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Would You Change The Past?

Big_Dogg85

Big_Dogg85

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Here's the question:

You have the opportunity to change any event that happened to you or in the world that would shape the person you currently are. Would you take the opportunity and alter an event, knowing that you and history will be forever changed, or would you choose not to take the opportunity, content with your current self as well as the current progress and direction of society?
 
I'd definitely say there's things in my past that I'd change. Sure, I'd risk losing the progress I've made in my life, but I also stand to gain a lot. Things can just as easily go right. I'd take the chance.
 
I tend not to dwell on changing the past because it will never happen. Not even by chance will time ever go backwards. My stance is: live with past, change the future.
 
Changing my own past would not be a good idea because I wouldn't be who I am today. It is because of life's struggles and wonderful moments that we are who we are. If I wanted to go back and change any single event, I would argue that perhaps even just that single event was instrumental in some way and needed to happen whether I liked it or not.

Because I am a religious man, it's easier for me to accept things in terms of divine instrumentality and so forth. I believe what happens happens for a reason and it was meant to go down in a specific way, to an even meticulous degree if necessary. In regards to my own personal growth, my road is and has been the way it is because it was necessary to who I am and who I will have become years from now. If I wanted to wipe away some displeasure of the past because I didn't like it then, I may also be wiping away any knowledge, wisdom and experience I have now because of it.

It's not worth the gamble for me. I'm content to let my life experience and my faith guide me. Besides, the past is just that....the past. It's over, and it's most likely inconsequential or irerelevant to the me of the present time and the me of the future. The past is merely a testament to what was and only what could be. It is never sure to alter my future one way or the other. To be a victim of one's own circumstances is the very matter which gives growth for change naturally and makes us hunger for it....it is not necessary to wish upon it, you have only to grasp it with your own hands in time.
 
I couldn't see any need to. I've enjoyed my life up to this point, so why risk ruining it. Plus all the bad things that has happened to me in the past were events that were out of my control. The cancer and my heart condition for example. 🙂
 
i would change my schoolling years i was so bad i even regret it now , so i guess i would change my years from 13 onwards .
 
I would have changed the high school I went to. Everything would have been different.

But... everything happens for a reason. I would not be the person I am today. I may not have met the girl I'm with now... and... well... I dunno if I could have given that up.
 
I think i wouldn´t. Instead of trying to change the past , we should try to live learning from our mistakes...

What the hell of course i would :laughing:
 
Absent knowledge of all possible outcomes due to an action, how is one to know if decisions made were for the best or not? Making bad decisions is part of the game of life; it seems to have been forgotten in this age of convenience that life is not an easy endeavor. Hardships and danger will be present and mistakes will be made. Adapting to them, a la the Daoist principle of spontaneity, is this one's modus operandi. So no, changes this one could not see himself making.
 
HisDivineShadow said:
Absent knowledge of all possible outcomes due to an action, how is one to know if decisions made were for the best or not? Making bad decisions is part of the game of life; it seems to have been forgotten in this age of convenience that life is not an easy endeavor. Hardships and danger will be present and mistakes will be made. Adapting to them, a la the Daoist principle of spontaneity, is this one's modus operandi. So no, changes this one could not see himself making.
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I see great minds think alike, my controdictio! 😉
 
Bah, i think everyone has it's own destiny, and depending of your character you create the life you deserve.
Good choices, bad ones, luck or not .... even if my past was not perfect, i'm quite happy right now 🙂.
In fact i'm back from hell so i enjoy life more than ever.

Ah surprises ^^ it makes life so cool

and tickling does it too 😛
 
Hell yeah I'd do some things differently.
Sure you don't know what could have happened, maybe it could have been worse, but seriously, some decisions are just flat out better than others, and I don't think for a second that I've only made the good ones. My life would be different, but there are a few things I can definitely say would have made my life better if I'd done them differently.
 
While I'd just as easily say that one cannot have an omniscient mindset and how certain things can't be seen, I do know I'd like to have gone to my final high school a year or two earlier. Perhaps if I did, I would be graduating this month as opposed to another year or so. Perhaps if I did, I'd be surrounded by snow. Perhaps if I did, I would have made all sorts of friends.

But perhaps if I did, I might have made some enemies. Perhaps if I did, I would have made many more mistakes. Perhaps if I did...

And that's where this goes. Perhaps if I did. While it's fun to think on every now and then, the what if game in conjunction with the past does nothing, for there's always an outcome which you don't think of. The original decision and perhaps some of those outcomes, but what of the outcomes of those outcomes? Or the outcomes of those outcomes?
 
in plain english

big_dogg85 said:
Here's the question:

You have the opportunity to change any event that happened to you or in the world that would shape the person you currently are. Would you take the opportunity and alter an event, knowing that you and history will be forever changed, or would you choose not to take the opportunity, content with your current self as well as the current progress and direction of society?
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yea
 
Well said Scorpion! 🙂

The way I see life is that you only live once so make the most out of it. Life, like most rivers, (curses New Brunswick's reversing falls) only flows forward but can branch off into many different paths. If I could get more out of my life by changing an event, then I would do so beyond a shadow of a doubt. It would be the equivalent of changing paths: still moving forward and still with the bumps and surprises one expects out of life but in a different direction.

What I see is that every single person has some event, regardless of size or importance, that they would want to change. Every person, however, is an autonomous actor and the exercise of their autonomy in regards to that decision, for whatever reason, is what defines them. In that sense, even if you did decide to alter the past, the choice in doing so would be the determining factor of who you are and what you become.

Simply put: We are defined by the choices we make
 
I would only change one thing...prevent the rapist from attack my then future wife to save her from the horrors she endured...
 
I would have stayed away from that person who turned out to be a skank, Theresa.
 
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Oh dear.... My Trekkie side is demanding a quote from TNG's episode "Tapestry":

"There are many parts of my youth that I'm not proud of... there were loose threads... untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I pulled on one of those threads... it had unravelled the tapestry of my life."

In other words, as bad as my past may have been, of all the stupid decisions I made or didn't make, I would not change a bloody thing, or else the me I am now may not be who I really want to be.
 
XD Tapestry quote! Merc, u get a hundred cool points!

And I would change not engaging in tk fights with my stepsibs as a kid. I'd rather have the chance to do that now than to back though, because I know those experiances made me the ler and lee I am today. So no actually, I wouldn't change even that. 🙂

~K
 
Hmm. If I could go back in time, what would I do...?

Well, I suppose that my first reaction would be to go back and convince my mother to avoid having a child, thereby nullifying my own existence. But, that wouldn't help much of anyone...not in any BIG way, really...in fact, since I'm a god in my own right, that might only cause harm to the millions and millions of disciples that will rally to my cause in the final days and take up arms against the Great Oppressor and his son, but I digress...

So, I suppose my next step would be to go back to the time when man first became aware...find the very first "human being" in the form that could be considered human...Adam, if you will, or Eve--either one, if not both...

And kill him/her/them.

Sounds pretty messed up, I'm sure, but think about the current state of the world. It's all humans. Your selfishness, your insecurities...all of the violence, all of the polution, all of the pathetic trivialities and drama (such as ridiculous online relationships, OMG, text gets me off, lol), all of the doom and negativity...

This planet's on its way out, and you're to blame. The best way to help humanity would be to end it at the point of origin. Now, I've got to start from the end and work backwards. Thanks, humans, thanks.

Barring that, I would go back in time to convince myself to avoid this thread completely. The end.
 
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