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Time Machine game.
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You have a time machine; congrats!
1. You can go to any time in the past and meet any person from any point in history. Due to a fun technicality of time travel, there will be no language, custom, or barrier to speaking to this person. Who is it and what is a question you would ask them?
2. You also decide to go 50 years into the future. You are allowed to meet yourself (don't worry; the world won't explode), your child(ren), your grandchild(ren), etc., but you don't have to. Would you choose to meet your family? If so, what is one question you would ask them ... if not, why not?
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Re: Time Machine game.
You have a time machine; congrats!
1. You can go to any time in the past and meet any person from any point in history. Due to a fun technicality of time travel, there will be no language, custom, or barrier to speaking to this person. Who is it and what is a question you would ask them?
I would go back and meet my grandmother who died in 1972. I don't know off hand what I would ask her. I would tell her that I've always wanted to meet her though and it would go from there.
2. You also decide to go 50 years into the future. You are allowed to meet yourself (don't worry; the world won't explode), your child(ren), your grandchild(ren), etc., but you don't have to. Would you choose to meet your family? If so, what is one question you would ask them ... if not, why not?
I'd love to meet my future family members...reminds me of 'Back to the Future' when Michael J Fox's character bumps into his mom. lol
Me: 37
DH: 36
Married: 08-25-07
DS: 11-20-09
Name change alert: Formerly Lisswastaken
1. I would want to hang out with my mom when she was my age. I wonder if we would be friends, and what kind of person she was then.
2. I wouldn't want to meet myself, because I wouldn't want to see what I looked like as an old person. That is so vain, but it's true. I'd probably want to see ds and find out what he's doing in a career and if he had a family.
Fun game!
1. I'd want to meet Oscar Wilde and I'd ask him "Cam I hang with you?" Dude was hilarious and an outrageously good time.
2. I wouldn't do it. Every experience you have shapes you and I don't think that, without those experiences, I could properly appreciate my future self. Moreover, I wouldn't want to skip ahead to my adult DS or grandchildren because I want to enjoy the journey.
I would go back to the 20s and meet my great, (great) aunt who was a flapper back in the day and party it up with her in a hidden bar somewhere...I'd love to experience that time period...
I wouldn't want to meet myself or my family...maybe i'd check up on a couple friends and theirs tho....
1. It's a toss-up. I would like to meet:
Albert Einstein. He had a notoriously fun sense of humor, and I think it would be fun to witness it first-hand.
Amadeus Mozart. He was a child prodigy, a composer, and also a mathematical genius. But he used his genius to become a pool shark (sorta - it was billiards, but he did hustle people). I think he would be fascinating to talk to.
The Virgin Mary. I would love to have a conversation with her and find out what Jesus was like as a child. I'd bet she had some fun stories.
My grandpa back when he was a jazz pianist in the 50's and 60's. His stories are so fun, and I'd love to listen to him in his prime.
2. Absolutely not. Seeing the future would take the fun out of living it.
1. I'm not sure who I would want to meet. Possibly my parents. It would be fun to see them younger. I would ask them what they wanted out of life.
2. I think I wouldn't want to see myself, but if I could see my son I would ask him if I was a good mother. I'd like to see where he's going to be at 50 years. I'm curious!
Braydon 1.23.09
1. You can go to any time in the past and meet any person from any point in history. Due to a fun technicality of time travel, there will be no language, custom, or barrier to speaking to this person. Who is it and what is a question you would ask them?
I would go back to France, 1792 and ask Marie Antoinette what she would do differently to save herself, her son and her husband and change the outcome of the Revolution
2. You also decide to go 50 years into the future. You are allowed to meet yourself (don't worry; the world won't explode), your child(ren), your grandchild(ren), etc., but you don't have to. Would you choose to meet your family? If so, what is one question you would ask them ... if not, why not?
I don't think I would want to, like pp said if someone wasn't around anymore I would be too upset.
1. Jesus, totally! I wouldn't want to ask him anything, just sit and watch him for while.
2. Nah. I think I would spend the rest of my life thinking about the future so much afterwards, that I wouldn't enjoy the present.
Time machines are very dangerous topics 'round here parts!
1. I would meet Jesus and I would also want to meet Jean Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso.
2. No, I wouldn't want to see myself or my family in the future, like PP said I would be devistated if someone had died or something terrible had happened. I would like to visit the future, but only if I was unable to have any knowledge of my personal life.
1) I would travel back and meet Siddhartha. I would talk little and listen a lot. The question I would ask him? What have you learned?
2) I would meet my child(ren). I would simply ask, "How are you doing?"
I would want to meet Jesus. Or, in more recent history, my dad (he died when I was 3 months old). No particular questions for either, I'd just want to meet them.
I would NOT want to meet my future family. Like Liss said, if DH or DD weren't there, I'd be dreading my future and wouldn't be able to live like I should. I also don't want to know little things, like how many kids we'll have or where we'll live. I like the mystery.
shush and play the game, hoar.
1. I'd be curious about meeting Jesus too and seeing if he was a real dude. I'd also be interested in meeting Shakespeare and finding out who he REALLY was. While I was in that time period, I'd take a quick gander at Queen Elizabeth.
2. I'd love to meet my family and see how we turn out. I like knowing things, though ... I'm the kind of girl who will read the ending of the book first and find more enjoyment in the book because of it.