Time Travelling - Past or Future?

[Gadget Girl]

If you have one chance to use "time", which one will you choose -- have a chance to see the future, or have a chance on going back in the past?

At first, I thought going back in time would be the best choice, but I realised that if I'm going to fix everything up while I'm in that time, and change my present, I thought against it immediately. I was wrong in thinking that. Everything will surely change and I don't know what will happen in the present time, which is depressing. So, my personal choice is to go and see the future perhaps and see what will be the future 'me' will be. I think it is much better rather than going back.

[SleepyWitch]

If you have one chance to use "time", which one will you choose -- have a chance to see the future, or have a chance on going back in the past?

At first, I thought going back in time would be the best choice, but I realised that if I'm going to fix everything up while I'm in that time, and change my present, I thought against it immediately. I was wrong in thinking that. Everything will surely change and I don't know what will happen in the present time, which is depressing. So, my personal choice is to go and see the future perhaps and see what will be the future 'me' will be. I think it is much better rather than going back.

you mean like a grandmother paradoxon? if you travel back in time and change things you might never be borned because you do something that prevents your birth and then you can't travel back because you were never born, which means there are no changes, so you can get born, but then you travel back and make those changes and so on and so forth?

I'd prefer the future, too.

[Granny5]

I'd like the past. I wouldn't want to change anything but I'd like to look around and learn some things about my family generations back. And I'd like to look in on history and listen to some of the founding fathers discuss their plans. Maybe drop in on Lizzie Borden and see if she really took an axe and gave her father 40 wacks!

[SleepyWitch]

who's Lizzie Borden? a notorious murderer, i suppose? boohoo, my ignorance is as deep as the seven seas

[Granny5]

who's Lizzie Borden? a notorious murderer, i suppose? boohoo, my ignorance is as deep as the seven seas

In August of 1892, Lizzie Borden's father and step-mother were found axed to death in their home. Lizzie and a maid were the only other persons at home at the time. Lizzie said she was in a shed looking for fishing sinkers or something. Lizzie was charged and tried for the murders but was found not guilty. There is still debate about whether she killed them or if someone else was the killer. It was during a time when women of her class were not charged for crimes and it was considered the trial of the century back then.
American lore I guess.

[Bakiryu]

I'd so go to the future! And buy my favorite books before they were published on my time!

[NikolaiI]

I'd go to the future, maybe take a little nap, hang around...

[applepie]

I think I would like to go and look around the past. I would have loved to see Versailles during it's time of Louis XIV and such. I think looking into the future may only bring me heartache. What if I tried to go and see what my family was like in 100 years only to find that something terrible had befallen them and I could do nothing to fix it. What if the Earth has become a wateland... Sure I know it is hypothetical and all, but I would much rather get a real look of history than chance seeing something I don't wish to really know.

[Lily Adams]

In August of 1892, Lizzie Borden's father and step-mother were found axed to death in their home. Lizzie and a maid were the only other persons at home at the time. Lizzie said she was in a shed looking for fishing sinkers or something. Lizzie was charged and tried for the murders but was found not guilty. There is still debate about whether she killed them or if someone else was the killer. It was during a time when women of her class were not charged for crimes and it was considered the trial of the century back then.
American lore I guess.

*sings girlishly* Lizzie Borden had an axe, she gave her father 40 whacks, and when she say what she had done, she gave her mother 41! Yay!

Okay, so for me, the past. Though I'm a bit curious about the future. I can't really pick a specific time period...the 18th century, the 1980s...I do like the present though in ways because of all the technology...

Probably 1980. It had modern medicine AND it was cool. :D

[Gadget Girl]

I sometimes think that if I could go back to the past, I'll bring the books that I like and rewrite them so that I will have the credits before the original authors did. *laughs* It will be so much fun! I know it's stealing and all that but I just like the idea. *shrugs*

[NikolaiI]

Haha yes that is evil, but also it would be so cool. What if it were sort of like a game? Too complex, I suppose.

No one wants to go back or into the future just to find out what the naps are like ??

[Pensive]

Actually, I might like to visit future more but only if I can come back with a possibility of let me say 95 percent. Otherwise I am fine with present.

[blazeofglory]

If you have one chance to use "time", which one will you choose -- have a chance to see the future, or have a chance on going back in the past?

At first, I thought going back in time would be the best choice, but I realised that if I'm going to fix everything up while I'm in that time, and change my present, I thought against it immediately. I was wrong in thinking that. Everything will surely change and I don't know what will happen in the present time, which is depressing. So, my personal choice is to go and see the future perhaps and see what will be the future 'me' will be. I think it is much better rather than going back.

There are fifty fifty choices indeed. Going back down the vistas of yesterdays is really a matter of excitement, and how it will be to see the Helen of Troy, and to see the days when Jesus was alive and very much with the world. To see the days of the Mahabharata when the situation in which the war of the Mahabharata broke and the way Krishna, the mediator acted his best to bring to reconciliation between those two very powerful and well armed opponents.

The other side is to see the future. Who does not want this to see what will happen next. If you are a student you will be so impatient to see the result. If you are a mother with baby in your baby, imagine how much you will be impatient to see the baby.
Today we are electronically and in matters of genetic engineering too we have progressed amazingly, and we can not think about and even we can not visit that future when we may have our steps in other planets, and we in fact can not think about the realities we may arrive at neither in our imaginations ,
not even in our dreams.

This tread of yours is really exciting and streams of ideas spring from my mind thinking about of these impossible possibilities.

[dramasnot6]

The future is too scary a place, looking at where the present is taking us. As an avid history student, there are many places and times I would love to catch a glimse of in the past.

[Niamh]

As an Ex Archaeologist, i do believe it would be the past for me! I'd love to go back to see What Viking Dublin was like! Many of the streets in my city are still situated and named the same as they where over a thousand years ago! (obviously they dont look the same!:p wouldnt know what people would think if they saw wattle and daub houses in the middle of Dublin city!)

[blazeofglory]

If you have one chance to use "time", which one will you choose -- have a chance to see the future, or have a chance on going back in the past?

At first, I thought going back in time would be the best choice, but I realised that if I'm going to fix everything up while I'm in that time, and change my present, I thought against it immediately. I was wrong in thinking that. Everything will surely change and I don't know what will happen in the present time, which is depressing. So, my personal choice is to go and see the future perhaps and see what will be the future 'me' will be. I think it is much better rather than going back.

I like your signature very much:

If Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,
Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire.
-John Milton

Yes this is the disobedience of man that begets everything what we live with.
Definitely if there was no such sin of man there would not have life so interesting, for if there were no sorrows how could feel man joys. If one is not hungry the whole concept of food will be useless.

I really like the signature of yours and I find this embeds everything about creation.

[Gadget Girl]

I like your signature very much:

If Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,
Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire.
-John Milton

Yes this is the disobedience of man that begets everything what we live with.
Definitely if there was no such sin of man there would not have life so interesting, for if there were no sorrows how could feel man joys. If one is not hungry the whole concept of food will be useless.

I really like the signature of yours and I find this embeds everything about creation.

Thank you very much. :D :thumbs_up

[Alexei]

I will choose the past too. I would like to see what really all was. All the history books in the world can't really tell what it felt like to walk through Venice's streets in the fifteenth century or wherever else, especially when you can compare with the present. I will just go back a few times and take a few marvelous walks. And the risk to change something isn't that huge if you choose an ordinary day instead some great battle.

[Virgil]

I voted for future because of courisoity, but I wouldn't mind checking out the past as well. I could have voted for either.

[Pensive]

I voted for future because of courisoity, but I wouldn't mind checking out the past as well. I could have voted for either.

That's the only reason for me, as well! I wonder how the world would be like. :p Especially the computer technology. :D

[metal134]

I'd go back to October of 1997 and stop Jose Mesa from blowing game 7 of the World Series. :(

[Virgil]

That's the only reason for me, as well! I wonder how the world would be like. :p Especially the computer technology. :D

Haha, we can see who is still on lit net twenty years from now. :lol:

[Lote-Tree]

Only Future and Past?

Bit limited I think. Why not another dimension, parrallel Universe where the magic unicorn lives or planet of the 60ft women :D

[Gadget Girl]

Only Future and Past?

Bit limited I think. Why not another dimension, parrallel Universe where the magic unicorn lives or planet of the 60ft women :D

Hahaha! That would be cool. Yeah, I wonder why I didn't add that. :lol:

[mosimo]

I would rather go to the past because I atleast would know what would be coming and anyway the future looks really bleak who wants to go forward and find that only 1% of the world is inhabitable because a war and nukes have lain waste the rest.

[blazeofglory]

Only Future and Past?

Bit limited I think. Why not another dimension, parrallel Universe where the magic unicorn lives or planet of the 60ft women :D


I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell :"

Your signature is so moving and in fact there is some intrinsic meaning there, it has something of otherworldliness and kind of the infinity of the human soul and how the human soul pervades and permeates the entire universe.

Yes there are different dimensions of truth indeed, all dimensions can not be discernible indeed and if can see other dimensions of truth we can undersatand things at their very cors.