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Edited by
2smileloudly
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Wed 01/04/12 01:22 PM
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If you could change just ONE THING in history, what would that be ????? The only limitation is your imagination and depth of historical knowledge....:) politics, heros, villans, natural or man made disasters, disease, religion etc.......
My personal answer follows: Can you imagine where humanity would be with just this one change... the absence of religion Mankind would be so much better off if we would take responsibility for our own actions, and loose the imaginary religious fear...(religion is imaginary, a delusion, therefore actually a type of psychosis) "Religion is unusual among divisible labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic." (written by Richard Dawkins) "Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions." Blaise Pascal, of "Pascal's Wager" fame. "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." (written by Steven Weinberg) |
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>Can you imagine where humanity would be with just this one change...
Yeah, Tesla's wireless transmission of data, voice, and power. The world could be Eden, but JP Morgan was more interested in $$$. |
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The world could be Eden, but JP Morgan was more interested in $$$. Funny how the world spins... if you hit a wall and do not understand something, just think "follow the money" ...and wow, it begins to makes sense :( |
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But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." (written by Steven Weinberg)
I think not. Those folks who relish in attacking the flock cannot be edified; they need to be chained. They don't need good time religion to be dangerous aholes. Evil is as Evil does. When its time to punch the man in the nose; punch the bastard in the nose. |
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If you could change just ONE THING in history, what would that be ????? The only limitation is your imagination and depth of historical knowledge....:) politics, heros, villans, natural or man made disasters, disease, religion etc....... My personal answer follows: Can you imagine where humanity would be with just this one change... the absence of religion Mankind would be so much better off if we would take responsibility for our own actions, and loose the imaginary religious fear...(religion is imaginary, a delusion, therefore actually a type of psychosis) "Religion is unusual among divisible labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic." (written by Richard Dawkins) "Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions." Blaise Pascal, of "Pascal's Wager" fame. "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." (written by Steven Weinberg) I highly doubt that is your personal answer, but that is not the point of me answering. My answer? Oppression.... |
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the absence of selfishness
if everyone truly lived as part of the world family and contributed to the larger good, got joy more out of what impact they left for others than what they got for themself,,,the world would not see murder, and theft, and rape, and broken homes,,,,and that would be great |
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the absence of selfishness if everyone truly lived as part of the world family and contributed to the larger good, got joy more out of what impact they left for others than what they got for themself,,,the world would not see murder, and theft, and rape, and broken homes,,,,and that would be great more realistically, IF change was gonna be permanent ID change the invention of the bullet, or maybe the atom bomb, or the internet,,,,,, I think they have all done a great deal to minimize human life and socializing,,, |
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the absence of selfishness if everyone truly lived as part of the world family and contributed to the larger good, got joy more out of what impact they left for others than what they got for themself,,,the world would not see murder, and theft, and rape, and broken homes,,,,and that would be great what a great and insightful answer, I would make this my #2 answer :) (right after #1.. absence of religion) Peter-Pan really doubts this is my personal answer (I am not sure why doubting this is my response would be his reply), but I still say it is my personal response :) Peter-pan"s answer is Oppression... a good response, much of religion is Oppression..... and kudos to the people on this topic for staying on topic !!!!!!! :) |
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Edited by
Jeanniebean
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Fri 01/06/12 04:37 PM
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If you could change just ONE THING in history, what would that be ????? The only limitation is your imagination and depth of historical knowledge....:) politics, heros, villans, natural or man made disasters, disease, religion etc....... By "one thing" I am going to assume you mean "one event." If I were granted such awesome power I would ask that I be given the knowledge of what has really happened in History in order to make such a decision. Some of the answers here don't make sense if it is an historical event you are talking about. Absence of "selfishness," or "oppression" do not make sense because these things are not really "events" and they encompass a lot of other variables. But if that is allowable I might say "absence of greed" which would eliminate capitalism and the world bank and the federal reserve.  Or how about the absence of the ability to deceive others. No one could lie because we might all have mental telepathy and we can tell when anyone is lying. But these things are not "history" they are states of mind. History would be actual events, and events are the result of world consciousness. I can't pick some event told in the Bible because they are very probably myths, and our known popular history is very probably also very incorrect. I would not focus on some evil world leader because I believe that they are all pawns of a more sinister group, even Hitler. So I would have to say that I would be unqualified to make such a decision as any wrong decision could make matters worse or even lead to a chain reaction that would destroy the world or at the very least prevent my own birth. I would say, Things are as they should be. Leave them alone. |
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Changing One thing or event in history.......
would so greatly alter all that we are and know.... and possibly dreadfully alter ourselves...... That I would have to pass and leave things as they are. |
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i would go to a very specific cave in europe and make sure that no writings were put there before or during the last ice age.
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John Lennon answers what i think in the song "Imagine" except theres a few possesions i'd still want.
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i would go to a very specific cave in europe and make sure that no writings were put there before or during the last ice age. Tell me more.... What very specific cave? |
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Changing One thing or event in history....... would so greatly alter all that we are and know.... and possibly dreadfully alter ourselves...... That I would have to pass and leave things as they are. this is a very insightful answer... since there really is no such thing as randomness, all events are predicated upon a chain reaction leading up to the event and all events ultimately impact all other events, this at least may be the safest answer :) |
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I Thought the point of 'changing' something was to alter things,,,,,
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Edited by
Shazm
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Mon 01/23/12 12:59 PM
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If i could change one thing from history i would change the event when Adam sinned first time.The first sin! if it wouldn't had happened then this world would've been a great place to live.
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If i could change one thing from history i would change the event when Adam sinned first time.The first sin! if it wouldn't had happened then this world would've been a great place to live.
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If there is religion does that mean that at one time there was only ligion since history has a way of repeating itself?
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As to the original post, 262,000,000 people were murdered by their own governments in the 20th century. That is more than every war in recorded history, plus every crusade, plus every holy war, plus the inquisition, plus anything else you want to chalk up to religion. Your animosity should be pointed at governments, not religions.
One thing that I would change...I can't think of anything. Any mistake prevented would be repeated anyways with possibly worse consequences. |
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