quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: I'd go back in time and steal the library at Pergamum....Heck, maybe I'll steal the library at Alexandria too. Either way, both libraries were destroyed in Egypt, who'd miss them?
Wait--the library at Pergamum was destroyed in Egypt? How'd that happen?
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actually if you went back in time to take the library you thus are the one responsible for taking it originally dont ya think?
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Now that is a trippy thought. Does that mean that whatever we do in the past was preordained? If so then my choice to meet the great conquerers of history may have resulted in the fact that they were so succesful....
It's my fault that they did so well! What has my future self done!
Maybe I should destroy myself now so that I don't get to go back, but if I do that then who knows how much worse I could make the world.
Now this is a delemma.......
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Unless of course you go back and cant do what you set up to do, because it was preordained that you failed. Or... MIB agents stopped you.
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Indeed, being present at that crucifixion and taking video footage to prove that there damn well wasn't a resurrection, that would be cool. Though I suppose people would only say I'd faked it.
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You say that as if you know for sure. I respect your opinion not to believe in God, but don't act like the answer you choose is the obvious true answer.
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Rabid, try carrying an umbrella if you're going to rain on threads. Yeah, there have been multiple threads, but so what? This thread, IMO, is different enough to enjoy it, regardless of previous discussions.
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quote: Indeed, being present at that crucifixion and taking video footage to prove that there damn well wasn't a resurrection, that would be cool. Though I suppose people would only say I'd faked it.
Honestly, KoM, do you really not understand that, at least to some of us, it wouldn't matter ? I've said it several times - at least once on this thread.
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Well according to Star Trek, it doesn't matter if its true or not for as long as the message is understood.
But aside from that thats probly one time period I would avoid just to avoid the consequences, however I would ask him on his stance of Same Sex Marriage and show that to the Bible Thumpers ah ha!
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quote:Indeed, being present at that crucifixion and taking video footage to prove that there damn well wasn't a resurrection, that would be cool. Though I suppose people would only say I'd faked it.
Well, that depends on who it is you're trying to prove it to. If you wanted to risk time paradoxes and the possibility of altering much of history, you could just use it to prevent early Christianity from even starting. maybe. hmmm, maybe it would have started either way.
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Actuallyif the Romans exiled Joshua to say Brittain Idontthink it would've ever gotten off the ground.
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i know someone else would do this, but i'd go back to dallas texas in november of 1963, to get a good curry?
dang i'm hungry. maybe a curry, and a lager.
seriously, this topic, has been mildly explored in the book enchantment, and more heavily explored in pastwatch.
I'd be more interested in knowing what happened in some of the less colorful times in history, i'd probably get a kick out of just talking to people who knew my ancestors back 1000 years ago, find out who your history was.
wealth taken from the past would seem a bit like stealing to me. but the ability to know people from different cultures at different times in history would be fascinating. i'd probably be viewed as an idiot by medievel europe for not knowing how to do basic chores in the area. but i'd love to know if society has really changed that much in 1000 years,
history has changed vastly in the last 150 years, with revisionists trying to make history fit their perspective. the original story would fascinate me.
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