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Hey Pandas, If You Could Go Back In Time And Change One Thing, What Would It Be? (Closed)
Let's face it: people have made some big mistakes. If you could go back in time, what would you change?
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#1
I would make sure Hitler got accepted into art school.
Final score:
29points
Mine Truly 3 years ago
Holy SH*T. This is EXACTLY what I came here to say. And it's number f***ing 1.
Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
As if that wouldn't have made everything much worse. Maybe Hitler not getting accepted to art school was what made that the very mildest Nazi take-over possible in a universe of infinite possibilities; and we all lucked out with that one?
Viviane 3 years ago (edited)
Ernst Rohm, Hitler's most serious rival, tended to emphasize the "Socialist" aspect of National Socialism. With Rohm at the helm, the Nazis would have lost the support of the industrialists who preferred Hitler. Social Democrats or a conservative party might have won the elections instead. Rohm might have tried a coup and possibly succeeded. Jews and Communists would not have fared well, but gay men might have been spared. Whether mass murder would have been as extensive, I don't know.
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Peter Trudell Jr 3 years ago
That doesn't solve the underlying conditions of the onerous financial situation the country was in because of World War I. Some other demagogue would have come around and stoked the same fires.
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#2
Simple, I would sink the 3 ships Columbus sailed. Or I would show up on that beach a day early and warn the villagers that strange men would arrive on the shore tomorrow - Do NOT be nice to them, they will kill you all.
Final score:
20points
#3
I'd go back and prevent my grandfather from molesting my little sisters. Then I'd rule the world.
Final score:
19points
#4
I'd find myself in high school , sit myself down, look myself in the eyes and tell myself: "What your feeling isn't abnormal and it isn't your fault. It's gender dysphoria. You aren't a boy, and the harder you try the worse it's going to get. I am the woman you can become once you stop hating yourself and hiding from your dreams. I love you."
Final score:
19points
Robin Roper 3 years ago
I'm a Christian and I do support your realization that you were not the gender you were labeled at birth.
Halley Maxwell (Submission author) 3 years ago (edited)
Thank you for your kind words. My family is Christian as well, and I was terrified to come out to them because of the way so many people do use religion as an excuse to be hateful. Thankfully, much like you, they weren't hateful and its been a wonderful time for all of us.
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#5
Nothing. In history because the end result might be worse than it is now, and in my own life because as painful as tons of things in the past were, they led me to the most perfect partner I could ever hope for, and I would not risk never having had him. Simple as that.
Final score:
17points
Søs Rasmussen 3 years ago
Our past made us the way we are today and gave us what we have today. I like me and I like my life. It's all so perfectly imperfect.
Virtually Fabulous 3 years ago
I like the way you put that. Exactly what I was thinking scrolling through here.
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Kim Blizzard 3 years ago
Completely agree. It is hard for me to say "I dislike how my parents didn't offer me many choices" when I realize now that the options they did offer led me to someone I love and I life I can be very happy with.
#6
Go back to 19 May 1940 to save my grandfather from concentration-camp. He survived but he was a broken man…
Final score:
15points
#7
I would have not gone to school the day I got molested
Final score:
14points
Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago
Oh, I am so very sorry. If I could go back in time, I'd change that for you too, if I could. I hope you have had some support, kindness, and healing.
#8
I would get out of the toxic relationship I was in and still struggle with way sooner.
Final score:
11points
#9
I’d speak up about my verbally abusive 3rd grade teacher sooner.
Final score:
11points
#10
I would go back in time, dig up all the dinosaur fossils, knowing where to find them and all, and carve 'Thorfin Wuz Here" on all of them and then rebury them. Teehee!
Final score:
9points
Bacony Cakes 3 years ago (edited)
I'd write "Kilroy Was Here" all over places in their native languages. Eiffel Tower at the 1889 World's Fair? Kilroy était ici. The mosaic floors in Pompeii? Hic Kilroy erat. The Terracotta Army? 基爾羅伊在這裡。The Valley of the Kings? 𓎢𓇋𓃭𓂋𓇌 𓍢𓋴 𓎛𓂋.
#11
I would have never left my husband.
Final score:
9points
Sonja Ayala (Submission author) 3 years ago
Within 10 days, I had 7 major life setbacks and ended up having a nervous breakdown. Didn't want him to worry too much so I took the kids back home (we were stationed in CA and I'm from MO). He ended up filing for divorce a few months later.
#12
Go to the Americas a 1100 years back and teach them the tech to fight back in around 500 years.
Final score:
9points
Marin Mincev 3 years ago
And then , a 100 years before Columbus they'll go to Europe with hundreds of ships and kill them all . Very clever indeed. And after 900+ years , the Bored Lama will ask a question : " Hey Lamas , if you could go back ....... " . Its not like that easy i think .
T. D. Bostick 3 years ago
You'd need to bring some immunizations with you. The Aztecs held their own against the Spanish until smallpox wiped them out.
#13
smack the s**t out of the idiot at hasbro who was in charge of their beyblade burst designs
Final score:
8points
#14
I would have listened to my Mother. Simple as that!
Final score:
8points
ALEXIS CISNEROS 3 years ago
same, my mom sometimes doesn't have the best advice
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1. Kick Adolf Hitler, every person that made a movie or book that a dog dies in, Osama Bin Laden, Jack the ripper, Kim Jong-il, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Stalin, and John Wilkes Booth in the balls and then throw him out the window when they were baby's. And 2. save John Lennon, John F Kennedy, MLK Jr, and Abraham Lincoln.
Final score:
8points
Good girl wanna be. 3 years ago (edited)
I like that list! As long as it didn't change the person I finnnnnaaaally became. Footnote: That's still happening, by the way! Im changing and hopefully growing.
#17
These questions are very tricky because I either want to change nothing or change it all, depending on the mood.
Final score:
7points
#18
I'd go back to lunch yesterday & order a FULL rack of those succulent baby back ribs. Half rack is wack!
Final score:
7points
#19
I prevent all the fights me and my sis had in front of friends while growing up
Final score:
7points
#20
I mean some things are like to learn to say no to (about to be) sexual abusers I called “friends” in elementary school. And to not listen to a child’s solution to a problem I had at home to “just lie about it” now i cant even tell the truth without the impulse to lie…………i need help
Final score:
7points
Good girl wanna be. 3 years ago (edited)
I understand way that happens. I'd like to share something, I started doing this. From this day forward ( day was about 15 years ago) no matter what, I will not lie about anything. Telling truth is very freeing. Even if its something unflattering about myself.
Jacob Nunez (Submission author) 3 years ago
Well im thankful. I mean i have been doin better this couple of years i would have some stints come and go but i am doing a bit better. Thank you “Good girl wanna be”
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#22
i wulve gotten me an IEP sooner, i was told at four i was to " smart" to have autism and only got my IEP in ninth grade. It would have saved a lot of trouble and tears if i had gotten it sooner
Final score:
7points
ALEXIS CISNEROS (Submission author) 3 years ago
to an extent yes, i still have trouble focusing and all that jazz which comes with having adhd, but its getting better. I even have an A in one of my classes :D :D :D
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Harri Ellis 3 years ago
I am so sorry! I know that sometimes you have to battle to get the right testing. Even with IEPs they aren't always followed.
#23
Talk Mark David Chapman out of it.
Final score:
7points
#24
Kick Woodrow Wilson down the stairs so he doesn't win the election and cause: - The US to hesitate in joining World War 1 - Russia to starve due to Germany - Leading to the formation of the USSR - Wilson personally vetoing Japan's proposal to end racism in the Treaty Of Versailles - Giving Japan their own islands to be racist to, therefore kicking off Japan obliterating the entirety of east Asia - The USSR being something Hitler could rally against to rise to power - Nuclear bombs being developed and nearly destroying the world several times over - Korean and Vietnam wars - The USSR pressuring the Middle East, forming rebellious groups - Said rebellious groups being assisted by the US government because they're anti-Soviets - Aforementioned said rebellious groups switching ideologies from "get the USSR out of here" to "let's be super f*cking mad all the time" once the USSR falls - Al-Qaeda, one of the previous aforementioned said rebellious groups, crashing planes into the World Trade Center - The Middle East being bombed into tuna paste due to wars caused by Al-Qaeda crashing planes into the World Trade Center - China becoming the world's first intergalactic empire due to communism and being allergic to high school students with shopping bags - North Korea threatening to nuke us every 2 seconds - Ham and Banana Hollandaise, along with the rest of those disgusting 1950's cuisines, existing - People build buildings out of something else other than raw cubes of concrete that fall apart within 10 months
Final score:
7points
#26
Prevent the invention of plastic.
Final score:
6points
#27
If 8 had a time machine, wouldn't that make me immortal? If so then I would go to the start of humanity just to watch us progress through time.
Final score:
5points
#28
I'd warn my parents to re-arrange the money transfer to the bank. Would save our family from banckrupty and debt and a close family friend from getting shot and bound to a wheelchair. I'd also try to convince my mom to go to the medic more often, so she discover the cancer sooner.
Final score:
5points
#30
I would go back to 15 years and tell myself than I don't really want kids!
Final score:
5points
Marin Mincev 3 years ago (edited)
Or maybe go back more than 15 + xx years and told something to your mother , maybe !?
D_Kat (Submission author) 3 years ago
Good idea - divorce your husband, otherwise you will be so unhappy and make us unhappy too!
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Also when I would kill Osama Bin Laden I would also stop 9/11 and save millions of jews when I kill Hitler
Final score:
4points
adiiantryx 3 years ago
it's difficult to say whether by the death of a singular person whether history would deviate in a major fashion. Indeed, killing Osama may lead to more crafted attack than even 9/11 just like the void of Hitler might've led to more radical Nazis like Strasser and others.
Marin Mincev 3 years ago
Well with Hitler its Ok , but why kill Osama, maybe just go to US President an tell him not to give him too much money and weapons to fight Russians in Afganistan. I think you would stop 9/11 and you know what some smart people said : The history is a whore and knows how to repeat itself .
Peter Trudell Jr 3 years ago
re: Osama... go back to prevent Reagan from becoming president so that we don't feed arms to the Taliban... er... go back to the end of WWI, prevent the breaking up of Arabia and follow the promises we gave to the Arabs about the land... and keep from financially breaking Germany with reparations... Hmm... how about a little further back and prevent the assassination of Franz Ferdinand? Damn, this is complicated.
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#32
I would take a hi-res camera back to the Jurassic period. and record all life on earth.
Final score:
4points
#33
Prevent the assassination of Czar Alexander II. He was a reformer, and if he had not died in 1881, Russia would probably have continued to progress ethically and socially. Maybe if he had lived to a ripe old age and died of natural causes, Communism would never have taken root in Russia, and we would never have had the Soviet Union.
Final score:
4points
Peter Trudell Jr 3 years ago
I don't know... he did strip Poland of its sovereignty and made it part of Russia. Was rather harsh on Poland/Lithuania. As always, history is complicated.
Gilda Farrell 3 years ago
I would go back and find some way to destroy the Bolsheviks. Then the Mensheviks would have taken over the Communist Party and if they replaced the Czar and Russian autocracy, hopefully they would have done it in a nicer and gentler way. All the political parties opposed to the excesses of Czarist Russia were socialist and all were appalled by the communists. Mind you, socialism was still opposed to laissez-faire capitalism which was pretty terrible in the 19th century, so that conflict would have remained. But it would be interesting to see how the world developed without communism.
#34
1. Tell the priest to put Hitler back in the fountain 2. Sit down with my younger self and say, "Your gay." And just walk away. No questions asked, no questions answered. Hopefully that would make me realize that sooner.
Final score:
4points
Gilda Farrell 3 years ago
One idea might be to seriously remove Hitler's father from his life. He was a brute who beat and humiliated the child Hitler and his mother terribly. Psychiatrist Alice Miller describes it in her book, "For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence" how severe abuse can damage not only the body but the psyche, and in turn creates violent individuals.
#35
Nothing, if i change one thing, everything will be changed
Final score:
4points
Rage of Aquarius 3 years ago
Finally, a time traveller who knows that it's too risky to alter the past. The Spatio-Temporal agency thanks you.
#36
I'd find out what started my brother's alcoholism. That moment when he thought that climbing into a bottle was better than living a sober life. I always thought he would have done so much more if he hadn't given into the demons. But his addiction destroyed his kidneys and cost him his life. Just to change that one moment might have meant he'd still be here.
Final score:
4points
#37
I would go back and tell my mom to not put me on the school I was for years (mobbing, bullying, abusive teachers) then I would tell my self to learn when it is neccessary and to make more friends and go to more partys. You only life once and I wasted soooo much chances...
Final score:
4points
#38
Show my dad what happened to my older sister and me after she told me everything that he did to her. Hopefully he would treat my older sister like an actual human being rather than a crusty piece of s**t stuck on his shirt.
Final score:
4points
#39
I would go back and have one more conversation with my dad. I love you daddy ❤
Final score:
4points
#40
Making a list of natural disasters with exact timing and hand over cruicial information to several sources. The usual stuff like "There will be an earthquake, on that Island a vulcano will errupt, 2019 will have pandemic - here's the formula for the vaccine and where it starts"
Final score:
3points
Peter Trudell Jr 3 years ago
but you've got to couch it in vague language in quatrains... people just can't handle the unvarnished truth about the future!
#41
Hi again, btw, i want to see some animals that were extinct
Final score:
3points
#42
I would catch myself before I got to involved with my past crushes. My first one humiliated me in front of 50 people who posted it to social media as she laughed in my face, the second one vanished off the face of the earth, the third one suddenly turned on me and a "boyfriend" she later dumped appeared literally out of thin air caused me and her and all her friends to fall out, the fourth one twisted my words and actions to make me look like a sexual pervert and turned the remainder of my friends against me and kept pressing her attack until I mentally broke and now need professional help I can't get and the fifth was a nice rejection finally but it still left me pretty damned sad. That's the short version btw All my other problems span over 16 years now like having no friends in school ebcause people would come up to me daily to assault me and try to break my arms and legs and anything else they touched, destroyed my medical supplies, caused me to be alone and hated all throughout my school life and basically turned me into a psychopath for a few years until I met my first real friends in college where I started turning my life around. Which is the same friends Crush number 4 took away from me, causing me to be almost alone again. I have a rare few who have stuck by my side All in all, I want a peaceful happy life with no more pain please. I'm struggling enough to cope as it is
Final score:
3points
Faith Naboris 3 years ago
I hope you can achieve happiness as well, I’m so sorry you aren’t feeling great right now, I really wish that in the near future you can find your feet and regain balance in this twisted world.
#43
Not getting pregnant with my oldest while at college. I love my grandkids (her kids), but my life would have been different having her later.
Final score:
3points
#44
Make the man who was going to shoot Lincon change his mind, or do the same thing with the one who shot MLK junior
Final score:
3points
#45
Never have an argument with my late little brother. You don't appreciate time with someone until they're gone.
Final score:
3points
#46
stop trying to be everyone’s friend, theirs no point
Final score:
3points
#47
Start therapy when I had my first mental breakdown, and not wait 23 years to fix myself.
Final score:
3points
#48
Hold & love on my baby girl for way longer than I did before she passed. I regret it every day.
Final score:
3points
#49
Wouldn't dare messing with history that involves anyone but people I know. As for myself and my family, I would maybe change some decisions that were made.
Final score:
2points
#50
Try to convince Steve Jobs to undergo proper medical treatment when he was first diagnosed with cancer. Might not have saved his life, but would have given him a couple of years. most precious time!
Final score:
2points
#51
I would show the recordings to the first humans to eliminate the need for religion.
Final score:
2points
#52
Go to see how my friend's animal died because it was a teen and she can't tell me
Final score:
2points
MARIAN JESSICA VILLANUEVA (Submission author) 3 years ago
Hi, this one was posted accidently, sorry
Faith Naboris 3 years ago
It’s okay, everyone makes mistakes, I hope you have a lovely day.☺️
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Nothing. I'd be worried how that would mess with the space time continuum.
Final score:
2points
Peter Trudell Jr 3 years ago
But that's the fun of it! Once you go back in time, you're no longer bound to the same continuum, you can mess with it to your hearts content! We live in a multiverse, so you can just bounce around until you find one you like!
#54
What if Jesus hadn't been crucified ?
Final score:
2points
adiiantryx 3 years ago
there would be no christianity - the whole point of his "godsent" nature was proved when he came back to life supposedly, so without that there, a new form of islam would probably have conquered european religion
Stephanie IV 3 years ago
Hm. I grapple with resurrection and ascension. Like any thinking human. But I am sure that his teachings of loving others, striving to be non-violent and trying to be non-materialistic are a very good indicator that, if taken seriously, the world is changed by his message and God's kingdom reigns where people truly follow Jesus.
Stephanie IV 3 years ago
Depends on whether you value fellowship to the name or to the topics - I strongly believe that Jesus' death on the cross has made universal forgiveness possible, and that each and everyone who acts as Jesus wants us to, will receive god's love.
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Let my grandfather live a little longer.
Final score:
2points
#57
I'd tell myself not to take out ANY credit. I think it's ridiculous that credit cards can be given to 18 year old kids that have no money sense - and I'm still paying off the debts I got myself into with cards, loans and overdrafts. If only I had have saved that money instead.
Final score:
2points
#58
I wish I would have known the love I had with my college sweetheart, I think I chose the wrong path... I pray for the 'do over' to make it right when I die...
Final score:
2points
#59
I wish I had known what mental abuse was as a 1980's teen....
Final score:
2points
#60
Absolutely nothing. "A butterfly flaps its wings..." You never know what echoes and repercussions could happens. The universe seeks balance. Take away one evil, and it gets replaced by a worse one. Am I the only one who's seen literally any sci-fi film???
Final score:
2points
#61
Shoot Hitler
Final score:
1point
Mine Truly 3 years ago
No, don't shoot Hitler, that's a rookie mistake. Get him accepted into art school.
J. F. 3 years ago
Or offer him an architect traineeship elsewhere than the art school.
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I would have tried to stop climate change before it got this bad by raising environmental awareness.
Final score:
1point
Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
As admirable as that sentiment is, people WERE trying to raise environmental awareness for a LONG time. So...I don't think doing the same thing over again would make a difference.
Mine Truly 3 years ago
Oh yes, that went great THE ENTIRE TIME EVERYONE HAS BEEN DOING IT THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES
#63
In my own life, I would never have let myself discover gacha on YouTube. In world history I would have tried to make sure Hitler was accepted or whatever made him "evil" in the first place never happened.
Final score:
1point
adiiantryx 3 years ago
maybe get him another family, his father was quite unsupportive it seems
#64
I would make sure that there was only a small range of wealth before developing advanced technology.
Final score:
1point
#65
Mine is a bit more complicated, but I would arrange for Besarion Ivanes dze Jughashvili to fall into a snowbank and die from exposure while on the way home from the tavern in the winter of 1879. I invite you to do a little exploring and see if you think the absence of this alcoholic who brutalized his wife and son would likely change the future.
Final score:
1point
Gaby Almodovar 3 years ago
If not Stalin, would be somebody else. These kind of people rise to be leaders, because the social-economical circumstances of that country allows it. You should change those circumstances, what makes happen a sociopath to be leader.
#67
I'd throw an entire box of spanners into the historical works and give a list detailing every disaster leading to the Late Bronze Age Collapse to all the cultures in the Mediterranean, along with suggested actions the people could take to avoid it or lessen the impact - since it led to the Greek Dark Age (1100-750 BCE) and a setback in social and technical progress for western civilisation.
Final score:
0points
#68
I'd go back and try to tackle fear. To socialize and hangout more with others back when I used to be in school. As I grew up with social anxiety and missed out on a whole lot.
Final score:
0points
#69
I would tell my 14 years old self to be smart and change schools when I have the chance, and I'd tell all my bullies to f*ck off, I hope they sort of grow up and regret their actions when I'm not there to be their scapegoat anymore, they will miss me much more than I'll ever miss them, it's their loss and not mine. I would tell myself I matter, I am worthy of being loved
Final score:
0points
#70
I'd release Sirenhead into the dawn of the Earth to record all the sounds of the world throughout its history. Then I'd collect them all in modern times. Hopefully he won't have gone homicidal by then.
Final score:
-1point
#71
Murder Hitler, Hirohito, Fred Trump and Elbridge Gerry. Just to name a few.
Final score:
-1point
#72
man, the amount of crap moves that I've made in video games I could fix...
Final score:
-2points
What do you think ?
Mark Fuller 3 years ago
Take us back just a tad pre-industrial and leave it there. Different pace of life, advanced enough not to be archaic and just ahead of setting our current downward trajectory of over population and pollution. Not without its problems but on balance, I reckon we'd all be happier.
Oerff On Tour 3 years ago
I would go back to the old Egyptians and leave an iPhone in King Tutanchamon's tomb
Margaret Hooper 3 years ago
What would I change? I'd alter a vital gene in the first person's DNA, making any human life unviable, so the Earth was safe from humans for all time.
ima cat (Post author) 3 years ago
Very much disagree. Instead of wiping out humans, teach them about the bad effects of greenhouse gases before the industrial era happens, so that the earth is safe and we still exist. Why resort to murder? I don't get your point.
Load More Replies... Mark Fuller 3 years ago
Take us back just a tad pre-industrial and leave it there. Different pace of life, advanced enough not to be archaic and just ahead of setting our current downward trajectory of over population and pollution. Not without its problems but on balance, I reckon we'd all be happier.
Oerff On Tour 3 years ago
I would go back to the old Egyptians and leave an iPhone in King Tutanchamon's tomb
Margaret Hooper 3 years ago
What would I change? I'd alter a vital gene in the first person's DNA, making any human life unviable, so the Earth was safe from humans for all time.
ima cat (Post author) 3 years ago
Very much disagree. Instead of wiping out humans, teach them about the bad effects of greenhouse gases before the industrial era happens, so that the earth is safe and we still exist. Why resort to murder? I don't get your point.
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