primitives fantasize over time travel

[BattleHymn]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018704123

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 02:53 PM
raccoon (23,155 posts)

If time travel were possible, why would you want to do it, other than for financial gain?

(such as going into the past and buying XYZ stock, then re-selling it
at a tremendous profit)

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 03:06 PM
Star Member Auggie (19,316 posts)
2. I would try to prevent the Kennedy deaths

on edit:

OR

try to refine the Constitution and parts of the Bill of Rights.

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 03:34 PM
CBGLuthier (10,870 posts)
3. I think it would be fun to disprove the accepted myths of the various religions

150 years ago to follow Joseph Smith around. 1,400 years ago to see if a mountain really moved, 2,000 years ago to see what was up with Jesus, 2,500 or so for Buddha, a little more for Moses and 6,543 years to "find" Adam and Eve.

Then when all the results are in perhaps humanity can get over the whole god delusion and evolve an inch or two.

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 03:38 PM
Star Member cyberswede (18,718 posts)
4. I'd go back in time to various periods to hear live music

For instance:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NigiwMtWE0[/youtube]

Well, I can't argue with the cyberswedish primitive on that point.  I can only hope I wouldn't get stuck near its cloud of B.O. and lingering patchouli stench. 

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 03:42 PM
bikebloke (5,044 posts)
5. Just to see the differences.

See the same place through different decades or centuries...while trying to avoid getting burned at the stake by contemporaries for wearing funny clothes, taking photos etc.

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 04:36 PM
Star Member Ineeda (3,260 posts)
6. I'd try to be

a better daughter, sibling, wife, mother, and friend.

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 04:57 PM
Star Member csziggy (17,268 posts)
7. I'd like to go back and interview some ancestors

To find out where the heck they came from and who their parents were! Other ancestors I'd like to visit and ask them why they did stuff - like Charles Crow who threw a black man out of his church because he'd been preaching to the slaves whose masters wouldn't let them come to church. The previous minister had allowed this slave to do that but Charles Crow wouldn't have it. Of course, Charles Crow left the church in South Carolina because they would not allow their ministers and deacons to own slaves. Then once he was established in Alabama he started the Alabama Baptist Convention which led to the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention - both organizations have been racist since their formation.

I'd really like to ask Charles Crow how he could call himself a Christian while being so hateful. I wonder if he'd change his ways if someone told him how much hatred his teachings brought to the South and to this country.

Or I could just invoke the "grandfather paradox" by simply killing the asshole and hope it didn't wipe out my entire family. It would certainly change history if Charles Crow hadn't lived past the age of 20.

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 04:58 PM
Star Member mopinko (42,717 posts)
8. i would go back 32 years

and not meet my husband. or throw his ass out after the 3rd date, like i should have.
not all bad, but sure is not ending well.

I bet your neighborhood wishes they could go back a few years, and kick your ass to the curb before you started lowering their property values.

[Carl]

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 04:58 PM
Star Member mopinko (42,717 posts)
8. i would go back 32 years

and not meet my husband. or throw his ass out after the 3rd date, like i should have.
not all bad, but sure is not ending well.

There is a better then good chance that not only does he wish the same but everyone that has ever known you does as well.

[Big Dog]

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 04:36 PM
Star Member Ineeda (3,260 posts)
6. I'd try to be

a better daughter, sibling, wife, mother, and friend.

Step number one: Get away from the toxic DUmpmonkeys. Free yourself from mental slavery.

Step number two: Get rid of the toxic DUmpmonkey within you- and don't forget to wipe afterwards.

[JohnnyReb]

Go back in time to prehistoric times and kill the first DUmmie with the mutated "not worth a damn" gene.

[Mr Mannn]

These guys all waste time travel opportunities.

I would go back in time, get rich, meet and romance Raquel Welch...and get married!

[BattleHymn]

Go back in time to prehistoric times and kill the first DUmmie with the mutated "not worth a damn" gene.

We have a winner.

[Delmar]

Response to raccoon (Original post)Tue Dec 23, 2014, 03:42 PM
bikebloke (5,044 posts)
5. Just to see the differences.

See the same place through different decades or centuries...while trying to avoid getting burned at the stake by contemporaries for wearing funny clothes, taking photos etc.

A DUmmy would quickly get pegged as a weirdo in any era.

[tanstaafl]

These guys all waste time travel opportunities.

I would go back in time, get rich, meet and romance Raquel Welch...and get married!

Like you'd have a chance to date my betrothed. And furthermore, why tie yourself down with marriage to Raquel, just shack up with her. Then you won't miss your shot with Megan Fox.

[FlaGator]

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 03:06 PM
Star Member Auggie (19,316 posts)
2. I would try to prevent the Kennedy deaths

on edit:

OR

try to refine the Constitution and parts of the Bill of Rights.

How does Auggie know that he didn't try to do this and was shoot as a loyalist trader?

[USA4ME]

I'd go back to the point right before my father-in-law had the intercourse that created my wife.... and kick him right square in the nuts.

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