Would you rather live 100 years in the future or 100 years in the past? #timetravel
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I can learn about 1918 in books but no one knows what 2118 will be like. My curiosity would definitely take me into the future.
MarlaPaine
Level 6
May 31, 2018
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What woman or non-white person in their right mind would want to go to the past? Not to mention 1918--ring a bell? Millions die of influenza?
Jenmcjen
Level 6
May 31, 2018
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Yes. People pine for the "good ole days", but those days were not good for everyone.
@GuyKeith Exactly. That reminds me of my pet peeve Christmas carol. Some of you may have seen my rant on this before. "A caroling, a caroling, a caroling we go ... wouldn't it be wonderful if we could have again, peace on earth, good will to men?" Please, I beg of anybody who will, tell me ONE SINGLE DAY in the history of the known universe, that was peaceful on earth. No sucha thing EVER existed.
But we're going back in time with all of our current inoculations, so we'd survive the influenza outbreak. In fact, if we get there soon enough, we could donate bone marrow and a vaccine could be created that would save many who died from it. Not to mention several other things they could make vaccinations for from our bone marrow. That simple act could change the world. We could even warn the world about WWI and WWII...
@Kafir WW1 ended in 1918
@Kafir Well not WWI. But what if you did something and then suddenly popped out of existence? Butterflies and all.
@LenHazell53 that's true. My bad.
@Jenmcjen small price to pay to save so many. But then we move into time paradox territory. Technically, if I am able to successfully go back in time, then I also cannot change anything that world make me pop out of existence, or I'd never have been born, and therefore would never have been able to go back in time in the first place to change anything. So my interactions would ultimately cancel out that particular paradox just by being able to successfully arrive in the past in the first place.
100 years in the past. Mmmm The end of WW1 Spanish Flu was killing more people than the war and Rock N Roll was a dream no Gibson Les Pual's or Marshall Satcks Pass. !00 years in the future, well they'll still be playing the Beatles and The Stones and America might have finally grown up, but I doubt it. Trouble is I'm not sure there'll be an us in 100 years time. God will have sent The Four Horsemen of the Apocalpse pr something to smite all us sinners. LOL
PhilipBelsey
Level 4
May 31, 2018
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Wonderful analysis. I was thinking the same thing. Not sure which would be better. I think I'll just live in the present.
They could have a cure for everything. Technology out of this world. It could be better then a bidet in every bathroom....lol.
BucketlistBob
Level 8
May 31, 2018
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I know what the past is. And I'd think I'd have a hard time dealing without some base amenities we now take for granted today. OTOH, I'd be curious to see what the future has in store on many levels, despite the threat that the environment might be all screwed up by then, or the US might by then be a totalitarian state.
godef
Level 7
May 31, 2018
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Well given that 100 year in the past would mean being in the run up to world war two and the rise of fascism, McCarthyism and the cold war, neither.
LenHazell53
Level 9
May 31, 2018
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In the past so I could be part of the expat movement in Paris
AmelieMatisse
Level 8
May 31, 2018
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I know you would, relive "Midnight in Paris".
@GipsyOfNewSpain exactly. I would be figuring out how to hang with Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Man Ray, etc.
@AmelieMatisse With your beauty and knowledge they may be the ones trying to figure out how to get to you.
@GipsyOfNewSpain that is lovely of you to say but that crowd had all the women they needed!
@AmelieMatisse But remember, you came from the Future, you been places they simply talked about dreaming. You will be the "She" and the "It". You will be "The Muse from a different Era". You will stand out from the crowd of groupies.
@GipsyOfNewSpain that's true
Future. It may or may not suck but I know 100 years ago here did.
Slappy_Longarms
Level 7
May 31, 2018
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Neither. Humanity's track record sucks; doesn't look good for the future.
patchoullijulie
Level 8
May 31, 2018
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I agree we are naturally greedy and violent and self-serving which makes us a virus.
@LeighShelton Yep. I couldn't agree more. I would like to have more faith in us but .........
@patchoullijulie well its more than possible but just not going to happen. we are way past saving ourselves. I'm glad I never had children.
It might be a toxic, radioactive future - we don't know. So I can't answer.
Ellatynemouth
Level 8
May 31, 2018
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At the end of WW I the world went into a series of nasty dips. No thank you. I'd rather take my chances on the possibility that we have learned a little something by 2118.
evidentialist
Level 8
May 31, 2018
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Unfortunately the boom bust cycle is part of the capitalist system which would collapse without it.
Future, maybe they will find effective treatments for my autoimmune conditions.
SensualAva
Level 6
May 31, 2018
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Remove all possibility of drumpy!
AnneWimsey
Level 9
May 31, 2018
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What if worse?
@Jenmcjen Define "worse"!?! Because every single day since the elections, I think it cannot get worse, and yet, it does.......
@AnneWimsey isn't that the truth. I can barely stand keeping up with the news. It sickens me
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