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Junktion
from Northern Jutland (Denmark) on 2003-05-21 01:18 [#00707785]
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...I was a little drunk yesterday (again) and I forgot to turn on my alarm-clock when going to bed.
I was dreaming these weird dreams all about time-travelling. And in all the dreams it was the same year I travelled to; 1999.
I don't know why 4 years was the amount of time I was travelling in, but the way the last part of the dream ended freaked me a bit.
I was sitting and telling this guy about the future when I suddenly realized that September 11 had not happened yet, and that I maybe had a chance of stopping it If I could...but I didn't want to. I think I didn't want to because our whole future and present is based on what happened September 11 2001, that our life would have changed direction without doubt if it hadn't happened.
Would you have tried to stop it?
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DiaZoHeXagoN
from The city of angels (United States) on 2003-05-21 01:20 [#00707786]
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i often think about things like this...you know going back and changing things...but then I wonder if I would know the people I know today or be where I am today.....so Im not sure how to answer that
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manticore
from London (ON) (Canada) on 2003-05-21 02:06 [#00707799]
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could it be that you have been listening to the Prince song '1999' one too many times of late?!?
as far as accidents being preventable, often when some major occurance of historical significance takes place - such as, most recently, the war in iraq - i often have a feeling of the dreadful inevability of what has happened - particularly as it unfolds - almost as though it were a necessary element of the present which propels us into the future.
there really does seem to be a kind of determinism to our existence, in the past influencing the present which in turn influences the future - if you assume that there is a causal link to it all - that for every action there is a reaction and so on.
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nacmat
on 2003-05-21 02:33 [#00707813]
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I dont know how could you have stopped it
who would have believed you
and besides... maybe they wouldnt have had any interest in stopping it
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eXXailon
from purgatory on 2003-05-21 02:39 [#00707815]
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Yes, I agree with nacmat. How would anyone just believe one individual saying the WTC is going down in a plance crash september 11th, 2001? I don't think they would evacuate 1000s of people in the twin towers "just in case".
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Junktion
from Northern Jutland (Denmark) on 2003-05-21 02:56 [#00707824]
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bo...but I remember that the FBI was aware of the some rumors before it happended, and didnt react on it cuz they didnt beliave it....
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eXXailon
from purgatory on 2003-05-21 03:04 [#00707830]
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how would you prove that what you say is true?
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Junktion
from Northern Jutland (Denmark) on 2003-05-21 03:06 [#00707831]
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I wouldnt...I would give them a hint about something...If they can't figure it out, it's theyre own fault :P
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eXXailon
from purgatory on 2003-05-21 03:09 [#00707832]
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From a guy that looks like a south park character I wouldn't take anything serious. :P
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fat kaimo
from Finland on 2003-05-21 03:10 [#00707833]
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heh that south park guy really looks like you...
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nacmat
on 2003-05-21 03:10 [#00707835]
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there is a way:
you start shouting it on the streets... so maybe in some crappy tv program they listen to you, just to make fun of you and raise the audience... so maybe nobody believes you, but if alqaeda see how a crazy person is saying their plans on tv they are afraid of doing it...
and if they finally do it...you become famous for knowing the future
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Ceri JC
from Jefferson City (United States) on 2003-05-21 03:20 [#00707845]
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Paradoxically, you probably couldn't- as it is such a large event, averting it would change the future enough that you probably wouldn't go back in time, at least not to that period. And even if you did, you wouldn't warn people about it (as it wouldn't of happened to you), hence it would happen again... Head fuck, isn't it?
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Ceri JC
from Jefferson City (United States) on 2003-05-21 03:21 [#00707847]
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"and if they finally do it...you become famous for knowing the future"
More likely you are arrested and interrogated by FBI as they think you had something to do with it :(
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nacmat
on 2003-05-21 03:30 [#00707853]
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then they are idiots... cos if you begin to advice the world in 1999 why would you be involved... and if so, what would you be guilty of? if you are trying to tell the world about the disaster from 2 years before?
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manticore
from London (ON) (Canada) on 2003-05-21 03:56 [#00707866]
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time travel is logically impossible - at least within the realm of our physical universe - because the moment you attempt to go back in time is the moment you cease to exist. the most minute change in the time/space continuum would cause such a radical change of events on a cosmic scale that the consequences would likely be unfathomable. i mean, hasn't anyone ever watched the Simpsons halloween special where Homer travels back in time?!?
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