time machine

weatherboi · 10-06-2012, 06:28 PM

Greyson · 10-06-2012, 07:42 PM

I would like to go back to the childhood of both of my parents, become their friend and help them know just how much they are good enough and loved.

JustJo · 10-07-2012, 08:14 AM

Hmmm.....interesting.

My first reaction is to try to go back and change my mother's upbringing, to prevent what came later for her and, by extension, her children. Since doing that would probably mean that I would never have been born though....

I think I would go back in time to the single worst mistake I ever made and change my decision. I would have stayed neutral and passive instead of working to bring my son's father into his life...and let him walk away as was his inclination.

At that point, I was 35 and had a new baby....and I could have found a partner that was truly a partner and actually wanted to be a family. I didn't have faith in my ability to do that then, so I took the "easy" way out....which turned out to be not easy at all.

Ciaran · 10-07-2012, 08:49 AM

I think that there's two aspects to this i.e. firstly, time travel to an era / place in history that interests us and, secondly, the ability of time travel to intervene and effectively change the course of events.

On the first, I'd like to go back to two thousand years ago and see what Jesus was really like i.e. whether he was THE son of God or one of many well-intended, holy men and women or, worst case scenario, another charlatan (I mean no offence in saying that, as I have a Christian faith, though it is regularly tested).

I'd also like to go back to the Ireland of the 1500s and 1600s. This period of Irish history appears particularly bloody, evil, unloving and dark to me. In simple terms, I don't like it. However, I'd like to understand what it was like to live through in practice rather than through the over-simplified lens of history centuries later.

Within a US context, I'd love to go back to 1920s NYC - roaring twenties, prohibition, corruption, all-too-easy money, flappers and, of course, the Yankee's Murderers' Row team of that era - the greatest baseball team that there ever was or will be.

In terms of changing the course of events? I've made more mistakes and bad choices in my life than most, and will continue to do so, but there isn't a single defining one so I wouldn't look to change anything I've done. However, if I could change a single event in history it would likely be the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which led to the start of World War One. World War One and its immediate aftermath caused so many problems that still impact on the world today.

Gráinne · 10-09-2012, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Ciaran

I think that there's two aspects to this i.e. firstly, time travel to an era / place in history that interests us and, secondly, the ability of time travel to intervene and effectively change the course of events.

On the first, I'd like to go back to two thousand years ago and see what Jesus was really like i.e. whether he was THE son of God or one of many well-intended, holy men and women or, worst case scenario, another charlatan (I mean no offence in saying that, as I have a Christian faith, though it is regularly tested).

I'd also like to go back to the Ireland of the 1500s and 1600s. This period of Irish history appears particularly bloody, evil, unloving and dark to me. In simple terms, I don't like it. However, I'd like to understand what it was like to live through in practice rather than through the over-simplified lens of history centuries later.

Within a US context, I'd love to go back to 1920s NYC - roaring twenties, prohibition, corruption, all-too-easy money, flappers and, of course, the Yankee's Murderers' Row team of that era - the greatest baseball team that there ever was or will be.

In terms of changing the course of events? I've made more mistakes and bad choices in my life than most, and will continue to do so, but there isn't a single defining one so I wouldn't look to change anything I've done. However, if I could change a single event in history it would likely be the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which led to the start of World War One. World War One and its immediate aftermath caused so many problems that still impact on the world today.

The assassination was the last straw that finally led to war, but the reasons for the assassination were fomented earlier on. MentalFloss is doing a WWI centennial, tracing the small and big events that ultimately added up to Franz's visit to Sarajevo that day in 1914, on the days they began, 100 years later: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/category/ww1. It's really interesting, and tragic. It's almost as if everyone knew there was going to be a big war, but when?

In America, the "Great War" has largely been pushed aside for Vietnam and WWII, which is incorrect as WWI contributed to the unrest today in the Middle East, the communist movements in Russia, China and Vietnam, and World War II itself. So many consequences.

Ebon · 10-09-2012, 11:27 AM

I would go back to see the building of the pyramids. I would also go back to see if Jesus was real. lol

BullDog · 10-09-2012, 11:42 AM

Time travel sounds like a really cool concept, but as a woman and butch the thought of being born in an earlier time really makes me sweat. I have always been very happy to have been born when I was instead of earlier. As to my life, I wouldn't want to end up anywhere other than where I am now- living with the love of my life and wouldn't want anything to change that course of events.

So if I can still end up where I am now then I will time travel to various times to check them out. Otherwise no, lol.

theoddz · 10-09-2012, 11:33 AM

This is going to sound kinda hokey, but I'd love to go back to WWII era and be able to watch my mother's childhood (and her adult years, too) best friend, Irma, play in the All Girls Professional Baseball League. I can't remember which team she played with. I'll have to ask Mother again. I'd also love to know what my mother was like when she was young.

~Theo~

Words · 10-09-2012, 12:14 PM

I'd go back to the day I said goodbye to my Mom and Dad before going to the States for the memorial for Blue's father.

I used to always kiss both of them goodbye and tell them I loved them when we left the house, but for the life of me, I just can't remember saying those words to my father that particular day. Ten or so days later and he was dead - something I only found out upon returning to the UK a couple of days later - and not knowing for sure that I told him I loved him the last time I saw him is haunting me.

On a lighter note...I'd love to go back to Victorian times and wear pantaloons with buttons that undid at the back. That is, as long as Blue could travel back with me and undo them

Words

MsTinkerbelly · 10-09-2012, 12:41 PM

I would go back to February 21st 2000, and I would take my Dad up on the trip to the Indian Casino because he was off work that day for our Presidents day holiday.

If I had played hooky that day and gone with him, when he died that day in the middle of the Casino, he would have not been surrounded by strangers.

It's my only regret in life.

FemmeBibliophile · 10-09-2012, 01:09 PM

I would simply go to the 50s. Because of my beliefs about women/femmes, I think I'd fit in best there. Most feminist women of this era hate me. Think June Cleaver.

I believe we should be in the kitchen cooking, barefoot and pregnant, cleaning the house, doing the laundry, etc... While our butch/FtM counterparts are out working, fixing the car, and doing the yard work.

Hate me now. I'm okay with it.

Graham · 10-10-2012, 11:51 AM

back about thirteen years ago....to stop the big hurt in my life right now.

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10-07-2012, 08:49 AM	#4
Ciaran Member How Do You Identify?: Altocalciphilic Preferred Pronoun?: Papa Smurf Relationship Status: Curmudgeonous spinster Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: London (but from Belfast) Posts: 678 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 471 Thanked 3,654 Times in 602 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	I think that there's two aspects to this i.e. firstly, time travel to an era / place in history that interests us and, secondly, the ability of time travel to intervene and effectively change the course of events. On the first, I'd like to go back to two thousand years ago and see what Jesus was really like i.e. whether he was THE son of God or one of many well-intended, holy men and women or, worst case scenario, another charlatan (I mean no offence in saying that, as I have a Christian faith, though it is regularly tested). I'd also like to go back to the Ireland of the 1500s and 1600s. This period of Irish history appears particularly bloody, evil, unloving and dark to me. In simple terms, I don't like it. However, I'd like to understand what it was like to live through in practice rather than through the over-simplified lens of history centuries later. Within a US context, I'd love to go back to 1920s NYC - roaring twenties, prohibition, corruption, all-too-easy money, flappers and, of course, the Yankee's Murderers' Row team of that era - the greatest baseball team that there ever was or will be. In terms of changing the course of events? I've made more mistakes and bad choices in my life than most, and will continue to do so, but there isn't a single defining one so I wouldn't look to change anything I've done. However, if I could change a single event in history it would likely be the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which led to the start of World War One. World War One and its immediate aftermath caused so many problems that still impact on the world today.

10-09-2012, 11:33 AM	#8
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Words Member How Do You Identify?: Queer femme submissive Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: UK Posts: 969 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,449 Thanked 4,258 Times in 677 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	I'd go back to the day I said goodbye to my Mom and Dad before going to the States for the memorial for Blue's father. I used to always kiss both of them goodbye and tell them I loved them when we left the house, but for the life of me, I just can't remember saying those words to my father that particular day. Ten or so days later and he was dead - something I only found out upon returning to the UK a couple of days later - and not knowing for sure that I told him I loved him the last time I saw him is haunting me. On a lighter note...I'd love to go back to Victorian times and wear pantaloons with buttons that undid at the back. That is, as long as Blue could travel back with me and undo them Words

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MsTinkerbelly Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: ... Preferred Pronoun?: ... Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: ... Posts: 6,573 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,737 Thanked 22,901 Times in 5,017 Posts Rep Power: 0	I would go back to February 21st 2000, and I would take my Dad up on the trip to the Indian Casino because he was off work that day for our Presidents day holiday. If I had played hooky that day and gone with him, when he died that day in the middle of the Casino, he would have not been surrounded by strangers. It's my only regret in life.

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10-10-2012, 11:51 AM	#12
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