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Beestie · 10-14-2005, 11:00 AM

Good points UT. History, as a convenience, tends to personify carnages as though the person it assigns it to was the source or cause of the events that set the stage for it. I think you make a good point with the Stalin example.

Would killing Hitler's mother save 6M lives or would 12M lives have been lost in the alternate path? Maybe if instead of killing Hitler, someone went back and killed the guy who ordered the assasination of the Austrian leader whose death led to WWI. Perhaps that would head off the events that created the power vacuum Hitler later filled.

If I could go back and take somebody out I think it would probably be the Pope who initiated the Inquisition or, at least, failed to prevented it. Or maybe the person who initiated the Crusades. Another person I thought about taking out is Cain. I think about how our DNA would be different if Cain's influence on subsequent DNA strands were replaced with Abel's.

As far as the White pill... thinking about that I get to keep all their knowlege and memory... Warren Buffet comes to mind. Thinking about living their life for a week - I wonder about a lot of people - someone who knows they will die in 7 days and one minute - just to feel what that's like and to know that I get to live the rest of my life knowing what I otherwise will likely learn too late.

Thinking about taking over that person's life makes me think about Osama bin Laden. I'd go on all the world's TV networks including Al Jazeera and tell everyone that I was wrong- that Allah came to me in a dream and told me to love the infidels, terminate all jihads, void all fatwas and to live in peace and forever renounce violence. Then, I'd disappear, secretly fly to Central America and covertly report to the CIA's most notorious "interrogation" facility. I would summon the head interrogator and tell him that the TV interview was a hoax designed to make America lower its defenses as part of a new jihad onslaught that would dwarf 9/11. I'd brag that I know the location of every Al Queda cell in the world and what their immediate plans are and -just as the 7-day window is expiring- smile and tell him that Allah will not permit me to share that information with infidels such as yourself.

10-14-2005, 11:00 AM	#8
Beestie -◊\|≡·∙■·∙≡\|◊- Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Parts unknown. Posts: 4,081	Good points UT. History, as a convenience, tends to personify carnages as though the person it assigns it to was the source or cause of the events that set the stage for it. I think you make a good point with the Stalin example. Would killing Hitler's mother save 6M lives or would 12M lives have been lost in the alternate path? Maybe if instead of killing Hitler, someone went back and killed the guy who ordered the assasination of the Austrian leader whose death led to WWI. Perhaps that would head off the events that created the power vacuum Hitler later filled. If I could go back and take somebody out I think it would probably be the Pope who initiated the Inquisition or, at least, failed to prevented it. Or maybe the person who initiated the Crusades. Another person I thought about taking out is Cain. I think about how our DNA would be different if Cain's influence on subsequent DNA strands were replaced with Abel's. As far as the White pill... thinking about that I get to keep all their knowlege and memory... Warren Buffet comes to mind. Thinking about living their life for a week - I wonder about a lot of people - someone who knows they will die in 7 days and one minute - just to feel what that's like and to know that I get to live the rest of my life knowing what I otherwise will likely learn too late. Thinking about taking over that person's life makes me think about Osama bin Laden. I'd go on all the world's TV networks including Al Jazeera and tell everyone that I was wrong- that Allah came to me in a dream and told me to love the infidels, terminate all jihads, void all fatwas and to live in peace and forever renounce violence. Then, I'd disappear, secretly fly to Central America and covertly report to the CIA's most notorious "interrogation" facility. I would summon the head interrogator and tell him that the TV interview was a hoax designed to make America lower its defenses as part of a new jihad onslaught that would dwarf 9/11. I'd brag that I know the location of every Al Queda cell in the world and what their immediate plans are and -just as the 7-day window is expiring- smile and tell him that Allah will not permit me to share that information with infidels such as yourself. __________________ ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦