Time Travel, Would You if You Could ?

If you had one chance to travel back in time and change one thing in your life. I have two questions for you. On this episode of Wife's Thoughts, It's time for a virtual campfire sit down with Terry Weiss. Wilcome to Weiss. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the program. Welcome to another episode of Weis's Thoughts. I am Terry Weiss, your humbled host, and I am still got a little bit of that post nasal drip stuff, But hey, who cares? You don't care, right, I don't care. We're gonna muddle through and do this episode because this is something this is a topic I kind of want to been wanting to do for quite a while, and we're gonna We're gonna get into it here in just a bit. But first before we do that, Hey, if you like the program, if you like Weis's Thoughts, and you want to listen to more episodes of the podcast, won't you mosey on over to the website Weissthoughts dot com w y c E T h o U g h T S Weis's thoughts dot Com. There you can listen to each and every episode of this podcast. 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But once in a while I'll throw in a video of some other kind of interesting stuff for you to have a visual feast on. Okay, So yeah, that's that. So we took care of that. And before we get into today's episode, some of you had reached out to me and said, hey, Terry, on the last episode of Voice Thoughts, you never did the wordsmith word of the episode. And I'm like, you know what, you are absolutely right. It's that time again. It's time for the wordsmith word of the episode. Ah, yes, all right and generative? AI female boy? What is this week's wordsmith word of the episode? What is it? Come on? Tell me? How are you? I want to know? Anthropogenic? Say it again? Anthropogenic? Anthropogenic A N T H R O, P O G E N I C. And it is the definition. It's an adjective. It is chiefly pollution or environmental change, that origin that originates in human activity. Let's hear it used in a sentence, shall we? The research scientist designed a method to avoid recording anthropogenic noise such as boats, in order to better listen to Wales. Ah about another way we can use it? Urban planners need to consider both natural and anthropogenic factors when designing new development. Excellent? And is there another way we can use the word anthropogenic? Is there is there? The archaeological team found layers of anthropogenic soil which indicated long term human settlement. So there you go. There's this week's wordsmith word of the episode. Now you can tell people how smart you are and show them by using this word anthropogenic anthropagenic. That's this week's wordsmith word of the episode, brought to you by absolutely no one and nothing. Okay, I have to take a little sip of water here. The pipes are still a little dry here. It is winter time here in the northeastern half of the United States. From whence the program cometh to you. And it's a little windy today too, which is really odd. It's just one of those odd days that I don't know anyway, I know, Shut up, Terry get let's get into the meat and potatoes of the episode. Shelley, all right, so what are we going to be speaking about on the virtual campfire this time? On Why's thoughts about? Well, as I talked about in the opening, if you could go, if you had one chance, one chance to go back in time. There's two questions that I want to ask you. First of all, would you that's the first question, would you do it? And second of all, what event would you change in your life that you would think that would most directly benefit you? Today, think about that. Would you go if you had a chance to travel back in time to affect your future, would you do it? And what event when would you want to go back to? What event if you had one shot to do it, what event would you go to that you'd think would most greatly benefit you by changing your past. Now, there's lots of movies out about time travel, and you know, I mean, there's been just so many H. G. Wells back in the day with you know, the Time Machine. You know, the most famous thing that I think of that comes to mind. There's two movies that come to my mind when I think of time well three of them. The first one that pops into my head is The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, the book and the theatrical versions, both the older version with Rod I think it was, was it Rod Sterling or Rod Sterling? Correct me if I'm wrong? With the producer extraordinary starting that, and then the updated version back in the what was it the nineteen nineties or early two thousands with Guy Pierce, which was a pretty nice remake actually, as remakes go, there's that one. Then the second one that comes to my mind when I'm thinking about movies that have to do with time travel is going to be a movie with it? Didn't. It became a cult classic. It was made in the the mid to late seventies, early eighties. I think it was a late seventies. It was with Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steinbergen, and I believe it was the actor's name who played the villain in it. He played Jack the Ripper, David I don't want to the name it's popping into my head is David Niven, but it wasn't. It was David something. But it was called Time after Time, and it's about what would happen if HG. Wells built the time machine and used it, you know, to chase Jack the Ripper because he used his machine to state escape prosecution back in those days into the modern era. Really a cool concept for a movie and kind of a cool movie. I remember being enthralled with that as a younger person. But my favorite, my favorite all time time travel movie slash under Trilogies, has to be the Back to the Future series with Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, aungst others. You know, just those movies just captivated me and there was just something about them when I saw the first one, and I think out of all all three of them, all three of them in the series, my favorite of the Back of the Future trilogy has to be Part two. Now I know what some people like, what Yeah, Part two has to be my favorite because I love how they tied it into the first movie, went back into the first movie, and so you had kind of all these paradoxes happening and what happened when you know, when you can mess it, if you mess up time travel on the timeline, and how it can alter the future. But anyway, that's what I think of, you know, as far as time travel movies. But the thing is is if if you had the opportunity, you know, let's say the technology was here and it was available and they said, yeap, it can be everybody. You know, if you I don't know, you win a contest or something, or you pay so much money, you have one shot to go back in time for a day or whatever X amount of hours and you can change one event in your life. First of all, would you go and second of all what event would you go to? Now I know there's also some of you authors and thinking, yeah, but Terry, if you went back in time, change one event in your life. You know, it's the ripple effect, like throwing that pebble into a pond. It would also affect people around you and their futures, et cetera. And see though, that's the that's the conundrum, isn't it. Oh, let me use some of the college vocabulary. That's the conundrum. If you don't know what that means, look it up. That's the conundrum with time travel because not only would you be wanting to change your own life, but we affect everyone and many many people around us, and then the people around us we affect, they affect the people around them, and sort of like that old doublement commercial and so on and so on so on. So that's the big thing there. But let's just say, for the sake of simplicities sake, you could go back in time. You have one shot to do it. You have forty eight hours. Let's say they give you forty eight hours, and then you're brought back to the present. Would you do it? So? I guess that falls under the auspices of how happy are you with your life right now? So would you do it? And second of all, what event would you visit to try and alter the outcome of now for myself. Would I do it? I know this is going to sound like the cowards answer, the cowards way out. I am really unsure because all the choices that we make, all the experiences that we have, both good, bad and indifferent, they are the culmination of events of the past that make up who we are today, and those experiences, those failures, those triumphs, so on and so forth. But if let's say I did it, I think what I would do is I would go back. And the thing that I would do is I would go back and I would tell, you know, if I could tell myself disguise myself, I would encourage myself to not take to heart other people's opinions of yourself. Now, I I know that sounds kind of maybe a cheap way out, you know, Terry, we were looking for something a little more concrete, like oh that day that you sledded and you went left instead of right, and you know that. No, I would give myself some advice to say, hey, don't worry about what others think of you, follow your heart, follow your intuition and soul. I would give myself that advice at an earlier age, and try and think of some way to make sure I reinforce that to do that, and I think that would it ultimately then put me further along on the path of my life than I am now, because at times I kind of feel like I'm playing ketch up, you know. And I'm not talking about ketchup you put on your hamburger, hot dog or what have you, or your eggs in the morning. I'm talking about playing ketch up with the time that I had wasted a little water there, folks, the time that I at least I feel that I had wasted worrying about what the other people think of me or thought of me, or you know, the indecision should I really do this? Should I do I really want? If I do this, then this person or these sets of people might not think I'm cool or too cool or whatever. I would just go back and give myself that advice and say, hey, man, you do you long as you ain't hurting somebody or yourself, follow your heart, follow your dream. If it works, great, if it doesn't, great, but at least less regrets. I guess, is what I guess? What is the the point I'm trying to make now? Who knows I mean, are we ever going to fundamentally have the ability to go back in time? Who knows? Have we been visited by time travelers? Some people say we have been, some people say we are, some people say they're here influencing events. If you believe that sort of thing. There's there's lots of things you can look up on YouTube and you know, odd things, and there's some crackpot stuff people are just trying to, you know, get views for stuff. However, there's there's some pretty decent documentaries out there. If you look up on YouTube or search the internet for time travelers, have they visited us? Or are they visiting us? Or do we have the ability to travel through time? Maybe someday we will, but you know, who knows, maybe you know, way off in the future. Because time is kind of a you know, it's a string. You know, they have what's called string theory. Look that up. String theory says, you know, if you you know, go to a point in the past, you know, one little thing you can do can affect and you know, like I said, that pebble into a pond, a clear, tranquil pond can affect so many other things. And the running scientific theory, and of course entertainment theory, is that when things change, we wouldn't even know because things in the past that change that effect now it would be instantaneous to us, so we wouldn't even know that, you know, things are being changed, you know, to us common folk here. I guess it's the easiest way to say it, but it's always fascinated me, the idea of time travel. You know, some people say, well, what if you could time travel, go back in time and you know, kill Adolf Hitler when he was a baby or a child, and then you could have prevented the World War? Well, what is to say that that wouldn't have had something worse happen. Let's say, you know, Stalin or something, or Mao decides to start a nuclear war down the road or something. You know. So, I mean, it could really mess with your head, you know, it really can. But it's I guess it's nice to sometimes think about, boy, if I could go back and change one thing. Now a psychologist, however, you know, there's a lot of self help talk and self improvement talk out there in the world, especially nowadays, of you know what, don't live in the past, don't ruminate about the past. Yes, acknowledge your past and learn from it, so you don't, you know, maybe make some of those same errors in judgment or you know, it can help propel you forward, which is what I try to do and sometimes I still fall short, like like we all do, I mean, we all do you know? We's like, oh man, I wish I could change that or this or that. You tend to and we you, I mean, we tend to ruminate on the past and sometimes to the detriment of the happiness of the present in our future. So you know, those are things just to think about. And that's kind of what I wanted to get out there and get the discussion going on for us on this episode of Voice Thoughts and something you can think about until the next episode, maybe discuss with your friends. If you want to hit me up and email me, It's Terry atweis'sthoughts dot com if you want to email me, or you can email me through the website at wwice thoughts dot com. You know, would you would you time travel? I'm going to probably put up a survey with this podcast episode as well. You know, I think we're going to title this episode time travel. Would you if you could, and so that's something to think about until next time on Wife's Thoughts. So you guys, take care and mister producer stop pressing the wrong buttons, will you. Hey, thanks for listening to the program today. 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