If you had a time machine

Jay794 · 23 Oct 2011 at 08:48

StriderX said:
no one else can teach you, its about realisation.

Realising what? money can buy happiness, it can't buy love

regulus · 23 Oct 2011 at 08:50

Middle ages England just after the Black Plague.

edscdk · 23 Oct 2011 at 08:54

Radiation said:
How does the time machine work, is it a portal or a vehicle of some sort?

I see where you are coming from if it's a vehicle you can hop back 24 hours then do it one and over

Id steal something really valuable the go back before I stole it and stop myself stealing it, if the universe survives the paradox I'd be quids in.....

StriderX · 23 Oct 2011 at 09:02

Jay794 said:
Realising what? money can buy happiness, it can't buy love

Tut tut tut.

Glaucus · 23 Oct 2011 at 09:35

StriderX said:
Tut tut tut.

He's right, money can and does buy a lot of happiness. It takes away a lot of pressure and stress, it allows you to do what you want that will make you happy. Total happiness needs more than just money, but money goes a he'll of a long way.

Would you not be happier being rich? Not having to worry about bills, being abel to afford things you want to do with the security that you aren't taking a risk.

StriderX · 23 Oct 2011 at 09:42

AcidHell2 said:
He's right, money can and does buy a lot of happiness. It takes away a lot of pressure and stress, it allows you to do what you want that will make you happy. Total happiness needs more than just money, but money goes a he'll of a long way.

Would you not be happier being rich? Not having to worry about bills, being abel to afford things you want to do with the security that you aren't taking a risk.

Money is a primitive construct, yes its a necessary evil at the moment due to the limits of resources.

However, once you have money you start realising the sore truths, which is why the richest turn into philanthropists. (unless they're the power hungry kind, but that is also a problem of it)

Fuzz · 23 Oct 2011 at 09:42

Mickie said:
i thought someone would say that haha..

religion helped the world develope, we wouldnt be were we are today without it..

but its had its day now, in most developed countrys, we're passed needing it..

i dont think it would be a good idea to get rid of it all together.. obviously you havent read into it and havent looked for the good that comes from it, only the bad..

Wait, I've not finished!
I'd then go find the Rothschilds, Leman brothers, et al and slaughter them too.

And I don't think religion helped the world develop at all!

Angilion · 23 Oct 2011 at 10:05

I don't think religion helped the world develop either, but that graph is misleading because it ignores one thing religion was at least partially responsible for that took the edge off the collapse and aided the recovery - writing. The copying of Greek and Roman writings (and therefore the preservation of the knowledge in them) was done almost entirely only by clerics throughout the Christian world and with the co-operation of Islamic authorities in the Islamic world, which only partially suppressed the Arabic scholarship that inherited earlier Greek work.

Von Smallhausen · 23 Oct 2011 at 10:35

Christmas Day 1914 to see Tommies and Germans playing football.

I would also consider taking copies of the Harry Potter books back and submitting them.

Efour · 23 Oct 2011 at 11:38

Go back to the day J K Rowling put her first pen to paper and cut her fingers off with a pair of garden shears

Belly · 23 Oct 2011 at 13:02

I've got a time machine, it's called an ALARM CLOCK, am I the only one?

How about being on the SS Titanic on 14 April 1912, the ship hits the iceberg, I'd convince the Captain to place everyone onto the iceberg and wait for Carpathia to turn up. No Film, no Oscar for Kate!

Glaucus · 23 Oct 2011 at 13:05

StriderX said:
Money is a primitive construct, yes its a necessary evil at the moment due to the limits of resources.

However, once you have money you start realising the sore truths, which is why the richest turn into philanthropists. (unless they're the power hungry kind, but that is also a problem of it)

Rubbish.
It's a tool an extremely useful tool.

Otherwise I would get paid in! actually I don't know what I would be paid in. Time slots for TOCs to run their trains?
How iS that of any use to me, then I have to either find people with meat, veg, gadgets, fuel and what ever else I need. Or do several transactions to get there.

Unlimited resources does not mean the end of money.
As you would still be limit by production.
You would need unlimited resources and unlimited production capability.

Nearly everyone would be happier with more money.

Glaucus · 23 Oct 2011 at 13:07

Scubascorpion said:
Wait, I've not finished!
I'd then go find the Rothschilds, Leman brothers, et al and slaughter them too.

And I don't think religion helped the world develop at all!

What a load of BS you do realise more modern archeology has completed destroyed the idea of dark ages, so much so it is no longer referred to as the dark ages.

ChrisJSY · 23 Oct 2011 at 14:22

Jay794 said:
How would your life still be miserable if you weren't poor? I'm pretty sure Bill Gates and Richard Branson aren't miserable.

Kim Jong Il's got a Maclaren F1, so I'm pretty sure he's happy

Hey, I didn't say my life wouldn't turn around.
Man, the things I'd do, learn, experience, see, stuff I'd more than likely never, ever in my life be able to do.

Vore · 23 Oct 2011 at 14:37

I'd go back to '39 and tell the people who started working on the Manhattan project how many people their bomb would eventually kill.

Probably wouldn't of made a difference though!

Hmmm...or back to '63 and warn Kennedy, not sure the world would be a better place today though.

big jenks · 25 Oct 2011 at 00:53

id go back in time and give my mum all my savings and tell her to invest it into starting companys that are now doing really well so that she will make make i lot of money and i will be better off for it aswell

MissChief · 25 Oct 2011 at 01:20

Vore said:
I'd go back to '39 and tell the people who started working on the Manhattan project how many people their bomb would eventually kill.

Probably wouldn't of made a difference though!

Hmmm...or back to '63 and warn Kennedy, not sure the world would be a better place today though.

As opposed to the thousands of US troops that would be killed fighting, invading and finally defeating Japan before they would give up?

SexyGreyFox · 25 Oct 2011 at 07:50

big jenks said:
id go back in time and give my mum all my savings and tell her to invest it into starting companys that are now doing really well so that she will make make i lot of money and i will be better off for it aswell

Wouldn't it be easier to go back and buying the Euro lottery ticket that won about 160 million and having half of it?