If you could go back in time and change something, what would it be?

[Saint Frankenstein]

I would make it so that, when my dad ran off with a 14 year old girl, he didn't take the rent money with him which forced my mom and I to leave San Francisco and move to the hellhole of Ohio, which has caused our lives to be an almost-perpetual nightmare since.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I shouldn't have been born.

I empathize with that feeling.

 

[roger1440]

Hey everyone. If you could go back in time and change something, what would it be? Feel free to base your answers on your religion if you want to.

Personally, if I could go back in time and change something, I would go back in time and ensure that Roe vs. Wade was decided in favor of the unborn.

I would prevent my parents from meeting.

 

[LuisDantas]

Three of us so far.

 

[LuisDantas]

This is quite morbid.

Is it? I don't think I agree.

 

[ZooGirl02]

While I understand what you mean, survival and quality of life are often at odds.

Are you saying that it would be better to abort a severely disabled child than to let him/her live?

 

[LuisDantas]

Are you saying that it would be better to abort a severely disabled child than to let him/her live?

I go a bit further than that. You probably mean physical or mental disability. But there are family disabilities as well.

 

[dgirl1986]

I empathize with that feeling.

As do I

 

[dgirl1986]

I go a bit further than that. You probably mean physical or mental disability. But there are family disabilities as well.

Like the inability to love

 

[LuisDantas]

Like the inability to love

Oh, so you know.

Out of curiosity, do you believe in free will?

 

[dgirl1986]

Oh, so you know.

Out of curiosity, do you believe in free will?

Depends on your definition of free will.

 

[LuisDantas]

I don't use any, actually. I never met one I could both understand and find connected to real life.

Then just recently I realized why there are people who believe in that concept. It is because we all live in the personal space that other people give us as gifts of love. It is not immediately obvious that such space will vary a lot from one person to the other.

 

[dgirl1986]

I don't use any, actually. I never met one I could both understand and find connected to real life.

Then just recently I realized why there are people who believe in that concept. It is because we all live in the personal space that other people give us as gifts of love. It is not immediately obvious that such space will vary a lot from one person to the other.

I believe we are able to make a series of choices, we can only see choices that we are able to see from a psychological view point. Hope that makes sense.

 

[LuisDantas]

I believe we are able to make a series of choices, we can only see choices that we are able to see from a psychological view point. Hope that makes sense.

Do you mean that our psychological state effectively allows some choices and forbids others?

 

[Willamena]

I don't use any, actually. I never met one I could both understand and find connected to real life.

Then just recently I realized why there are people who believe in that concept. It is because we all live in the personal space that other people give us as gifts of love. It is not immediately obvious that such space will vary a lot from one person to the other.

Yes. Individualism is the idea that gives life to free will.

 

[dgirl1986]

Do you mean that our psychological state effectively allows some choices and forbids others?

It can do yes. This is evident when you compare the choices and decisions of severely depressed people compared to mentally healthy individuals.

 

[LuisDantas]

Yes. Individualism is the idea that gives life to free will.

I hope this was not meant to make sense to me.

 

[Willamena]

I hope this was not meant to make sense to me.

It was hoped, nothing more.

 

[Huey09]

I don't think I could really change anything I want to change. Mainly European colonialism and to scribe any religious leaders (if they existed) and preserve teaching directly from the source...so I guess my answer is moot

 

[LuisDantas]

It can do yes. This is evident when you compare the choices and decisions of severely depressed people compared to mentally healthy individuals.

Precisely! Whatever people mean by free will seems to be at least perceived differently according to the emotional state.

When I realized that I wondered what could improve that perception, be it an illusion or a fact. And I realized that it is mainly the constrast of being a well-supported, integrated and accepted person with being disliked, avoided and insulted.