If You Could Live In Another Time Period What Would It Be?

[bri]

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[sth]

Wow Bri very nice. I've always liked the 60's. But I would have to say Revolutionary War times would be a fun time to live. Hanging out in Philadelphia with the Founding Fathers would be really interesting.



I would probably be from a northern state because I would be against slavery and am not on the State's Rights bandwagon. Getting sick wouldn't be fun with being bled and everything. And those clothes would be interesting. I would have a stylish powdered wig of course. I don't know about riding a horse. But I think it would be fun. Maybe I would have been a Senator or something after independence.

 

[TSD]

Commanding a Roman Legion in the 1st century B.C. Conquering savages and banging slave girls, i really missed my calling.

 

[JOVE23]

That's tough for me. As a student of history I'd prefer to be some immortal observer like character gallivanting through history seeing how shit really went down.



I would like to hang around the 50s though so I could see games in Ebbets Field, the Polo Grounds and all the Original 6 arenas.

 

[jaxhawksfan]

Yeah, probably 50's here as well. Seems life was a bit simpler then. I could be wrong.

 

[supraman]

The cool place for me would be a Viking Raider at their height. The ideal spot for me would be the 50s.

 

[TSD]

The cool place for me would be a Viking Raider at their height. The ideal spot for me would be the 50s.

I dont know the 50's were to repressed for me. I mean as a regular joe, for me theres no time like the present.



If I was to be someone of importance, I would prefer other era's. Or as JOVE mentioned if I could be some sort of immortal observer, and couldnt be killed. I would go all the way back to the birth of humanity and ride the wave all the way back to now.

 

[supraman]

I dont know the 50's were to repressed for me. I mean as a regular joe, for me theres no time like the present.



If I was to be someone of importance, I would prefer other era's. Or as JOVE mentioned if I could be some sort of immortal observer, and couldnt be killed. I would go all the way back to the birth of humanity and ride the wave all the way back to now.

but that is pretty much cheating.

 

[LordKOTL]

As fun as this activity is, personally, I never could decide there was a time in which I'd rather live. The past is always romanticized. While it's not necessarily *worse* than now, except for a couple of examples (i.e. Warsaw in 1939), people have a tendency to forget the bad things about a past time.



As such, I drill it down to this:



"Those who reminisce about the good old days probably sat at the front of the bus."



Besides...we just won the cup

 

[ginnie]

The sixties were great, but I was a little young to take full advantage of it. I did that in the seventies, which was a great decade too.



I couldn't pick a better time than the sixties, although if I was five years older it would have been better.



Other than that, maybe being a Celt in pre-Roman Britain or Ireland.

 

[TSD]

but that is pretty much cheating.

But really, nobody would really want to trade their life now, to seriously be an adult an earlier period in time.



The negatives far out weigh the benefits. Even in the 20th century. There was less cool toys, more archaic medical facilities, backward thinking. I would love to visit, but wouldn't want to stay.



Like hey id like to live in ancient greece in the second century BC. Oh shit, here come those damn Romans, now im a slave, shit. There are just too many draw backs to actually living in other times. In serious consideration, I would probably rather go into the unknown forward and live 200 years from now. With the technological advances we have been teased with in the 20th and 21st centuries thus far, it kills me to know I wont get to see the wonders of the future. I would love to see conventional space travel, other habitable planets, etc etc. and I know I will never get to see that.

 

[LordKOTL]

But really, nobody would really want to trade their life now, to seriously be an adult an earlier period in time.



The negatives far out weigh the benefits. Even in the 20th century. There was less cool toys, more archaic medical facilities, backward thinking. I would love to visit, but wouldn't want to stay.



Like hey id like to live in ancient greece in the second century BC. Oh shit, here come those damn Romans, now im a slave, shit. There are just too many draw backs to actually living in other times. In serious consideration, I would probably rather go into the unknown forward and live 200 years from now. With the technological advances we have been teased with in the 20th and 21st centuries thus far, it kills me to know I wont get to see the wonders of the future. I would love to see conventional space travel, other habitable planets, etc etc. and I know I will never get to see that.

It would all depend on whether or not you retained memories of the time now or not. If you didn't, it makes the excercize more fun, but I personally still think that taking each timeframe into consideration, it's not better now, nor is it worse except in extreme situations (like say Armenia in WWI).



Hell, Take Bri's case. In one aspect it would actually be better then because if she snuck out to get plooqed by her biker boyfriend, HIV would not even enter into the equation (Even though there are records of the disease back then, it wasn't even close to pandemic scale and I doubt if it was even in the US). But on the other hand, gender equality was far less than it was now.



I personally think if you take any time frame unto itself without future time references, it's all about the same.



My $.02

 

[chasman]

I grew up in the 50's and 60's.....would not change it....fast cars , short skirts and loose women

 

[supraman]

I grew up in the 50's and 60's.....would not change it....fast cars , short skirts and loose women

So did my dad, just seemed like a much better time...Well Okay much better for white guys, everybody else was pretty much fucked.



Then the cars....the cars alone are worth going back for.

 

[Tim]

I would like to be Adam, banging Eve and eating apples.

 

[supraman]

I would like to be Adam, banging Eve and eating apples.

What if eve was ugly.

 

[Ymono37]

"Those who reminisce about the good old days probably sat at the front of the bus."

QFT

 

[chasman]

As fun as this activity is, personally, I never could decide there was a time in which I'd rather live. The past is always romanticized. While it's not necessarily *worse* than now, except for a couple of examples (i.e. Warsaw in 1939), people have a tendency to forget the bad things about a past time.



As such, I drill it down to this:



"Those who reminisce about the good old days probably sat at the front of the bus."



Besides...we just won the cup

I watch in 61 also.....so the 60's were a good time also.

 

[bri]

I grew up in the 50's and 60's.....would not change it....fast cars , short skirts and loose women

 

[chasman]

OMG I could have been Mrs Chasman.

Yea... You would have 7 grandkids now.....