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« on: March 10, 2010, 11:30:28 am » |
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Would you help yourself as a child? Like would you give your past self stock tips and shit so they would grow up crazy rich in an alternate timeline? Or would you just say fuck it and live it up in the 80's as you are right now?
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« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2010, 11:37:18 am » |
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I would go back to only a week ago and give myself lottery numbers from a day or two later, the knowledge on how I time traveled, and the day I went back in time. That way I can cash the ticket the same day as soon as I get back and timeline would be barely effected. I want to minimize my potential of destroying the space time continuum. I would prefer more to go into the future and steal future tech to be a badass crime fighter, save the world from whatever apocalypse, etc, etc.
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« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2010, 11:40:11 am » |
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I would go back to only a week ago and give myself lottery numbers from a day or two later, the knowledge on how I time traveled, and the day I went back in time. That way I can cash the ticket the same day as soon as I get back and timeline would be barely effected. I want to minimize my potential of destroying the space time continuum. I would prefer more to go into the future and steal future tech to be a badass crime fighter, save the world from whatever apocalypse, etc, etc.
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« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2010, 11:47:45 am » |
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I would go back to only a week ago and give myself lottery numbers from a day or two later, the knowledge on how I time traveled, and the day I went back in time. That way I can cash the ticket the same day as soon as I get back and timeline would be barely effected. I want to minimize my potential of destroying the space time continuum. I would prefer more to go into the future and steal future tech to be a badass crime fighter, save the world from whatever apocalypse, etc, etc.
You time traveled via magic genie, and the mere act of going back in time has caused an artificial timeline, so when you return to "your time" it's just your reality, not causality. Essentially the question is would you help an alternate version of yourself if you had the chance even though it won't benefit you personally in any way? |
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« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2010, 11:48:38 am » |
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Oh if thats the case yeah. I'm a big fan of myself even alternate ones.
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« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2010, 11:58:03 am » |
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I was hoping you would say for pie travel.......I'd travel for pie.
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« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2010, 12:02:56 pm » |
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Fuck no.
Why not? And what does this say about your self view? |
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« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2010, 12:08:07 pm » |
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Its disappointing that I wouldn't get to reap the benefits, but yes I would. I'd leave most of the genuine hardships to happen, but change some embarrassing moments and give some advice on opportunities missed for whatever reason.
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« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2010, 12:11:41 pm » |
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Yes, I would do everything I could to make myself filthy fucken rich.
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« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2010, 12:12:49 pm » |
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My first bit of advice would be to name the hand full of girls I could have tapped but didn't because I was being the nice guy.
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« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2010, 12:14:05 pm » |
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My first bit of advice would be to name the hand full of girls I could have tapped but didn't because I was being the nice guy.
Why? I mean you won't get to reap the benfits personally. |
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« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2010, 12:16:59 pm » |
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Like I said before I like myself even alternate ones.
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« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2010, 12:22:35 pm » |
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Why not? And what does this say about your self view?
Pie would be too busy being awesome. Also: Pie had a good life growing up. There were extreme near-homelessness times, but many lessons were learned. Pie would hate to interfere with said lessons and make potentialPie a pussy or an idiot because of an easier life. For Piessons, --Pie |
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« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2010, 12:24:18 pm » |
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I'd kick myself in the nuts and tell my past self to be such a fatty spaz.
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« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2010, 12:26:32 pm » |
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Pie would be too busy being awesome.
Also: Pie had a good life growing up. There were extreme near-homelessness times, but many lessons were learned. Pie would hate to interfere with said lessons and make potentialPie a pussy or an idiot because of an easier life.
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But it won't affect you. This isn't a kill grandma and you were never born kind of thing. Whatever help you give your younger self won't overtly affect the current you or how you turned out. I mean even if you have a great life, you can always make it better. Would you even bother helping out a different version of yourself if you don't reap any benefits? Is that narcisism or selfishness if you do that or the total opposite? |
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« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2010, 12:31:28 pm » |
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It looks like details are getting more precise as the thread goes on.
Could I go back in time and give my past self an edge of some kind? Lottery numbers, stock tips, etc. and remain back there as a "family friend" or something? Or is it one or the other?
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« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2010, 12:41:29 pm » |
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It looks like details are getting more precise as the thread goes on.
Could I go back in time and give my past self an edge of some kind? Lottery numbers, stock tips, etc. and remain back there as a "family friend" or something? Or is it one or the other?
You can give them lotery numbers, sotck tips, whatever you want that will give them an edge. Tell them not to play with matches in 7th grade because that's when you burnt your aunts house down. Whatever you want. But ... no you can't stick around though. This is altruism at its finest. Or it's the farthest thing from altruism that there is. I can't tell. |
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« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2010, 12:57:02 pm » |
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Do we get to see the results of our meddling? It doesn't really change my overall answer, but it might change what I do.
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« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2010, 01:01:04 pm » |
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Would it matter? Let's say "no" for now.
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« Reply #20 on: March 10, 2010, 01:03:31 pm » |
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Easy, go back in time about 10 years. Talk to my family and explain what's up. Tell them to invest in gold and go through various stocks and such to invest in and when to drop them. Maybe some sports gambling too. Lottery numbers can't hurt either. Then, before I go back, I have them give me some gold and precious gems and shit so I can benefit from their newfound richness too. And everyone's happy  |
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« Reply #21 on: March 10, 2010, 01:04:44 pm » |
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Would it matter? Let's say "no" for now.
Yeah,a bit. If I get to see the results I'd play a little more fast and loose. If not, I'd play it a bit safer. |
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« Reply #22 on: March 10, 2010, 01:24:35 pm » |
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Easy, go back in time about 10 years. Talk to my family and explain what's up. Tell them to invest in gold and go through various stocks and such to invest in and when to drop them. Maybe some sports gambling too. Lottery numbers can't hurt either. Then, before I go back, I have them give me some gold and precious gems and shit so I can benefit from their newfound richness too. And everyone's happy You get about an hour to impart your wisdom, and because of the process of traveling, you will go back in time fully clothed, but when you are shunted to your normal time period you will naked ... thus you can't carry anything home with you because it gets lost in the sands of time or whatever. This isn't a puzzle, trying to outwit retrocausality isn't the point of this, I just wanted to see peoples thoughts on the philosophy of the self in an odd sort of way. I just through it was an odd conundrum and I was wondering what the implications would be for myself because when I inititally thought this situation up I was like "fuck my younger self, if this doesn't help me right now then the younger me can eat a dick." I even started thinking of the other versions of myself, in this random hypothetical scenario, as rivals. So what does that say about my view of myself? I'm so self-absorbed and self-centered that I can't even empathise with myself? |
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« Reply #23 on: March 10, 2010, 02:11:01 pm » |
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But it won't affect you. This isn't a kill grandma and you were never born kind of thing. Whatever help you give your younger self won't overtly affect the current you or how you turned out.
I mean even if you have a great life, you can always make it better. Would you even bother helping out a different version of yourself if you don't reap any benefits? Is that narcisism or selfishness if you do that or the total opposite?
No. Pie thinks any kind of positive manipulation will make this alternate self worse off in the long run. If anything, Pie would make Pie's younger self learn harsher things at an earlier age to get better faster. Pie knows it won't affect Pie. That isn't the point. For Piews, --Pie |
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« Reply #24 on: March 10, 2010, 03:29:06 pm » |
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You get about an hour to impart your wisdom, and because of the process of traveling, you will go back in time fully clothed, but when you are shunted to your normal time period you will naked ... thus you can't carry anything home with you because it gets lost in the sands of time or whatever.
This isn't a puzzle, trying to outwit retrocausality isn't the point of this, I just wanted to see peoples thoughts on the philosophy of the self in an odd sort of way.
I just through it was an odd conundrum and I was wondering what the implications would be for myself because when I inititally thought this situation up I was like "fuck my younger self, if this doesn't help me right now then the younger me can eat a dick." I even started thinking of the other versions of myself, in this random hypothetical scenario, as rivals. So what does that say about my view of myself? I'm so self-absorbed and self-centered that I can't even empathise with myself?
Don't try and go all RC and change the rules now. Besides, if you only have an hour, how can you "live it up in the 80's" as your opening post suggests? |
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« Reply #25 on: March 10, 2010, 03:39:29 pm » |
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Live it up for an hour, faggot.
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« Reply #26 on: March 10, 2010, 03:54:48 pm » |
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I'd tell me not to play football on a street with a speed bump-with 2 giant overweight 13 yr olds who can't throw to save their lives but swear they're young Peyton Mannings.
To stay lean,date bad chick named Amanda.
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« Reply #27 on: March 10, 2010, 04:21:24 pm » |
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I'd give myself a few lottery numbers, stock tips and names of winning sports teams.
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« Reply #28 on: March 10, 2010, 04:27:01 pm » |
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Live it up for an hour, faggot.
How do you even do that? You'd have to stipulate that you can also appear wherever you want as well. Otherwise you're just going to spend all that time in transit...and honestly, an hour won't give you time to get drunk...unless you're a girl. |
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« Reply #29 on: March 10, 2010, 04:34:17 pm » |
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I'm sure slamming a bottle of 151 will get you somewhere past drunk.
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« Reply #30 on: March 10, 2010, 04:36:20 pm » |
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How do you even do that? You'd have to stipulate that you can also appear wherever you want as well.
Otherwise you're just going to spend all that time in transit...and honestly, an hour won't give you time to get drunk...unless you're a girl.
What the fuck don't you understand about the statement "This isn't a puzzle, trying to outwit retrocausality isn't the point of this"? |
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« Reply #31 on: March 10, 2010, 04:41:48 pm » |
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What the fuck don't you understand about the statement "This isn't a puzzle, trying to outwit retrocausality isn't the point of this"?
I'm not trying to outwit anything, I'm just trying to get rich. |
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« Reply #32 on: March 10, 2010, 04:42:58 pm » |
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I'm sure slamming a bottle of 151 will get you somewhere past drunk.
Yeah, but buying a bottle of booze and getting drunk on your own isn't living it up in any decade. And to live it up in the 80's would most definitely be about the club scene...where you're not going to get a lot of high proof liquor like that. |
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« Reply #33 on: March 10, 2010, 04:44:39 pm » |
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I'm not trying to outwit anything, I'm just trying to get rich.
It's not about you getting rich. You can't stay in the past and you can't take anything with you to the future. And anything you impart on your former self will only create an alternate timeline. Nothing will overtly effect you, personally. |
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« Reply #34 on: March 10, 2010, 04:47:54 pm » |
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It's not about you getting rich. You can't stay in the past and you can't take anything with you to the future. And anything you impart on your former self will only create an alternate timeline. Nothing will overtly effect you, personally.
Fine, then I'm going back in time and raping some girls who need a good raping when I know that I have a perfect alibi in the past. |
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I would go back in time 35 years and beat the ever-loving holy fuck out of my step-dad until he was almost dead but not quite, but assuredly paraplegic for life eating through a straw in an iron lung.
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« Reply #36 on: March 10, 2010, 05:58:11 pm » |
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Fine, then I'm going back in time and raping some girls who need a good raping when I know that I have a perfect alibi in the past.
You don't have the balls. What's more THAT'S NOT THE QUESTION! How fucking stupid are you? Ya know what, forget it. I forgot who I was talking to. This is just another retard Gaara moment, isn't it? |
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« Reply #37 on: March 10, 2010, 06:24:15 pm » |
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What im stuck on is when to go back too, I had a very nice childhood, so not much to improve there, maybe get back to myself at 7th or 8th grade and help myself with girls, what to study to have a leg up on college, future lottery numbers, the usual. Im only 22 so Im thinkin of a lotta little things since my young life is still so fresh in my mind, like not killing my first car, and if it did die, dont buy that shitty lumina, im still feeling the effects of that money pit after having sold it a year ago. I'd also not like to owe money for a school I transferred out of but then I never woulda met all the great friends I met there, tough choices.
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You don't have the balls. What's more THAT'S NOT THE QUESTION!
How fucking stupid are you? Ya know what, forget it. I forgot who I was talking to. This is just another retard Gaara moment, isn't it?
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