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What if you could go back and stop time whenever you wanted to?

Sunday, 27 August 2023, 17:00 MJA Uncategorized 49

When would you stop it?

49 Comments on What if you could go back and stop time whenever you wanted to?

  3. 1965 after graduation from HS if I could gain the maturity to study at college instead of being a drunken asshole who took another eight years to grow up.

    Over used: “Too soon old, too late smart!”

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  10. I’d never want to stop time, although there are some of my life’s episodes that I would like to slow down and enjoy more, land some that I would like to speed up and get through as fast as possible.

    But if I’m forced to pick a time, I’d like to stop Harry Truman’s revamping of the the Dept. of War into the Dept. of Defense, and the creation of the CIA from the bones of the OSS. I think that would be 1946-1949 or so.

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  11. Anonymous AT 5:33 PM
    “It would be before J Biden’s father impregnated his wife”

    …but satan’s been around forever. If it wasn’t in her, it just would have been in someone else.

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  25. I’ve always dreamed of going back to about 1910-1911 to stop the 16th Amendment (income tax), the 17th Amendment (direct election of US Senators), and the Federal Reserve (Beast From Jeckyl Island).

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  27. President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight AT 6:25 PM
    “I’ve always dreamed of going back to about 1910-1911 to stop the 16th Amendment (income tax), the 17th Amendment (direct election of US Senators), and the Federal Reserve (Beast From Jeckyl Island).”

    …don’t forget the 19th giving chicks the vote. Yes, we have some smart females here, but on balance there is no worse voter than a white liberal chick, who votes for Clinton ’cause he’s a bad boy or Barry because he has a deep voice, just to name two; and they damn near had us saying President Hillary as well, chew on THAT.

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  29. I’m a bit confused by the exact intent of the question. I took it to mean that time (for everyone else) could be stopped. Based on that, I can think k of numerous times in history in which I would stop time, take care of numerous executions, and then restart time, stick around, and see when intervention was required again. I think I’d intervene at the Constitutional Convention and help balance the scales in favor of the antifederalists so maybe the country would get a better start. One could easily think of moments prior to Lincoln and the war of northern aggression, but would it come to that if the right things were done in the 1780s? The creation of the Fed, the 16th, FDR, the New Deal, etc. all also come to mind.

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  30. I am not God so I wouldn’t change a thing because if I did it would result in my life (and my children’s and grandchildren’s lives as well) turning out different that it has over the past 70 years. I have no regrets and where things have been screwed up God has always turned those ashes into beauty. It’s the George Bailey dilemma and conumdrum as in It’s A Wonderful life.

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  31. August 2011. I would stop my middle son from going four wheeling, and ending up in a wheelchair since then. it may sound selfish, and wouldn’t change the world to any great measure, but it changed my family’s whole life.

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  33. interesting subject. i would go back to a time 100 years just before men lived with the highest moral code. that way i could live my life civilly and enjoy all the benefits of what men are civilly capable of. probably sometime just after the great depression. to kill a mockingbird comes to mind.

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  35. In all honesty, I could not wish my family away if I stopped time before my last child was born and that would mean I would have to suffer being married to a covert narcissistic again.

    If we can take back knowledge from today, then I would stop time right after my last child was born in Aug 1986. Then I would deal with her in a totally different and informed way. Maybe things would work out better. If not, I would know to divorce her a soon as possible because she never fought for the kids in the divorce as it was.

    And in 1986, Reagan was president.

    I could live with that.

    I also agree with the technology concerns.

    P.S. We couldn’t use a portable radio with ear phones in school. How the hell is it OK to bring phones into classes now?

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  37. I think I’m not the only one here not quite understanding the question.

    Are you asking when I would stop time in my personal life and bask forever in how wonderful it was? Or when I would stop history and tweak a detail?

    If the former, I am fortunate enough to have a few times and places and people I would savor again. And same goes for here and now and present company so, no regrets and mostly faith going forward.

    If the latter, I do wonder how things would have worked out if Stonewall Jackson hadn’t been hit by friendly fire. And I’ve always marveled at the honor of the soldiers and historians who never gave up the name of the poor fellow who fired that shot.

  38. You don’t say what the consequences for stopping time would be. To me, stopping time means everything everywhere stops forever. Can’t imagine a scenario where I would want that to happen.

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  40. Time. It’s the single most confounding thing about being human and living within its constraints. One can never go “back” nor “forward” — we’re just stuck here in whatever is the “present”.

    Now, eternity, baby! Eternity. Just the idea of it fills me with awe. That’s where I would wish to stop time. Forever. And, fortunately, I do believer that is exactly where time does stop.

    Keep watch and pray for his coming.

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  42. AbigailAdams AT 3:22 AM
    “Time. It’s the single most confounding thing about being human and living within its constraints. One can never go “back” nor “forward” — we’re just stuck here in whatever is the “present”.”

    “This thing all things devours: birds, beasts, trees, flowers; gnaws iron, bites steel; grinds hard stones to meal; slays king, ruins town, and beats high mountain down.”
    -JRR Tolkien, “The Hobbit”

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  45. Summer of ’58, laying on the hill in front of my Aunt Claribel’s house, just looking up at the sky.

    Or summer of ’95, walking home from work, my now wife running out of the house (bosom bouncing merrily) to meet me, arms outstretched, smiling broadly.

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