Since the empty set of time is considered to be a valid subset of all time, I chose the empty set, e.g. "never". For similar reasons, I chose "nowhere." It would have been a whole lot easier to never have been born.
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Great Question. I'd go to the future, not sure how far tho.
I would too, maybe 200 years forward. Iβm hoping by then most natural causes of death would be mostly figured out and poverty hopefully being a thing of the past.
People in the 1800s thought the same. Itβs not going to get better.
But we have figured out most causes of death from the 1800s donβt downplay the huge impact modern medicine has had!
Because that benefits the people in power as well. Ending poverty is just not something they are interested in
You can't go back tho. Except if someone there asked you the same question again. Need to make friends, dig through history books and find my question. Tell them they should ask you. If they want to come with you, you ask them also
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Do I get to pick my mother?
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We talking rebirth with continuity of memory or is this a blank slate?
Do I get to pick my mother?
This is the essential question. Like, if I could be born into a super-wealthy family, the actual time might be less important.
Ha ha aye right Louis the 17th π
Maybe become the 16th instead. You could even vastly improve life for your subjects and still live in obscene wealth. Might even avoid the guillotine that way
No, it's only you who's going on a journey
... what?
Do I get to choose who I am born to? And is this rebirth or a blank slate? You didn't answer anything!
You get to choose who ypu are born to and it's a blank state
can I just be a tree and chill for a few decades/centuries?
Yup. The monkeys paw says you are a houseplant tho, a bonsai