2006-11-22 21:52:55 · 41 answers · asked by bacteria4eva 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
~And having changed it and causing all the unforeseen ripple effects that that one little change might produce, what would you be left with?
2006-11-22 22:03:55 · answer #1 · answered by Oscar Himpflewitz 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As soon as I read the question, I thought of all the BIG things that could have been avoided by a simple action (Hitler being killed in an accident when he was a child), or what positive changes could be realised if someone who brought a lot of good into the world hadn't been taken away from it (how would the civil rights movement have developed if Martin Luther King hadn't been shot?) or how much horror would have been avoided if I went back to the original civilisations and told them not to both with finding excuses in a god, but to stick to philosophy!?
...but those things are dangerous because you don't know what changes you would effect, or if the world would have turned out so much worse than it is...
The past is past, and we shouldn't try to effect it - but we can make every possible change we like to the present and that is what's important!
Lx
2006-11-22 22:07:22 · answer #2 · answered by Lauren A 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nice question. I would change the fact that I ever left India. (Although it wasn't really my choice, as I was a little kid then). I feel I'd be much happier out there and at least I wouldn't be torn between two different styles of living. On the other hand I have learnt a lot of things here, which I probably wouldn't know had I been living in India. So there's always a purpose for everything and I like to leave that to God. Apart from that, I regret saying bad things out of anger to people I love a lot, but there are too many to list and change them all...
2006-11-22 22:08:29 · answer #3 · answered by Muskaan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't change a thing, because this will influence the present and all human being from now. You know that there is the grandfather theory - if you shoot your grandfather in the past, you dad or mom would not be born, and so, you would not exist.
So every small change in an action, has future impacts on things.
It would be nice to travel in time and observe the many wonderful discoveries the world came up with.
2006-11-22 22:02:21 · answer #4 · answered by arici666 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is non-conventional to travel back in time. All the thoughts about this enticing notion therefore can also be unconventional as my answer here is going to be.
I travelled back in time some years back in time. I started off in an early bright summer morning setting time differentials and spatial displacement factors all to zero to ensure that I may appear in the same time of the day at the same place back in time. At first, it was instantaneous sensation of complete sublimation of my sense of reality into a bright and warm mist spinning all around me. And then, in few moments time, I woke up to my senses as I heard people talking in the distance. I tried to relax and get my head round new temporal reality. I enjoyed the sense of excitement of the experience, as I walk towards the nearest human inhabitation that we not too far. I started comparing my life that is in the future of my past now with this present moment that was my past before. I walked around seeing things and people feeling the atmosphere. People turned tout to friendly and able to understand my language and I told them that I am a traveller from another part of the world - which was not untrue anyway. I enjoyed the sense that no one has an idea where I have come from. The goodness in people eventually made me consider my options seriously. I needed to get real with the people. I like them. Besides, I realised that I have interfered with their lives without their permission or understanding. The decision was mine and the next decision will be mine too. I have only one thing that I can change now. And the thing I choose for the change is my memory of my life in the future that I have left in my past. I choose to forget it forever to ever live in the moment present whether this is in the past, or in the future.
This, my friend, I found written in the diary that I always keep. Now, I do not remember whether this is fact or fiction but I like the concept. If this is true then I can believe that I have travelled in time to live with people that I am living with now. This is good, it is fun!
2006-11-22 23:21:59 · answer #5 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You wouldn't dare want to change anything. Even if its for a riteous reason.....
If you could go back into time and were able to kill Hitler when he was a baby, for example, would you do it? You wouldn't dare kill him, haven't you learned not to mess with the space time continuum? Consider the possible consequence. You kill Hitler as a young child, years later, say 1933, Ernst Roehm instead becomes dictator, in mid 1930s, HE decides to begin 'heavy water' experiments which lead to the first nuclear bomb built in 1939. With that device, he easiliy defeats mother russia and the allies, and the Final Solution is 'completed.'
Your mistep in the space time continuum caused the death of ALL European Jewry and enslavement of half the planet...way to go!....you should'a stayed home in bed where it was safe and leave the living to others
2006-11-23 19:40:19 · answer #6 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing at all! All things happen for a reason!
I wouldn't even change losing my 3 month old son!(Sorry if you dont agree Princess)
I would not be the Me I am now if I changed my past and I like the me I am!
2006-11-23 06:58:51 · answer #7 · answered by willowGSD 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would stay in the past. I'm only 14 and I already have a through hatred of life. Going back to be in nursery again would be like getting a semi-permanent holiday!
2006-11-23 00:03:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like to change the date of my birth so that I can enjoy my childhood all over again. Rather a minor wish, is it? But is there anyone out there who would not like to get back to the purity and innocence of the childhood if possible?
2006-11-22 22:28:25 · answer #9 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Travel back to which time? If I look back I just see wars among all tribes, nations, Diseases that have killed 1000's in a day, natural calamities which man cannot fight, fight on religion, fight for food, fight for job, so small children but they carry heavy bags and go to school and study for so many hours in a aday. FOR WHAT? WHY?
I will just pray to God that HE takes away our capacity to take our own decision. Human beings suffer a lot before they learn to go in right direction and do good for others. We are Gods children. Let HIM decide for us what is good, then we will not take so many births on earth and stay happy for ever.
2006-11-22 22:14:58 · answer #10 · answered by Moona 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Right back to the beginning, I would have God change his mind about putting humans on Earth.
God made the mountains, God made the sky
God made the People, God knows why
Never a truer word spoken
2006-11-23 02:45:41 · answer #11 · answered by intelligentbutdizzy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋