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If you could go back to an earlier time in your life and start from there again with the knowledge you have now, would you? If so, when and why?

submitted by mattsixteen24 to AskUpgoat 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 13:38:38 ago (+19/-0)     (AskUpgoat)

I would go back to the summer before 9th grade to start high school over again. Why? I messed up my life in 9th grade.


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[ - ] RMGoetbbels 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 18:30:13 ago (+0/-0)

Lol, I have narrowed the few failures in my life down to two or three incidences and I'd take your opportunity/challenge.

In 1997 I sold a truck that I had more or less rebuilt from the ground up that required $120 to finish. I sold it and leased a brand new vehicle because I was about to start a new career. << It was more of a status thing than a need.

I know that a vehicle seems insignificant in the grans scheme of things but hold on for a minute. That vehicle was paid for and had the ability to be reliable for another 100,000 miles. It nearly was because I knew the person who bought it. So instead of spending $120 I spent close to $14,000 leasing plus another $2500 when I turned it in. In addition I spent another $16,000 on another vehicle.

$32,000 would have gone a long way back then for me starting out. I would have been $32,000 "ahead" and could have rolled that into $300,000. A house, some other investment or just the security that $32,000 can bring to someone in their 20's.

Yeah, that one insignificant thing could have changed my financial life for the better. All for pride and a little bit of security.

and there were a few women that I should/could have banged that I didn't. Two went gay because I didn't stick dick in them. I'm sure of it.

[ - ] ClitorisDestroyer 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 13:51:49 ago (+0/-0)

Nope

[ - ] account deleted by user 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 14:43:00 ago (+1/-1)

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[ - ] paul_neri 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 16, 2021 04:48:10 ago (+0/-0)

you have poop on the brain. Leave it on the bum (temporarily).

[ - ] albatrosv15 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 15:41:14 ago (+1/-1)*

Yeah 9th grade is usually where people go into different directions. Before that they could be anything. Unless they are retarded, that is.
As a 15 year old kid it would disturb me tho, that i would want to fuck older women like those 10th graders.
P.S. Wait, OP is a pedo o.o

[ - ] AngryWhiteKeyboardWarrior 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 15:57:30 ago (+0/-0)

Only if I could somehow see how the alternate life would have turned out. Then if it seemed better, then maybe.

I still would have quit high school at 16. There was literally no reason for me to finish it with my interests and chosen career path. College would have been mostly pointless Marxist indoctrination.

I never would have joined the Navy. Big mistake.

I would have focused on videography instead of photography. The photography market is super-saturated with people who can take a decent enough photo to get paid for it. Not at all like it was when I first got interested in it. There aren't quite as many competent videographers, but the numbers are going up every day. This may not have changed anything in my life, as there still would have been the issue of not having the money for the equipment.

I think mostly I would have tried to change my own attitudes and behavior. Restarting as a kid with the knowledge of an adult I think would have allowed me to do better with people growing up, particularly with finding girlfriends. I think I'd be a little less shy and a bit more social.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 16, 2021 04:41:47 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] Hobama 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 16:15:16 ago (+0/-0)

Invest everything into bitcoin. Take out massive college loans and put that shit into crypto. I would sign up for every trade class at the local community college, plumbing, electrical, welding, automotive. Once bitcoin spikes take enough money to not have to work. Buy land, perhaps later buy an island. Use funds to hire doctors and other professionals to educate me further.

[ - ] TheDivineLight 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 19:17:43 ago (+0/-0)

I used to often think about this. I fucked up early with girls, a few I really liked, not to take stupid fights when he clearly has 10 guys with him, not to go to Jew college and so much more.

Ultimately I wanted to go back to when I was 7, it would give me a few years to build up material and date accurate references and start alerting people and try to change the future. Perhaps use my knowledge to get wealth and buy my way into politics and jew the jews.

Now though, I wouldn't change everything, I found god, I found a family and I still try to change the future.

[ - ] GhostCow 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 20:12:14 ago (+0/-0)*

Would have married one of the three incredibly great girls who liked me back in high school. Would have started studying Japanese as soon as possible to be fluent by 18 and get a job as a translator instead of wasting a good portion of my life smoking weed and working shitty fast food jobs. Would do some John Titor stuff and warn people about the future as much as possible. Definitely would buy a lottery ticket at some point too. I'd like to start from kindergarten age I suppose. Maybe I could convince my family to send me to Japanese school instead of the shitty private school I went to.

[ - ] mattsixteen24 [op] 1 point 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 21:27:56 ago (+1/-0)

I had to look up John Titor. Military time traveler from 2036, lol.

[ - ] AloisH 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 20:37:27 ago (+0/-0)

Id tell myself it doesnt get better. The tape is under the chair

[ - ] account deleted by user 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 21:44:32 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] Bornoffireandice 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 22:09:45 ago (+0/-0)

Only if I can do it repeatedly. If I'm going to change my life and ruin the outcomes that I have created so far, I may as well start over as many times as I like.

[ - ] ParnellsUprising 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 22:26:39 ago (+0/-0)

I'll just drop this here:

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI

Sorry, too lazy to get an invidious channel.

[ - ] mattsixteen24 [op] 1 point 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 22:35:17 ago (+1/-0)

Hooktube? That's so ancient and stopped working a long time ago. Just replace youtube.com with yewtu.be

[ - ] ParnellsUprising 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 22:39:19 ago (+0/-0)

Worked for me?

[ - ] mattsixteen24 [op] 1 point 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 22:52:32 ago (+1/-0)

Yeah it works, but it's no good because hooktube just embeds the youtube video. If a video requires you to login, hooktube is no good either.

[ - ] AlexanderMorose13 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 15, 2021 00:29:44 ago (+0/-0)

I wouldn't change a damn thing. Live life thinking about the past, you'll only further continue your regrets. Live life thinking in the future, you'll only dwell on what you don't have. Live life in the present Now moment, and be grateful for every day your alive, everyone you have to love, and everything you have to do. You'll never fail.

[ - ] NeonGreen 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 15, 2021 01:51:01 ago (+0/-0)

Probably like age 3. Why not do it all. Completely lucid. Why limit yourself.

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[ - ] NaturalSelectionistWorker 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 15, 2021 18:09:12 ago (+0/-0)

I'd go back to summer of 2001 and post stuff about jres committing a terrorist false flag attack to get us into the middle east all over the Internet the night of September 10th.

[ - ] paul_neri 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 16, 2021 04:25:13 ago (+0/-0)

did you knock up a girl?

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[ - ] Jessepresent 1 point 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 14:37:52 ago (+1/-0)

I’d go back and have kids younger and depend on my parents more.

[ - ] Reawakened 1 point 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 14:40:53 ago (+1/-0)

I would not. I like my kids.

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[ - ] deleted 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 16, 2021 04:44:04 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] NeoNazirite 1 point 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 16:01:48 ago (+1/-0)

I'd go back and chat up that one girl more. Met her in tenth grade and never spoke to her again, but damnit ... what could've happened if I did?

[ - ] fnbs 1 point 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 18:14:51 ago (+1/-0)

I'd go back to 23 y/o...ie: late 80's... i'd be investing every penny i was making and invest in real estate and certain stocks

[ - ] 3Whuurs 1 point 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 22:59:45 ago (+1/-0)

Got some bad advice at 20 to turn down a grant for a course. 6 years later 2 ppl in the class I was scheduled for were making 350k US in 5 months doing exactly what I was going for.

Other then that, I wouldn’t have cashed $4300 out of Theta 18 months ago before it went up 12,000% last month

[ - ] lord_nougat 2 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 13:50:31 ago (+2/-0)

Sure, because why not.
I was just thinking about this - I guess wishing I had bought bitcoins instead of my boat in 2009 among other silly 'what if' type ideas...

[ - ] mattsixteen24 [op] 2 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 14:03:46 ago (+2/-0)

I can think of some reason why not, although they are not necessarily negative or positive. It just depends on the person.

You wouldn't have what you have now. So, depending on what year you went back to, you wouldn't have some of the daily conveniences like a smart phone or internet, etc. Depends how far you go back. It may not be a big deal though. Plus you wouldn't own what you own now. Whatever problems you had at the time, you would go back to those.

You would have to do everything over again.

You would have to deal with people at that time again that you may or may not have liked.







[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 14:16:21 ago (+1/-0)

Yeah, I don't regret buying the boat.
I WOULD have knowledge on both how to more quickly deal with some problems I had been having around then, in addition to knowing how a bunch of stressful things that seemed like such a huge deal were no big deal at all and therefore nothing to stress out about, so that would help as well.

Knowing this, I strive to stress out about work stuff much less; as little as I can.

[ - ] Doglegwarrior 2 points 4.0 yearsMay 16, 2021 09:47:42 ago (+2/-0)

I'd go back to the first slave ship landing and sink it and make sure it never happend!

Ohhh my life shit hopefully we live multiple lives and I could go back and stop blacks and jews from investing America

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 3 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 14:06:02 ago (+3/-0)

No, I've made some mistakes, and I've fucked shit up beyond repair. I like to tell myself that I got off easy for it, and true or not I don't want to test that hypothesis.

[ - ] paul_neri 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 16, 2021 04:36:13 ago (+0/-0)

I won't disagree with that and you hurt a lot of people along the way with your selfishness.

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 1 point 4.0 yearsMay 16, 2021 10:09:28 ago (+1/-0)

Your mom's box smells like socks.

[ - ] lord_nougat 3 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 14:22:39 ago (+3/-0)*

If you could go back to Electric Avenue, would you take it higher?

[ - ] fightknightHERO 4 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 14:22:52 ago (+4/-0)

I enjoy the mistakes of life, gives you knowledge and that only comes from bad judgement/decision making

I could've changed a lot of things... But fate is final

[ - ] mattsixteen24 [op] 1 point 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 21:24:30 ago (+1/-0)

Yeah, but in this scenario you get to keep that knowledge and start over.

[ - ] paul_neri 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 16, 2021 04:30:11 ago (+0/-0)

alas your parents think differently.

[ - ] frankenham 4 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 21:04:47 ago (+4/-0)

I'd go back to my teens, slap the soda out of my hand and learn proper dental hygiene. Getting fillings sucks

[ - ] mattsixteen24 [op] 1 point 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 21:21:04 ago (+1/-0)

Bad teeth is no fun, but what's so bad about getting fillings?

[ - ] frankenham 2 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 21:29:41 ago (+2/-0)

Having a drill in your mouth, grinding your teeth away, potentially having fillings come loose etc

It's just something I'd rather not have to deal with

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[ - ] Doglegwarrior 2 points 4.0 yearsMay 16, 2021 09:53:59 ago (+2/-0)

So this is my saying...

When is the best time to have started a Homestead? 20 years ago

When's the next best time? Today

By today I mean make the changes in your life that will get you land with the ability to feed your self and 2 other white families.

My short version of how to get their?

1. Get healthy<<< start working out so you have the energy and discipline to get the things done
2. Get moral<<< Christian is fine but doesn't have to be(hint turn off the tv)
3. Get out of debt <<< sell what u don't need stop tv get a second job do what ever it takes
4. Get land away from cities with good water supply

That's the start 4 things and none of them cost money except 4 and even that after a couple months u could sell everything and look for a older farmer to work his farm for super cheap and get most of the benefits of owning the land. Basically say u will work for 75 bucks a day and food.

[ - ] paul_neri 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 16, 2021 04:29:14 ago (+0/-0)

Yep. I think a lot of uni-educated folk would agree with you. All you need in life to have a good standard of living is a job and an affordable house. A roof over one's head is the same in a humble abode as it is in a mansion.

[ - ] try 6 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 16:17:22 ago (+6/-0)

I WOULD HAVE BOUGHT APPLE STOCK, like in the movie Forrest Gump.

Apple stock

Then i could have had hundreds of millions for a small investment.

Then I would use it to stop jews from stealing the 2020 election.

[ - ] mattsixteen24 [op] 3 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 21:23:39 ago (+3/-0)

Stealing the 2020 election? Common man, they've been stealing elections going all the way back to the first central bank.

[ - ] 3Whuurs 1 point 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 22:49:29 ago (+1/-0)

But that’s not a time within his life, that he can go back.

[ - ] mattsixteen24 [op] 2 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 22:51:11 ago (+2/-0)

Yeah, it's a shame.

[ - ] 3Whuurs 2 points 4.0 yearsMay 14, 2021 23:00:57 ago (+2/-0)*

Agreed, probly go back to Babylon if I could go that far. There’s an expulsion that should have been handled differently...