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Would you rather go back in time or forward in time?

 
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Would you rather go back in time and learn from your great, great, great grandparents or would you rather go forward in time and learn from your great, great, great, grandkids?

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Personally... I like history, and I don't like where we are headed, so I would go back in time.

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There's a problem going in either direction. The human heart ever remains the same. However I think I'd want to go to the future. This current BS can't last forever and if humanity survives for any time at all, it will be because we've for some reason stopped exploiting the planet. Maybe a comet or a virus decimates the global population and we eventually start doing things the right way. But then again, my ancestors would be as cool as my great^10 grandkids... I'm a descendant of Robert the Bruce and the Scottish house of Stewart. That might be fun to see, though he was a bit of a hot-head in his later years.

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Definitely into the future to learn from my grandchildren. Having an adult son who grew up with a permaculture mindset and holistic parenting, I am amazed at the quality of human he is. I can only imagine how amazing his kids will be, not to mention the kids of all my other children who haven't grown up yet. In my family we have a "do better every generation" mentality. My parents always told me that it was my job to be better than them.

I think if these children create the world that they dream of and I can leave the legacy that I dream of for them, then the world will be an amazing and epic place that I would LOVE to see.

I have a lot of hope for the future, just outside of the smart cities.
 
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Easy into the future.(assuming I am coming back at some point)   If there are grandkids it implies there is a future which is a good thing.  And assuming I had libraries, internet etc or its equivalents there think how much I could bring back.

There is are real temptation to do backwards though  as I could make huge changes in the world from what I know now.(assuming I could make changes)  If I can't make changes though the past would not be a real temptation.

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I have so many questions about the distant past. I would really, really like to observe ways of life - doing, thinking, being - from ancient times. That's a bit further back than 3 greats, though.
I still choose past, even going back only 5 generations. I could more easily replicate what I've learned from the past. The things learned from the future might be impossible to apply within the limits of present-day technology. That sounds frustrating.

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Well......the industrial revolution and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race, so definitely back in time. If I get to pick, I choose early 1700s  frontier America.
 
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I’ve been moving forward in time my whole life. I will go back for a change.

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I would go back, that would be so exciting!  I'm such a history junkie.

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Either would be super-cool, and while my only paying skill (software) would be of no value either way, I think I'd have no trouble finding employment -- as an inventor/investor in the past or historical curio in the future.

I guess I'd choose the future. Either I'd find an inhospitable hellscape and die quickly or my worries would be put to rest. :)
 
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Matt McSpadden wrote:Would you rather go back in time and learn from your great, great, great grandparents or would you rather go forward in time and learn from your great, great, great, grandkids?



Back, so many things we (humanity) have to learn over and over and over again. Cant we stop that cycle!!!

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I'd go back as long as I could remember what I have experienced in this lifetime, so I can have a much better life.
 
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