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Post by Quintsrevenge on Sept 21, 2018 13:09:17 GMT -5
If you could go back in time and tell your self something at a key point in life what would it have been ? Whether it be pipe smoking , life in general, would it be should you have taken the risk on ? Mine would have been to not breeze through school, I was able to go thru school with no effort but never completely finished. Now I find it holding me back in some avenues of work. I will once my second child is born, try an finish with night classes. I was just lazy with life when I was younger and to some extent now as well. My conversation would be to make sure to work and study hard so later in life, things could go smoother.
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 21, 2018 13:23:54 GMT -5
Nice thread.
I would tell myself to stop studying and get a job.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 13:46:52 GMT -5
I would have liked to be head of security that was suppose to be protecting President Lincoln in the Ford theater April 1865. The conspiracy by John Wilkes Booth would have been foiled. The Secret Service was founded in July of 1865 but did not protect the President of the USA at the time....an amazing tidbit of American history. Our Secret Service did not start to protect our Presidents until 1902.
My other choice would be the person that put Hitler to DEATH by hanging real slow before he became chancellor of Germany!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 13:48:30 GMT -5
I would go back and tell myself to ignore all the brainwashed, delusional religious idiots who ruined the first half of my life with their Imaginary God. I'll stop right there.
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Post by haebar on Sept 21, 2018 14:04:03 GMT -5
I would have told myself to listen to my parents, apply myself in school, and not yield to peer pressure.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 14:08:15 GMT -5
Nice thread. I would tell myself to stop studying and get a job. Ha ha, I would have told myself to stop working and start studying (I did later, but "wasted" a few years in between). |
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 21, 2018 14:30:17 GMT -5
@lonecoyote, unless you were the one who put Hitler to death, I think you've missed the point of the question. 😉
Just messing... But what WOULD you say to yourself?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 14:46:18 GMT -5
I would leave myself alone. I would not want to alter anything that would change or affect who my spouse, kids and friends are. Call it fear of the butterfly effect. My mother once asked me: "Don't you wish you had graduated college in 4 years?" My answer was: "I would not have met my wife, and you would not have the grandkids from us that you have."
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 14:47:10 GMT -5
@lonecoyote , unless you were the one who put Hitler to death, I think you've missed the point of the question. 😉 Just messing... But what WOULD you say to yourself?
Paddy wrote.....lonecoyote, unless you were the one who put Hitler to death, I think you've missed the point of the question. 😉
Nope, that’s my point of view from what the OP asked. Okay, to get more technical I would have said self.....keep a closer eye on President Lincoln and protect his surroundings at all cost.
Second.....I would have said ......self...Hitler is trying to create “ the perfect aryan nation “, it’s time now to make sure he does not succeed......at ALL cost.
That to me my friend is “ taking my risk on “! Guess I got a little deep in on thought on this one due to my career. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 21, 2018 14:49:42 GMT -5
@lonecoyote , unless you were the one who put Hitler to death, I think you've missed the point of the question. 😉 Just messing... But what WOULD you say to yourself?
Paddy wrote.....lonecoyote, unless you were the one who put Hitler to death, I think you've missed the point of the question. 😉
Nope, that’s my point of view from what the OP asked. Okay, to get more technical I would have said self.....keep a closer eye on President Lincoln and protect his surroundings at all cost.
Second.....I would have said ......self...Hitler is trying to create “ the perfect aryan nation “, it’s time now to make sure he does not succeed......at ALL cost.
That to me my friend is “ taking my risk on “! Guess I got a little deep in on thought on this one due to my career.Touché, my friend... Touché |
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Post by peterd-Buffalo Spirit on Sept 21, 2018 14:58:40 GMT -5
… In the past I have thought about what advice I might have given myself...but when it comes down to it, I wouldn't change a thing...everything I've accomplished, lived through, and experienced, have made me what and who I am today...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 15:03:02 GMT -5
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Post by puffy on Sept 21, 2018 15:03:36 GMT -5
I studied 5 years to be a draftsman only to be told that I needed computer classes to get a job.I didn't take them..Hugh mistake.
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Post by papipeguy on Sept 21, 2018 15:29:09 GMT -5
Don't get married until after 30. Say "yes" more often than "no".
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Post by just ol ed on Sept 21, 2018 15:31:38 GMT -5
nothing change that can think of. Deal with what was provided. Was told as young adult that I was, at birth, minor "oxygen deprived" during delivery. Just do what I can to best of abilities
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 21, 2018 15:37:18 GMT -5
Well, if I had stayed in college, I wouldn't have met either wife,which can be seen as both good and bad. But without the experience of the first wife, I might not have as much appreciation for my present wife of 42 years. I would not want to change anything that would have prevented me from meeting her. But after that, I would like to tell my self about some investments, and things like that the house we were about to sell would be worth 4 times as much in 2 years. That we should have hung on to the lake house despite the fact that we were both laid off at the same time.
All in all, I have enjoyed my life. Can't complain about the hard work because so many people have had it worse.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 15:45:13 GMT -5
I would leave myself alone. I would not want to alter anything that would change or affect who my spouse, kids and friends are. Call it fear of the butterfly effect. My mother once asked me: "Don't you wish you had graduated college in 4 years?" My answer was: "I would not have met my wife, and you would not have the grandkids from us that you have." That is really the best answer. Any change might improve one area of your life or another (work, relationships, whatever kinds of experiences we value), but might negatively impact others. Even my worst times have had their moments, and have definitely taught me a lot. Including how to be a happier person in the present. |
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Post by blackmouth210 on Sept 21, 2018 16:02:05 GMT -5
I would leave myself alone. I would not want to alter anything that would change or affect who my spouse, kids and friends are. Call it fear of the butterfly effect. ^^THIS!^^ It's been a long road. And, like most of you, I've had ups and downs along the way. I would not change a thing for fear that I may lose out on some of those "ups". |
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Post by AJ on Sept 21, 2018 16:22:58 GMT -5
Even though I spent a lot of time with my Dad it wasn’t enough. If I could change anything I would change how much time I could have been with him. I would also spend more time with my Heavenly Father. Fortunately that is the change that’s feasible.
AJ
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Post by monbla256 on Sept 21, 2018 17:05:43 GMT -5
Don't get married until after 30. Say "yes" more often than "no". I'd have to say the same  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 17:06:58 GMT -5
All I can say about this thread is:
Old memories came forward not all good. There are things in ones life is best kept locked up and forgotten.
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Post by trailboss on Sept 21, 2018 17:20:16 GMT -5
In 1979, I lived near Cupertino, Ca.
I would tell myself to go get a job at Steve Jobs house while they worked in the garage.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 17:32:10 GMT -5
In 1979, I lived near Cupertino, Ca. I would tell myself to go get a job at Steve Jobs house while they worked in the garage. Yeah, sounds good....but most likely you would have had to bring your own chair with you just so you could sit down. I hope you read the story what Steve Jobs had to do when he had the Clinton’s stay at his home!?!?!? |
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Post by roadsdiverged on Sept 21, 2018 17:34:01 GMT -5
I would leave myself alone. I would not want to alter anything that would change or affect who my spouse, kids and friends are. Call it fear of the butterfly effect. My mother once asked me: "Don't you wish you had graduated college in 4 years?" My answer was: "I would not have met my wife, and you would not have the grandkids from us that you have." That is really the best answer. Any change might improve one area of your life or another (work, relationships, whatever kinds of experiences we value), but might negatively impact others. Even my worst times have had their moments, and have definitely taught me a lot. Including how to be a happier person in the present. This. |
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Post by xjking on Sept 21, 2018 18:06:40 GMT -5
That is really the best answer. Any change might improve one area of your life or another (work, relationships, whatever kinds of experiences we value), but might negatively impact others. Even my worst times have had their moments, and have definitely taught me a lot. Including how to be a happier person in the present. This. I agree, my life has not been easy, but I have survived, worked hard, have my own home. Love my wife and my son who recently graduated college and now has a good job...wouldn't change it for the world. |
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Post by slowroll on Sept 21, 2018 22:26:49 GMT -5
About the only thing I would have told myself was "don't pi$$ away so much money."
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 22:41:39 GMT -5
All I can say about this thread is: Old memories came forward not all good. There are things in ones life is best kept locked up and forgotten. Yep, me too. PTSD. |
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Post by driftingfate on Sept 21, 2018 22:44:37 GMT -5
Take the West Point appointment. I know, 18 year old me was an idiot.
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Post by unknownpipesmoker on Sept 21, 2018 22:58:15 GMT -5
I would have done the Psychedelic Tibetan ritual a long, long time ago.
I could have been at least so much more at peace with, and happier, in my game life so many years ago. But, as the ancient wisdom says, let the past be the past.
Perhaps if I had the visions I have now had in my more youthful, more impressionable ages, I could have attained a higher form of enlightenment, than I have been able to in my later years.
I know that it (mind altering substances) are not for everyone. Especially those more prone, or predisposed to mental illness. But for some people, even being taught Leary's Tibetan Book of the Dead, combined with sensory deprivation, yoga exercises, disciplined meditation can attain ego loss and very high states of spiritual and personal enlightenment.
LSD and Leary literally saved my life. I was going off a cliff I was so unhappy. Now I connect with people, with the earth, with my family, with everything, so much better. Also, I let everything (life, death, relationships, disasters, world affairs, you really name it) just sort of happen, and its okay, because it is supposed to, its the natural course of things. And its okay - most of it doesn't to me, or really anyone else for that matter, anyway.
Being kind to others - good deeds - enjoying the simple gifts that nature has given us - these are the things that matter in my life now. Money.. as the artist Chris Burden once said.. it doesn't matter how much you have, you always want a little more. You have 3 million, 4 million, you want that 4.5 million, whatever. What will happen to it when you die? You'll have none of it. When your genetic material encoded into your DNA is reborn again - literal, scientific reincarnation - the money is not what will matter in your new self - its the Karma. This has been proven too... Look up epigenetics. Both victimhood and perpetration can be passed on genetically to your offspring...
Maybe I am floating downstream a bit here... But I think its important we all do that. People are doing less and less of that today... They're not using technology for what it was designed to do - open peoples minds. Theyre using it to close their minds.. And the perveyors of tech.. are now designing tech to close minds.
A lot to think about. You decide. Not here to debate.
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