By now changing the future I mean you can't alter what you see, not that whole thing bout 'once you see the future it changes cause you saw it'.
By seeing the past, I mean as if you were actually there. No writer's basis.
2007-12-15 16:02:42 · 13 answers · asked by Dice 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
sorry, [now] should be [not] in the lower section.
2007-12-15 16:03:58 · update #1
I think probably the future. While it would be hard not to change it, at least you could be prepared. By seeing into the past, one would have to look at all the regreats and other negative emotions that came with it. At least in the future you would know and be careful or go on the right path, etc.
2007-12-15 16:11:19 · answer #1 · answered by wildfreedom13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like to see some things in the past as they exactly happened, and not on a writers basis as you say. But with my own eyes. I don't really want to know the future, because even if you say not that whole thing about changing it once you have seen it. Because, regardless of what we think we would do, if you didn't like what you saw in the future, how many of us would not try to change it by doing things differently when we returned to the present? And by doing things different, we might mess up more then our own lives.
2007-12-16 00:18:10 · answer #2 · answered by jenx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The past exactly as it happened. Just because if i were to see the future without changing it, i would know what to expect knowingly i would not be able to change it, save someone, and know when this person will die, when they will leave, and so on and so forth. I rather have the future waiting the view the past. To remember those who i was close to, to remember those, who i dont remember, and simply to see my grandparents due to the fact that they lived in a different country and i only saw them once before they passed away. So the past to reminisce.
2007-12-16 00:14:59 · answer #3 · answered by B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seeing the future and not being able to change it would drive me crazy, knowing what would come and being powerless to stop it. Though I suppose seeing the past would be much the same, by the time you see it, it's to late to do anything about it. They both would make things easier, and at the same time make them more difficult.
No, I'd prefer to remain oblivious to everything.
2007-12-16 00:15:43 · answer #4 · answered by Sarah Kanoewai 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well their both the same.meaning that the power wood be deemed useless if ya coodnt change the future,and ya cant change the past.besides the past isnt always as it happened,EVEN when you were there.our minds play tricks on us,we see things differently,we seem to alter or forget precise details,etc.our brains arent cameras or computers,tho their juz as or more powerful.BUT if you mean "The TRUTH absoulute", then thats something amazing,yes i wood like to see it!,no matter when,the past was the future,the future is the past.
2007-12-16 00:21:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well thats a really hard question. I guess I would probably like to see the past exactly how it happened. I would love to see why some people are so screwed up and maybe I'd be more tolarant of their weirdness.
2007-12-16 00:11:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd rather see the past, because I'm going to see the future anyway.
2007-12-16 00:21:56 · answer #7 · answered by yet-knish! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i like the future being a big question mark
i think it makes yoru life more exciting
if i knew what the every day was gonna be like in advance id prolly just kill myself unless my future was something i would want to live over again (wow that sounds depressing)
but it just wouldnt be worth it
every day is a journey and i want to find where it leads, not find out in an instand.
("the journey is the destination") = favourite quote of all time.
so i would choose past. i would want to see jesus. and if see if he was just a modern day jonestown. i would want to see the dinosaurs and see if theyre anything like what we know of them today. id want to see the supernova of 1054. id want to see humanity grow. id want to see plant and animal life develop. evperience evolution. id want to live through the 70's. etc etc etc.. being born after it happens.. you dont even really have the slightest clue what it was like to live it.
2007-12-16 00:25:16 · answer #8 · answered by daria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would rather have the ability to see the present with absolute clarity
2007-12-16 01:30:46 · answer #9 · answered by Old Wise One 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither actually. It is just fine for me being in the here and now and doing the best I can with what I have to work with.
2007-12-16 00:11:31 · answer #10 · answered by Nora Explora 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋