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I think that i would go back and change alot of myself as a teenager. Made a few dozen mistake. Plus i would like to see what i would have become.
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I figure that since I mucked my life up the first time, I likely wouldn't fare any better if I did it over again. Just my thoughts on the matter.
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Hang out in pre-Castro Cuba with Hemingway in the local bars discussing ideas for books and of course indulging in the delights of the girly scene there !
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By the way, I wasn't meaning to single you out. I think most of us made some really unfortunate choices as teenagers. My post came off a bit strong and you were not the 'sad' person I was referring to. I was just speaking in general. Open mouth, insert foot.
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My pet theory (for what it's worth!) is that if you went back in time, it wouldn't change a thing! If you returned to (say) 1975, you'd be exactly the same as you were in 1975. Same knowledge, same memories, same experiences, so you'd end up making the same mistakes! You wouldn't know you'd returned ... you've have just rewound the same video. You couldn't take a note back with you saying "do this" or "do that" because if you didn't have it the first time around, you couldn't have it the second time around. There certainly wouldn't be two versions of "you" wandering about as my understanding is that the energy in the universe is a constant. An extra "you" going back to 1975 would add to the energy at that time, and having left 2009, there would be a chunk of energy missing today.
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Got it in one eelcat.
As it's all purely hypothetical, who is to say that if one single event was altered or changed then the outcome would not be totally different. I'm a great believer in "the Butterfly Effect", although the sequels were a bit lacking Oh!, and aphex1973 if I'm the 'sad' person you refer to, the unrequited high school sweetheart is still a good friend, albeit distant, to this day. Perhaps ironically I chose this friendship rather than risk impropriety when she initially split from her husband and took me dancing a few times... Maybe we would not be friends, had we been lovers? |
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The paradox to me is this....do you think in 100, 1,000, 5,000 years from now there would be such thing as a time machine? It is very possible but not very likely as by now there would surely have been some evidence of someone from the future having visited in the past (providing they have made themselves known).
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I'm personally facing some big decisions concerning property in the 'real world' which is causing me to look back a little while pondering the great unknown which may be my personal future ... Where are these damn time machines when you need one? |
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