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Would you rather travel back in time to meet ancestors or future to meet descendants? - pRICE cUBE - 09-13-2020
Would you rather travel back in time to meet ancestors or future to meet descendants?
Re: Would you rather travel back in time to meet ancestors or future to meet descendants? - rgG - 09-13-2020
I’ll take about two years from now.
Re: Would you rather travel back in time to meet ancestors or future to meet descendants? - NewtonMP2100 - 09-13-2020
....if I could turn back time.....if I could find a way......
Re: Would you rather travel back in time to meet ancestors or future to meet descendants? - C(-)ris - 09-13-2020
Anything to get the hell out of 2020. I'd probably go backwards though. No telling how messed up the future is at this point....
Re: Would you rather travel back in time to meet ancestors or future to meet descendants? - raz - 09-13-2020
Oh sure, a time travel question from Mr. I'm my own grandfather
Re: Would you rather travel back in time to meet ancestors or future to meet descendants? - davemchine - 09-13-2020
If all I'm doing is talking I would go to the past. It would be fascinating to see if my ancestors where anything like me. If I could do more than talk I'd go to the future to have my back fixed. Maybe I'd talk to my descendants. I don't really want to see what kind of problems I gave them. :-)
Re: Would you rather travel back in time to meet ancestors or future to meet descendants? - CJsNvrUrly - 09-13-2020
That's a REALLY interesting question. I don't know the answer, though. It opens up so many other questions and scenarios. Wow.
Re: Would you rather travel back in time to meet ancestors or future to meet descendants? - DavidS - 09-13-2020
One part of my family history I would love to go back and change. My grandfather and his siblings owned land in Palestine in the early 1900s. They sold it, thinking it was worthless. Had he still owned it, they likely would have been able to escape Nazi Germany together as a family. Instead, he perished at Auschwitz while my father and grandmother went into hiding in the French countryside until the end of the war.
Of course, had that happened, my father would likely not have immigrated to the US in 1949 and never have met my mother in college. There are always repercussions to altering the past.
Re: Would you rather travel back in time to meet ancestors or future to meet descendants? - PeterB - 09-13-2020
Since I won't have any descendants (at least not direct descendants), the answer in my case seems pretty obvious. Like DavidS, I would like to meet some of my ancestors, particularly the ones who never made it out of Germany, Austria, and other parts of Eastern Europe, like Lithuania. Or the ones who did make it out and came in through Ellis Island.
Re: Would you rather travel back in time to meet ancestors or future to meet descendants? - space-time - 09-14-2020
I could go to the past and kill individuals like Hitler, Stalin, and I would not stop there.