If you could either go into the past or into the future, which would you choose?

The future. Around the year 2500

I'm not sure. Finding out next week's lottery numbers would be great, but I love history and it would be wonderful to be able to see things as they used to be.

PAST! Asking me that question is really stupid because my whole life, I was trying to find a way to get to the past.

The past.

I would go into the future and look up as much as I can abut the years I skipped over. Then I would come back and tell everyone what was going to happen next, just like some people do when they saw a movie before anyone else.

I would like to go into the past to meet my great-grandparents. I wouldn't want to see the future... too scary?

Which direction are you going?
'Cause I'm going the other way.

The past. I want to see what my father was like when he was married to my mother.

The past I'd like to go to England in the 1140s.

The past. I don't want to know about the future.

Why's that?

I'd like to see what was going on at that time with the civil war and everything. There were a lot of fascinating characters on both sides. Some people have been recorded in history as villains but I've often wondered how they really were - history bring written by the victors. As it was the Empress Maud's son who ended up on the throne, it was his clerks who recorded much of the history of that time - anyone who had angered his mother particularly (such as Philip FitzRobert - her own nephew who changed sides to fight for the king despite the fact that his father, the Empress's half-brother, was the leader of her army and her champion - who was recorded as someone who had no limits to his villainy) were not exactly heralded as great men.

I just think that it would be fascinating

Why do you want to go to the future?

future

The past.

It would just be interesting to see how life turns out!

If I went back, I'd like to witness the Great fire of London!

The future, definitely.

Past. I would never choose to go into the future. I like the unknown.

Personally, I'd really like to go back in time and see how Jesus lived, and died, and rose again.

The past

I'd go to the Romans or Egyptians... I'm not sure.

The past. Could I change the past?

Tha future

I'd like to go back in time to see how the Kings & Queens of the Hawaiian royalty lived,& perhaps by some small measure change what happen to the future of the Hawaiians.(well I can dream)

It doesn't matter. It's always been the same in so many ways.

either would be fun, but to pick one i'd say the past to solve a puzzle or two (ie, origin of life on earth, emergence of homo sapiens, etc).

I must be venturing into the past, because I swear I've seen this before.

Medieval times, I've always wanted to. The future should be left to itself.

great name!!!

i am from the future and i have come to the past to warn you all of your errant ways and stuff

but i would still like to go back at least 1000 years and wander

I think it would be kind of creepy to know the future- I wouldn't know what to do with the knowledge.

I think it would be really weird and interesting to see my own past and understand things differently.

well, you could be unplussed with what unfolds, and find that digging into history instead, though it may seem ignorant, is just as vital.

The past, to the seventies. Studio 54, no AIDS and party time.

Just thinking about that gives me the CBGB's

CBGB's ?

It was a club where bands like the Talking Heads got their start. I've never been there. I was using it as a homonym for heebie jeebies, which I had no reason to say anyhow.

"When I see the future, I close my eyes. I can see it now."

(it's only a second away)

this is the picture, this is the picture
this is the picture, this is the picture

In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555
Your arms hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine's doing that for you

In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube, whoa-oh

whoa-oh
whoa-oh
whoa-oh

Wow. You have a great singing voice!

whoa-oh

The future. Time travel is a fascinating subject, and the Back To The Future trilogy will always be my favorite movies. I always thought I'd want to go back in time to change things for the better, but if, as you stated, I'd have no impact on the time traveled to, it would be better to check out the future, imho, to learn what mistakes NOT to make after returning to the present.

I like that song

I would right alot of wrongs....

I thought of heebie jeebies when I read it thinking in the states you say CBGB's, but I thought I'd clarify it. I get what you were on about now - GBGB, Studio 54 etc. Don't you hate it when a witty comment goes unappreciated because of ignorance? (namely mine )

neither

If it were just for a short time, and I'm guaranteed to come back again, then the future.
If it is permanent, then I think I'd like to go back in the past
I'm just an old-fashioned kinda gal

I've done both. Its was freakin' boring.

id like to see if im as messed up then as i am now

the past, because every one went to church and wore dresses as they should to day

All the men wore dresses to church?

Past because I would love to see what kind of kids my parents are and to observe their lives growing up. Also I would love to meet certain people before they died. One would be JESUS, and the other SELENA. >>That would be so awesome and interesting.

the past because the future is full of death and new technology which will destroy the earth. the past is full of wonderful knowledge and new experiences. forget the past and it comes back upon you.

Pompeii had particles of golden sun misting through the air. Solomons temple was rich in beehives which became gold urns locked in the catacombs while burning spear point fence clearings turned edens into oasis's. Writing spread through mariner phoenix ibis chicken scratches of constellation courses which the hebrews turned into nuclear science computers. Tribes of lagoon stilt birdhouse builders with poison darts went from cambodia to brazil. Birds and dinosaurs kept evolving (they've even got opposable hands on each leg and accordian eyelids that travel in both x and y directions). A tribe of crows with flamingo coloring? It's probably up for debate in their fashion evolution comittee. The future becomes amorphous digital particle wave consciousness capable of reenacting genesis. War and the brink of destruction will continue to exist. Heaven is a quantum leap parallel always available as time emanates from the source and becomes matter.

the future. We already what happen in the past but we no nothing about the future

Apparently, only 8 people died in the fire of London, preety amazing when you consider all the damage that was done!!

I'd rather not know if I'm gonna be famous, or if I'm gonna die young or anything, until it happens...

Into the future..the exact time of my death..Then I'd make sure I was somewhere else :)

does it matter?

the past, I'd love to see how we got here

Future

The past and I would stop Bin Laden's parents from fudging

I would LOVE to live for one day back in the Cowboy's and Indian's days.
(ex. Back to the future #3, Great Movie)

1800's in Louisiana, ahh yes how lovely. Are you coming?

it would be rockin' fun

how come no one has said they would want to see jesus yet

never mind texasbeachbabe did

is nothing sacred?

i can already tell you you aren't going to be famous. your going to be a miserable cretin who will probably get a tedious desk job and work every day of your life trying to pay back your college loan.

I don't remember you there. Probably because most who will, have already. Look at earlier versions of this survey.

sorry that was harsh and a bit crude

that would suck to go to the future you'd probably come across some mutated killing veneral disease that has wiped out most of the humans.then everyone is scared of sex. that would suck

Only 8 - wow

It's taken a long time for me to get back to you on that one!

About 3 months

Good things come to those who wait....

sure... most people just think I'm going to end up in a mental hospital...

The future - just to see if there is one.

Yes and no. There is no future or past, but in the sense you mean, of course. God's not planning on suicide. Wiil we be dancing lights or shrimp on a foreign star, I can not say. I saw the place I'll be moving to in a vision last night, good thing too because I won't even have a chance to visit the town to look at places before I get there. I wrote to a realtor who turned out to be the former mayor. He knows everyone there, now I'll just have to tell him what the place looks like and hook me up with the owner. It's much darker than I expected, I'd forgotten ancient homes weren't big on windows.