"If I had a time machine (hot tub or other), I'd...."

[Fire Walk With Me]

Thanks Bucky for the concept. What =would= you do if you had access to a time machine?

[BulletproofLandshark]

1. What WOULDN'T I do?

Just off the top of my head:

- Save the Library Of Alexandria from being destroyed.
- Meet the grandfather that died when my dad was 14.
- Tell my younger self to quit playing Nintendo and get his homework done so we don't end up working in a factory.
- Go back to last September and put down a ton of money on the Saints to win it all.
- Arrange for Prescott Bush's parents to marry different people.

[Initech]

2. I'd go back to 1979 and show the world what a Reagan presidency would bring.

[RandomThoughts]

3. I would look at the traveler with the time machine.

The guy that comes up to me, near the end of a very successful carrer, after making millions, with high position and fame in public/private office.

Who says what would you like to have seen different, I might say, you know it would have been nice if more people would have helped those that nobody defends. I might ask the time traveler, if he could help those people.

he might ask how he could do that.

I might say, send some of your people to help them.

Then he might say, will you go.

After much thought, I might have decided the direction of my life from when I was really young would be worth changing if I might not make the same mistakes that were a bit calous or selfish. Maybe I might not even help anyone, but I wouldn't do any harm.

Which life would be better? and maybe that is what second chances are all about.


But time machines are a fantasy, and instead every day we can have a new life with new choices of how we live.

But it is a good question, and one of the short stories I thought about writing.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. "But it is a good question, and one of the short stories I thought about writing."

I'm pretty sure that you just did ;)

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. I once read a science fiction story about a guy...

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If I amember correctly, he became the number one tennis player in the world.
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[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Never make a faux-pas?

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. Dunno about that...

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...but his fauxhand smash was reportedly excellent.
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[RandomThoughts]

9. Making mistakes is very important.

If you are always correct, then people will listen to you just because you say something. If you are sometimes wrong, they have to think on what you might say, and then decide if it matches what they think makes sense.

I think that helps create thought, not people just following some idea. Even most of the best books are riddles, or can be seen many ways, I think that helps create thought, and helps people realize many times they see things in one way, when there are other ways to see them.

[RandomThoughts]

8. 3 Seconds, heh, must have been a rookie.

Just a joke.

I actually see the concept as not going back in time, but decisions a person makes when visualizing their future.

Lets say you have some choice, you could be a mean person, and some criminal could be promising you some kingdom of wealth lets say, that visualization of your future is one path.

But you might disagree and say that would be wrong, because the price would be to high, having to be something you don't want to be, or support something you think is wrong.

So instead you choose a different path.


The ability to look forward to what your actions would create, then after looking at that, changing your choices, is similar to the time travelers tale. But with no time travel, just multiple time lines potentially in the future. That was what the story would be, not real time travel, just one of the millions of choices some person makes in their life after actually thinking about how it might effect people. Although told with a time travel perspective, where the traveler would be the person conscious after thinking on actions.