I probably go back to when I was a kid and my mom kidnapped me and since I look so much like my dad kick in the door and raise myself as my own father.
Use my knowledge of the future too make myself incredibly rich and give my younger self all of the advantages and opportunities of life.
Trans and disabled, so that limits my options a bit.
I think I’d just go back to 2011 and just vibe.
- I’ll go back to the golden years of life before everything became political and people visited one another and knee how to speak their minds.
I’d go back a few million years whenever fish decided to crawl onto land and yeet them back into the ocean.
Turn the fuck back around!
If you just wait long enough those fish turn into mammals and go back in the water on their own.
I’d probably go back to around 2000 and tell myself that my stupid decisions were going to catch up to me in about 24 years, and they will definitely cost me the relationship I have with only person in this world who had ever genuinely loved me, and that it will drive her mad and she will react in a most brutal and callous way.
I would remind myself that the way I think other people are feeling is almost always wrong, to some degree, and that i should listen better to her about her feelings while I still have a chance to salvage what was once true love.
I would explain that, if I’m not careful, I will misinterpret everything she says about her feelings, and i will lose all my friends and hobbies, one by one, trying to be someone for her that she doesn’t even want.
I would describe the way it feels to be with her, then illustrate the way it will feel when she starts dating other guys while you beg her to please work with you on your relationship, and that it would already be too late no matter how much you want it to work.
I would suggest that, if I decide to proceed while ignoring all my other advice, then I should at least not buy a house with her in 2023 when she is so insistent. Just hold out for one more year before making that mistake.
She wanted to be my forever person, and i didn’t know how to deserve that. We were fucking teenagers when we got together, and neither of us knew how to be. We were just spitballing.
And I’m a fucken dumdum.
I probably wouldn’t listen to me anyway
2500 BC. Egypt. Just sit and look at those aliens build the pyramids.
Someone’s gonna be disappointed
Are you implying that the big triangles were made only by the giants without alien intervention?
No I’m saying that there is no triangle.
Just like the moon and birds?
Yup, birds are just FBI surveillance tool and moon is just a cardboard cutout placed somewhere that is why you can see the moon during daytime also…😂😂😂
Glad to see people of culture in here 😄
Is it one way? If so, I will pass.
If not, I would take my kid to see some of the big steam engines of the past that we can’t anymore, take a ride on an established safe train/route. (Or maybe buy some old Lego to take home)
1988 and see the Berlin Wall (from the west obviously), travel through ghost metro stations
(from the west obviously)
Big fan of the Kentler Project?
why would you want to hang out on the nazi side?
I was in West Berlin in 1981, we had a picnic by the wall and rode the metro through the ghost stations. Which were a bit meh to be honest. You had to change a certain amount of currency to visit the east and we couldn’t afford it, so we just stayed in the train and went back again.
We hitched to Berlin, and the freakiest part was driving through the corridor that linked West Berlin to West Germany.
I was born after the Berlin Wall fell, but have read a lot about it, that is why I find it so fascinating.
I’d definitely pull a Biff Tannen
Fun in this thread to identify who is a white man by whether they’d even consider being safe visiting the past
20,000 bce. tell the first person to come up with social hierarchy to fuck off
I’d go back 30 seconds before you hit submit on this question and take your keyboard away from you.
Seriously, this is a question that’s essentially “What if?” which has been debated by philosophers, argued by historians, fantasized and written about in countless books and displayed in libraries and museums around the planet.
What on earth did you think this question would add to the fabric of society?
You know you could have just downvoted and moved on. Instead you chose to suck the fun out. You’re a fun-sucker.
Every party needs a pooper and I guess that poopers you. Party pooper
In my family we call that the fun sponge.
The word you’re looking for is “curmudgeon”.
What I was actually trying to do is encourage a discourse that furthered society, rather than rehash a trope such as the one found at the source of this thread.
I’m not confident that this will actually eventuate here, but I’m hopeful that someone will pleasantly surprise me.
Nah, you were just being a dick for no good reason.
Nope. The words I was looking for is fun-sucker and party pooper. Let people have fun lol
We’re on Lemmy. No conversation on here or on any social media is likely going to “further society” in any way.
How about instead of coming in and being a dick in someone’s thread, you post things to encourage what you’re looking for?
No, it must just be easier to smell your own shit in the garden than finding a toilet.
tips fedora. Ah, a fellow articulate. I too galavant through Lemmy in search of stimulating discourse. Unfortunately, I am met with conversation that is most superfluous. Heh. You’ve probably correctly surmised my IQ is higher than most.
Good luck fellow intellectual. Let us further society.
Seriously, this is a question that’s essentially “What if?” which has been debated by philosophers, argued by historians, fantasized and written about in countless books and displayed in libraries and museums around the planet.
so therefore no one should ever be interested in the topic ever again lmao what. Take a breath dawg, chill, it’s ok for people to converse on the internet
I’d go back 30 seconds before you hit submit on this question and take your keyboard away from you.
Seriously, this is a comment that’s essentially “waaa I didn’t like this” which has been posted by toddlers, argued by narcissists, fantasized and written about in countless comments and displayed in posts and videos around the planet.
What on earth did you think this comment would add to the fabric of society?
okay so sounds like it’s a pretty popular ponderance
maybe chill the fuck out? since it’s so normal?
August of '69. The first Woodstock.
Big pass on a one-way ticket. I’d quite like to see a dinosaur though…
It should be a very short glance though…
2016 and you know why
