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Essorant
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0 posted 2003-02-04 02:00 AM



If you could erase any one event of world history to change the present, what would you erase??

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serenity blaze
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1 posted 2003-02-04 03:16 AM


my birth.
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2 posted 2003-02-04 03:26 AM


quote:
my birth.


Ditto.

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3 posted 2003-02-04 07:23 AM


*taps foot and looks angrily at Miss J*


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4 posted 2003-02-04 08:05 AM


The development of weapons of mass destruction...

brian madden
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5 posted 2003-02-04 01:38 PM


nothing.

WHat right do i have to chance or meddle with history, what of the untold the consequences it might cause....

This question reminds me of an episode of the Twilight Zone where a woman is sent back in time to kill Hitler as a baby. Hired as  servant of the Hitler family, she eventually runs off with the child unknownst to the family and drowns both herself and the baby in a river. Another servant covers up the incident from the Hilter family by stealing the infant of a homeless woman and putting it in the crib in place of the orginal child.

I would love to see an end to famine and the crippling and exploitation of the third world and an end to war. But that would involve rewriting a large part of history, changing the very foundations of capitalism and altering political structures.


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6 posted 2003-02-04 04:25 PM


I couldn't word it better, at the moment, then Brian just did. I stand by his answer.

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Essorant
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7 posted 2003-02-04 04:36 PM


So if you were granted that supernatural power, you would not use a minute of it that could save many lives if used wisely?


[This message has been edited by Essorant (02-04-2003 04:41 PM).]

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