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If you could go back in time BUT

Would you?

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nogoodnamesleft

nogoodnamesleft

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With the preface that you wouldn't know you've gone back in time to your childhood let's say 10yo and also your life would pan out exactly the same (like a rewind with no changes)

would you do it?

I would in a heartbeat personally
 

Mr. Robot

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Oct 30, 2017
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There's no point in this question.
You wouldn't know anyway
No time travel shenanigans
 
TylerDurden4321

TylerDurden4321

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boxter432 said:
how do I know that hasn't happened?
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That's what I was thinking too. How would I know?

Edit: I think we were thinking he meant, we would be our younger self on the outside and OP meant that we'd watching from the outside without the ability to interact with anything, not even visually ...and our younger self wouldn't know we've gon back in time...?

Edit2: No? It's first person reliving? And our current self wouldn't know that we went back?? Huh? I don't get it.
 
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Sure, I would love to go back to poverty, bullying, the army, bad jobs and a lot of bad choices without the chance to change them one bit.
 
mnk

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nogoodnamesleft said:
you'd still experience the best things you've ever experienced though

ofc ymmv but you'd go through the highest highs again and your "first times" etc

the joy would be there
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But again, without knowing you're reliving it... it's just life. It's literally pointless if you don't have awareness of doing it. You're not extending your life, you're not living longer, you're just living your one singular life.

Like you'd say "yes I'll do it" and then nothing tangible happens because you already lived your life and didn't actually experience it a second time.
 
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nogoodnamesleft

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mnk said:
But again, without knowing you're reliving it... it's just life. It's literally pointless if you don't have awareness of doing it. You're not extending your life, you're not living longer, you're just living your one singular life.

Like you'd say "yes I'll do it" and then nothing tangible happens because you already lived your life and didn't actually experience it a second time.
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but since you don't know you've travelled in time you would still be in a body and mind experiencing it "the first time" if you get me
 
Turin

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Nope

The only appeal to something like that is making better use of your time. Take that out and it's worthless imo
 
Tavernade

Tavernade

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I may or may not have made a chart ranking years of my life based on how much I'd want to relive them exactly like this. That's normal, right?

Only in my version I know I'm time traveling but can't actually change anything.

I also compare it to a chart of doing this but I know I'm time traveling and CAN change thing but they don't impact the present at all.

2nd grade, 7th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade and all of 2019 are my top five.
 
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nogoodnamesleft

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Damn I guess I feel a bit blessed feeling I lived with higher highs that I would kill to experience again😭

first kiss first love first job graduating feeling first time playing wow LOL
 
Jonathan Lanza

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No way, that would basically be commiting suicide.
The me 10 years ago is basically not me, neither physically or mentally. That guy can go fuck himself.
 
maximumzero

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Is this a "I'm in the same body" situation or a "I'm my current age" situation?

If I'm in the same body, probably not, but I'd love to experience 1995 as an adult, so if I can go back as my current age I'd jump at that opportunity.

My only stipulation is that I can return to the "current" time at any moment, I don't want to be stuck 25 years in the past.
 
Mortemis

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In this situation you'd be stuck in a loop right? I'll live the next 10 years over and over forever without even knowing it.

I'm good. I'm much more excited to live the next 10 years of my life than the last 10.
 
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nogoodnamesleft

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BringBackSonics said:
What's the point if you don't know?
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not knowing is the best part! I guess I don't really have many things I would change in my past I mean it hasn't been all great living but most things that happened I believehappened for a reason and I wouldn't change much and I would love to experience the firsts for so many things again and if you "know" they wouldn't be firsts
 
PinkSpider

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I'd need to know shit; I've made many many bad decisions (Largely in relationships and the follow up) but I've also made a few choices I'd never change and met some good people off the back of those.
 
Maligna

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nogoodnamesleft said:
not knowing is the best part!
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Not knowing is actually the worst part. Your scenario is no different from the reality we're living in.

Hey OP, I'm here to tell you this exact scenario happened to you. So how was it? Just like a normal life? One that you've only lived once?

You need to remember living your life the first time when you go back for this to make any difference. Otherwise it's like no time travel happened at all.

I don't think you've quite thought this through. :P
 
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nogoodnamesleft

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Maligna said:
Not knowing is actually the worst part. Your scenario is no different from the reality we're living in.

Hey OP, I'm here to tell you this exact scenario happened to you. So how was it? Just like a normal life? One that you've only lived once?

You need to remember living your life the first time when you go back for this to make any difference. Otherwise it's like no time travel happened at all.

I don't think you've quite thought this through. :P
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oh I've definitely thought it through! Take me back! I want to play WoW for the first time again!! 😂😂😂😬😬
 
mnk

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nogoodnamesleft said:
oh I've definitely thought it through! Take me back! I want to play WoW for the first time again!! 😂😂😂😬😬
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OP, I'm a wizard. I just snapped my fingers and caused you to relive your life. You don't remember it, but you can trust me, I definitely did it. No need to thank me. :)

And actually I just did it again for good measure.
 
blaze

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It's a completely pointless choice, you have no knowledge of any of it so like others have said this exact scenario could be happening to you right now and you'd never know. Your memories are what make those firsts special, without those memories you're just repeating your life over again - you'd just end up trapped in a time bubble making the same decision over and over again unaware that you're actually doing it.
 
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