Thread: If you had the power

To change any event in history, what would it be and why?

Originally Posted by thenextbesthang

To change any event in history, what would it be and why?

Any way we choose? What I mean to ask is are there limitations to our fantacy?

no limitations.
It just has to be an event, not something gradual.
Like, you can't say that you would stop the rise of christianity. You can say, however, that you would prevent the crucifixition of Jesus.

Can I say for example that I wish I had born in the time of Rome's heyday where I could go to the baths every morn and have sex with lots of different women and then go to the colloseum in the afternoon and watch the lions eat christians?

I hafta to be a Roman though, I don't want to be one of the christians.

Well, in that case I would interupt a little meeting in Philly a few years back with the current text of federal law, tax code, and a summary of US history/future and let history change itself.

Originally Posted by Pragmatist

Can I say for example that I wish I had born in the time of Rome's heyday where I could go to the baths every morn and have sex with lots of different women and then go to the colloseum in the afternoon and watch the lions eat christians?

I hafta to be a Roman though, I don't want to be one of the christians.

Your answer would be better if they wouldn't have made you shag boys.

Ah man I don't have to do that do I!

Originally Posted by thenextbesthang

To change any event in history, what would it be and why?

I'd go back and shoot my mother in 1942. I've always wanted to test that Grandfather Paradox thing.

Okay, to be serious about the question.

What would happen if John Wilkes Booth hadn't shot Lincoln?

he would have lived longer?