If You Were a Time Traveler

[Red-Handed Jill]

I'd go to Ireland in the 1630's to warn them about Cromwell and to do my best to get them to fortify their defenses. Then I'd make sure I was in a position to... ummm... prevent him from going to Ireland, just to cover all of the bases.

[Silkie McDonough]

I'd join you Jill!

...but then again, If I joined that crusade would I even be here to join. Change history and we change the present. Would my Irish ancestors have found themselves in America to meet my German ancestors and subsequently beget me? If I had no Irish ancestry would I want to make that effort?

There are so many things that I would rewrite in history that I can not begin to imagine the full scope of their impact. What of stopping the dictators of history? Then would modern society understand the dangers that a dictator may present?

Are we not as individuals the result of history?

[capnwilliam]

If we changed anything, we'd be running the risk that we'd change everything.

Capt. William

[Patrick Hand]

Maybe there are alternative timelines.... so if we changed history, we could see how cool, or messed up the present was..... then come back to our own present.....

cell phone wouldn't work, due to towers absence.

At least we wouldn't get bothered by that "Can you hear me now" guy.......

[Black Syren]

Everyone is going to believe their own thing anyway, but at least I'd know the real truth

The problem with knowing the truth is it's not easy to hide. I mean if you see someone who thinks they "Know" the period you visited and they have it all wrong would you yourself not be tempted to stand up and say That is not how it happened, or how they talked, or what they wore, or even That is not what they used those pouches for!

[Misson]

Maybe there are alternative time lines.... so if we changed history, we could see how cool, or messed up the present was..... then come back to our own present..... :lol

Except that it would appear that we live in a linear time fashion. So you would enter the alternative time line and be unable to return to your "own present." Now, you could go back in time and try to alter your actions, but then what would happen to the you that lived in the original alternative time line? If you actions change the alternative future so it doesn't exist, then wouldn't you cease to exist during that period? Or maybe it is as some postulate and multiple time lines exist simultaneously, but [in Edwin Abbot fashion], we are limited to our 3D perception of the world and do not realize that it is possible to move between places in what we allege is the 4th dimension...

[Patrick Hand]

That is not what they used those pouches for!

That's an interesting thought....

What if....

You went back to the Middle Ages, and discovered that Peasants carried a handfull of seeds in thier pouches to protect them from illness. Of course the Church would be opposed to such witchcraft, and would preach against it... When you were there, they even burned someone at the steak as a witch, for carrying a pouchfull of seeds....

When you get back, trying to prove this interesting bit of historical information would be very difficult. Church documents do show that someone was burned at the steak for witchcraft, but say nothing about the pouchfull of seeds. And the anti-seed sermons that were written, were burned when the Church was distroyed in a bombing raid during World Was II .....Pouches surviving from the period, were emptied befor the person was buryed, so they didn't get in trouble with the Church (and they didn't need the protection from illness anymore) ... So all you can find is one seed in a pouch from the period, and that isn't beleaved to be evidence enough for your silly theory.....

You know the truth, but can't prove it.......

[Black Syren]

Exactly..But what if you could prove it, what if part of the evidence brought back happened to be one of the missing church books? Would you still prove it or let it go?

[Patrick Hand]

what if part of the evidence brought back happened to be one of the missing church books?

It would still be new..... so obvously it's only a forgery.......

[Honour Bright]

I'd time-travel back in time to around 1800 and go to the French Quarter of New Orleans and hang around a certain blacksmith shop.

Maybe even gather information for him.

I'd walk the streets of where my family lived and sit on the banks of the Mississippi in the sultry summer night and smell the jasmine in the air.

I would speak fluent French and eat beignets to my heart's content.

Oh, yeah.

The only thing I would insist on having is mosquito repellant.

[blackbonie]

Exactly..But what if you could prove it, what if part of the evidence brought back happened to be one of the missing church books? Would you still prove it or let it go?

im willing to bet any info you brought back would be brushed aside,because people only seem to care about what was documented.if it wasnt documented then it never happened,i think i heard that somewhere.

[Skull pyrate Carter]

so you write a book in the past and then find it today, after the testing proves it real, there you go.. heck you could "foretell" the future and create a prophesy on how you are to be Ruler of the world or else... put sooo much detail into it that it has to be you.

[Patrick Hand]

if it wasnt documented then it never happened,i think i heard that somewhere.

You were in TWILL when you heard that....

Go figure why she had a problem........

[Red Cat Jenny]

cell phone wouldn't work, due to towers absence. At least we wouldn't get bothered by that "Can you hear me now" guy....... 

LOL imagine yer runnin out the guns...and theres the whole "network" on the deck..

Cannons and connectivity

[Patrick Hand]

LOL imagine yer runnin out the guns...and theres the whole "network" on the deck..

Yah.... that would be a hassle..... instead of just switching the channel, we'd have to throw the whole lot of 'em overboard......

[Red Cat Jenny]

I think Id like to get tipley with John Adams over a few bottles of Sam Adams...what an interesting conversation that would be...

[Matusalem]

I think Id like to get tipley with John Adams over a few bottles of Sam Adams...what an interesting conversation that would be...

I'd like to pitch a toast with Molly Pitcher, that alewife