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Re: Time Machine
« Reply #15 on: April 24, 2006, 08:17:38 AM »
If we could could go back, and perhaps warn them, then doubtless the future from then, which is our past now, would have been different. I don't think they would have listened, nor do I think any of us, who are perhaps less set in our ways, would listen if someone from the future came to tell us something. But if they had, and things had changed, much of history would have been different, good or bad, and the what ifs are endless. Perhaps we would have more power over time, although not over men's minds if we understood it better.

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Re: Time Machine
« Reply #16 on: April 24, 2006, 10:02:33 AM »
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Just a poser for all of you...

The paradox of time is that, if you were to go back and save the Romanovs, for example, you would already have done it, and because of that history you created, you exist.  Whereas, without your already-occured actions, you would not exist.  Thereby, time cannot be altered further.  Does that make sense?

Oooooh that's deep.  

I don't know if I agree with it though.  Because, you would have to make a conscious decision at a set time to go back and change something.  So, you'd have had to have lived for a while in this alternate future to know there was something to go back and change first, right?

Bamboozling.

As for going back and changing the course of history, while I'd like to do it, I don't think I would.  Who knows what would change or what the state of the world would be if the Romanovs hadn't have been murdered.  I believe that things happen for a reason, and what's done is done.  You shouldn't mess with things like that, because you don't know what the alternative might be.

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Re: Time Machine
« Reply #17 on: April 24, 2006, 11:00:14 AM »
However tragic things are in history, it is very true to say we don't the alternative, if perhaps things had gone differently whether because of circumstances, or of someone sent back to warn people, and if they listened to that warning. Perhaps the alternative may have been worse, or perhaps things really do happen for a reason, perhaps things cannot be changed, and time is unfixable.

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Re: Time Machine
« Reply #18 on: June 02, 2006, 07:54:12 PM »
Oh I love these topics!  I can't even begin to tell you how many times my history teachers would ask us...should something have happened?  Would it be good if the two great wars hadn't occured?  I find myself in debate with these questions.  
As for the Romanovs, sure it would be wonderful to discover that they escaped to exile and lived long happy lives.  Of course...history deprives us of such.  As bad as it may seem...what if?  Would we be here right now discussing them?  Would there be as many movies, books and debates?  What would the condition of the world be? Would some of us pray in front of their martyred icon and pray for them?  
'God never closes a door without opening another...' :-/
Its a hydra effect from the imgaination my friends. :o


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Re: Time Machine
« Reply #19 on: June 08, 2006, 08:52:34 PM »
I wish for a time machine, a lot, because for me, just befriending the family would be enough for me!  Just ..being able to be around them, playing, talking, watching them... it'd be great.  That's what I would do if I could go back in time...

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Re: Time Machine
« Reply #20 on: June 12, 2006, 08:05:27 PM »
In my opinion, that is the greatest gift apart from life itself that we are blessed with...an imagination and urge to dream and think! 8-)

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Re: Time Machine
« Reply #21 on: August 31, 2006, 11:32:41 AM »
Indeed. And so many people don't bother to think at all, they merely go through concentrating on the minutae of life. I think there is more to life than that.

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Re: Time Machine
« Reply #22 on: September 02, 2006, 08:48:57 PM »
I personally think the future for the Romanovs was pretty much foretold by Rasputin when Nicholas decided to declare war on Austria, thereby starting world war one.  In the book N&A, Rasputin wrote a letter to Nicholas, while in recovery from an assassination attempt on the uselessness on the war, that even if Germany was to lose the war,  Russia would become chaotic and a lot of blood would be shed.  Then I started to think that maybe if Russia didn't join the war that the Bolsheviks would not have easily taken power and committed the horrible atrocities that are known now in history.  But of course, it's always good to trust in God for He takes care of all things, and that's what the Romanovs believed:0)

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Re: Time Machine
« Reply #23 on: September 03, 2006, 01:41:04 PM »
i would make sure they never died  :)naotmaa that is i would tell them to go into the celler and help them escape. :)