If you could change the world?

[thecavemankevin]

[ahellers]

Am I missing the point or is everyone else missing the point? The question was:

If you could go back in time to one event within your life time where you could make a differnce where would you go?

Does this mean going back to any event in your lifetime and magically changing things (ie making the planes not hit the buildings), or going back to any event in your life where YOU could actually make a difference (ie stopping the bullies from beating you that time in third grade where you got jumped in the boys bathroom)?

Cuz Sudan/Darfur/Rwanda/9-11, I'm not so sure one average person could make a difference. Maybe if you could go back and kill Bin Laden or something.

Although I suppose for the sake of public conversation, that time you got jumped in the third grade isn't that big a deal on the grand scale of whats happened in our lifetimes...

Clarification ahellers?

well I was thinking what you could do in real life to make a difference...
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[Swampy]

Personally I'd go back in time (6yrs ago) and not sold dope, that led to me getting thrown in the klink.

I have my own views for rawanda, sudan, and 9/11. And personally I think you'd all hate me like that Soopa character so I'll keep to myself. Besides this is the internet not a bar so why is politics even on here?

[geekwarrior]

dream it you crying dreamers!

[SCpoloRicker]

And personally I think you'd all hate me like that Soopa character so I'll keep to myself. Besides this is the internet not a bar so why is politics even on here?

It would take a pretty concentrated effort to get Soopa level of, er, favor. I wouldn't worry. As for arguing politics, there are far cooler places to argue with AOers about that.

/without filters
//still have idjits, though

[CKY_Alliance]

Where the hell my post go...

[thefool]

/without filters
//still have idjits, though

Aww cmon filters are fun. They make us say things like poopy, and fiddlesticks if we encounter somting that dissatisfies us.

[Boski51]

pardon my blatant breaking of the "within my lifetime" rule and the presumed blasphemy(based on your own personal beleifs) of this statement, but I would consider traveling back in time and executing abraham(assuming he existed in the first place, if not then the original author(s) of such tales in his youth would be equally sutable) before his influence on the world led to the creation of all three abrahamic religions. In the place of the dogma that resulted from abraham's influence, I would hope to spread freethought, reason, and prematurely reinvent the scientific method from the original egyptian/greek concepts to something that can unite humanity instead of promoting the sectarianism that abrahamic religions thrive upon.

doing so, I would hopefully abridge all of the atrocities commited against ourselves in the name of imaginary fingerwaving beings dreamed up in the middle east. Frankly the amount of truely inhuman events commited in the name of god that such a murder would prevent is astronomical.

Just wait until you wake up and get a clue. Only at that point will you understand what a moronic statement that really was.

Good luck with that.

[tropical_fishy]

Just wait until you wake up and get a clue. Only at that point will you understand what a moronic statement that really was.

Good luck with that.

There was nothing moronic about his statement. Reinventing the wheel looks like a pretty good idea right now.

If God is the Abrahamic God, He'd find another way to get His message through.

[gus13]

I understand he's saying he'd destroy the 12 tribes of isreal hoping to end the atrocities throughout the ages but I have to agree, it was kinda moronic. how do the ends justify the means? and anyway you can't do anything to change the past and if you could it still wouldn't be all that different. I believe that it would still happen just in a different time and for a different reason.

[SCpoloRicker]

Just wait until you wake up and get a clue. Only at that point will you understand what a moronic statement that really was.

Good luck with that.

[slade]

Just wait until you wake up and get a clue. Only at that point will you understand what a moronic statement that really was.

Good luck with that.

Lol.

now were you trying to say that its moronic to think that humans would follow on such a path, and would not kill each other? because that would have some creditability.

if youre trying to say its moronic to be athiest and to realize what has come from the abuse of religion... then nothing anyone can say will really help, so forget it.

[Boski51]

Great idea: Kill the guy who God used to start the three major world religions so no one would die because of religious wars. Forgetting the fact that wars are never about religion. They are always about economics, money and power. Religion is just the fall guy. So you can blame God all you want, but it really is the fault of the ATM.

[Boski51]

I understand he's saying he'd destroy the 12 tribes of isreal hoping to end the atrocities throughout the ages but I have to agree, it was kinda moronic. how do the ends justify the means? and anyway you can't do anything to change the past and if you could it still wouldn't be all that different. I believe that it would still happen just in a different time and for a different reason.

Exactly!

[WenULiVeUdiE]

Great idea: Kill the guy who God used to start the three major world religions so no one would die because of religious wars. Forgetting the fact that wars are never about religion. They are always about economics, money and power. Religion is just the fall guy. So you can blame God all you want, but it really is the fault of the ATM.

Umm....Crusades anyone?

Yeah, I know you are using modern references, but when speaking about an event that would take place 2006 years ago, you can not just speak about modern times.