If you could change one thing in history...

[Stone]

If you could change one thing in history, what would it be??

I would go back and stop the US from being the first to discover the Nuke.
Then we would not have a nation who is the only nation ever to use WMD's on another nation, invading other countries to stop them from developing the same...

[ZBoxDemon]

Somebody else would have discovered how to make a nuclear bomb eventually. Russia, China, Germany, whoever, someone else would have done it. But that's just my opinion.

I personally would not change anything at this time. Since there is nothing to change, it has happened, and that's it.

This thread it getting bounced to General board, it will generate better discussion over there methinks.

[KaRMa]

one thing. man's existance. i believe that the entire universe would be better off without us. we are a plague, and have too much pride in ourselves to admit it. but, alas, history is not to be changed. we must play with the cards we were dealt.

[piggarro99]

I was thinking more of sticking an axe in ferdinand the firsts head, then germany could not scapegoat the situation while systematically wiping out 6 million jews..

Thats a situation stopper, as killing hitler would only make more of his kind rise.

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KaRMa said:

one thing. man's existance. i believe that the entire universe would be better off without us. we are a plague, and have too much pride in ourselves to admit it. but, alas, history is not to be changed. we must play with the cards we were dealt.

Very, very true.

[Kakkaraun]

Man is inevitable. Even if our permutation didn't pop up, another would, eventually. Disease is a necessity of life, and we're the ultimate disease.

Anyway, you can't really know what you're doing when you change something like the past. Too many contingencies. You'd have to change something recent, I think. I wouldn't change anything, but if I absolutely HAD to, I'd have had Bush choke on that pretzel and die.

[ZBoxDemon]

If i could change one thing, it would be stopping this war. I was dead set against it from the start, and the US is only digging itself a deeper grave. Not only is Dictator Bush spending a load of money on a frivolous conflict. Not only is he spending this generation's future, he is spending the next generation's future as well.

I would also see to it that Christianity and other Abrahamic religions (i don't know about the Baha'i world faith) are wiped from the face of the Earth. Islam, Catholicism, and Judaism. Those 3 religions are the center of evil in the Anno Domini world. Everything from the Inquisition in the middle ages, to the chanting of death to America by Muslim extremists, to Dictator Bush screaming "GOD BLESS AMERICA!" everytime he finishes a speech. In short, I hate western religion.

Edit: Proper corrections made to de-assitize my post.

[Stone]

ZBox, Islam and Judaism are not Christianity...
I expected better from you...

Christianity is the religion of the followers of Jesus and the believers that he was the son of God. Islam does recognise the existance of a man who Christians call Jesus and he is written about in the Koran but called a different name (can't remember what). They acknowledge that he was a holy man, but not the son of God. Judaism also does not recognise Jesus as the son of God. They disregard the New Testament, and concentrate on their bible, the Techan (very similar to the Old Testament). They do recognise Jesus as a prophet from God though, but not as his son.

The three religions do have similar beliefs and all believe in the same God. Judaism and Christianity agree on the writings of the Old Testament but the Jews do not consider the New Testament as part of thier religion. The Muslims have the Koran, which is similar to the bible, but a different interpretation of the events that are supposed⁽¹⁾ to have taken place.

Christianity does have different churches (with varying beliefs but one common belief, and that is Jesus being the son of God), but they are Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Protestant. Protestants can be broken down into even more churches, such as Baptist, Anglican, Calvinist, etc... Christianity does have many different churches, but Islam and Judaism are not part. Judaism and Islam do have different churches too.


⁽¹⁾ I say supposed because as an athiest, I do not believe that the events in the bible or koran actually took place.

[Kakkaraun]

Heh heh...yeah. ZBox made an ass of hisself.

Anywho, many of the Bible's events DID take place, a lot of it is historical, and quite substantiated by secular accounts.

[Stone]

Yeah, some guys with a beards and sandals did some amazing stuff. Like walk on water, cure lepers, divide the Red Sea, Rise from the dead

[Kakkaraun]

The HISTORICAL events, not the RELIGIOUS events.