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Would you do it?
Yes! 56%  56%  [ 14 ]
No!! ! 28%  28%  [ 7 ]
I'm on the line... are you sure I can't make shifty bets? 12%  12%  [ 3 ]
I've got some other condition... (explain) 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
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15 Oct 2009, 12:10 pm

I wish I could go back in time. I would go back twenty years when I left my job and moved into my present house.



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15 Oct 2009, 7:24 pm

Willard wrote:
I don't think I'd attempt to change anything - as has been pointed out, any alteration in the past would disrupt everything that followed and change the future as well, not necessarily for the better. I know we're just talking fantasy, but even in fantasy, some rules must apply.

Truth be told, there are some moments I'd like to relive, knowing what I know now, in the sense that rather than trying to alter them, I'd like the opportunity to relish them, as they were so fleeting in the moment and I didn't know how important they were going to be to me until much later.

Many of them are now so bittersweet, I know they would break my heart all over again, this time for myriad and quite different reasons. Still, how wonderful it would be to stand in those moments one more time - the touches, the sounds, the smells, the people. To embrace them, knowing how special they are - not just at that instant, but forever.

Even the emotional wounds and all the accompanying suffering would all be worth it, perhaps because knowing what I know now, I understand WHY those moments HAD to be the way they were.


Well said, my brother! As has been pointed out, one of the major issues involved in such a fantasy is having to deal with people at a lower maturity level, while you are at your current maturity level. That would be the one issue that would give me pause in making this decision. On the other hand, knowing that certain experiences will be prized above most others in your life, you will truly be able to appreciate them for what they're worth.

It would certainly not be simply a struggle among "peers" if I were to broach the subject of the intellectual abuse I endured in my childhood. I would have to fight, tooth and nail, for any moral ground I could gain. That is a struggle that I am willing to fight for, now. Maybe I wasn't, then, but I certainly am now. That is the main reason I voted "Yes!"



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15 Oct 2009, 7:43 pm

YES definitely. If I could go back and change NOT being suspended from College I would perhaps go back to Fall 2004 before I had that Psychology teacher. I also had a major surgery and thought what if I never had it done. :-) LOL!



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15 Oct 2009, 9:21 pm

X_Parasite wrote:
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Plus, it would be kind of nice to know Calculus as a seven year old.

Your knowledge would be too advanced, and you would be pressured into skipping grades, separating you from your peers.

Seriously, though, no shifty bets?

You forget, I can always hide what I do know, and build on what I don't. The entire point would be to hide what I do know, and use it as a private time to build onto my existing knowledge.



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15 Oct 2009, 11:17 pm

Would you also build a secret laboratory behind a bookcase in your bedroom?



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16 Oct 2009, 1:15 am

CerebralDreamer wrote:
X_Parasite wrote:
CerebralDreamer wrote:
Plus, it would be kind of nice to know Calculus as a seven year old.

Your knowledge would be too advanced, and you would be pressured into skipping grades, separating you from your peers.

Seriously, though, no shifty bets?

You forget, I can always hide what I do know, and build on what I don't. The entire point would be to hide what I do know, and use it as a private time to build onto my existing knowledge.




The ironic thing is that I WAS doing calculus at age 7!

I was very weird



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16 Oct 2009, 8:27 pm

X_Parasite wrote:
Would you also build a secret laboratory behind a bookcase in your bedroom?



8O :evil: How did you know about that? Are you a super-villain?



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16 Oct 2009, 9:37 pm

I'd do it. Go back to when I'm eight years old, and try to save my family from the men my mom gullibly married. Being eight with an adult's mind would be scary, and I'd have to re-live some... interesting... times, but the chance to prevent that stuff would be something I couldn't pass up.

A time-traveling me would be somewhat doomed, though. I don't think I could pass up the chance to try to prevent the big disasters I've lived through, and I'm pretty sure I would end up in a sticky situation I couldn't get myself out of, like the aftermath of calling in a bomb threat to the World Trade Center, only to have the empty buildings hit by planes... yeah, I can't think of any other reliable way to keep the death toll down 'cause I'm not James Bond... James Bond would probably go back in time, assassinate the hijackers, fly the last plane (which of course he had to re-take while in flight 'cause he's just cool like that), pass dramatically close to the towers while struggling for a weapon, land safely, and disembark while kissing a pretty female passenger... I'm also pretty sure there would probably be laser beams involved, because that's a requirement.

...sorry. Daydream. Come on, though, wouldn't that have been cool?


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16 Oct 2009, 9:42 pm

I'd go back in time if, and only if, I could be accompanied by The Doctor, in David Tennant form.

:D



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16 Oct 2009, 9:56 pm

Willard wrote:
X_Parasite wrote:
Would you also build a secret laboratory behind a bookcase in your bedroom?



8O :evil: How did you know about that? Are you a super-villain?

Yes.


elderwanda wrote:
I'd go back in time if, and only if, I could be accompanied by The Doctor, in David Tennant form.

:D

It has to be Tennant? I wouldn't have any problem with going with the Eccleston Doctor... Or what about Matt Smith?
Of course, if he (in any form) starts randomly saying "bananas are good", then we have a problem.



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17 Oct 2009, 1:43 am

There is disagreement with the metaphysics and 'rules' that would or would not apply to going back in time.

I think the real question may simply be;

'Would you want to go back and take another shot at life with the knowledge that you NOW have'.

My answer to this question (ignoring the metaphysics, mine and every other poster's) is YES.

My answer to the actual thread question (due to my opinion on the metaphysics) is NO which is how I voted.