Do you believe there is a solution to the United States' financial situation?

[Wezil]

I guess you don't agree with me?

It was a x-post.

I was responding to Elok's despair.

[Agent Sox]

Oh, haha. Is that anything like an x-file?

[Elok]

I'm really not following you here. Do you mean that everything that happens is necessarily "for the best," a la Pangloss? Or might be? The Holocaust was the result of (among other things) the peculiar situation of European Jews, a warped understanding of Darwin, a pissed-off German public, and a worldwide economic depression. It was, in essence, the collision of a number of mostly unrelated causes.

EDIT: This is an X-Post. It's what you call it when someone posts between you and the person/post you're responding to (when you don't use quotes to make it clear).

[Agent Sox]

I just thought it was funny to mention Candide but no that's not really what I mean. I think that if in the future we discover how to change history why wouldn't we come back and get rid of something like the Holocaust?

[Wezil]

That's two threads now (that I know of).

Do you believe we have been visited by time travelers from the future?

[Agent Sox]

Well not "visited" exactly but I think if time travel is possible then just like land, sea, air, and space we would attempt to conquer it.

[Wezil]

That sounds like a dodge.

If not "visited" then what?

[Agent Sox]

You'd probably laugh at me if I told you what I really believed, haha. I try not to get worked up about this stuff but sometimes I get dragged into it.

[Elok]

Generations of science-fiction writers have come up with scads of reasons why time-travel might not be the best idea. They generally boil down to

1. Paradoxes
2. Other unintended consequences

Also, while I'm no physicist, the idea of time travel strikes me as nonsensical and I don't see why it should be possible in the first place.

[giblets]

I just thought it was funny to mention Candide but no that's not really what I mean. I think that if in the future we discover how to change history why wouldn't we come back and get rid of something like the Holocaust?

If the holocaust had never happened then we wouldn't think of going back to change it

[Wezil]

You'd probably laugh at me if I told you what I really believed, haha. I try not to get worked up about this stuff but sometimes I get dragged into it.

So it is a dodge?

Yes, if you say you believe in time travel (piecing threads together it seems you think future people have sent back tech?) I will drag you into it.

Next question will be your evidence to support such a theory. I know I will live to regret it but I will ask anyway.

[DinoDoc]

Generations of science-fiction writers have come up with scads of reasons why time-travel might not be the best idea. They generally boil down to

Headache inducing schlock?

[Elok]

Headache inducing schlock?

I didn't specify "good science fiction writers." And the very concept of time travel has big holes in it to begin with, so whaddaya expect?

[Agent Sox]

Whoa that's a lot to respond to. To me physics isn't really an issue because we don't have a good reason to believe the physics that exists now was the same in the past or will be the same in the future.

[Agent Sox]

So it is a dodge?

Yes, if you say you believe in time travel (piecing threads together it seems you think future people have sent back tech?) I will drag you into it.

Next question will be your evidence to support such a theory. I know I will live to regret it but I will ask anyway.

I don't think they necessarily gave tech to the past but that people from the future have fought wars through time and sometimes stuff gets left behind for us.