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What is the one thing you'd change in history?

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Lydenburg
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Postby Lydenburg » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:02 pm

Sunarctica wrote:I would simply murder the first Hominid :P


So we never reproduce and multiply as a species.

Therefore, your ancestors were never born.

Therefore, YOU were never born.

Therefore, you never traveled back in time and killed the first hominid.

So we DID reproduce and multiply as a species.

Therefore, your ancestors WERE born.

Therefore, YOU were born.

Therefore, you traveled back in time and killed the first hominid.

Ad infinitum.

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Postby Benuty » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:03 pm

Lydenburg wrote:
Sunarctica wrote:I would simply murder the first Hominid :P


So we never reproduce and multiply as a species.

Therefore, your ancestors were never born.

Therefore, YOU were never born.

Therefore, you never traveled back in time and killed the first hominid.

So we DID reproduce and multiply as a species.

Therefore, your ancestors WERE born.

Therefore, YOU were born.

Therefore, you traveled back in time and killed the first hominid.

Ad infinitum.


Except in the parallel universe in which they decided not to :P.
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Postby MERIZoC » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:09 pm

Napkiraly wrote:
Merizoc wrote:Show the guys who developed agriculture that they had it better off already.

And therefore prevent the dawn of the modern world; modern medicine, communications, travelling, etc.

Yaaay to being stillborn or dying at a young age for many!

Yaaay to the prosperity of the natural world!

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Postby Second Blazing » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:10 pm

Merizoc wrote:
Napkiraly wrote:And therefore prevent the dawn of the modern world; modern medicine, communications, travelling, etc.

Yaaay to being stillborn or dying at a young age for many!

Yaaay to the prosperity of the natural world!


And hurray for a short, cruel, painful life.
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Saint-Thor
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Postby Saint-Thor » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:11 pm

I'd warn the Incas about the Spanish newcomers.

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Val Halla wrote:I would politely ask Hitler to stop being evil.

Just convince them to let him into art school.

Exactly!

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Postby MERIZoC » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:11 pm

Second Blazing wrote:
Merizoc wrote:Yaaay to the prosperity of the natural world!


And hurray for a short, cruel, painful life.

Eh, who cares? You wouldn't know the difference.

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Postby Mesrane » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:15 pm

Tough. But I think I might stop Scotland from forming a union with England in 1707.
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Postby Napkiraly » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:15 pm

Merizoc wrote:
Second Blazing wrote:
And hurray for a short, cruel, painful life.

Eh, who cares? You wouldn't know the difference.

Mhm, I care. Considering I'd have died without modern medical practices before I even was out of the womb. And I care considering we no longer have such shitty things like smallpox about. And I like how we are now able to learn about the universe and our world in depth.

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Postby Napkiraly » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:16 pm

Benuty wrote:
Napkiraly wrote:And therefore prevent the dawn of the modern world; modern medicine, communications, travelling, etc.

Yaaay to being stillborn or dying at a young age for many!

Don't worry I shall take care of the primitivist.

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Postby Maurepas » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:17 pm

I'd bring back Pitch Black Mountain Dew.

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Postby Sunarctica » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:17 pm

Lydenburg wrote:
Sunarctica wrote:I would simply murder the first Hominid :P


So we never reproduce and multiply as a species.

Therefore, your ancestors were never born.

Therefore, YOU were never born.

Therefore, you never traveled back in time and killed the first hominid.

So we DID reproduce and multiply as a species.

Therefore, your ancestors WERE born.

Therefore, YOU were born.

Therefore, you traveled back in time and killed the first hominid.

Ad infinitum.


Or, I would fade out of existence, we already screwed up the world enough with capitalism and war

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Second Blazing
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Postby Second Blazing » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:18 pm

Mesrane wrote:Tough. But I think I might stop Scotland from forming a union with England in 1707.


I'd stop the release of Braveheart and this whole Scottish Independence would never exist.
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Postby MERIZoC » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:19 pm

Napkiraly wrote:
Merizoc wrote:Eh, who cares? You wouldn't know the difference.

Mhm, I care. Considering I'd have died without modern medical practices before I even was out of the womb. And I care considering we no longer have such shitty things like smallpox about. And I like how we are now able to learn about the universe and our world in depth.

Smallpox and other infectious diseases were only a problem after humans adopted agriculture.

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Postby Benuty » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:19 pm

Merizoc wrote:
Napkiraly wrote:And therefore prevent the dawn of the modern world; modern medicine, communications, travelling, etc.

Yaaay to being stillborn or dying at a young age for many!

Yaaay to the prosperity of the natural world!

Really...how exactly does one cause a fallacy to prosper?
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Postby Benuty » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:20 pm

Merizoc wrote:
Second Blazing wrote:
And hurray for a short, cruel, painful life.

Eh, who cares? You wouldn't know the difference.

Someone from somewhere else most certainly would.
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Postby MERIZoC » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:20 pm

Benuty wrote:
Merizoc wrote:Yaaay to the prosperity of the natural world!

Really...how exactly does one cause a fallacy to prosper?

Nature is a fallacy? Good luck proving that.

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Postby Benuty » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:22 pm

Merizoc wrote:
Benuty wrote:Really...how exactly does one cause a fallacy to prosper?

Nature is a fallacy? Good luck proving that.

It seemed you were appealing to nature by claiming the natural world is far better.

Just because it is natural, does not mean it is correctly logical.
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Postby Napkiraly » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:24 pm

Merizoc wrote:
Napkiraly wrote:Mhm, I care. Considering I'd have died without modern medical practices before I even was out of the womb. And I care considering we no longer have such shitty things like smallpox about. And I like how we are now able to learn about the universe and our world in depth.

Smallpox and other infectious diseases were only a problem after humans adopted agriculture.

Yes because people never caught nor died from diseases before hand.

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Postby United Marxist Nations » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:28 pm

Napkiraly wrote:
Merizoc wrote:Smallpox and other infectious diseases were only a problem after humans adopted agriculture.

Yes because people never caught nor died from diseases before hand.

And let's not forget those (including my mother) who would die because the Caesarian Section would never be created.
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Postby Benuty » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:30 pm

United Marxist Nations wrote:
Napkiraly wrote:Yes because people never caught nor died from diseases before hand.

And let's not forget those (including my mother) who would die because the Caesarian Section would never be created.

Unless you are the fabled man not born of woman destined to slay the great Tyrant.
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Postby Tyrandel » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:31 pm

I'd make Eugene V. Debs win the 1912 US Presidential Election.

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Postby United Marxist Nations » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:31 pm

Benuty wrote:
United Marxist Nations wrote:And let's not forget those (including my mother) who would die because the Caesarian Section would never be created.

Unless you are the fabled man not born of woman destined to slay the great Tyrant.

No, my older brother had to be C-sectioned; I was born just fine.
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Postby Zathganastan » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:33 pm

I'd go back in time to right before I left to destroy whatever it was that allowed me to travel back to begin with and see if it creates a time paradox.
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Postby Anarkhist Kyrylashka » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:34 pm

Give the Makhnovists better weaponry to not fall to the RSFSR in the Ukrainian Revolution.
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Postby Donut section » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:36 pm

I would change christianity from becoming the roman state religion. Have the empire accept all religions and punish perpetrators of religious violence.

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