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Originally posted by Sandman
I'd definitely go for the far future first.
I'd definitely go for the far future first.
edit: eugh,seems i didn't notice there was a second page to this thread and that this witty reply was allready made
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If there is any
edit: eugh,seems i didn't notice there was a second page to this thread and that this witty reply was allready made
Last edited by alva; September 15, 2002, 11:55.Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
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The classical world...
The glory of Rome at it's zenith...
I would want to meet Julius Caesar...
I would have to see Cleopatra for myself!
Then off to meet Disraeli at the height of the British Empire.
Maybe to say hello to Lincoln.
I would want to meet Ramesses II.
Perhaps Hitler and Stalin...
I'm sure these historical figures are different from what we have came to accept from the past accounts...
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Me tooOriginally posted by curtsibling
I would have to see Cleopatra for myself!
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No, we should bring past leaders to the present and make them have a hockey game. Imagine Ghandi checking Khan, or Franklin blocking a shot by Xerses.
Now, go join CFC.Le Républicain CatholiqueComment
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I'd go back to like 1982 and invest heavily in microsoft (problem is, I wasn't born at the time but maybe I'd tell me parents to invest heavily in it). I really like that one idea with the music. But I'd elaborate on it more. You see, what if you did that and some guy got ideas from that and changed the course music totally. What I'd do is go like a couple hours before Mozart died and play for him and give him a summary of what happens in music from where he died til now. I'd bring him classic records and hits. I'd also like to kind of do the same thing for a world leader. A couple of hours before Jefferson died, I'd give him a summary of what happened in history til now. I'd do this just to see their reactions, and maybe they'd be happy to see how much they influenced the world."The first man who, having fenced off a plot of land, thought of saying, 'This is mine' and found people simple enough to believe him was the real founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, how many miseries and horrors might the human race had been spared by the one who, upon pulling up the stakes or filling in the ditch, had shouted to his fellow men: 'Beware of listening to this imposter; you are lost if you forget the fruits of the earth belong to all and that the earth belongs to no one." - Jean-Jacques RousseauComment
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He will die/had died a couple of hours earlier.What I'd do is go like a couple hours before Mozart died and play for him and give him a summary of what happens in music from where he died til now
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I would probably not go back in time too far for fear of ruining the timeline... but I would definitely do something greedy like invest in Microsoft in the early 80's. hahaha
Perhaps I'd go back in time and murder a few important people and see what happens. I'd take out Mohammed and Constantine just too see the effect on today's religions.To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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See the Great Library of Alexandria...
Watch the various great wonders being built (the Pyramids and so forth).
Watch the great revolutions of history (the English Peasant Revolt of 1381, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Mexican Revolution, the Spanish Revolution, etc.).
See the dinosaurs..
Meet some of the more interesting scientific figures of history (for instance, DesCartes, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, LaGrange, Hamilton, Gauss, Einstein, Dirac, Feynman, and Darwin).
Meet the important philosophical (Bakunin, Kropotkin, Goldman, Marx, Franklin, Locke, Smith, etc., etc.), and religious figures (i.e. Jesus and Buddha, if they existed) of history."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
-BokononComment
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Everything said here and...
The evolution of civilizarion. Basically I'd go back to Sumer or something and watch for a little while, jump a few decades, watch some more, jump again, etc...
and...
The asteroid that took out the dinosaurs... from several million miles away. Think of how awesome that would look!
But... There are two things that people look for the most when determining the attractiveness of another person. Youth and health...
All of the great beauties from history might be far less attractive now than they were then.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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ther is a story in my high school literature book about a group of hunters going back in time to hunt a T-rex and one person steps on a early butterfly that changes the outcome of a presidential election in the 2050's
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I'd go back a few weeks before 9/11 and similar disasters, and warn the appropriate people ahead of time...
I'd probably be detained and questioned...but hey, i suppose it's worth it."Chegitz, still angry about the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991?
You provide no source. You PROVIDE NOTHING! And yet you want to destroy capitalism.. you criminal..." - Fez
"I was hoping for a Communist utopia that would last forever." - Imran SiddiquiComment
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It wouldn't work.Originally posted by orange
I'd go back a few weeks before 9/11 and similar disasters, and warn the appropriate people ahead of time...I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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1475 A.D., or so. Renaissance era.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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it sure as hell wouldOriginally posted by DinoDoc
It wouldn't work."Chegitz, still angry about the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991?
You provide no source. You PROVIDE NOTHING! And yet you want to destroy capitalism.. you criminal..." - Fez
"I was hoping for a Communist utopia that would last forever." - Imran SiddiquiComment
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I'd like to see the renaissance levvant, circa 1440. Venice, safeguard of the west; Byzantium, perhaps, to see the memory of what once was; adrianople, for the ottoman capital. Florence, Grenada, as well.
Rome at its height, during the empire, when it had over 1 million inhabitants. Go over to the library as well.
I'd like to see constantinople and the hippodromes of empress theodora.
Perhaps the civil war, although only to cheer as the south is crushed in a bloody pulp.Comment
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