Hey Pandas, If You Could Go Back In Time And Change One Thing, What Would It Be? (Closed)

Let's face it: people have made some big mistakes. If you could go back in time, what would you change?

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I would make sure Hitler got accepted into art school.

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IlovemydogShilo 2 years ago

I would have made his parents wear condoms.

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Simple, I would sink the 3 ships Columbus sailed. Or I would show up on that beach a day early and warn the villagers that strange men would arrive on the shore tomorrow - Do NOT be nice to them, they will kill you all.

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Thorfin Wolfsbane

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Good girl wanna be. 2 years ago

I would go with you.

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I'd go back and prevent my grandfather from molesting my little sisters. Then I'd rule the world.

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Bgray450

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Lightningstar 2 years ago

wow... i'm sorry your sisters had to go through that

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I'd find myself in high school , sit myself down, look myself in the eyes and tell myself: "What your feeling isn't abnormal and it isn't your fault. It's gender dysphoria. You aren't a boy, and the harder you try the worse it's going to get. I am the woman you can become once you stop hating yourself and hiding from your dreams. I love you."

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Halley Maxwell

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Robin Roper 2 years ago

I'm a Christian and I do support your realization that you were not the gender you were labeled at birth.

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Nothing. In history because the end result might be worse than it is now, and in my own life because as painful as tons of things in the past were, they led me to the most perfect partner I could ever hope for, and I would not risk never having had him. Simple as that.

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Lousha

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Good girl wanna be. 2 years ago

Yeah, if you change one thing, you change everything.

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Go back to 19 May 1940 to save my grandfather from concentration-camp. He survived but he was a broken man…

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Rez Fidel

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Harri Ellis 2 years ago

My heart aches for your family.

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I would have not gone to school the day I got molested

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Notyo Biznez

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Lightningstar 2 years ago

I am so sorry

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I would get out of the toxic relationship I was in and still struggle with way sooner.

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Robin Woordes

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Luke Morgan 2 years ago

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I’d speak up about my verbally abusive 3rd grade teacher sooner.

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Happi doggi (all pronouns)

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

Good for you!

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I would go back in time, dig up all the dinosaur fossils, knowing where to find them and all, and carve 'Thorfin Wuz Here" on all of them and then rebury them. Teehee!

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Thorfin Wolfsbane

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Bacony Cakes 2 years ago (edited)

I'd write "Kilroy Was Here" all over places in their native languages. Eiffel Tower at the 1889 World's Fair? Kilroy était ici. The mosaic floors in Pompeii? Hic Kilroy erat. The Terracotta Army? 基爾羅伊在這裡。The Valley of the Kings? 𓎢𓇋𓃭𓂋𓇌 𓍢𓋴 𓎛𓂋.

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#11

I would have never left my husband.

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Pharmtechgurl 2 years ago

I would never have married mine

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#12

Go to the Americas a 1100 years back and teach them the tech to fight back in around 500 years.

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Pan

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Marin Mincev 2 years ago

And then , a 100 years before Columbus they'll go to Europe with hundreds of ships and kill them all . Very clever indeed. And after 900+ years , the Bored Lama will ask a question : " Hey Lamas , if you could go back ....... " . Its not like that easy i think .

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#13

smack the s**t out of the idiot at hasbro who was in charge of their beyblade burst designs

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best turtle

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ima cat 2 years ago

My favorite so far!

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#14

I would have listened to my Mother. Simple as that!

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Inside looking out

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Tee Witt 2 years ago

One thing I did right was NOT listening to my mother.

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#15

1. Kick Adolf Hitler, every person that made a movie or book that a dog dies in, Osama Bin Laden, Jack the ripper, Kim Jong-il, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Stalin, and John Wilkes Booth in the balls and then throw him out the window when they were baby's. And 2. save John Lennon, John F Kennedy, MLK Jr, and Abraham Lincoln.

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Good girl wanna be. 2 years ago (edited)

I like that list! As long as it didn't change the person I finnnnnaaaally became. Footnote: That's still happening, by the way! Im changing and hopefully growing.

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#16

not jumping

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Lil Neeagor

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#17

These questions are very tricky because I either want to change nothing or change it all, depending on the mood.

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Titas Burinskas

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#18

I'd go back to lunch yesterday & order a FULL rack of those succulent baby back ribs. Half rack is wack!

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Good girl wanna be. 2 years ago

I love you.

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#19

I prevent all the fights me and my sis had in front of friends while growing up

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Tee Witt 2 years ago

I would face up to my parents about all the lies he told to get me into trouble

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#20

I mean some things are like to learn to say no to (about to be) sexual abusers I called “friends” in elementary school. And to not listen to a child’s solution to a problem I had at home to “just lie about it” now i cant even tell the truth without the impulse to lie…………i need help

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Good girl wanna be. 2 years ago (edited)

I understand way that happens. I'd like to share something, I started doing this. From this day forward ( day was about 15 years ago) no matter what, I will not lie about anything. Telling truth is very freeing. Even if its something unflattering about myself.

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#21

I wouldn’t have gone to college.

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#22

i wulve gotten me an IEP sooner, i was told at four i was to " smart" to have autism and only got my IEP in ninth grade. It would have saved a lot of trouble and tears if i had gotten it sooner

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Has sold soul for corn chip

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Tamra Stiffler 2 years ago

I do hope things are less stressful for you now, Alexis.

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#23

Talk Mark David Chapman out of it.

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Mary Vettel

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Eppe 2 years ago

Lennon didn't deserve to die like that, but he was no saint https://edgar.ae/articles/john-lennon-dark-side/

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#24

Kick Woodrow Wilson down the stairs so he doesn't win the election and cause:
- The US to hesitate in joining World War 1
- Russia to starve due to Germany
- Leading to the formation of the USSR
- Wilson personally vetoing Japan's proposal to end racism in the Treaty Of Versailles
- Giving Japan their own islands to be racist to, therefore kicking off Japan obliterating the entirety of east Asia
- The USSR being something Hitler could rally against to rise to power
- Nuclear bombs being developed and nearly destroying the world several times over
- Korean and Vietnam wars
- The USSR pressuring the Middle East, forming rebellious groups
- Said rebellious groups being assisted by the US government because they're anti-Soviets
- Aforementioned said rebellious groups switching ideologies from "get the USSR out of here" to "let's be super f*cking mad all the time" once the USSR falls
- Al-Qaeda, one of the previous aforementioned said rebellious groups, crashing planes into the World Trade Center
- The Middle East being bombed into tuna paste due to wars caused by Al-Qaeda crashing planes into the World Trade Center
- China becoming the world's first intergalactic empire due to communism and being allergic to high school students with shopping bags
- North Korea threatening to nuke us every 2 seconds
- Ham and Banana Hollandaise, along with the rest of those disgusting 1950's cuisines, existing
- People build buildings out of something else other than raw cubes of concrete that fall apart within 10 months

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Bacony Cakes

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Tamra Stiffler 2 years ago

That is a well thought list!

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#25

I would have saved more money and bought a home.

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Sean Harrison

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#26

Prevent the invention of plastic.

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Sandra Green

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ima cat 2 years ago

Well, that probably would've have led to the slight destruction of the economy, as almost all packaging requires plastic :P

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#27

If 8 had a time machine, wouldn't that make me immortal? If so then I would go to the start of humanity just to watch us progress through time.

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AceOfChaos317

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Sosena Hailu 2 years ago

And find out how Jesus fed the five thousand

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#28

I'd warn my parents to re-arrange the money transfer to the bank. Would save our family from banckrupty and debt and a close family friend from getting shot and bound to a wheelchair.
I'd also try to convince my mom to go to the medic more often, so she discover the cancer sooner.

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Milena B. G. Rosa

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Marin Mincev 2 years ago

Oh my god, please tell me too about credits.

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#29

I'd have taken my dx of prediabetes seriously.

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Rose Mattax

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#30

I would go back to 15 years and tell myself than I don't really want kids!

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D_Kat

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anarkzie 2 years ago

R.I.P D_Kat's kids self-esteem.

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#31

Also when I would kill Osama Bin Laden I would also stop 9/11 and save millions of jews when I kill Hitler

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Lucas Skrobot

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adiiantryx 2 years ago

it's difficult to say whether by the death of a singular person whether history would deviate in a major fashion. Indeed, killing Osama may lead to more crafted attack than even 9/11 just like the void of Hitler might've led to more radical Nazis like Strasser and others.

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#32

I would take a hi-res camera back to the Jurassic period. and record all life on earth.

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All's Gravy

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Marin Mincev 2 years ago (edited)

And for your safety don't forget a tank .

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#33

Prevent the assassination of Czar Alexander II. He was a reformer, and if he had not died in 1881, Russia would probably have continued to progress ethically and socially. Maybe if he had lived to a ripe old age and died of natural causes, Communism would never have taken root in Russia, and we would never have had the Soviet Union.

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Freya the Wanderer

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J. F. 2 years ago

While we are at it: Trying to make the Treaty of Versailes less crazy to prevent nationalsocialism to become popular in Germany

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#34

1. Tell the priest to put Hitler back in the fountain
2. Sit down with my younger self and say, "Your gay." And just walk away. No questions asked, no questions answered. Hopefully that would make me realize that sooner.

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Mothsoup

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Gilda Farrell 2 years ago

One idea might be to seriously remove Hitler's father from his life. He was a brute who beat and humiliated the child Hitler and his mother terribly. Psychiatrist Alice Miller describes it in her book, "For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence" how severe abuse can damage not only the body but the psyche, and in turn creates violent individuals.

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#35

Nothing, if i change one thing, everything will be changed

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Rage of Aquarius 2 years ago

Finally, a time traveller who knows that it's too risky to alter the past. The Spatio-Temporal agency thanks you.

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I'd find out what started my brother's alcoholism. That moment when he thought that climbing into a bottle was better than living a sober life. I always thought he would have done so much more if he hadn't given into the demons. But his addiction destroyed his kidneys and cost him his life.

Just to change that one moment might have meant he'd still be here.

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Carol Emory

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#37

I would go back and tell my mom to not put me on the school I was for years (mobbing, bullying, abusive teachers) then I would tell my self to learn when it is neccessary and to make more friends and go to more partys. You only life once and I wasted soooo much chances...

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Laura Mende (Human)

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Tee Witt 2 years ago

I think many people feel this as they go on in their lives. We have to take what we have and make the most of it, could easily be worse I am sure. (or I keep telling myself that)

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#38

Show my dad what happened to my older sister and me after she told me everything that he did to her. Hopefully he would treat my older sister like an actual human being rather than a crusty piece of s**t stuck on his shirt.

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AsherABitch<3

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#39

I would go back and have one more conversation with my dad. I love you daddy ❤

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Gini Gesler

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MARIAN JESSICA VILLANUEVA 2 years ago

Awwwww

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#40

Making a list of natural disasters with exact timing and hand over cruicial information to several sources. The usual stuff like "There will be an earthquake, on that Island a vulcano will errupt, 2019 will have pandemic - here's the formula for the vaccine and where it starts"

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J. F.

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Peter Trudell Jr 2 years ago

but you've got to couch it in vague language in quatrains... people just can't handle the unvarnished truth about the future!

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#41

Hi again, btw, i want to see some animals that were extinct

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Random_player

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I would catch myself before I got to involved with my past crushes. My first one humiliated me in front of 50 people who posted it to social media as she laughed in my face, the second one vanished off the face of the earth, the third one suddenly turned on me and a "boyfriend" she later dumped appeared literally out of thin air caused me and her and all her friends to fall out, the fourth one twisted my words and actions to make me look like a sexual pervert and turned the remainder of my friends against me and kept pressing her attack until I mentally broke and now need professional help I can't get and the fifth was a nice rejection finally but it still left me pretty damned sad. That's the short version btw

All my other problems span over 16 years now like having no friends in school ebcause people would come up to me daily to assault me and try to break my arms and legs and anything else they touched, destroyed my medical supplies, caused me to be alone and hated all throughout my school life and basically turned me into a psychopath for a few years until I met my first real friends in college where I started turning my life around. Which is the same friends Crush number 4 took away from me, causing me to be almost alone again. I have a rare few who have stuck by my side

All in all, I want a peaceful happy life with no more pain please. I'm struggling enough to cope as it is

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Christian Meier

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Faith Naboris 2 years ago

I hope you can achieve happiness as well, I’m so sorry you aren’t feeling great right now, I really wish that in the near future you can find your feet and regain balance in this twisted world.

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#43

Not getting pregnant with my oldest while at college. I love my grandkids (her kids), but my life would have been different having her later.

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Dana Ramsey

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#44

Make the man who was going to shoot Lincon change his mind, or do the same thing with the one who shot MLK junior

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Chill guy havin a chill day

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#45

Never have an argument with my late little brother. You don't appreciate time with someone until they're gone.

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CHuZ

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#46

stop trying to be everyone’s friend, theirs no point

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Tee Witt 2 years ago

You really have no wish or need to be everyone's friend. Find one or two Good friends and be happy.

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#47

Start therapy when I had my first mental breakdown, and not wait 23 years to fix myself.

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Bex

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#48

Hold & love on my baby girl for way longer than I did before she passed. I regret it every day.

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MFree

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MARIAN JESSICA VILLANUEVA 2 years ago

Sorry for you loss my dear💜💜💜

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#49

Wouldn't dare messing with history that involves anyone but people I know. As for myself and my family, I would maybe change some decisions that were made.

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Rage of Aquarius 2 years ago

wise

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#50

Try to convince Steve Jobs to undergo proper medical treatment when he was first diagnosed with cancer. Might not have saved his life, but would have given him a couple of years. most precious time!

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Akalvin

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Robin Roper 2 years ago

Yea, diet will not help pancreatic cancer.

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#51

I would show the recordings to the first humans to eliminate the need for religion.

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All's Gravy

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J. F. 2 years ago

I would go back to the time 10.000 years ago where only very few humans lived and teach them modern social values and stuff. (There was an ice age, bringing humanity to the border of extinction)

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#52

Go to see how my friend's animal died because it was a teen and she can't tell me

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Random_player

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MARIAN JESSICA VILLANUEVA (Submission author) 2 years ago

Hi, this one was posted accidently, sorry

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#53

Nothing. I'd be worried how that would mess with the space time continuum.

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Peter Trudell Jr 2 years ago

But that's the fun of it! Once you go back in time, you're no longer bound to the same continuum, you can mess with it to your hearts content! We live in a multiverse, so you can just bounce around until you find one you like!

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#54

What if Jesus hadn't been crucified ?

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adiiantryx 2 years ago

there would be no christianity - the whole point of his "godsent" nature was proved when he came back to life supposedly, so without that there, a new form of islam would probably have conquered european religion

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#55

Let my grandfather live a little longer.

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MARIAN JESSICA VILLANUEVA 2 years ago

Same here

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#56

Me and my depression

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#57

I'd tell myself not to take out ANY credit. I think it's ridiculous that credit cards can be given to 18 year old kids that have no money sense - and I'm still paying off the debts I got myself into with cards, loans and overdrafts. If only I had have saved that money instead.

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#58

I wish I would have known the love I had with my college sweetheart, I think I chose the wrong path... I pray for the 'do over' to make it right when I die...

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#59

I wish I had known what mental abuse was as a 1980's teen....

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Krisp Lee

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#60

Absolutely nothing. "A butterfly flaps its wings..."
You never know what echoes and repercussions could happens. The universe seeks balance. Take away one evil, and it gets replaced by a worse one. Am I the only one who's seen literally any sci-fi film???

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Rage of Aquarius

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#61

Shoot Hitler

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Smiley!

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Mine Truly 2 years ago

No, don't shoot Hitler, that's a rookie mistake. Get him accepted into art school.

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#62

I would have tried to stop climate change before it got this bad by raising environmental awareness.

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Thorfin Wolfsbane 2 years ago

As admirable as that sentiment is, people WERE trying to raise environmental awareness for a LONG time. So...I don't think doing the same thing over again would make a difference.

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#63

In my own life, I would never have let myself discover gacha on YouTube. In world history I would have tried to make sure Hitler was accepted or whatever made him "evil" in the first place never happened.

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adiiantryx 2 years ago

maybe get him another family, his father was quite unsupportive it seems

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#64

I would make sure that there was only a small range of wealth before developing advanced technology.

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#65

Mine is a bit more complicated, but I would arrange for Besarion Ivanes dze Jughashvili to fall into a snowbank and die from exposure while on the way home from the tavern in the winter of 1879. I invite you to do a little exploring and see if you think the absence of this alcoholic who brutalized his wife and son would likely change the future.

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Gaby Almodovar 2 years ago

If not Stalin, would be somebody else. These kind of people rise to be leaders, because the social-economical circumstances of that country allows it. You should change those circumstances, what makes happen a sociopath to be leader.

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#66

I would stayed in the Army and retired after 20 yrs.

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#67

I'd throw an entire box of spanners into the historical works and give a list detailing every disaster leading to the Late Bronze Age Collapse to all the cultures in the Mediterranean, along with suggested actions the people could take to avoid it or lessen the impact - since it led to the Greek Dark Age (1100-750 BCE) and a setback in social and technical progress for western civilisation.

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#68

I'd go back and try to tackle fear. To socialize and hangout more with others back when I used to be in school. As I grew up with social anxiety and missed out on a whole lot.

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#69

I would tell my 14 years old self to be smart and change schools when I have the chance, and I'd tell all my bullies to f*ck off, I hope they sort of grow up and regret their actions when I'm not there to be their scapegoat anymore, they will miss me much more than I'll ever miss them, it's their loss and not mine. I would tell myself I matter, I am worthy of being loved

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#70

I'd release Sirenhead into the dawn of the Earth to record all the sounds of the world throughout its history. Then I'd collect them all in modern times. Hopefully he won't have gone homicidal by then.

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#71

Murder Hitler, Hirohito, Fred Trump and Elbridge Gerry. Just to name a few.

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Opal Troyer 2 years ago

that is one way to be sent to h e double hokey sticks

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#72

man, the amount of crap moves that I've made in video games I could fix...

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What do you think ?

Mark Fuller 2 years ago

Take us back just a tad pre-industrial and leave it there. Different pace of life, advanced enough not to be archaic and just ahead of setting our current downward trajectory of over population and pollution. Not without its problems but on balance, I reckon we'd all be happier.

T. D. Bostick 2 years ago

I'd buy bitcoins en masse as soon as I heard of them.

Oerff On Tour 2 years ago

I would go back to the old Egyptians and leave an iPhone in King Tutanchamon's tomb

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