If you could travel in time would you go forward or back? Where and what year would you go?
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oldpop
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I would travel back to the southeastern part of North America around the year 1000 CE.
oldlongwalker
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- Los Angeles, CA
Supposing you go back and are able to keep what you now know. You can have a do-over, right? I'm not so sure. You would still be taking your personality with you. And that often plays a bigger role in decision making than knowledge. You would end up making the same sort of mistakes you've already made.
dobielvr
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- California
I would go back to my childhood, going forward slowly, so I could savor every bit of it. 
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
It's an interesting topic worth repeating!
NorthernLight
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- Northern BC
A timeless topic!
Lewkat
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- New Jersey, USA
I'd love to travel to the future, about 3 or 4 hundred years from now. I have a feeling this planet is in for some very cataclysmic and chaotic changes. It piques my curiosity as to just what and who would survive, and if those who did, learned from it.
squatting dog
We don't have as far to go, as we've already been
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- Arkansas, and also Florida
Andy Griggs said it best. .....
If heaven was a town it would be my town
On a summer day in 1985
And everything i wanted was out there waitin
And everyone i loved was still alive
.....If heaven was a town it would be my town
On a summer day in 1985
And everything i wanted was out there waitin
And everyone i loved was still alive
Alligatorob
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Are the answers the same? How consistent are we?
If I had access to a time machine I'd go to a different era every week, lots of variety. If I could get to Rome I would first choose meeting Augustus Caesar, not that he'd likely want to meet me.
Paladin1950
New York State
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- Mohawk Valley, NY
1950, but only if I could have a different childhood. Also much more intelligent parents who weren't school dropouts. My childhood would then be much more happier. Too many bad memories.
Disgustedman
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The problems are:
In the past, you might change, the others are still a thorn in your side.
Into the future, you see your end and if it's painful or horrible, then you try to suicide out, but can't.
I recall a short story of a man who was able to see the future, he saw himself on a hospital bed, his wife weeping and saying "All you pain is gone, the weeks of agony are done"
So, he thinks "Better get my gun" he shoots himself to only find himself in agonizing pain in the hospital as his future was foretold.
In the past, you might change, the others are still a thorn in your side.
Into the future, you see your end and if it's painful or horrible, then you try to suicide out, but can't.
I recall a short story of a man who was able to see the future, he saw himself on a hospital bed, his wife weeping and saying "All you pain is gone, the weeks of agony are done"
So, he thinks "Better get my gun" he shoots himself to only find himself in agonizing pain in the hospital as his future was foretold.
Lawrence00
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Go back to age 21 and become a porn star.
Marie5656
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- Batavia, NY
Stephen King wrote the novel 11/22/63 based on a similar premise....only the main character goes back to try and stop Oswald from doing the deed. If you are not a reader, There is a mini series of the book On HULU
But I would like to go back to meet my maternal grandparents...both died before I was born and my mom said many of my manerisms and facial expressions were like her mom
Knight
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I remember that thread.
I'll say the same as last time. With the caveat that I could return to the present day.
With a recording device I'd go back in time when our planet was 1st. capable of sustaining life. I'd record how all life came to be.
Lilac
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- Flyover Country
This is off topic, but I just thought of something.
What kind of a story could you write about @Youngster, if the people who disappear in our time without a trace had this happened to them? You know, they go back in time, a paradox happens & they just disappear because of that paradox.
Lilac
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- Flyover Country
I wouldn't go back. I wouldn't risk the good times & blessings that I have had in my life. There have been bad times, but it makes me appreciate the good even more. It's what life is about.
Right Now
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I totally agree with you! I wouldn't change the events, the people, and the times......much more to learn and grow and appreciate what we have.
fuzzybuddy
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I'd go back to 2500 B.C. , to watch the building of the Great Pyramid in Egypt. That had to be a sight. And it's a historic moment in world history. Then, I'd go to 2123 AD to see what changes were made.
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I feel the same. I would like to go back to the sixties or even the fifties. My past was not scary or sad at all so I would like to relive it and make better decisions.