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NotWal
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30 Jul 2008 2:48pm
You are Klara Hitler. You give birth to a beautiful bouncing baby boy. You name him Adolph and love him to death. Then God comes down and tells you (with divine authority) that little Adolph will be responsible for the deaths of 50 million people.

What do you do?
knot board
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30 Jul 2008 3:05pm
I change my son's name from Adolph to Buttercup.
NotWal
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30 Jul 2008 3:11pm
knot board said...

I change my son's name from Adolph to Buttercup.


apart from that?
DavMen
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30 Jul 2008 3:33pm
Nothing

History shapes who we are and what we have, good or bad.

By changing history things may have been worse, who's to know.
knot board
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30 Jul 2008 3:39pm
NotWal said...

knot board said...

I change my son's name from Adolph to Buttercup.


apart from that?


oh yeah, I nearly forgot....
I would start spanking little Buttercup and not stop until after his Bar Mitzvah.
Then he still wouldn't be allowed out of his room until about 1945
pweedas
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30 Jul 2008 2:07pm
NotWal said...

You are Klara Hitler. You give birth to a beautiful bouncing baby boy. You name him Adolph and love him to death. Then God comes down and tells you (with divine authority) that little Adolph will be responsible for the deaths of 50 million people.

What do you do?


Since God had deemed it acceptable for little Adolph to survive the conception and birth process and be born when he could easily have terminated it at any stage, as he does every day with millions of others, who are you to circumvent history by strangling the little bugger after he is born.
If God wants him removed he can arrange for him to be under a bus at some later date before 1939.

The fact is that having Hitler in the world was undoubtedly a pivotal phase in the shaping of the present day order of things, and apparently necessary. Otherwise it wouldn't have happened.
After all, you say that God himself came down and told you about it so he obviously knew what was about to happen. Why should you take it upon yourself to think you know best and try to change the course of history?


Bondalucci
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30 Jul 2008 4:45pm
If you act hastily and terminate young Adolphs life, then you have severely undermined God. (cos now God will be wrong with his foretelling of the lad's future, and I'm tipping he could be a bit pis#ed off about that.)

That could mean no wind for the rest of us for a long time!!!!!!

Gotta think these things through.
wormy
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30 Jul 2008 4:58pm
DavMen said...

Nothing

History shapes who we are and what we have, good or bad.

By changing history things may have been worse, who's to know.


I like "Dr Who" too.
DavMen
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30 Jul 2008 5:02pm
Bondalucci said...

If you act hastily and terminate young Adolphs life, then you have severely undermined God. (cos now God will be wrong with his foretelling of the lad's future, and I'm tipping he could be a bit pis#ed off about that.)

That could mean no wind for the rest of us for a long time!!!!!!

Gotta think these things through.


Thats assuming god hasn't decided he made a mistake and hence making you act on his/hers will to terminate the little bugger.

BTW if we get into another religion debate this thread will get locked.[}:)]
DavMen
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30 Jul 2008 5:04pm
wormy said...

DavMen said...

Nothing

History shapes who we are and what we have, good or bad.

By changing history things may have been worse, who's to know.


I like "Dr Who" too.



Zachary - best to try change the future
grandfromage
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30 Jul 2008 3:23pm
you cant do bugger all. "future" is just another word for, or way of describing history (and vice versa).
GreenPat
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30 Jul 2008 5:25pm
DavMen said...


BTW if we get into another religion debate this thread will get locked.[}:)]


^ What he said.
stribo
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30 Jul 2008 5:27pm
I'd give him a goly-wog.They where still legal then.[}:)]
evlPanda
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30 Jul 2008 6:20pm
Ah yes, the almighty God offloading responsibility again.

PS I've bought a De Lorean so if all goes to plan this thread won't exist will never have existed by tomorrow.
NotWal
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30 Jul 2008 6:48pm

Sheesh.... OK I'll rephrase it so it has NOTHING to do with God.

You are Klara Hitler. You give birth to a beautiful bouncing baby boy. You name him Adolph and love him to death. Then Dr Who comes down and tells you (speaking through his infallible lie detector) that little Adolph will be responsible for the deaths of 50 million people.

What do you do?
knot board
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30 Jul 2008 6:54pm
In that case I would EX-TER-MIN-ATE little Buttercup.
stribo
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30 Jul 2008 6:58pm
So this means Davros is Adolf Hitler ?
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30 Jul 2008 7:10pm
knot board said...

NotWal said...

knot board said...

I change my son's name from Adolph to Buttercup.


apart from that?


oh yeah, I nearly forgot....
I would start spanking little Buttercup and not stop until after his Bar Mitzvah.
Then he still wouldn't be allowed out of his room until about 1945


Knotboard,
Something tells me Adolf couldn't of had a barmitzvah because he wasn't jewish or Davros for that matter (Davros was much nicer)
Bondalucci
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30 Jul 2008 7:52pm
NotWal said...


Sheesh.... OK I'll rephrase it so it has NOTHING to do with God.

You are Klara Hitler. You give birth to a beautiful bouncing baby boy. You name him Adolph and love him to death. Then Dr Who comes down and tells you (speaking through his infallible lie detector) that little Adolph will be responsible for the deaths of 50 million people.

What do you do?



That depends.....Was Dr Who sent by God?

GreenPat
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30 Jul 2008 7:56pm
He may have been sent by a doG.
NotWal
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30 Jul 2008 8:02pm
What a ditzy bunch of Klaras.
teabagg
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30 Jul 2008 8:14pm
just make sure he stays away from that naughty alister crowley
frant
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30 Jul 2008 8:23pm
next time you swat a fly remember that an innocent child is going to die as a result of your action due to the "butterfly effect". Now are you going to swat that fly?
Richiefish
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30 Jul 2008 8:32pm
If it wasnt for Hitler, there would be no Israel......Freaky heh ???
evlPanda
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30 Jul 2008 9:42pm
I've suddenly become a woman. What do you think I'm going to do?
elizabethb
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30 Jul 2008 10:07pm
evlPanda said...

I've suddenly become a woman. What do you think I'm going to do?


haha shower room time !?

See you there....
poor relative
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30 Jul 2008 8:15pm
evlPanda said...

I've suddenly become a woman. What do you think I'm going to do?


Complain?
Bondalucci
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30 Jul 2008 10:18pm
evlPanda said...

I've suddenly become a woman. What do you think I'm going to do?


Hmmmm,... Maybe rig a half size smaller???

FormulaNova
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30 Jul 2008 8:24pm
NotWal said...


Sheesh.... OK I'll rephrase it so it has NOTHING to do with God.

You are Klara Hitler. You give birth to a beautiful bouncing baby boy. You name him Adolph and love him to death. Then Dr Who comes down and tells you (speaking through his infallible lie detector) that little Adolph will be responsible for the deaths of 50 million people.

What do you do?




Same deal. If Dr Who is not clever enough to go back in time to prevent little Adolph becoming little Adolph, what makes you even think he knows what he is doing? Sounds like a polititian, not a time lord. Lucky he's the last one.

.. and if he convinced you into killing little Adolph and preventing the death of 50 million people, how does he know that little Adolph would have killed 50 million people? After all, he now never gets the chance.

... then you have to get the writers inventing alternate realities/universes, and all this paradox crap.

Wouldn't you just rather spend the money and teach Adolph to sail?

poor relative
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30 Jul 2008 8:54pm
evlPanda said...

I've suddenly become a woman. What do you think I'm going to do?


Expose your breasts?
Greenroom
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30 Jul 2008 10:42pm
I thought Dr Who WAS God?
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