If you could be sent to the past, would you change the course of history?
Hm, I've been wondering this in the past few days. The thought is just running around my head. @_@ If you could be sent to the Ice Age/paleolithic age, would you teach everyone how to light a fire?
If you'd be sent before Newton’s time, would you present the people the 3 laws of motion and get the credit, instead of Newton?
Would you make a telephone [in case you know how] before Bell's time?
Would you tell the old people how to apply simple cures to diseases that you know?
Would you write your favorite song just so you could keep hearing it in the past even if it's not yet composed at that time?
Would you go dig up the places you know where dinosaurs/hominid fossils are?
And many more, if you get what I mean.
In that way, you can live in the past with at least having a feel of the more comfortable life you "had" in the future.
...and of course all the credits go to you, not to the people who really discovered and invented stuff, which will change the course of history.
Newton won’t be as famous as he is now, it would be you.
The wheel might be invented in earlier times because of you.
And who knows if Herodotus will still the big guy of history. [lol!]
I think you’re getting what I want to say.
So, would you, if you can?
Of would you just “go with the flow” in the past time, live a normal, boring life, forget about all the “future” stuff and just wait for the big guys to discover/invent them?
I'd go to prehistoric Earth and tell them to invent better sounding names, while being their I'll go to the future and pee on my own grave. Which is kickass.
I'd influence Hitler in the Third Reich so that it would really last thousands of years like it was supposed to. His only downfall (meaning with traits- not that he committed suicide and lost) was that he ignored military advice. I would find a way to get it through his head that he was going to lose. Of course I could not do much myself, but introducing the fear of losing and some other chaos would maybe help. I am though, a girl. So I wouldn't be taken so seriously. I would find a Schutzstaffel boyfriend and continue with that route.
I would only make minor adjustments. I would save John Lennon's life, I would prevent George Bush Jr.'s birth, and I would persuade John Cusak to never go into acting.
I actually must say that the post above me displays intelligence. If you did one thing as invent the computer, we could be in nuclear war with France... anything could happen as a result, and it wouldn't even have to be related to your change. I stand corrected.
And besides, you can't prevent madness. Madness will happen no matter what, so if there's madness because someone went back to '94 and watched TV for a half-hour, so be it. We have war, rape, and rascism. So if a couple isn't married or something because I screwed with something in the past, that's just how the cookie crumbled.
That butterfly, if not killed, would land on a woman in Manchester's line-drying linens, and she would have to swat it away. Too distracted by the butterfly, she would not be able to hear her child scream at the sight of a poisonous spider, and wouldn't be able to kill it in time. Her child would end up dead in the hospital.
You saved a child by killing that evil killer butterfly. XP Good for you...
I wouldn't change a thing, I just would go to biblical times and prove that evrything is fake... No Adam, no Eve, no Noah's arc, no Moses opening the ocean, No Jonah in the whale, and no Jesus resurrecting...
I just would go to biblical times and prove that evrything is fake... No Adam, no Eve, no Noah's arc, no Moses opening the ocean, No Jonah in the whale, and no Jesus resurrecting...
And I would go to the same place at the same time to show you it was true.
well, for one i'd go to biblical times back with Jack whos going back with Chinchu (not miguel) to also prove him wrong.
and secondly i'd go to heath ledgers high school giving a speach to him about drug use preventing him from taking it so he can make more films as great as the dark knight.
But sometimes, even if people learn stuff from high school, they get blinded with fame.
Fame changes a lot of things, even your sanity...and you do drugs.
...though I'm not in the place to judge Heath Ledger because I don't personally know him, that's what I think.
Lol Mr K! xD
If I were to go back, I'd change your (all of you) first impression on me here. :P
No, I'm not... I know better than anyone christian belief... I went to catholic highschool and I did my best to try to have faith, but logic was stronger, and I learned that sort of things don't happen... And, by the way, some of the priests agree with me that many of the stories of the old testament are not meant to be taken literally, like the ones I mentioned earlier...
I would go back to very ancient times and teach people of the force, telling them it's true and persuade them to become Jedi or Sith. Lol! Just kidding, but imagine if someone did. How hilarious would it be?
