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Title: Changing History
Post by: Gopher on May 26 09 10:55
If you could go back in time and have a conversation with someone what would you say?
   
Title: Re: Changing History
Post by: Violet on May 26 09 01:15
I would go back in time to talk to my parents. Apologize for all the crap I did in my high school years. or forewarn I guess? haha.
Title: Re: Changing History
Post by: Lise on May 26 09 07:41
I go back to  my really young self and tell me to not listen to mom and go ahead with nursing.
Title: Re: Changing History
Post by: Lil Me on May 26 09 10:23
I'm not sure I would alter history.  I think everything happens for a reason.

  But...maybe I would have not started a conversation in 1995 with the guy who stalked me at home and work until I called the police on him.    
Title: Re: Changing History
Post by: Gopher on May 27 09 10:53
I'd tell Abraham Lincoln not to visit the theatre.  
Title: Re: Changing History
Post by: Lise on May 27 09 08:19
Lil Me wrote:
But...maybe I would have not started a conversation in 1995 with the guy who stalked me at home and work until I called the police on him.

  No way!!! That's a scary situation, LM! What would you have said to him?  
 
Title: Re: Changing History
Post by: P.C. on May 27 09 08:22
Scary indeed.  I suspect the conversation took place before it was realized he was a stalker ?

Creepy.
Title: Re: Changing History
Post by: Lil Me on May 27 09 10:35
Exactly.  I wouldn't have talked to him in the first place.

  I often wonder about alternate realities- like what would today look like if Lincoln hadn't gone to the theatre, JFK hadn't gone in the motorcade, or the French had won in 1759.
Title: Re: Changing History
Post by: Sportsdude on May 28 09 02:47
Or if Adolf Hitler got accepted into the Vienna art school.
If Henry A. Wallace wasn't dropped for Harry S. Truman on the 1945 ticket.
Robert E Lee had gone around Gettysburg

A million strikes and protests I can think of and so on.

Or someone from the Louisiana Territory, what if Napoleon never sold it? omg!