I wouldn't touch a thing. I mean, we as people are a.ssholes. We screw stuff up and then want to fix it. It's the whole "f.uck you!... I'm so sorry!". If someone was genius enough to invent a machine where you could go back in time and change something so you're future is better, we'd want to do it all the time you spill a glass of water, don't clean it up! just go back three seconds ago and prevent it from spilling! We'd fix certain wars, certain deaths and then when they f.uck up the future over time we'll just go to the past and fix those too. Why does everything have to be f.ucking pleasentville? The only thing I'd use the time machine for is to go back in time and knock the guy who's making the time machine unconscious.
Leave things alone.
-MD
Yes, I did. And obviously you didn't understand the concept of both stories. Both time travellers tried to rectify their mistakes after learning to fix their prior mistakes was a mistake in its own rite, and they tried not to make the same mistake again. That's why in both movies, they came to the conclusion that they were the cause of the mistake and took themselves out of the equation, thus not making the same mistake twice.
Travelling back in time and changing somthing, doesnt just change the ultimate outcome, it changes everything from that point on. Let's say you travelled back in time with no intentions to change anything, but you bumped into a table and knocked a glass over that broke. This could change the present day as we know it. Chaos theory. Anone ever read the story about the guy who travelled back in time and stepped on a butterfly, and it changed all of existence? the ray bradbury book, that was tunrned into a shitty film "a sound of thunder"
This is where the theory of alternate realities plays out. For every action there is an opposite reaction. For every thought we don't do it's played out in an alternate reality. And who says that changing the past will lead to an even bleaker future? It could turn out the opposite. You could make things a hellva a lot better. But of course, not everyone will be happy, so it's a Catch-22 situation.
Re: Re: If you could go back in time to fix all the wrongs, would you?
Originally posted by WindDancer
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.
There was a film or book where a person went back in time to save Lincon, and sparked of the events that caused his assassaination.
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To be honest, the only thing I might change would be the speed at which science progressed. I would like to bring back textbooks and proven experiments to show scientists why and how things happen so we could be a lot farther along.
Kind of like in the Justice League where Vandal Savage brings the laptop to Germany during WWII and Germany is unstoppable, only without the evil intent.
Originally posted by Reborn Again
Yes, I did. And obviously you didn't understand the concept of both stories. Both time travellers tried to rectify their mistakes after learning to fix their prior mistakes was a mistake in its own rite, and they tried not to make the same mistake again. That's why in both movies, they came to the conclusion that they were the cause of the mistake and took themselves out of the equation, thus not making the same mistake twice.
Yes but if they would have left well enough alone, they wouldn't have screwed things up to begin with. Well that's just my opinion, and you don't have to believe it. 🙂
Originally posted by The OmegaOn a similar note. Earlier in his reign, Hitler was regarded as the best leader Germany had ever had, as he brought us out of the depression. Supposing he had been shot before then. This would mean that WWII never happened, and that Hitler was remembered as a great man. Then, suposing someone went back into time and stopped the assasination. *poof* They return back and millions of people have disappeared.
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.