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by ukrainium
· Apr 6, 2002 · Geek · 404 views

What just came to mind to me is if you had a time traveling unit and you had one chance to change the past without messing up the future, what would you change.But of course you can't change huge things like the time you lost your two front teeth because that would mess yourself up because you saw yourself. Also it might be impossible to change the past without a big change. But if you had just one chance what would you change?

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legs legsFounder

i would probably not change too much. I think you learn from your mistakes and they make you a better person. But if i could do something that WOULD change the future i would most def. do something about the Holocost. Now what i would do...i dont know. lol

flomojopoanode flomojopoanodeFounder

I'd tell adam and eve that the snake is lying, and then put them in some kind of wrestling move, so that they wouldn't eat from the tree. Then again, maybe I'd go into the future, get some kind of disintegrater gun, and if adam and eve got ready to eat the fruit, I'd zap the fruit, so then they'd have nothing to eat, and then maybe they'd think twice about eating it. (this is all said in jest)

legs legsFounder

very good thought! i like it!

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

i would go back to the diner last friday night and get the soup instead of the salad. as soon as the waiter walked away i knew i had made a mistake. now i'll never know how good that soup might've been. it will be engraved in my heart forever as "the soup that got away".

mrenticon mrenticonOG 2002

well u could always go back there next friday...

malibu malibuOG 2001

ssssssssssshhh! you're making too much sense now.

mrenticon mrenticonOG 2002

i would have waited longer before getting married

rocksupastar rocksupastarFounder

whys that? how old are you?

mrenticon mrenticonOG 2002

at first, i was going to say, but i don't want 'age' to be an issue. i'm just sayin' i would have waited longer. then i would of knew myself better, and i would have taken more time to know what i wanted in a mate. when i was 21, it was too soon. i should have travelled more, maybe pioneered longer. woulda-shoulda-coulda, it doesn't matter now. but i should've waited longer

punkprincess punkprincessOG 2001

its impossible to change the past without changing the future... anything youve done in the past effects the rest of your life. and what others do effect the people around them and their future too.

magnum magnumOG 2001

philosophical!

mrenticon mrenticonOG 2002

there's a kewl movie, 'Frequency', about that. this kid's dad died in a fire when he was really young. one night during a lightening storm, while checking out his dad's old ham radio, he ends up talking to his dad like 25 yrs earlier. he warns his dad about the fire, and his dad lives. but then in the present, his mom dies. turns out the night his dad died, his mom was working at the hospital and when she took the phone call about her husband, her patient was given an incorrect dose of medicine, and died...the patient? a serial killer. when dad survived the fire, he showed up at the hospital, right after mom stopped the incorrect dose from being administered. the serial killer survives and continues to kill more nurses... i know it's a bit wordy, but you get the gist, u shouldn't try to change the past. u just might screw it up.

magnum magnumOG 2001

that was a good movie

ilikebirds ilikebirdsOG 2002

I'd go to the day after my parents conceived me.. and runn around yelling and pointing " you're my daddy .. you're my daddy" and then start smacking him on the butt .. " i'm from the future.. you're my daddy .. your're my daddy .... i'm from the future! " and then begin a river dance routine .. ending with " hi mommy"

magnum magnumOG 2001

you wacko

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jollycandymanOG 2001

Busted! I saw that on comedy Central. Don't you hate it when that happens.

mrenticon mrenticonOG 2002

if u think about events in history that u'd like to see differently:


when moses came down from the mountain with the 10 commandments, and the people had made the golden calf, Jehovah said he would destroy them all and make moses a great nation. moses talked Jehovah out of it, but wouldn't THAT have been interesting.


or how about showing up after lot and his daughters escaped sodom and gomorrah... i'd tell lot, 'look out for your daughters; their freaks!!!'

ilikebirds ilikebirdsOG 2002

or take lots daughters in marriage so they wouldn't have had to have relations with their father.

rocksupastar rocksupastarFounder

yea i NEVER got that.. i must have read that story a BILLION times, and everytime im like... EWWWWW why did they DO that!??!?! There is a buncha jerry springer worthy stuff going on early on in the bible.. crazyness

J
jollycandymanOG 2001

Yeh, I did the same thing. I kept reading over again to make sure I wasn't missing something. "No....they could't have....wait...What!?"

ilikebirds ilikebirdsOG 2002

i dont' know why people thought that was a big deal... i just read it and i was like ok.. well i said " why would they get him drunk.. just ask" i mean.. people slept with their sisters and brothers and everything. it was no big deal back then. it's kinda weird though to be a double daddy.. i'm your daddy and your daddy and your daughters daddy. that would be weird.

mrenticon mrenticonOG 2002

there's a trivia question in there...let me see if i can remember it correctly:


name someone in the bible whose father and grandfather are the same...


there's a better way to word that, but that's the gist...

flomojopoanode flomojopoanodeFounder

*this isn't meant to be a sick, disgusting comment at all, so don't take it that way*

It was still okay then... the Israelites later were told not to have incest, but at this time I guess they were much closer to perfection. You're making it sound like no one had incest back then, but that's not true at all, because....well...this is going back about a thousand years, but, adam and eve's kids had incest to start the human population. So it wasn't wrong then. (yeah, I agree with "i like-a-da birds", though, except that the children conceived would later become enemy's to the Israelites.)

mrenticon mrenticonOG 2002

try 4000 years, at least

flomojopoanode flomojopoanodeFounder

no, what I meant was this: 1,000 years before Lot and his daughters did the dirty deed.

mrenticon mrenticonOG 2002

sorry, my bad...

mandie mandieOG 2001

speaking of incest...did anyone hear what the Amish are doing now? I heard this on the radio. Because there is so much incest, the genes & blood are to weak, so they are paying....i don't know if i should finish if there are young people reading this..but you get the point.

ilikebirds ilikebirdsOG 2002

so they are paying for what ? others to come in and help procreate?

no way.. thats weird!

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

hahaha, good one ty :)

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

that's really sick, i didn't realize the Amish were into that

J
j-laOG 2001

that is just about the funniest thing i heard today!! thanks for making me laugh

glimmerglam glimmerglamOG 2002

can someone drive me out to amish country? they sound like fun-times people

punkprincess punkprincessOG 2001

hahaha fun times usa

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crazygirlOG 2001

I wish diana never became friends with the cananites. I always thought she was soo cool. Then she had to go off with the supposed "cool girls" and get into trouble. oh well.. she learned her lesson.

glimmerglam glimmerglamOG 2002

I was always so upset about that, she was my idol, but peer pressure brought her down. DON'T DO DRUGS!

mrenticon mrenticonOG 2002

even with such a big family, dinah must have been a lonely girl

flomojopoanode flomojopoanodeFounder

I was just wondering...are we talking about web toed chloe? (I'm joking!)

malibu malibuOG 2001

that's what i thought when i quickly started to read this. oops!

mrenticon mrenticonOG 2002

*ponders the vague references*

malibu malibuOG 2001

one thing i would change is like 2 years ago we went to disney land and we were in the country of Italy. (ya know they have all those different countries along the stretch.) so this little band started playing like a slow song. my grandpa was like the best person in the world and nobody was dancing and he asked me to dance with him. i was too embrassed and i didn't. then he just asked my grandma to dance with him and they did. but then i felt really ashamed. he died 6 months after that and all i wanted to do was be back there so i could dance with him. i wanna change that

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crazygirlOG 2001

awww.. thats so cute. i had times like that before. then you feel soo horrible but theres nothing you can do. i always just try to learn from things like that and remember for the next time. :)

mrenticon mrenticonOG 2002

in the new system, you can your grandpa can come over my house, and you can have that dance.

malibu malibuOG 2001

thank you soo much doll! now i am so excited. so sweet of you.

glimmerglam glimmerglamOG 2002

I would go back to the fourth grade and tell myself that cheating on that spelling quiz (I couldn't remember how to spell Prairie so I looked in my desk at my Little House on the Prairie book) was a big mistake. I regret it to this day (which isn't a horriblie long time or anything..but enough)

U
ukrainiumOG 2002

Yea same thing for me exept, were were in like ugoslavia and my brother told me to yodel with him I said no and then as soon as I said no lightning hit him in the heart and he died, well acually I dreamt that but, hey arent they related stories of some sort?

glimmerglam glimmerglamOG 2002

I had the same dream, only I was skating and this girl was trying to fight with me and the other person I was with pushed her out of the way. No wait, that wasn't a dream. Hmm.

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

hey UK, you're hilarious!

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ukrainiumOG 2002

I HAD A DREAM, THAT EZABELERS WOULD ALL GET ALONG AND SHARE THERE THERE FREEDOM!!!!!

glimmerglam glimmerglamOG 2002

Their freedom ^.^ (I didn't cheat on the spelling test in which we went over the different forms of there..:)

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ukrainiumOG 2002

Hey look what happens if you didn't cheat on the test you wouldn't of corrected me hey!!!

glimmerglam glimmerglamOG 2002

Hey! ho, let's go. Blitzkrieg Bop!

mrenticon mrenticonOG 2002

"wouldn't HAVE corrected me hey!!!" :)

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ukrainiumOG 2002

hey everyone did you all know that I'm only ten years old!!And I'm not joking!!

glimmerglam glimmerglamOG 2002

Well now, I feel like a big mean bully.

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

i did! u little punk!

malibu malibuOG 2001

let's hear it for Tristain!

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ukrainiumOG 2002

How did you know my REAL name?

glimmerglam glimmerglamOG 2002

Malibu Barbie is stalking you!

malibu malibuOG 2001

don't you feel special now though? was it a secret? someone told me who you were.

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crazygirlOG 2001

i told! i told! haha

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j-laOG 2001

if i could change one thing about my past and it wouldnt affect the present i would delete the time i wasted on one of my old boyfriends. i dont know what i was thinking when i dated him. im actually embarrased to say that i dated this person, and if you know him you know why (heehee). i would love to never have to admit that i dated this person, yes it was that bad. the thing is if i never dated him i would never have learned the most important lesson of love- love does not come from what you get out of a relationship, as in material possesions or money, those things cant make you truely happy, happiness and love come from feelings inside and mutual respect and love for eachother. im happy i learned those lessons, but i wish i didnt have to learn them the way i did.

ilikebirds ilikebirdsOG 2002

you know i can read ! you didn't have to tell the whole world about me.

:(

magnum magnumOG 2001

hahaha

mrenticon mrenticonOG 2002

i guess it was a tough lesson, but at least you can say 'ex-boyfriend' and not something else

J
jollycandymanOG 2001

I'd probably tell mom to put you up for adoption.

rocksupastar rocksupastarFounder

hhahha, awwwwwwww

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