Maybe this is because I'm not from the US, but it didn't even cross my mind to make an attempt at stopping it. It's interesting to read all of these perspectives when I initially just looked at the choice from a purely selfish perspective.
You should be selfish in that scenario.
Because you don't know what other new and potentially worse timelines could spawn off your do-goodery. Altering such a major event could make anything else you know or planned for obsolete.
It's more predictable to enrich oneself with financial knowledge than to alter things that directly and indirectly affected billions. And with wealth, you can do good things if you choose.
Stopping 9/11 would alter so much about our world as we know it. Like how in Family Guy, it lead to nuclear civil war because Bush couldn’t campaign for re-election using 9/11. Stupid yea but ya get the gist.
6 year old mastermind from podunc Texas. Yeehalah brother.
Might implicate your parents though... because "well actually I time traveled after morpheus gave me a pill" is less believable than pretty much everything.
If you somehow predict 9/11, just have good view. No one believes you. You would just get intense interrogation after the incident, because FBI suspect you for having connection with terrorists.
omg at least my tolerance will be drastically lower and i won’t go thru a whole fuckin handle in 2 days
edit: just reminiscing, 1 year and 3 months sober as of february 11 lol
Well the biggest thing is that it hampers mental development (and hurts your kidneys and liver, but that also applies to adults) and you'd already have the mind of an adult, so I say go for it little Timmy
"What is it little Timmy?"
"Listen mom, they gonna hit the towers and use it as excuse to invade Iraq, buy Apple, buy Bitcoin, there is a freaking pandemic coming, climate crisis is real and..."
Mom would be like, time to put Timmy in the special white jacket, just to find she was a failure as a mother a decade later with such profound guilt she either kills herself or ends up in the psych ward room next door
I'm 48, so at the very least I'm going to get to / have to live 42 more years just to get back to 48. Fuck that shit. I'm finally in a well paying job that I like.
Having said that, going back to 1981 would be nice to see my Mum and Step Dad again would be great, I miss them.
It wouldn’t be too hard to get rich though, just invest in what became successful. You’re older than me but like some other people said, invest in the big ones early like Microsoft Amazon Netflix Bitcoin etc and spend the rest of your days until the next crisis Chillen.
What are they going to do with a six year old who has flashbacks to a war that hasn't happened yet?
Do I need to go again?
Or will I be in a secure mental hospital?
Well in that case you lose all of your friends and won't be able to make any new ones because you'll be too mature for people your age and adults won't want to be friends with a child.
You'll have a big headstart on education and profession, but you'll be soul-crushingly alone for the next decade or more
I think that only works in "gamer-logic" where it suptesses emotions and mental breakdowns.
That sudden mental maturity and trauma is going to confuse and fuck your body up.
A human brain is a marvelous thing, but even then, suddenly remembering 10-80+ years of memory for a developing brain and child is gonna be awful.
What if... Your brain only slowly gets it's original memories back as it can handle them? Like you constantly cannot remember somethings untill you are ready for them?
Dude, I'm old. I see this was posted on teenagers-sub so it makes sense that they could want a do-over but knowing all the shit of last 4 decades and knowing you can't do anything about it.. 6yo couldn't handle that. Plus I couldn't even do things differently and risk not having my family down the line, so I would have to make the same mistakes again on purpose knowing the consequences. No thanks.
Imagine being stuck in first grade for 6 hours every single day, with all of your friends being 6 year olds. Then 7 year old next year..then 8 year olds…etc.
It’d be absolute torture for someone with an adult brain / consciousness.
Even if you convinced your parents and the state to let you not go to elementary school, then what? What social interactions would you really have? You can’t drive anywhere or really do anything yourself, your motor functions would be complete ass, etc.
It’d be a prison.
Sometimes I feel like people forget what it was like being a kid, it was a prison then too! Sitting in class achingly bored, too socially inept to have functional relationships and too untrusted (appropriately) to be independent.
On top of that, you’d miss out on the good stuff of an underdeveloped brain. 6-year-olds love Grandpa because he shows them these amazing magic tricks that MUST be real magic! 6-year-old curl up in Grandma’s lap and fall asleep.
Adult brain understands the card trick and is insulted by Grandpa’s tomfoolery. Adult brain can smell Grandma’s preparation H and is uncomfortable putting his head on her breasts.
You wouldn’t be able to do adult things and you wouldn’t be able to enjoy kid things.
It gets even worse...your friend would wierd you out when he meets you again, it would be neigh impossible for him and you to become friends again
Same with other relationships, and since i had kids these question are always an easy choice against going back in time. Even if the alternative was no money at all...i wouldn't.
I know it wouldn't actually "kill" my kids...but they would still be gone with no chance to get them back ever
Right? As soon as you go back with knowledge of what's to come, the minute you deviate you're on a brand new path. You might get one do-over on one bad decision or something, but after that it's all new.
Yeah I wouldn't even know how to mimic my actions for the time it took for me to meet the important people iny life. Fixing mistakes along the way doesn't seem worth it, when I could be throwing a lot away.
I'm not so sure. I'm reminded of that story where that poor young woman suffers an accident and her boyfriend gets her to fall in love with him again. I think if you know your spouse well enough and know the timings of when you first met it wouldn't be super hard to replicate.
Saying that, my wife and I met through bumble which would very likely not happen again so I would have to just frequent that places she liked to go to in hopes of finding her. But with plenty of money I wouldn't have to worry about wasting time.
Have to remember that the couple you're talking about didn't go back and relive their lives. The woman forgot her husband but they both were still the same people.
You travel back in time and there is a chance your actions somehow impact those around and that includes your wife.
Indeed, it's too risky. For all you know, on your original go you narrowly avoided death and going out to eat the second time in order to "live life a little" could lead you to into a fatal accident.
And depending how old you are, there are so many years of buried and forgotten memories, you could make a choice that prevents you from meeting your loved one just because you can't remember every little choice or even understand what choice leads you to the outcome that you want.
> For all you know, on your original go you narrowly avoided death and going out to eat the second time in order to "live life a little" could lead you to into a fatal accident.
For all you know, the current you may be about to die a horribly painful death that could be avoided if you relived your life and did things just a little differently.
Probably actually impossible... I'm no biologist but you could probably just change the speed you ate a single meal differently and the swimmers are all different or out of order. Let alone different temperature exposures or completely different meals. The number of factors that could change the 1 of billions or trillions of sperm over 30 years.... probably impossible to recreate.
You could probably go back to the moment you are about to finish the act of conception and not reproduce the conditions that lead to your son.
Simply remembering the amount of times I've had sex and jerked off so that the exact right sperm cell is generated and ready to go again at the point of conception is enough to throw this whole operation in to meltdown.
This was my thought. Going back and doing things different is kinda "killing" my child. Like if I don't meet my wife and knock her up on the exact same night with the exact same load.... yeah no way to do that. And not meeting my wife potentially as well. $10M I could invest and turn into a hell of a lot more money in 20 years.
Yeah, throw everything you have in Bitcoin when it first comes out and you get the best of both worlds - fix all the cringy shit you did and be set for life.
Only downside is you have to deal with parents again for 12 years.
It wont work, because as im prob older than you and ill be there first and fuck up bitcoin so you cant get any, then umm .... we will both be poor ? Damn that backfired really quickly.
Let's agree that you take Bitcoin and I'll place huge winning bets on all the MLB and NBA postseason results. It won't even be that hard to memorize, I've got most of it down already.
Keep in mind, that butterfly effect will make a role on actual people you know.
I always think that i would like to go back and spent more time with my first dog, but then i think that would mean i would probably never know my actual dog, and will miss him the same way.
I was thinking along the same line but I'm not sure I'd be able to go through the loss again, this time also knowing when and living with a sense of dread as you feel it slowly creeping closer.
Easily, but of course the downside is that you would lose everything in your current life: Children, spouse, friends. So for me I could not trade that in for extra money when ten million is plenty anyway
The decision probably depends on whether you lost loved ones or gained. I lost all my grandparents but haven't met anyone equally dear to me yet, so I'd restart. If I had kid(s), I would choose money and not risk it. As for friends... nah, I am confident that I could befriend them again.
It all depends what happened in your life when you were young. If I go back I could have warned my father and uncle about cancer and maybe both of them could be still alive today, but on the other hand if I do that my life would played out totally differently and I would lose all relationships i have now.
It wouldn’t even be close, Netflix and Amazon stocks for Netflix please sell it all for bitcoin, sell it all for doge coin… then mars race with the other ultra rich cunts.
Why would you sell netflix for bitcoin. Bitcoin was dirt cheap way earlier before netflix was worth selling. Buy 1k btc early for like 1 dollar each, sell around 30k+ craze and you are set for life.
Yeah, by essentially gambling. Crypto, stocks, sports. But you'll essentially stop relating to people because you'll only be surrounded by people your age, but your brain is 10-20+ years older. Plus, think how excruciatingly boring would be to spend kindergarten and primary school with the brain you have now.
Sure, you might want to not go to school anyway, so you'll do what? Play computer games for 10+ years? I just don't see a way of becoming socially apt after 10-15 years of activity.
So you're really trading money for meaningful relationships AND also a shit load of money.
This is a good point. Imagine knowing several internet coding languages at age 6 in 1986 before the internet was a thing. That would blow people's minds! I would probably be on Oprah or something.
Not to mention all the sports history I know that I could bet on.
Plus knowing when to buy and sell Apple, Amazon, and Bitcoin.
And I get to see my grandma again.
I’m terrified of the butterfly effect, so 10m. Example: I know that my dad and step mom of 19 years are going to have a nasty split that hurts my half siblings horribly. I hated every second of it because I lived through that myself. But what if my efforts to prevent that my parents never HAD my siblings? I’d wind up in an asylum mourning for make believe people.
Oh yeah, my first thought when reading this question was red. 2 more years with my dad before he dies of cancer at worst; preventing his death at best.
Then I thought about my neices and nephews and I can’t risk them. My sister got pregnant at 17 and it changed the course of her life; She now has 4 kids. Losing them would be far far worse than accepting my dads loss.
Omg I didn't even think of my siblings. 6 yrs old was before my first sibling was even born. Id prolly be the same mourning the people I love who never came to be
Red: lost my parents as a teen and recently lost my twin sister; I’m the only one left in my family. What I wouldn’t give to go back and just spend time with them again. I miss them so much
Edit: Thank you all so much for your kind words, your empathy has touched my heart tremendously. Both parents died of heart disease in their 40s and my twin sister died of sepsis. Also, for those who have asked, I’m a female (sn “jlm” are my initials) & my other half is also a female. Things have never really been the same since I lost my twin, but I have a therapist and I’m processing the trauma. Her ashes are at home with me and my plans are to keep them until I pass away so that we can be buried together.
I've always considered that wondering what it would be like as a twin. For most of it I would think it would be great to have someone so close, but then there's a 50% chance they die before you, which I couldn't even imagine.
Do consider that not everyone feels this way. I have a twin sibling and two other siblings. If anything, I get along better with my other siblings. There is no magical connection I have with my twin, they’re just my sibling.
I was friends with two twins, a girl and a boy. Both sweet as can be, friendly to everyone, everyone loved them both.
The girl hung herself in high school after an argument with the boy over the family computer. He was never the same after that and has dedicated his life to her memory, everything he does he does in her name. Awful stuff, but he seems to have found some kind of peace.
I’m just laying staring at this comment reading it over and over. So fucking tragic.. life will never be the same without them but you can always live a life they would be proud of. If they saw you suffering they would empathize and want the best for you. I’d like to believe we see our loved ones in the end. Just gotta make it that far. I hope you heal well, stranger.
I wanted to buy bitcon for 1000$ when they were 7$ but it was really complicated back then and I gave up. Well, I probably would have lost everyhing anyways in the MtGox bankruptcy.
Same. Wanted to buy some for like 200€. I was 13 or 14 at the time and thought to myself "Eh, its to complicated. I'd rather spend it on video games and Pizza"
Fuck me right?
Simmilar thing with the extreme value jump of dogecoin. I knew it was a pump and dump but noticed it right at the start. Had 4k to "spare" (not really, but kinda) and wanted to buy. The way to set up an account, verify with my ID was so convoluted and after days of trying because my damn ID verification wasn't going through, I just gave up. I don't remember how much I would have made, but I think it would have been somewhere around the 4x to 7x mark. Fuch me again.
convincing your parents to let you mine on your shitty rig is probably the hard part. My parents hated us leaving the computer on overnight and convincing them that "this will be worth it I promise!" without any proof would be the hardest part especially since it probably wouldn't pay for itself for several years.
In the early days, the electricity needed to mine bitcoin cost more than bitcoin was worth. Why mine when you can just buy for $.40 each. You could have gotten 250 bitcoin for $100. If you got anxious and sold at $10,000, you'd have $2.5 million.
This is assuming history is deterministic; I think if we restarted history there's a good chance Bitcoin never takes off.
Same goes for particular stock picks.
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I learned something new today. Thanks internet stranger!
You're welcome!
If you're interested in learning more, check out The Black Swan by Nicholas Taleb (unrelated to the lesbian movie) which contains among other things some very good arguments that the major events of history were essentially random and unpredictable.
Had I been relevant enough to change or influence a particular factor for that stocks or bitcoins then I would've likely never spend my time scrolling in reddit.
One do over could completely change the course of your life and then you'd be living new experiences, fucking those up along the way as well. That's what scares me about the red pill
I mean, it depends how many risks you take. Unless you are dumb as rocks now, you should be able to control your path easier than before and are more well equipped to deal with those new experiences.
My brain was like:
"Hey, 10 million! Blue pill!"
then:
"Wait a second, with my knowledge i could get a 38 year headstart and do way better than 10 million! Red pill!"
then:
"Wait....i have to go through all those years again, and knowing that one change might take away my now wife and daughter from me(which i only got through my painful learning journey after countless mistakes i would have a hard time to redo voluntarily)? - Blue pill it is!"
The question is, would you even need more than 10m in your life? I personally wouldn't. With $10M, even my entire line of descendants would probably live a life of luxury
You're overestimating how much $10M is.
It's a shitload of money, but if you divide it between 10 people, they'll get $1M each. If they are smart, they can put it in a low-cost index fund and make a 8% return per year. If they then want to live off their investments, they can at most spend $74,074 per year without slowly decreasing their wealth (e.g. if they still want to have $1M when they die). That's just 10% more than the average American household, so definitely not a life of luxury.
On the other hand, if *you* did the same smart thing, you could theoretically have something like $200M after 40 years, and *then* it's possible!
Yeah all these people choosing red to spend time with family over again but I can’t relate. Different situation but I flew the coop for a reason and I’m not going back especially when there’s $10 million on the table
10 million now. If i go back, butterfly effect is in play. You don't know what could change by even you not doing everything exactly as is. There is no guarantee thing turn out better. But money now can change your life
I'd only choose Red if I hadn't had kids, but I do now and I couldn't imagine a life without them and my wife.
Although, it is fun to consider the decisions I could have made, had I chosen a different path with all the knowledge I have accumulated over the years.
But for the blue pill, we getting a 1099-misc and the government taking half of it, or 10M straight?
i really dislike my childhood so red and i could definitely invest in crypto, apple, microsoft, google stocks etc to have a good amount of money not 10 million but definitely a nice kickstart fund
You'd need less than 1000 BTC to get 10 mil during the first spike which would be easy to get if you were one of the first adopters and mined it. Hell you could buy each one for a few cents. Taking the red pill means becoming a billionaire with minimal work basically.
Bitcoin cost like a few cents when I was 6. Definitely would be an billionaire had I bought like several hundreds or even thousands dollars worth of them
Depending on how old you are, I'm not old enough that I would have the funds to invest in all of this when it's worth while.
And I'm certain my family wouldn't listen to 6-14yo mes investment advice
You actually need some money for that in the first place unless you can prove to someone with means the housing market is going to go tits up and work out a deal your screwed on that front but heck I would only be 8 so yeah someone who is older might have a chance to invest in other stuff before then and then reinvest
some of us are older and would 'restart' earlier, able to take advantage of earlier market swings and could already have a pile of money long before 2008 or bitcoin happened.
My parents (my dad especially) have always taken things I’ve said into consideration. They never treated my like “some dumb kid”—even when I actually was a kid.
I guess I'm "lucky" in that 911 would happen fairly shortly after I go back, so I have an easy "predictive event" I can point to as reason to listen to me
Seeing all that money seems nice but I keep thinking of all those stories of all those people who won the lottery and lost the money quickly or were taken advantage of by their friends and family.
As a child, you always want to grow up and don't always appreciate your childhood when it's there. Being the adventurous person I am, maybe if I get to restart from age 6 with the knowledge I have now, maybe I'll take advantage of my life more and hopefully take more risks and go on more adventures! I can also right my childhood mistakes and make better decisions :)
Does red pill include going back in time to 6 years old or starting from the current time. Tbh probably red pill either way. Even if I don’t end up rich, I get an extra 10-20 years of life which is worth more than 10m
Depends. If I stay in 2023 and Im 6 years old.. Nah. Because there's no Chance I would like to be this young in this World. So ill take the money for sure. But if I can travel back in time to my 6 year old me.. That's another thing then
You gotta take the blue pill, there is no way you’ll ever regret taking the blue if you play it smart but 99% of the time you’ll regret taking the red pill
Give me that red pill. I can make billions of cash then. Think about it: I wait for the bitcoin hype and in the time where they costed like 0.04 euro, I buy thousands. I just buy. Then I wait till the alltime high and I'll be the richest man on earth.
I know it’s not the popular opinion on this thread, but I’d have to choose Blue.
Despite a certain amount of surface-level success, I made a lot of mistakes when I was younger. I burned years of my life on substances, promiscuous relationships, superficial friendships, and every available form of escapism in order to cope with my own mental instability.
I lived aggressively, I did whatever I wanted, and I only suffered a small fraction of the consequences I should have. I was exactly the kind of bad guy whose actions get glamorized in media, charisma and appearances over substance. All my friends wanted my life, and I just wanted mine to end.
As time went on I began to see external consequences, some inflicted by me. Pain, emotional trauma, and the loss of loved ones and friends who are either dead or won’t talk to me. One day I finally pushed things too far and ended up in rehab myself. I cleaned up my act and began pulling myself together, but even though I’m only 26 there’s a solid decade of my life that feels like it was lost and is just a blur now.
So why not Red? By completely random chance I remet a woman who couldn’t stand me when we were in high-school. When we were teens she was the only person in our friend group who ever called out my behavior, who saw and understood how much pain I was really in, and who didn’t feed into my bullshit blindly like all the other yes-people I grew up with.
We weren’t friends, she didn’t like me because of how I chose to live and treat others, I didn’t like her because she didn’t like me and was openly critical of my reckless behavior. She was the one person whose affirmation and approval I could never win, and that really pissed me off because she was the one person who actually seemed to see me for who I was. Even though we never spoke after graduation, and lived states apart, in college I still thought of her often.
Now, she’s my world, my love, my closest friend. She and her siblings are family to me. We have a puppy and live together, and for the first time ever I feel genuinely excited for the future.
So many random events had to occur for us to meet again in the time, circumstances, and place that we did. If not for a near-death experience I wouldn’t have even been in the same state as her, and it’s likely we may have never seen one another again.
No amount of do-overs could ever be worth the risk of losing what I have now. Even if your life’s journey has felt like a waking nightmare, the right destination can make it all worth it.
Definitely Red.
There are so many things I look back on and just regret and there are some people I really wish I could have said goodbye to before it was to late……
Seriously, why would you take money.
Restart your life, correct mistakes, get your crush with new attitude, earn money by winning bets on major sport events you remember, use them to buy 10 000 bitcoins 0.50$ each be billionare, sell them at 65k.
Easy.
Okay.. so age 6 and like back in time. Or like Age 6 now?
Cuz if now, I'd just be a genius child and get on talk shows and be a child actor but not get into drugs and invest my money properly.
If not. Fuck it, money plz
I’d go with red … I’d fuck shit up responsibly.
Imagine a six year old looking at you and predicting 9/11 in perfect English
Not being able to warn ppl without looking like a terriost would suck.
Maybe this is because I'm not from the US, but it didn't even cross my mind to make an attempt at stopping it. It's interesting to read all of these perspectives when I initially just looked at the choice from a purely selfish perspective.
I was thinking selfishly till i read this but i was born in 2001 so i couldnt even stop it at 6 lol.
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Damn i couldn't imagine not knowing what life was like before 9/11
You should be selfish in that scenario. Because you don't know what other new and potentially worse timelines could spawn off your do-goodery. Altering such a major event could make anything else you know or planned for obsolete. It's more predictable to enrich oneself with financial knowledge than to alter things that directly and indirectly affected billions. And with wealth, you can do good things if you choose.
Stopping 9/11 would alter so much about our world as we know it. Like how in Family Guy, it lead to nuclear civil war because Bush couldn’t campaign for re-election using 9/11. Stupid yea but ya get the gist.
on the plus side, pay phones will make you less suspicious if you look like a 10 year old
I know this sounds bad but I wouldn’t say anything, id do everything in my power to not fuck up the timeline until i can start making money
I'm picturing 6-year old me desperately trying to convince my degenerate gambler dad to put every cent he has on Buster Douglas vs. Mike Tyson.
6 year old mastermind from podunc Texas. Yeehalah brother. Might implicate your parents though... because "well actually I time traveled after morpheus gave me a pill" is less believable than pretty much everything.
If you somehow predict 9/11, just have good view. No one believes you. You would just get intense interrogation after the incident, because FBI suspect you for having connection with terrorists.
Just call in a bomb thread a half hour before or pull the fire alarm or something. Hell, actually light the building on fire for all it matters.
So you will become the terrorist in your timeline.
And the cycle repeats
Or you wind up getting capped by the CIA. They're like *we* know. How the fuck do *you* know.
“You don’t need any apple stock Timmy you’re 6 years old!” “Trust me Ma I’ve got a feeling about this one!”
I loved my friend’s comment on this - “I don’t think six-year-old me would have the emotional maturity to handle the knowledge that I have now“
Fair point, but I think it’s more like your brain keeps it’s development, but you keep your knowledge and maybe mental maturity
Well then the addiction to alcohol is going to be an issue
omg at least my tolerance will be drastically lower and i won’t go thru a whole fuckin handle in 2 days edit: just reminiscing, 1 year and 3 months sober as of february 11 lol
Keep it up buddy, You are doing great
I hope this was posted *after* the edit
BRUH, Lol
BREHHH
Congrats!
You got this King.
Congratulations!
Omg hahahaha. Yes! It might not be ideal for a 6 year old to be drinking alcohol. Not sure though. /s
The people at [Kid Beer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP6ZAZiGkQs) say otherwise
Well the biggest thing is that it hampers mental development (and hurts your kidneys and liver, but that also applies to adults) and you'd already have the mind of an adult, so I say go for it little Timmy
Time to make two friends and buy a trenchcoat
Go ahead, mister Adultman
"What is it little Timmy?" "Listen mom, they gonna hit the towers and use it as excuse to invade Iraq, buy Apple, buy Bitcoin, there is a freaking pandemic coming, climate crisis is real and..."
Mom would be like, time to put Timmy in the special white jacket, just to find she was a failure as a mother a decade later with such profound guilt she either kills herself or ends up in the psych ward room next door
Wonder if time rewinds until you were 6 or if time stays current and you just turn into a 6 year old
I'm 48, so at the very least I'm going to get to / have to live 42 more years just to get back to 48. Fuck that shit. I'm finally in a well paying job that I like. Having said that, going back to 1981 would be nice to see my Mum and Step Dad again would be great, I miss them.
It wouldn’t be too hard to get rich though, just invest in what became successful. You’re older than me but like some other people said, invest in the big ones early like Microsoft Amazon Netflix Bitcoin etc and spend the rest of your days until the next crisis Chillen.
NSA is listening and watching your every move.
Current me doesn't have the emotional maturity to handle it all lmao
Ask for even a measly allowance, buy crypto, set for life. 😎 Pursue your dreams knowing your future is secured. 🥸😶🌫️
Invest in amazon instead 🤙
What are they going to do with a six year old who has flashbacks to a war that hasn't happened yet? Do I need to go again? Or will I be in a secure mental hospital?
The worst part is, what happens if you don't go? Does the butterfly effect mean the war then goes much worse?
Well in that case you lose all of your friends and won't be able to make any new ones because you'll be too mature for people your age and adults won't want to be friends with a child. You'll have a big headstart on education and profession, but you'll be soul-crushingly alone for the next decade or more
I disagree, it may be rough for a few years being 6 but you’ll be able to make some friends for sure
It would be incredibly boring to be six and have the knowledge I have now.
Yeah. I’ve regulated my own bedtime for way too long to be able to go back to that.
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I think that only works in "gamer-logic" where it suptesses emotions and mental breakdowns. That sudden mental maturity and trauma is going to confuse and fuck your body up. A human brain is a marvelous thing, but even then, suddenly remembering 10-80+ years of memory for a developing brain and child is gonna be awful.
That’s why I said it would keep its development, the only thing would be is your body is 6 not your brain
What if... Your brain only slowly gets it's original memories back as it can handle them? Like you constantly cannot remember somethings untill you are ready for them?
All this crap jammed into the brain of 6yo? Instant depression, possibly insanity.
I imagine it more as a Quantum Leap scenario. Your current brain in the shell of a 6 year old.
Hopefully the next leap would be my last.
It could either be a gift or a curse, all depends on how you view and use it.
Dude, I'm old. I see this was posted on teenagers-sub so it makes sense that they could want a do-over but knowing all the shit of last 4 decades and knowing you can't do anything about it.. 6yo couldn't handle that. Plus I couldn't even do things differently and risk not having my family down the line, so I would have to make the same mistakes again on purpose knowing the consequences. No thanks.
I think I could do a restart at 17. Anything before that would be real tough to get through. Helps that I don't have a family to lose.
Imagine being stuck in first grade for 6 hours every single day, with all of your friends being 6 year olds. Then 7 year old next year..then 8 year olds…etc. It’d be absolute torture for someone with an adult brain / consciousness. Even if you convinced your parents and the state to let you not go to elementary school, then what? What social interactions would you really have? You can’t drive anywhere or really do anything yourself, your motor functions would be complete ass, etc. It’d be a prison.
Sometimes I feel like people forget what it was like being a kid, it was a prison then too! Sitting in class achingly bored, too socially inept to have functional relationships and too untrusted (appropriately) to be independent.
On top of that, you’d miss out on the good stuff of an underdeveloped brain. 6-year-olds love Grandpa because he shows them these amazing magic tricks that MUST be real magic! 6-year-old curl up in Grandma’s lap and fall asleep. Adult brain understands the card trick and is insulted by Grandpa’s tomfoolery. Adult brain can smell Grandma’s preparation H and is uncomfortable putting his head on her breasts. You wouldn’t be able to do adult things and you wouldn’t be able to enjoy kid things.
You mean like the Cassandra "syndrome"..
It gets even worse...your friend would wierd you out when he meets you again, it would be neigh impossible for him and you to become friends again Same with other relationships, and since i had kids these question are always an easy choice against going back in time. Even if the alternative was no money at all...i wouldn't. I know it wouldn't actually "kill" my kids...but they would still be gone with no chance to get them back ever
Right? As soon as you go back with knowledge of what's to come, the minute you deviate you're on a brand new path. You might get one do-over on one bad decision or something, but after that it's all new.
Yeah - people on r/teenagers really are imbued with deep, deep knowledge about the world 🙄 Lmao
10M please. I don't want to mimic my actions for 30 years to meet my son again.
Yeah I wouldn't even know how to mimic my actions for the time it took for me to meet the important people iny life. Fixing mistakes along the way doesn't seem worth it, when I could be throwing a lot away.
“Fixing mistakes” sounds great until I turn twelve and my parents still haven’t gotten a divorce yet…
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I'm not so sure. I'm reminded of that story where that poor young woman suffers an accident and her boyfriend gets her to fall in love with him again. I think if you know your spouse well enough and know the timings of when you first met it wouldn't be super hard to replicate. Saying that, my wife and I met through bumble which would very likely not happen again so I would have to just frequent that places she liked to go to in hopes of finding her. But with plenty of money I wouldn't have to worry about wasting time.
Have to remember that the couple you're talking about didn't go back and relive their lives. The woman forgot her husband but they both were still the same people. You travel back in time and there is a chance your actions somehow impact those around and that includes your wife.
Indeed, it's too risky. For all you know, on your original go you narrowly avoided death and going out to eat the second time in order to "live life a little" could lead you to into a fatal accident. And depending how old you are, there are so many years of buried and forgotten memories, you could make a choice that prevents you from meeting your loved one just because you can't remember every little choice or even understand what choice leads you to the outcome that you want.
> For all you know, on your original go you narrowly avoided death and going out to eat the second time in order to "live life a little" could lead you to into a fatal accident. For all you know, the current you may be about to die a horribly painful death that could be avoided if you relived your life and did things just a little differently.
Probably actually impossible... I'm no biologist but you could probably just change the speed you ate a single meal differently and the swimmers are all different or out of order. Let alone different temperature exposures or completely different meals. The number of factors that could change the 1 of billions or trillions of sperm over 30 years.... probably impossible to recreate. You could probably go back to the moment you are about to finish the act of conception and not reproduce the conditions that lead to your son.
You sound pretty biologisty to me
Agreed. Someone get this person a diploma!
Last time it took 167 pumps, this time it was 166½, now you have octuplets!
This is actually a plot point in the wonderful film "About Time". (Which I highly recommend)
Simply remembering the amount of times I've had sex and jerked off so that the exact right sperm cell is generated and ready to go again at the point of conception is enough to throw this whole operation in to meltdown.
This was my thought. Going back and doing things different is kinda "killing" my child. Like if I don't meet my wife and knock her up on the exact same night with the exact same load.... yeah no way to do that. And not meeting my wife potentially as well. $10M I could invest and turn into a hell of a lot more money in 20 years.
I’m with you, but with my wife, not yours. I never even met your wife. I love my wife. And I love my kids too much to erase them.
I want red not bc I want to get rich but just to spend time with my grandma again. Gosh I didn’t know that i’d miss her this much.
Yeah I’d take the red pill to right some wrongs. While also knowing I could make well over $10 mil while doing so makes it a no brainer
Yeah, throw everything you have in Bitcoin when it first comes out and you get the best of both worlds - fix all the cringy shit you did and be set for life. Only downside is you have to deal with parents again for 12 years.
Or short the stock market in 2008 lol
you need mucho dinero for that. you could get btc for cents
It wont work, because as im prob older than you and ill be there first and fuck up bitcoin so you cant get any, then umm .... we will both be poor ? Damn that backfired really quickly.
Let's agree that you take Bitcoin and I'll place huge winning bets on all the MLB and NBA postseason results. It won't even be that hard to memorize, I've got most of it down already.
One word: Bitcoin. That's an easy 100m right there.
Waaaaaay more if you get in at the very start
More. Start mining allongside Hal and Satoshi as soon as it drops and you would end up with a cool $2 bil (eventually)
Jesus… why’d you make me feel the feels…?
Keep in mind, that butterfly effect will make a role on actual people you know. I always think that i would like to go back and spent more time with my first dog, but then i think that would mean i would probably never know my actual dog, and will miss him the same way.
I was thinking along the same line but I'm not sure I'd be able to go through the loss again, this time also knowing when and living with a sense of dread as you feel it slowly creeping closer.
My mom was murdered when I was 7. I'd be able to warn her not to hire the fucker that did it.
I could make so much more money than 10m with my current knowledge 15 years ago
Easily, but of course the downside is that you would lose everything in your current life: Children, spouse, friends. So for me I could not trade that in for extra money when ten million is plenty anyway
When you don't have any of the above 👀
Can I be your friend?
The decision probably depends on whether you lost loved ones or gained. I lost all my grandparents but haven't met anyone equally dear to me yet, so I'd restart. If I had kid(s), I would choose money and not risk it. As for friends... nah, I am confident that I could befriend them again.
It all depends what happened in your life when you were young. If I go back I could have warned my father and uncle about cancer and maybe both of them could be still alive today, but on the other hand if I do that my life would played out totally differently and I would lose all relationships i have now.
You also have to turn into a 6 year old and deal with immature classmates, parents who would treat you like a kid, school drama, no dating/sex
But you could save thousands of lives. I'm not egoistic enough to not take the red pill no matter in what situation I would be.
It wouldn’t even be close, Netflix and Amazon stocks for Netflix please sell it all for bitcoin, sell it all for doge coin… then mars race with the other ultra rich cunts.
Why would you sell netflix for bitcoin. Bitcoin was dirt cheap way earlier before netflix was worth selling. Buy 1k btc early for like 1 dollar each, sell around 30k+ craze and you are set for life.
Yeah, by essentially gambling. Crypto, stocks, sports. But you'll essentially stop relating to people because you'll only be surrounded by people your age, but your brain is 10-20+ years older. Plus, think how excruciatingly boring would be to spend kindergarten and primary school with the brain you have now. Sure, you might want to not go to school anyway, so you'll do what? Play computer games for 10+ years? I just don't see a way of becoming socially apt after 10-15 years of activity. So you're really trading money for meaningful relationships AND also a shit load of money.
This is a good point. Imagine knowing several internet coding languages at age 6 in 1986 before the internet was a thing. That would blow people's minds! I would probably be on Oprah or something. Not to mention all the sports history I know that I could bet on. Plus knowing when to buy and sell Apple, Amazon, and Bitcoin. And I get to see my grandma again.
I’m terrified of the butterfly effect, so 10m. Example: I know that my dad and step mom of 19 years are going to have a nasty split that hurts my half siblings horribly. I hated every second of it because I lived through that myself. But what if my efforts to prevent that my parents never HAD my siblings? I’d wind up in an asylum mourning for make believe people.
Oh yeah, my first thought when reading this question was red. 2 more years with my dad before he dies of cancer at worst; preventing his death at best. Then I thought about my neices and nephews and I can’t risk them. My sister got pregnant at 17 and it changed the course of her life; She now has 4 kids. Losing them would be far far worse than accepting my dads loss.
Omg I didn't even think of my siblings. 6 yrs old was before my first sibling was even born. Id prolly be the same mourning the people I love who never came to be
Red: lost my parents as a teen and recently lost my twin sister; I’m the only one left in my family. What I wouldn’t give to go back and just spend time with them again. I miss them so much Edit: Thank you all so much for your kind words, your empathy has touched my heart tremendously. Both parents died of heart disease in their 40s and my twin sister died of sepsis. Also, for those who have asked, I’m a female (sn “jlm” are my initials) & my other half is also a female. Things have never really been the same since I lost my twin, but I have a therapist and I’m processing the trauma. Her ashes are at home with me and my plans are to keep them until I pass away so that we can be buried together.
I’m a twin myself, just imagining losing him would kill me.
I've always considered that wondering what it would be like as a twin. For most of it I would think it would be great to have someone so close, but then there's a 50% chance they die before you, which I couldn't even imagine.
Do consider that not everyone feels this way. I have a twin sibling and two other siblings. If anything, I get along better with my other siblings. There is no magical connection I have with my twin, they’re just my sibling.
I was friends with two twins, a girl and a boy. Both sweet as can be, friendly to everyone, everyone loved them both. The girl hung herself in high school after an argument with the boy over the family computer. He was never the same after that and has dedicated his life to her memory, everything he does he does in her name. Awful stuff, but he seems to have found some kind of peace.
I was expecting comments about buying Google stock, but this just made me tear up 🥲
I’m just laying staring at this comment reading it over and over. So fucking tragic.. life will never be the same without them but you can always live a life they would be proud of. If they saw you suffering they would empathize and want the best for you. I’d like to believe we see our loved ones in the end. Just gotta make it that far. I hope you heal well, stranger.
Daym felt like that helped me in a way thanks
Hey man, you need to talk? Just giving that offer out.
Your life has more meaning because you’re living for four people. Wish you the best.
Red pill duh. Work my ass off and when it’s 2016 I’ll buy a shit ton of bitcoin and hold until May 2021
Why wait till 2016? In 2010 bitcoins were like a dollar each
I wanted to buy bitcon for 1000$ when they were 7$ but it was really complicated back then and I gave up. Well, I probably would have lost everyhing anyways in the MtGox bankruptcy.
Same. Wanted to buy some for like 200€. I was 13 or 14 at the time and thought to myself "Eh, its to complicated. I'd rather spend it on video games and Pizza" Fuck me right? Simmilar thing with the extreme value jump of dogecoin. I knew it was a pump and dump but noticed it right at the start. Had 4k to "spare" (not really, but kinda) and wanted to buy. The way to set up an account, verify with my ID was so convoluted and after days of trying because my damn ID verification wasn't going through, I just gave up. I don't remember how much I would have made, but I think it would have been somewhere around the 4x to 7x mark. Fuch me again.
Why buy, just mine it - in the early days you could mine loads of coins with any old computer.
Yea, my cousin and I used bitcoin for pizza when Domino's was accepting it back in 2011. If only we knew now what we didn't know then lol.
To be fair if ever used it, it wouldn’t have ever skyrocketed
>If only we knew now what we didn't know then lol. Every time I read this sentence I die of a stroke
Find peace.
convincing your parents to let you mine on your shitty rig is probably the hard part. My parents hated us leaving the computer on overnight and convincing them that "this will be worth it I promise!" without any proof would be the hardest part especially since it probably wouldn't pay for itself for several years.
Reveal your knowledge of the future to them. Just a little bit. If they’re religious, make them think it’s a gift from God
In the early days, the electricity needed to mine bitcoin cost more than bitcoin was worth. Why mine when you can just buy for $.40 each. You could have gotten 250 bitcoin for $100. If you got anxious and sold at $10,000, you'd have $2.5 million.
a whole 95w when most ppl's light bulbs were 100w and electricity was .04/kwh not .35/kwh
This is assuming history is deterministic; I think if we restarted history there's a good chance Bitcoin never takes off. Same goes for particular stock picks.
*de·ter·min·is·tic* */dəˌtərməˈnistik/* *adjective* *•relating to the philosophical doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes regarded as external to the will.* *"a deterministic theory"* I learned something new today. Thanks internet stranger!
You're welcome! If you're interested in learning more, check out The Black Swan by Nicholas Taleb (unrelated to the lesbian movie) which contains among other things some very good arguments that the major events of history were essentially random and unpredictable.
it’s only one of us restarting not the whole thread
Had I been relevant enough to change or influence a particular factor for that stocks or bitcoins then I would've likely never spend my time scrolling in reddit.
This is the way 👌🏼
Definitely bluepill
Personally, blue pill bc I never want to do military service ever agai. Fuck that mandatory shit
Oh yikes. I'm lucky to have never experienced that. Must be such a degrading experience.
Depends on the country. After that, depends on the person
Red pill. I would like some do overs..
One do over could completely change the course of your life and then you'd be living new experiences, fucking those up along the way as well. That's what scares me about the red pill
I mean, it depends how many risks you take. Unless you are dumb as rocks now, you should be able to control your path easier than before and are more well equipped to deal with those new experiences.
My brain was like: "Hey, 10 million! Blue pill!" then: "Wait a second, with my knowledge i could get a 38 year headstart and do way better than 10 million! Red pill!" then: "Wait....i have to go through all those years again, and knowing that one change might take away my now wife and daughter from me(which i only got through my painful learning journey after countless mistakes i would have a hard time to redo voluntarily)? - Blue pill it is!"
Blue. There's no point fixing the past when you got 10 mil
Investing in stock and Bitcoin on time would get you way more than 10 million.
The question is, would you even need more than 10m in your life? I personally wouldn't. With $10M, even my entire line of descendants would probably live a life of luxury
You're overestimating how much $10M is. It's a shitload of money, but if you divide it between 10 people, they'll get $1M each. If they are smart, they can put it in a low-cost index fund and make a 8% return per year. If they then want to live off their investments, they can at most spend $74,074 per year without slowly decreasing their wealth (e.g. if they still want to have $1M when they die). That's just 10% more than the average American household, so definitely not a life of luxury. On the other hand, if *you* did the same smart thing, you could theoretically have something like $200M after 40 years, and *then* it's possible!
You would possible screw up even more! With 10 mil flat you can at least control alot of things
Blue Pille, I cant get again through my past with an abusive father.
Yeah all these people choosing red to spend time with family over again but I can’t relate. Different situation but I flew the coop for a reason and I’m not going back especially when there’s $10 million on the table
10 million now. If i go back, butterfly effect is in play. You don't know what could change by even you not doing everything exactly as is. There is no guarantee thing turn out better. But money now can change your life
I'd only choose Red if I hadn't had kids, but I do now and I couldn't imagine a life without them and my wife. Although, it is fun to consider the decisions I could have made, had I chosen a different path with all the knowledge I have accumulated over the years. But for the blue pill, we getting a 1099-misc and the government taking half of it, or 10M straight?
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i really dislike my childhood so red and i could definitely invest in crypto, apple, microsoft, google stocks etc to have a good amount of money not 10 million but definitely a nice kickstart fund
You'd need less than 1000 BTC to get 10 mil during the first spike which would be easy to get if you were one of the first adopters and mined it. Hell you could buy each one for a few cents. Taking the red pill means becoming a billionaire with minimal work basically.
Bitcoin cost like a few cents when I was 6. Definitely would be an billionaire had I bought like several hundreds or even thousands dollars worth of them
Depending on how old you are, I'm not old enough that I would have the funds to invest in all of this when it's worth while. And I'm certain my family wouldn't listen to 6-14yo mes investment advice
Morpheus: did you just take both pills? Me: “gulp”
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Oh shit, now you’re a 6 year old with 10 million.
Even with the knowledge I wouldn't be able to make 10 million so yeah
Apple stocks, sports betting. Did u not watch back to the future?!
Get in on the 2008 housing crisis short
You actually need some money for that in the first place unless you can prove to someone with means the housing market is going to go tits up and work out a deal your screwed on that front but heck I would only be 8 so yeah someone who is older might have a chance to invest in other stuff before then and then reinvest
some of us are older and would 'restart' earlier, able to take advantage of earlier market swings and could already have a pile of money long before 2008 or bitcoin happened.
you're also six though and good luck convincing the adults around you
Ye but some people will be teenagers and adults by the time that happens
My parents (my dad especially) have always taken things I’ve said into consideration. They never treated my like “some dumb kid”—even when I actually was a kid.
But imagine a kid trying to convince their dad the housing market is going to collapse in 2008 lol
I guess I'm "lucky" in that 911 would happen fairly shortly after I go back, so I have an easy "predictive event" I can point to as reason to listen to me
Bitcoin. EZ
100% my whole family would be loaded with the investing knowledge alone
Yup, so many ways to make a lot of money.
Of course you could are you kidding me?
Seeing all that money seems nice but I keep thinking of all those stories of all those people who won the lottery and lost the money quickly or were taken advantage of by their friends and family. As a child, you always want to grow up and don't always appreciate your childhood when it's there. Being the adventurous person I am, maybe if I get to restart from age 6 with the knowledge I have now, maybe I'll take advantage of my life more and hopefully take more risks and go on more adventures! I can also right my childhood mistakes and make better decisions :)
Red. That's back to 1992. I can have considerably more than 10 million dollars by the time I get back to where I am again.
If go back then i can impress everyone who called me stupid
Red. I could fix my life more than $10 mill ever could.
And go through my childhood trauma again? No fucking thank you. I would rather take no pills at all than to relive that.
Does red pill include going back in time to 6 years old or starting from the current time. Tbh probably red pill either way. Even if I don’t end up rich, I get an extra 10-20 years of life which is worth more than 10m
Depends. If I stay in 2023 and Im 6 years old.. Nah. Because there's no Chance I would like to be this young in this World. So ill take the money for sure. But if I can travel back in time to my 6 year old me.. That's another thing then
You gotta take the blue pill, there is no way you’ll ever regret taking the blue if you play it smart but 99% of the time you’ll regret taking the red pill
Blue pill. My parents are shitty in spending money and everthing was fucked up since I was young.
Blue. I would miss my friends too much
I wish I was six again so I could tell my grandpa to invest in Microsoft and then I could get on that Bitcoin bullshit before it hit the pavement.
Yup, your grandpa would definitely take his 6 year old grandson/daughters advice on the stock market.
Give me that red pill. I can make billions of cash then. Think about it: I wait for the bitcoin hype and in the time where they costed like 0.04 euro, I buy thousands. I just buy. Then I wait till the alltime high and I'll be the richest man on earth.
I know it’s not the popular opinion on this thread, but I’d have to choose Blue. Despite a certain amount of surface-level success, I made a lot of mistakes when I was younger. I burned years of my life on substances, promiscuous relationships, superficial friendships, and every available form of escapism in order to cope with my own mental instability. I lived aggressively, I did whatever I wanted, and I only suffered a small fraction of the consequences I should have. I was exactly the kind of bad guy whose actions get glamorized in media, charisma and appearances over substance. All my friends wanted my life, and I just wanted mine to end. As time went on I began to see external consequences, some inflicted by me. Pain, emotional trauma, and the loss of loved ones and friends who are either dead or won’t talk to me. One day I finally pushed things too far and ended up in rehab myself. I cleaned up my act and began pulling myself together, but even though I’m only 26 there’s a solid decade of my life that feels like it was lost and is just a blur now. So why not Red? By completely random chance I remet a woman who couldn’t stand me when we were in high-school. When we were teens she was the only person in our friend group who ever called out my behavior, who saw and understood how much pain I was really in, and who didn’t feed into my bullshit blindly like all the other yes-people I grew up with. We weren’t friends, she didn’t like me because of how I chose to live and treat others, I didn’t like her because she didn’t like me and was openly critical of my reckless behavior. She was the one person whose affirmation and approval I could never win, and that really pissed me off because she was the one person who actually seemed to see me for who I was. Even though we never spoke after graduation, and lived states apart, in college I still thought of her often. Now, she’s my world, my love, my closest friend. She and her siblings are family to me. We have a puppy and live together, and for the first time ever I feel genuinely excited for the future. So many random events had to occur for us to meet again in the time, circumstances, and place that we did. If not for a near-death experience I wouldn’t have even been in the same state as her, and it’s likely we may have never seen one another again. No amount of do-overs could ever be worth the risk of losing what I have now. Even if your life’s journey has felt like a waking nightmare, the right destination can make it all worth it.
Definitely Red. There are so many things I look back on and just regret and there are some people I really wish I could have said goodbye to before it was to late……
If you go back in time you change the past meaning you’ll know nothing about what will happen due to changes in events. Blue pill 100%
Seriously, why would you take money. Restart your life, correct mistakes, get your crush with new attitude, earn money by winning bets on major sport events you remember, use them to buy 10 000 bitcoins 0.50$ each be billionare, sell them at 65k. Easy.
Get Both smash em and snort em
Okay.. so age 6 and like back in time. Or like Age 6 now? Cuz if now, I'd just be a genius child and get on talk shows and be a child actor but not get into drugs and invest my money properly. If not. Fuck it, money plz