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If you had the ability to travel through time, would you go to the past or the future and what would be your reason?
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thats a really good question! so many things i would like to see from the past, might see my ancestors as i would like to know more about them. i think i would go to the future although it could be quite scary as i dont know what state our planet will be in. perhaps we wont even be here anymore.
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first of all a very nice question after all that stupid ones.. . i would obviously go back in time. not just 2-3 thousand years back but millions or billions of years. i m very curious to know about the creation of universe. All this stars, sun, our own solar system how the hell it was created?? how the hell we end up here on earth and not other planet?? how old our planet is? there are so many things i would like to know so back in time
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I would like to go forward about 2000-2500 years. . . I figure all of today's social taboos and petty wars would be gone. . . Various pollution issues would be resolved or else humanity would have had enough time to die off to less population and would be on a much slower growth.. . While I doubt the physics of traveling in space "faster-than-light" will ever be resolved, living in spinning space stations, Terra-forming and colonization "space-arks" will be common.. . All of today's medical technology would be considered stone-age. . . And I would be able to be altered to live as long as I care to.. . By the way, even if you could travel in time, the earth, solar system and Galaxy would be in a slightly different place so I hope you can hold your breath. :)
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The old "Changing History" theory still prevails, so I would keep my mouth shut and just observe. In the future of course, as the history of the past is already written.
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Id go forward. Then I could get some lottery results, know what company has the next huge technology coming out, etc. Maybe even bring back something to cure AIDS or something.
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for all those who want to go back, rent the movie "Timechanger". If i went into the future it would have to be as an observer. It's not like I could conribute to that society except for "historic" reasons.
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I would want to travel to the future...times are sooo hard now. I know when the Lord returns and establishes His Kingdom and Peace I want to be a part of that. At that time things will be better so I guess I won't have to participate but if needed I'm always willing to serve. :)
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i would go backwards so i can live a better life now.
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When I first read this question (which is excellent), I thought I would just be an observer and I would love to talk to great literary figures - Shakespeare and Charles Dickens for example.. . But now another thought flew into my head, and if I could change just one thing, it would be that the Holocaust never happened and six million Jews were never killed. I know other people were killed in the Holocaust as well - so they also would be saved (gay people, Gypsies, Polish people, all the victims).
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