Would You Go forward or backward

,. If given a choice ?,assuming there is another life that allows movement in time a few yrs or perhaps even centuries ??. In another life , After this one , Would You go Forward in time to be with Your Granchildren ?,. or back in time to be with your gran parents ?.This was a question on TV last nite that My Sara and I have been lively discussing ,. and i thought you guys could have fun with it if you are cozied up to the fire as we are . I predict the past will be a favorite Here , over the UNknown Future . My favorite era seems to be my Dads born in 1915 or perhaps 20 yrs earlier granpa;s time ,. My ,,the changes they SAw and MADE,.
 
I never knew my grandparents. Three gone before I was born, last died when I was about 3. What I would give for a couple hours to sit on a park bench with each, and find out what they were like. There is a big hole in my life where they should have been. That said, it sure would be neat to look forward to see how my grand kids turn out.
 
I like sci-fi and shows about the future.

And yet, I think I'd like to go backwards and see stuff I've heard stories of.

Good question tho, would need to the honk on it more.

Paul
 
That's a tough one. If we could go back with the knowledge we have now we sure would know what's a smart investment and what won't pan out lol. I'm not sure if I'd want to come back given a choice,im hoping to see my already past family in heaven someday and my still living ones down the road,hopefully I will or I may just fade on than there's nothing after that but time will tell and in the meantime believe.
 
I'm not sure what you fully mean. Do you stay in the other time period? If you go back are you allowed to interact in a meaningful way with people you heard about or knew? I would love to go back to about 1970 to give my family more money to work with. The problem is you get to back but what do you do about the money and are you allowed to change the past? Yes, money does not solve a lot of problems hence it would not do quite a number of people I knew any good to give them money but for the immediate family it would. Not that I was especially troublesome as a kid having a little spending money would probably help me see some flawed thinking. I needed more constructive things to do as opposed to just busy work and not picking fights with other kids.
 
This is a very hard question to answer. If you go ahead with your grand children everybody that was family and friends will be gone and if you go back you would never know how your grand and great grand kid did in life. The lady across the road from us lived to about a 100 years old and the last 15 years of her life she was not happy. She had out lived her children and some of her great grand kid.
 
Showcrop, I Salute You !, LOL , But In All Seriousness . in REALITY ,.You hit it on the Head for
Sure with a workable and doable easy solution , that reward is available to all of us in this life
,.AMEN ,,. and Thank You For making such a Profound, Prolific statement in so few words.
 
I would chose to go back. I am closer to the end of my life than the start. I grew up in a golden age in my eyes. Enough technology to make life better/longer but not so much to dominate our lives.
 
I would like to live in a time where being politically correct was never an issue. A person was judged on merit and that alone.
 
Well Golly ,That is a question as another post , THAT You Should Make then NY986,. Yes ,To go back and forth would had been fun and nice to have that tool , especially when i think of mistakes my folks made , I often Wonder what cousins,Phillip , Vincent ,and Gary could had been had they not died at a young age in rural life related accidents,.. and just for fun my mistakes with girls,. if i only knew then ,What I know Now . Ohh WOW ,.LOL
 
I'd go forward. The "good old days" weren't really that good. My father told of one time in January and February the temperature ran 32 days without getting above zero. I vaguely remember that. I was 2 years old. Our house was heated with a wood burning range in the kitchen and a wood/coal burning stove in the living room. The bedrooms were not heated. We had not indoor plumbing.

During that cold spell, the folks abandoned the kitchen, moved the kitchen range into the dining room, and we holed up in the dining room and living room. My dad cut firewood in the kitchen with an axe and crosscut saw. A bucket in one of the abandoned bedrooms replaced the outhouse.

On another note, my great grandmother bore ten children and outlived five of them, including my grandmother. Diphtheria, whooping cough and other now eradicated diseases got four of them and my grandmother died of complications from childbirth the day after my father was born, probably from something simple that would be fixed today as a matter of routine.

I could go on and on, but you get the drift. It's fun to dwell on being in an Old West gunfight or whatever, but would we really want to return to those days?
 
The past has always had a fascination for me, especially the times of our grandparents and great-grandparents (I'm mid-50s now).

The person who has lived this lifespan would be an interesting one to talk to:

Born 1870, Died 1960. 90 years old, probably pretty common. By the time this person was thirty, well into adulthood, they saw the turn of the century. The progress between 1870-1900 must have been astounding, won't go into the technological and societal changes--too numerous to list. Then, the span between 1900-1960 saw us into the jet age, and technological advances again too numerous to list.

But it may be that the age of my generation has seen the swiftest change of all. There are many who believe this is the case.

I'd like to talk to that 90 yr old.
 
I would like to see what was going on before the "Big Bang". Or, before He created heaven and and earth. How was He created?

Philosophy is fun!
 
(quoted from post at 09:58:24 01/14/18) I feel sorry for the young people of today, they will have to pay for the mess our country is in now!

Has not every generation said that? We somehow survived FDR and Carter (well some didn't).
 
Keep your chin up, the mess B. Hussein Ozero and his dimwitocrat helpers in congress made is being undone by the country's savior, DJT.
 
I was born about 90-120 years to late and 1500-1800 miles to far east. Just would prefer to go back I guess. Not much I care to see forward. No kids, and soon will be not much left of the family. As us 4 kids pretty well sum up the last of the name except for my one brothers son. My sister has 2 kids one of each and the one brother has the same. My other brother and I have no kids.
 
(quoted from post at 12:29:12 01/14/18) I would like to see what was going on before the "Big Bang". Or, before He created heaven and and earth. How was He created?

Philosophy is fun!

The answer to that question and many more are awaiting you in the book.
 
Only thing I would go back for is Dec 1975 and get the uncle I never knew not to get in that car. I was born a year later and feel my life experience has been greatly affected by the death of a person I never knew. I often wonder what life for me would be like had he not died tragically.
 
I would like to go back 100 years to experience life in town. What the stores were like, what the people coming into town used for transportation, the insides of the stores. I also am not afraid of the future I'd like to see what this world will be like 100 years from now. I don't think it will be as bad as some folks think it will be.
 
I wouldn't mind going back a few years, but just for a visit, sure wouldn't want to live there!

Where would I want to go?

Creation.

See a living dinosaur.

A stroll through the Garden of Eden.

Loading and departure of the Arc.

Parting of the Red Sea.

Construction of a pyramid.

Encounter the living Christ!!!

Discovery of the Grand Canyon.

Go to and walk on the moon.

First crew of the UP Big Boy.

Pilot a battleship, submarine, fighter jet.

Fly the Space Shuttle or any rocket ship.

Into the future, I don't think I would fit or function, but a trip to an inhabited planet would be interesting!

But, I do have a mansion waiting in the New Jerusalem!

That's all that matters!
 
Early 60's for me. I would love to be around Dad and Mom, and the Grandmothers again. Then talk to the Navy recruiter that lied to me. Stan
 
I would definitely go back in time.

I'm a history buff and there are many things that I would like to witness.

Dean
 
I don't have any kids or anyone to carry on after me. So the future doesn't really mean anything to me. I would go back in time. My dad was almost 60 when I was born. I've always wondered what he was like as a young man.
 
Go back in time just before cell phones. Too many times Iam waiting in bank or checkout lanes and the persons in front and back of me are jabbing on the phone. Or the guy in front of you at a light and he doesn't notice the light turns green. Can't look at the cell screen and the traffic light at the same time.
 
Will stay where I am. Each generation had its own hardships. Might look interesting from the outside but living it could be a different story.

JMHO

Vito
 
I am nostalgic about the past, and think sometimes it would be neat to go back, but we tend to cherish the good times and forget the bad and painful. I think of my family ancestors, how they had a dozen kids hoping that half of them would live to adulthood so they had enough help on the farm to not starve to death.
 
Being only 46, I would go back and spend more time with my Dad that I lost when I was 20, I was working a lot of hours to help him and mom out and just didn't think he would go that quick. He was 53. chris
 
If I had a choice, I would turn time back to the late 1980's and that would be just fine. Everything was good.
Parents and in-law parents were still alive and best of all I would have 30 more years with my wonderful wife who died in 2015 with a brain tumor.
 
Mark , would be interested in your spinal cord problem as I , too, have had a major surgery on mine (severe spinal stenosis) in late 2012. Resulting plates and spacers etc but not before a lot of permanent nerve damage and resulting lack of function , feeling , etc and constant muscle over reaction and conflicting reactions. just wondering what exactly you experienced and maybe compare notes and maybe shed some light for both of us as far as unanswered questions where we go from here and what to expect, good or bad. I'll understand if you decline. Thanks. Randy Brickner in MI
 
For me, yes it's tempting to say go back and re-live the decade of the 1960,s because I did that and graduated in '69 so lived the muscle car ara and soooo enjoyed it. BUT, since I already did that, what I really would love is to live to experience my kids and grands and even great grands try and succeed in life and to enjoy their good times and be there with a helping hand through any bad times. So , my answer is , go forward as you can't change or help the past, but you sure could help out the future and make a difference.
 
I was on team that provided Masonic rites for a couple of years. The older the guy was, the fewer folks there. One guy lived to 103 and there were only 3 people to show up, they were his kids, and a cousin. The youngest was probably 80. One friend of mine lived to be 90. He told me many times that he wished he hadn?t outlived his wife and son.
 
Back a bit ..... not too long back though, just back enough to find the guy that invented discussion forums :)
 
Im surprised a lot didn't say go back and make investments in the stock market. That would be only for greed. LOL

When you think of the unknown of the future, may be the future sorrows, could you face them? I would tend to stay in the present. I feel I've lived a blessed life.
 
(quoted from post at 17:18:49 01/14/18) Only thing I would go back for is Dec 1975 and get the uncle I never knew not to get in that car. I was born a year later and feel my life experience has been greatly affected by the death of a person I never knew. I often wonder what life for me would be like had he not died tragically.
I hear you. My uncle Frankie drowned when he was a young teen. Family has had hard time since. Be great to spend a little time fishing with him.
 
Maybe go back to when my grandkids still loved to see me coming but then I might miss the greatgrands that are not here yet. One thing for certain in the life to come I, as a Christian, believe we will not be constrained by time so I will get to know all those who have gone before that had accepted Christ as Lord and there will be no delay (for me at least) before all my friends and family I left behind will be with me as well. I think the Lord made all of our times work the best for us-in due season we existed here and will be with Him forever if we choose to be.
 

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