Changing History

Started by Gopher, May 26 09 10:55

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Gopher

If you could go back in time and have a conversation with someone what would you say?
   
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Violet

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.
You're my boy Blue!!!

Lise

I go back to  my really young self and tell me to not listen to mom and go ahead with nursing.
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby.

Lil Me

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.    
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

Gopher

I'd tell Abraham Lincoln not to visit the theatre.  
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Lise

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?  
 
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby.

P.C.

Scary indeed.  I suspect the conversation took place before it was realized he was a stalker ?

Creepy.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Lil Me

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.
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

Sportsdude

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!



 
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