and me, and how the world looks today, is the result of what has happened in the past.
There’s the usual question: Would you shoot the young Adolf Hitler before he attained power in Germany?
Would that be killing an innocent? Could you be sure there wouldn’t just be ANOTHER lunatic instead of Hitler?
History is not made up of separate events that are not interrelated. If LHO had been prevented from assassinating JFK, perhaps another attempt would’ve succeeded a week later.

Yes, I’m opposed to the “Great Men” approach to history, which basically claims that history are created by a few singular individuals. It’s all connected.

Agreed.

The theory is that everything is connected. You mentioned the butterfly Effect, and yeah the flap of its wings could be related to a tornado on the other side of the world, or some guy being shot somewhere.

I wouldn't change anything...

Isn't that chaos theory? 😕

Yeah 😑

Oh poo, i missed out chaos before theory....damn it 😑

If by stopping the assasinations of these great men would not change the course of history.....well, I guess there is no point in saving them.......guess what? I STILL would try to stop those assasinations from happening. Oh! and also I would also stop the assasinations of some great women......just to show I'm not sexist. 🙄

i wouldnt, ive learned alot from my mistakes