You could go back in time and change something?
At any point in time in the entire universe.

What would you change?

nothing. There is enough chaos and problems in this world already, how would you know if what you changed made things better or worse? No, I wouldn't change a thing, too much risk of something worse happening...

The dinner which Franz Boas died at. Apparently his last words before dying were that he had a new idea about race. I would *really* wanna learn what he was thinking about just before his death.

Originally Posted by Syraannabelle

nothing. There is enough chaos and problems in this world already, how would you know if what you changed made things better or worse? No, I wouldn't change a thing, too much risk of something worse happening...

I agree. The only thing I would even consider changing is allowing people to change the past if I could stop them from being able to do it.

Maybe not to change something, but I would like to go back in time to meet Bela Lugosi or Vincent Price.

I would go back in time and teach the early civilizations about our technology so that we'd have more advanced technology today.

I think the concept of it being too risky to change anything is a bit... Back to the Future-ish. :roll: :lol: :P

I do agree that changing anything could have serious repercussions on our modern world, but... To our knowledge, nothing throughout time has been altered. So how can we speculate? ;) (I say "to our knowledge," because - do we really know? would we ever know? hardly possible to gauge something like that!)

Anyway, I'd use time travel in a purely self-indulgent way. I'd go back to meet Marie Antoinette, save her and her family, and maybe spend a nice summer with them somewhere in the Alps, or... somewhere.

I'd also go back to meet a bunch of other people, and change their lives here or there, in significantly-insignificant ways. Mostly just to continue the self-indulgence, though. :lol:

I would want to make it so I was born seven years earlier, so I could be with the one I love. It's not going to work unless I'm older or he's younger. I would want to make it so the pain I've caused him is better. It's hard knowing I'll never be with him, except in my dreams.

Originally Posted by Princess Cupcake

I would want to make it so I was born seven years earlier, so I could be with the one I love. It's not going to work unless I'm older or he's younger. I would want to make it so the pain I've caused him is better. It's hard knowing I'll never be with him, except in my dreams.

Oh, god.
I know what you mean with problems like that.
I would do the same, now you bring it up.

A seven year age gap is acceptable when you get older, past your teens (assuming you're in your teens). It's just difficult to wait that long.

Well if it was possible to make everything peaceful and make people stop fighting than that would be awesome. That would take changing a lot of things including human nature so that would never be possible. I also would like to change it so people live a more naturalistic way of life and stop destroying the earth. Again, that would take changing a lot of things. Other than that there really is not anything I would change.

I would go back in time and prevent Christianity from happening. I would be interested to see what an extra 1000+ years of technological evolution would look like. Also very curious as to what would pop up in it's place, hopefully nothing similar because it would defeat the purpose.

I already did. I was curious to see how Stonehenge was built so I went there and boy, I'll tell ya, I was so surprised when they brought out that large *falls over in a coughing fit and proceeds to lose her voice*.


In seriousness though, I wouldn't change anything. There are a lot of things that I wish I could change (Holocaust), but I think that the lessons we have learned from some of the more terrible things in history are worth knowing. Otherwise, they will just happen again.

Heath Ledger. 'nuff said.

Well, if we're trying not to change anything at all, and I could be like, invisible, I'd want to go back and watch the battle of Thermopylae. It'd be a terrifying experience, but it would definitely help me learn about the world, and war, and the like. Not to mention it's the most interesting historical thing ever. Maybe I'd go talk to Herodotus a couple years later.

If we're changing stuff... I have no idea. Maybe something huge, just to see what happens. I think Dr. Nyx is onto something interesting. Or maybe like, go back to China and not disband Xeng He's fleet, see if China would become the center of our modern culture instead of Europe. Fascinating. =D

To go back in time... it'snot really all that great. I wouldn't want to change time, time changesitself and needs no help from us to go changing things in its time frame. So why would people want to change anything, 'sides why go back in time to change something when you can change it right then and there?

Originally Posted by Syraannabelle

nothing. There is enough chaos and problems in this world already, how would you know if what you changed made things better or worse? No, I wouldn't change a thing, too much risk of something worse happening...

Well, this isn't something we can seriously do, so what I meant by it was what would you change if you knew that it would be for the better? Without the complicated consequences of time travel.

I came up with this thread 'cause I was revising history and looking at all the bad stuff that happened.

But, Nissa has a point in that if things were changed the likelihood of them simply happening again/instead at another point in time is high. Then again, in all honesty I don't think that people learn much from history. I'm pretty sure that past mistakes have been repeated.

@Dr. Nyx: I had an idea similar... although, just Christianity? To stop it all surely we'd have to go back all the way to Abraham and stop the Jews, first.

It would be interesting to see if another religion took over the majority of the world.
Hm.

Originally Posted by Detrunorm

Oh, god.
I know what you mean with problems like that.
I would do the same, now you bring it up.

A seven year age gap is acceptable when you get older, past your teens (assuming you're in your teens). It's just difficult to wait that long.

Yeah. And it hurts because when trying to hurt him, I ultimately destroyed my own heart. I didn't want to, but.. -sigh- I couldn't go on with that when my mother was breathing down my neck all the time.

I would change a radical decision I once made in the past.

I would have held my tongue at one of my friends... what I said was so dumb our whole relationship crumbled.

Detrunorm, I think she's saying Christianity because of how much it dragged back Europe.

@Detrunorm: I suppose that would be part of taking the whole thing down. I just sort of toss anything needed to complete the deed all together.

@Hermes: That was part of the reason, but there is a lot of reasons for that particular one. Set backs in scientific progress mostly. Then my personal thinking it set back moral, social, and spiritual progress.

Europe is such an odd place to study culturally.
I always like to wonder where China would be in the modern world if it hadn't closed it's borders so long ago.

I think I'd like to go back in time and kill the very first patriachlists so patriarchy never happened.

Whoa, step back, explain. Isn't patriarchy more of a general societal thing than a specific event in history?

I would go back to the time when hitler ruled and successfully assassinate him. o,..,o