If you could go back in time and change/influence only one event...

[soulcougher73]

What would it be and why? This is assuming you can return to your own time line to witness the changes etc. Trying to keep this simple watered down time travel 😛 No parallel universes/time lines etc type stuff.

My initial thought was somehow stopping the bible from being written etc but their was forms of worship/religion before that so i think that would be too hard to stop.

I think id like to take my knowledge and enfluence the creators of the Constitution to more clearly define the powers granted to the Gov/States etc. Add term limits for all offices. Make lobbyist illegal etc all within the Constitution itself. Stuff like that, so that todays America would be a better place.

 

[sonambulo]

I'll think of something and get back to you.

 

[Zeze]

I'd be a selfish prick and memorize the biggest powerball # in the last 15 years.

 

[Ancalagon44]

Go back in time and tell my dad that he has kidney cancer in time for it to be treated.

 

[Texashiker]

I would want to prevent the income tax from ever becoming law.

Our current tax system is broken, and has been broken for decades. I feel that the tax returns fosters breeding amongst the poor. The people who can not afford to have kids are rewarded by the government for having more kids.

 

[manlymatt83]

Go back in time and tell my dad that he has kidney cancer in time for it to be treated.

sorry to hear 🙁

 

[SlitheryDee]

Make sure my dad stayed home one night in august 2006.

 

[flvinny521]

I think id like to take my knowledge and enfluence the creators of the Constitution to more clearly define the powers granted to the Gov/States etc. Add term limits for all offices. Make lobbyist illegal etc all within the Constitution itself. Stuff like that, so that todays America would be a better place.

I would want to prevent the income tax from ever becoming law.

Our current tax system is broken, and has been broken for decades. I feel that the income tax, with its deductions fosters breeding amongst the poor for the tax returns.

These two could go hand in hand. I think there are far too many significant events for me to pick just one.

 

[nageov3t]

"You've got a time machine, I've got a gun... what the hell, let's kill Hitler."

but really... I don't think I would. I can't even decide what to eat for breakfast without an ATOT poll, how would I ever decide how to fundamentally alter the course of history?

 

[edro]

Add term limits for all offices.

Some leaders are irreplaceable.

Taking out Hitler would be interesting, but if it weren't for Hitler and WW2, the USA wouldn't be such a super power that it is today.

 

[Beev]

I would go back and kill Mary. We'd be so advanced today if none of that bullshit ever happened.

 

[edro]

I would go back and kill Mary. We'd be so advanced today if none of that bullshit ever happened.

Islam would rule the world.

 

[Beev]

Islam would rule the world.

Yeah I know, "butterfly effect" and all that. Basically anything I could do to curb religion entirely would work for me.

 

[her209]

I would stop Reagan's presidential election.

:awe:

 

[Macamus Prime]

I would flip a coin 1st.

Heads: play the winning lotto numbers of last week - I just need a few million, nothing crazy.

Tails: Kill Hitler right before the beer hall putsch of 1923.

 

[Zeze]

Some leaders are irreplaceable.

Taking out Hitler would be interesting, but if it weren't for Hitler and WW2, the USA wouldn't be such a super power that it is today.

It's WWII that took US out of Great Depression and everyone on the streets.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'd go back to maybe 20 years before Jesus was born, and invent the video camera. Hopefully 20 years would be enough time for me to figure out how to do it. Maybe I could bring blueprints with me? Then I'd record his birth, death, and ressurection.

Bibles would now come with a DVD.

 

[Macamus Prime]

It's WWII that took US out of Great Depression and everyone on the streets.

It's also WW2 that led to the death of millions of innocents.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143

 

[HAL9000]

I'd kill Jesus or Hitler.

 

[sandorski]

Islam would rule the world.

It likely wouldn't exist, as it's an offshoot of Judeo-Christianity.

 

[gothamhunter]

Just a few options:

Go back to the days of when the Bible was written and see what really went down. I would make sure to bring back proof of what really happened, biblical or not, so that everyone would just shut up about it.

Win the lottery; enough to live comfortably and start my own business - nothing like billions of dollars so that I end up hating myself.

I have another idea that I'd rather not share, but it takes up spot # 3, so here's the spot for that one.

 

[gothamhunter]

I'd go back to maybe 20 years before Jesus was born, and invent the video camera. Hopefully 20 years would be enough time for me to figure out how to do it. Maybe I could bring blueprints with me? Then I'd record his birth, death, and ressurection.

Bibles would now come with a DVD.

Just go back in time with a video camera.

 

[HAL9000]

I'd also possibly change the bible slightly so that the most important commandment would be every christian has to wear bright electric yellow hats all the time.

That way we'd know who they are

 

[sandorski]

Lotto for me. Killing Hitler or something along that line is just too big a change to History to want to muck around with it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Just go back in time with a video camera.

Good point, why am I trying to make things so complicated. :biggrin:

Another fun thing would be to go back to Adam and Eve's time, with a chainsaw, and cut down the tree of knowledge and kill that snake too. :sneaky: