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Old 04-30-2016, 02:56 AM
 
Location: Aloverton
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If you had a time machine to go back into History and Change one thing . What would you change and why?
I would do whatever it took to strangle Christianity in its womb, because intolerant aggressive monotheism began with this faith, and caused more harm than other causes save biology. It has betrayed its own basic principles, spawned imitators just as evil, and is a fundamentally terrorist belief system. If I could have aborted it, I would have, and done humanity a solid.
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Old 04-30-2016, 05:53 AM
 
Location: Silicon Valley
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Instead of a DeLorean, I would take a Tesla back and let Henry Ford marvel at the technology. By now maybe we would all be buzzing around the skies like the Jetsons.
Many of the early cars were electric. Ford may need some convincing, but it's Rockefeller you're going to have to convince that this kerosene byproduct called gasoline is not what he wants to sell.
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Old 04-30-2016, 05:54 AM
 
Location: St. Louis
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Murder Adolph Hitler
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Old 04-30-2016, 09:26 AM
 
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Instead of a DeLorean, I would take a Tesla back and let Henry Ford marvel at the technology.
Watch out for Edison.
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Old 04-30-2016, 09:28 AM
 
Location: Out in the Badlands
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Old 04-30-2016, 12:06 PM
 
Location: Houston
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I would do whatever it took to strangle Christianity in its womb, because intolerant aggressive monotheism began with this faith, and caused more harm than other causes save biology. It has betrayed its own basic principles, spawned imitators just as evil, and is a fundamentally terrorist belief system. If I could have aborted it, I would have, and done humanity a solid.
That is really funny since Christianity was a product of Judaism, but keep your bigotry going.
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Old 04-30-2016, 03:41 PM
 
Location: University City, Philadelphia
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I would have gone back and invested in Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Ebay ... way back when they were in the infant stage.

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Old 04-30-2016, 04:00 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Made sure Marx's mother kept her legs shut. His "ideas" have killed millions of people through starvation and purges.

Told John Lennon to stay in the limo until he got all the way inside.

Made sure James Early Ray was aimed at Jesse Jackson instead of MLK.

Told Joe Torre to not play the infield in in game 7 of the 2001 World Series.
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Old 04-30-2016, 05:39 PM
 
Location: Old Mother Idaho
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Until a time machine exists, why indulge in this?

In any historical event, there are always a confluence of factors. When one changes, everything else changes.

You're thinking time is linear- that the past is behind us (one direction) and the future ahead (another direction). Time, as some recent studies are tending to show, may be much more complex than this.
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Old 04-30-2016, 06:19 PM
 
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I'd go back to last Thursday night so I could call my mom on time.


Lol

In all seriousness it's hard to pin down what I'd want to change because there is so much and I've watched too many Twilight Zone episodes to know better. Although I've always thought it would be interesting to go back in time and know what I know now but be living starting in the 1940s. I'd know what to invest in, I'd live in America's golden age, I'd know better than to worry during the Cold War and Cuban Missle crisis, etc.
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