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Time Travel: Where would you go?

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If you were presented with the chance to travel anywhere past or future, where or when would you go?

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Ryan Lemonds Hair

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That depends. Would I be my age now when I travel back or could I be whatever age I wanted? If I could be a teenager again I would travel back to the 40's because I am pretty sure my athleticism at 18 and style of play would have been off the charts in the 40's basketball game. 🤣
 
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BlueRaider22

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MdWIldcat55 said:
I think we can assume, even for purposes of a thread like this, that you can't go back and kill Hitler, bash the skull of Lee Harvey Oswald outside the Texas Book Depository or poison the drink of John Wilkes Booth as he prepares to walk across the street to Ford's Theater. If that were possible, someone would have done it.

As a history buff, I've always wanted to feel the texture of events that I've read about that had massive consequences, but that one can never really see, smell, hear, however well they are described. I can think of dozens of examples, but to name just one: I'd like to go back to September, 1862, position myself where I'd be reasonably safe, and watch the battle of Antietam unfold.
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Well thought. However, it's possible that there were tragedies in our past that made Hitler/Oswald/Booth look like choir boys......and those future time travelers chose to go back in time to correct the much more grievous incidents.... Of course, now we're jumping into the age old time travel paradox.


I'm completely with you though......as a history buff, I'd love to just be around to watch significant events. Jesus birth, resurrection, teachings. Civil war, WW1, WW2. US space race, civil rights movement.......Woodstock, Watergate, Punk rock......

 
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Glenn's Take

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DSmith21 said:
Interesting that no one wants to see the future.
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BigSexyCat

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If you are talking going back and living there the rest of your life I would pick 1950. All the world wars were over, plenty of jobs and Americana was huge.
 
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BlueRaider22

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DSmith21 said:
Interesting that no one wants to see the future.
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I would.......but I don't know if I would want to see mine specifically. I'd check in on my grandkids, great grandkids, etc......but I'm not sure I'd look in on myself.

But, I'd love to see different worlds that we will inhabit.....and how technology shapes society and the world.
 
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Once the globalists have fully eliminated liberty, the concept will no longer be understood or missed. Those poor bastards of the future will dutifully pay for a government permit every time they jack off and be glad they have the "privilege".

If anybody visited them from the past and tried to educate them about their servitude, they'd be immediately executed for radical, destructive "hate speech".
 
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If it's just a temporary visit, I've always had this weird fascination with 1980's New York. Back when they had a huge crime problem and Times Square was more XXX bookstores than today's commercialized tourist trap.

I love old footage of the city from that time. I'm sure it sucked, but I'd like to walk around it for a day or so.
 
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Mossip said:
If it's just a temporary visit, I've always had this weird fascination with 1980's New York. Back when they had a huge crime problem and Times Square was more XXX bookstores than today's commercialized tourist trap.

I love old footage of the city from that time. I'm sure it sucked, but I'd like to walk around it for a day or so.
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Everything and everyone looks sweaty and smelly.
 
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Atrain7732

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Roaring 20’s would be pretty sweet but I would wanna get out before the crash in ‘29 and subsequent depression.
 
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BMoore2

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Roaring twenties (flappers) and early 1960s. Thinking if JFK hadn’t gotten assassinated, we might not be facing the apocalypse right now. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Think about it: what was the key event in the timeline that seemed to put America on a different trajectory? After that, wholesale changes were made to foreign policy, workers’ rights/corporate power, immigration, etc. Wonder what would have been different?
 
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IdaCat said:
Once the globalists have fully eliminated liberty, the concept will no longer be understood or missed. Those poor bastards of the future will dutifully pay for a government permit every time they jack off and be glad they have the "privilege".

If anybody visited them from the past and tried to educate them about their servitude, they'd be immediately executed for radical, destructive "hate speech".
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Looks like my earlier post about going back and eliminating them got deleted. 🏹
 
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BMoore2

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Man, warrior-cat, get some strange, brother. You seem permanently angry.
 
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Kooky Kats

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Venice 1300s. Hang with the Doges.

Collect some Moslem booty and write some musings about the science of 2-pt perspective ensuring yours truly initiated the underpinnings of the Renaissance.
 
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