Time travel! You can go back in time and see....

Seems like the Lounge is lively tonight, so let me ask something I asked in another forum. Ok, you have the "power" to travel back in time as a "ghost." What 5 events would you see? You cannot interfere with the time line, only observe. What would you want to see?

1. Who the real Jack the Ripper was!
2. Who really assassinated JFK!
3. Watch the construction of Stonehenge.
4. After Shrub got on AF1, hear his conversations following 9-11!
5. Watch the Salem Witch Trials!

And you?!

I never did find out.

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1. Who really assassinated JFK
2. Construction of the Pyramids
3. Construction of any major Gothic Cathedral
4. Coronation of Elizabeth I of England
5. Rove planning the theft of this election (with a tape recorder of course...or would that be too close to alteration...??)
6. Hear Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address

Surrender at Appomattox .
Invention of the wheel.
VE Day.
Columbus' 1st landing near San Salvador.
And I agree: On Air Force One upon taking off on 9/11.

D'oh, can't edit the past, must go as a ghost. well that makes stuff a lot less interesting.

1. Go back in time and talk to Jesus for a bit.
2. Go back in time and talk to the founding fathers about what is going on right now, income taxes, and a bunch of other things.
3. Try and stop the blood sacrifice of Gilgal
4. Go to Germany in December 1939 and tell some random low ranking person everything that was going to happen and see what happens. (Note: My name is David Bernstein, yes I do have a f'd up martyr complex.)
5. Try and prevent 9-11 and see if Shrub would still have had support to go into Iraq.

What is the "blood sacrifice of Gilgal?" I googled it and it kept taking me to scary right-wing sites with no real explanation of what it is. Would you mind educating me? :) Thanks!

It has a lot to do with ancient Judaic history. Basically it was a religious turning point in Judaism where they turned from sacrifice to obediance, or at least simply abandoned obediance. Some could argue that at this point Judaism was tainted by another force, but I'm a bit too agnostic to buy into that line.

My family is Jewish. I no longer practice, but I have never heard of it. I will still look for info on it. Thanks for the info, it is appreciated! :)

Go to Germany in December 1939 and tell some random low ranking person everything that was going to happen and see what happens.

Most likely, the person would tell you to stop being so alarmist (along, of course, with pretending you had come from the future), and that "nothing like what you are describing could ever happen here!"

sterilaize Babs *
spread rumors about Hitler being a reformed rabi
buy 200 57 stratocasters for 169$ each
make Rupert Murdock a liberal

1. The beginning of life on Earth
2. The Constitutional Convention
3. Anytime during the reign of the dinosaurs
4. Anytime Galileo was doing *anything*
5. The Big Bang

1) How the dinosaurs died...I mean the asteroid theory prevails of course, but there are people that say it was like a nuclear winter afterwards and others that mention that there were large sulfur deposits where the asteroid hit - in effect this created large chemical reactions with the heat of the explosion kicking up sulfuric acid storms all over the earth...maybe the dinosaurs died very quickly after the impact. I would like to know.

2) I'd like to settle the whole Jesus issue once and for all. I do believe he was a real person - not too many dispute that. I am therefore very curious over the absolute most influential man of the last two thousand years even though I hate religion.

3) I would like to see the Maya/Inca in their glory days - this should really count as two since they are about 800 years and a couple thousand miles apart - but let me slide on this one.

4) The Ch'in dynasty in China has always fascinated me.

5) Since yuou got Stonehenge covered, I will check on the pyramids and we can compare notes.

1) See what caused the Big Bang.
2) Find out how Jesus REALLY lived.
3) Find out how the dinosaurs died out.
4) JFK
5) 1980 USA-USSR Hockey game.

1.the baptism of jesus
2.the happening that killed the dinosaurs
3.the populating of the british isles
4.the biblical flood
5.the birth of language

That is awesome! I would have never thought about that and I am a crack linguist! How very cool!

I'm sure it sounds pretty much the same. :shrug:

i read everything i can get on the subject :)

I studied linguistics in college and I also speak several languages. I teach myself bits and pieces every now and again! There are some great books out there about language. You have any titles to share?

I LOVE Lincoln, can't get enough of him. So my first would be to see what the hell happened that night at Ford's Theatre. Why no guard? Why was that note left for Johnson? Was it a single guy or a conspiracy.

Does each thing count seperately? Because I would love to hear his Farewell Address, Gettysburg, Second Inaugural, and speech on the Spot Resolution. I could pick if I had to though.

I'd like to see Ben Franklin. Such a fascinating character, I would love to see him work.
I would love to see scenes from the Revolutionary period. It would be amazing to see a new country be formed.
And finally, I would like to see the seven wonders of the ancient world (assuming they were all real).

1.) Karen Hughes telling Bush he lost big on Election Night (and Bush's "stoic" reaction)
2.) Who shot JFK.
3.) Sit in on the first Constitutional Convention.
4.) Sit in on a session of the Roman Senate5.) Listen/watch Karl Rove on election night in 2000

Jack the Ripper and Kennedy

For fun check out

New Orleans Storyville District
The real Moulin Rouge and get drunk with Latrecc (sp?)
Weimar Germany ( a really wild and artisic place before the Nazis took over.)

Witness the building of Greece's Temples

See the movie 'Gone With The Wind' being made

The Wright Brothers attempt to fly at Kitty Hawk

Attend the 'I Have A Dream' speech by MLK

Sit in on the conversations between FDR and Churchill

I am a HUGE ancient Greek freak and I didn't think about watching the construction of the Acropolis! That would be the best! I would love to see the temples of Athena and Zeus created!

1. See what happened when the Neanderthals and the Cro-Magnons met up

2. Go back to medieval Japan and find out whether the theories about the Japanese language that I laid out in my Ph.D. dissertation are true

3. Go back even farther into Japanese history and find out just which ethnic groups populated the islands

4. Hear some of the renowned singers of the past who lived before the age of recording

5. Travel around nineteenth century Europe and meet some of my ancestors

What was you theory for the Japanese language? I would love to hear it...in simple terms! :)

In no particular order.

1. Ride with the horde of Genghis Khan.
2. Hang out with Ben Franklin in Paris.
3. Witness the JFK assassination.
4. Travel in the Lewis and Clark expedition.
5. Watch the first Olympic games.

Oracle at Delphi
Wiemar Germany
Ceasar being assasinated (Just to hear what he really said)
Roswell
Nostradamus after his first prediction

With the things you would like to see, you might want to buy a star (donate to DU) and come visit the "Ancient Wisdom and Pagan Spirituality" and "Astrology, Metaphysical" rooms! What a fun bunch we are! :)

1. Who really killed Kurt Cobain
2. Watch as the beginnings of the American Revolution occured in Boston

Wow I can only think of two. It's too late at night, and that whole can't change the timeline thing really sucks. :)

Rp

1. Sit in the the school depository on the day JFK was assassinated....follow Oswald around for a while.

2. Greece...in general. I love ancient times and the Greek have always fascinated me.

3. Catherine the Great....would have loved to be a part of her court....girl power and all.

4. See my "gunslinger" ancestor and follow him around. The family story is that he came home and found his wife in bed w/ someone and killed them both. He got to Oklahoma, married a young woman, changed his name and moved to Atkins, Arkansas.

5. Meet my ancestors on the other side of the family. Another family story involves a relative who married a young, Indian Princess. We've found evidence of the princess in the log of those who traveled on the Trail of Tears. We know her age and her father's name, but cannot find any other information on him except his name.


I think the last 2, for me, would be the best...any rules about leaving clues to be found for later on?!

1) JFK assassination (seems to be a popular choice).

2) What *really* happened at Roswell, NM.

3) D-Day/landing at Normandy.

4) Signing of Declaration of Independence.

5) Watergate (how deeply was Nixon really involved?).

Heh, heh.

Tucker

1. JFK's assassination

2. The "witness" to the roswell thing being reminded of the event while reparing a TV who belonged to the 35 year old virgin who remembered that ordeal twenty years later, starting that turdball rolling.

3. Who got to the Americas first, and from where.

4. The first humans to step foot outside of Africa.

5. What made Ann Coulter so crazy in the first place. Seriously.

1. I'd want to see a Bacchanalia in its full glory.

2. I'd want to check out Pompeii before Vesuvius blew.

3. I'd want to have a seat in the shade and listen to Socrates - on any given day.

4. somebody already mentioned the Aztec/Maya thing but I might like to walk in some Anasazi dust.

5. I'd like to have free reign in the library at Alexandria before the fire.

jeez - is that five already?

-The entirity of the winter German assault on Russia during WW2
-Hitler and Eva Braun commiting suicide
-Stalin dying
-George W Bush choking on a pretzel
-The construction of that huge mountain facility in Colorado
-The Boston Tea Party
-The life of John Wilkes Boothes 6 months before he assassinated Lincoln
-The Easter Island statues being moved via wood
-The entire biblical period
-Lexington and Concord
-Seneca Falls
-The protest in which people surrounded the pentagon and attempted to levitate it
-Almost any event in the life of Abbie Hoffman
-The era of the Paris communes
-The stabbing of George Harrison
-The signing of the DoI
-FDR being sworn into office, all four times
-The time the army rolled in on Hoovervilles in DC
-The attempted murders and murder of Rasputin
-The Mongol period
-JFK getting down with Marilyn Monroe
-The Bolivians killing Che
-Lincoln's Gettysburg address
-The fall of the Berlin Wall (minus Hasselhoff)
-The sinking of the Titanic
-Roswell, anyone?
-The Tet offensive
-The massive industrialization of the Soviet Union under Stalin

etc...

Man, I want to see alot of crap. I really cannot narrow this down

I'd have to make my very first stop in the Way-Back Machine the Crucifixion of Jesus and check out my theory that a real nasty T-storm kicked up right after the Robe fell on Richard Burton and Mel Gibson sang 'I Love a Parade.'

Actually, I might make my first stop in the TARDIS about 33 years earlier than that in Bethlehem. I'd have to hunt down that bar that Joseph was hanging out at, trying to explain to his drinkin' buddies just how it happened that his wife got pregnant when he was up in Galilee for 6 months on that deck project for Herod's hunting lodge.

Mr. Hippie :beer:

Watch Da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa

See how the first people to cross the land bridge into North America lived

Go to Woodstock

Find out what really happened in regards to the JFK and RFK assassinations.

Follow Christ's life (assuming I had a translator w/me)

2) Hang around John Wilkes Booth before the Lincoln assassination (no doubt I'd also meet, or at least hear of, Edwin Stanton)

3) Watch the Grand Canyon being, ahem, carved out by the Great Flood (by the way, where did all that water go?) :D

4) See Moses leading his tribe around in the wilderness for 40 years

5) Witness the birth of Christ and the Star of Bethlehem