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In What Time Period Would You Like to Live?

In What Time Period Would You Like to Live?

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Jerry said:
My moral beliefs place me somewhere in the late Victorian era, but at least we can duel whereas you can't even open a door for a woman without being sued for discrimination.
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Yes in my opinion morals just aren't what they used to be. Some flaws in the laws of freedom opened the door to this slow and steady change.

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Jerry said:
The ‘80s, aye? Wouldn’t it be fun to show the SAW series to that audience?
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Yes the 80's were awesome at the time. I loved the atmosphere watching the bands and at party's. (now I'm old and boring)

SAW would certainly have blown away all those horror films! Recently I seen a couple classics (Thing etc.) that used to give me chills. Now I watch them and think how lame compared to what's being put out nowadays!
 
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ronpaulvoter said:
Have you ever thought about living in a time other than the present? If so, what time and for what reason?

If we went back in time, we would gain:
* More freedom
* Lower population density
* Less crime
* Better environment

But there would be a trade off of less technology; we would have to give up all the gadgets that were made after the time you chose to live.
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Um.... all of those except lower population density are debateable.
Most cities were far dirtier and more polluted in the past. Think Charles Dicken's London for early industrial, with thousands of coal-fired plants spewing unfiltered black smoke. Earlier, think of streets paved with manure and mud (lack of septic systems).
There are a number of periods in history that probably had far higher crime rates than modern cities...London in the 1500's jumps to mind. And besides crime, further back in history there was endemic violence between tribes and nations, with mass murder, torture and enslavement, that make our 20th century violence look trivial in all but raw numbers.
Many periods in US history saw governmental corruption running rampant, and the liberties of many groups curtailed...the Tweed Machine/Tammany Hall being one example.
Further back in history, if you were an early medieval serf you had almost NO rights. If you were a baron you had whatever rights you and your knights could enforce within a few hour's horseback ride from your castle, until some stronger neighbor invaded, took over and killed your entire family.

Not to mention that in my Grandpa's generation, most people didn't live past 60, unless they were lucky. A couple centuries earlier, half the population died before reaching 40, of various diseases or disorders that are now readily curable or at least treatable.

I'd be more intrested in the future.

G.
 
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Kandahar said:
The present or future. Why would you want to live in an era where life was worse than it currently is? That would include...well, every single decade before this one since the beginning of humanity.
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:rofl

Man I hate cliched views of history.

Things go up and down. There were bad things in the past and good things, some worse than now at different periods and some better.
 
I agree with Winston Churchill to some degree.

I like to live in the past, I don't tihnk people are going to get much fun in the future.

But the problem with the past is I want to make a difference and it is hardly the past exactly if I do that.
 
Wessexman said:
:rofl

Man I hate cliched views of history.

Things go up and down. There were bad things in the past and good things, some worse than now at different periods and some better.
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I see my post was completely ignored.:(
Seriously, try living an entire year without heating, air conditioning, computers (no DP), refrigerators, television....

I think it'll trump everything good that can be derived from the past.
 
Dav said:
I see my post was completely ignored.:(
Seriously, try living an entire year without heating, air conditioning, computers (no DP), refrigerators, television....

I think it'll trump everything good that can be derived from the past.
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When I was about 10-12yrs old I used to daydream about living off the land in the wilderness. I took my paper route money and bought many books on survival, edible plants, and nature in general. I read these books cover to cover many times thinking when I get old enough I was heading off into the wild blue yonder....

Then I hit puberty and....:cool:
 
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Dav said:
I see my post was completely ignored.:(
Seriously, try living an entire year without heating, air conditioning, computers (no DP), refrigerators, television....

I think it'll trump everything good that can be derived from the past.
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:rofl

I very doubt it. Some of this stuff has its positives, particularly today but in the past they managed to get by and often have a jolly good time, perhaps more so than today in many ways. I think the fact we need TV and Computers to entertain ourselves and refrigerators to store our food, which is now shipped in often for hundreds of miles, is not necessarily the greatest of achievements.

It is like quite a few of our technological advances. We have cars to travel to work, to see our friends and family and on holiday, but we know live in a world where we have to travel long distances to work, where our friends and family are dispersed over wide areas and where we can no longer see new and interesting things by just travelling 50 miles or so.

I'm not saying technology is bad, far from it, but don't buy into all the hype and cliche.
 
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Wessexman said:
:rofl

I very doubt it. Some of this stuff has its positives, particularly today but in the past they managed to get by and often have a jolly good time, perhaps more so than today in many ways. I think the fact we need TV and Computers to entertain ourselves and refrigerators to store our food, which is now shipped in often for hundreds of miles, is not necessarily the greatest of achievements.
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In terms of having more time to feel at peace today is far worse than the old days. Today there is a constant bombardment of mind pollution and a constant bombardment of decision making, and technical chores. Seems to me there was a lot more time in the day of feeling complete and content in the past.
 
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Wessexman said:
:rofl

Man I hate cliched views of history.

Things go up and down. There were bad things in the past and good things, some worse than now at different periods and some better.
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You're right, there were some good things and some bad things about the past...but mostly bad.

I fail to see how anyone could think that the overall quality of life - worldwide or in most individual countries - was better in the past (unless we're talking about the immediate past) than it is today.

Throughout most of human history, most people had backbreaking work, short lifespans, a lack of communication with the outside world, more wars, and much less egalitarian societies than we have today. Even as recently as the 1990s, the overall quality of life was noticeably worse than it is today. And certainly if we're talking about the 1970s or even earlier.
 
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Dav said:
Many people do not know what life is like without air conditioning/heating

Future, of course. We already know about the past, and my curiosity compels me.
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To know how is the future is ok .. but to live in the future, you might be taking a risk with that, because you'll never know how its like ..
As long as you know about almost all the past eras, you can easily choose the best time to live in .
 
Ahmed Shaheen said:
Simply, situations time being doesn't bode for well and getting worse .
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Unfortunately true..

Today there are more possibilities of things going catastrophically bad than ever before in human history.
 
I've got a question here ..
If we went to either Future or past, will you prefere to have the same way of thinking of either future or past people, or remain the same way you think time being ?
 
Ahmed Shaheen said:
I've got a question here ..
If we went to either Future or past, will you prefere to have the same way of thinking of either future or past people, or remain the same way you think time being ?
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The way I see it there are many groups that went off on a tangent with flawed thinking that doesn't fit in with the human population as a whole.

So I would like to see some forms of thought change a little.
 
creativedreams said:
The way I see it there are many groups that went off on a tangent with flawed thinking that doesn't fit in with the human population as a whole.

So I would like to see some forms of thought change a little.
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I Agree that you need to change your thoughts completely, cuz you'll be either too smart in the past or too stupid in the future and both are unlikely :shock:
 
I would probably like to live during the Age of Exploration. I would definitely want to be a sailor.
 
Kandahar said:
You're right, there were some good things and some bad things about the past...but mostly bad.
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I don't agree, I think it was about even.
I fail to see how anyone could think that the overall quality of life - worldwide or in most individual countries - was better in the past (unless we're talking about the immediate past) than it is today.
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Depends, in a lot of periods there was more community, decentralism, less state power, less alineation and anomie(see Durkheim.) more contact with the land and such things.

Throughout most of human history, most people had backbreaking work, short lifespans, a lack of communication with the outside world, more wars, and much less egalitarian societies than we have today. Even as recently as the 1990s, the overall quality of life was noticeably worse than it is today. And certainly if we're talking about the 1970s or even earlier.
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Wars within the last few centuries have been on a scale never seen before. Technology and some reforms have given us much but they've taken away much as well. Communications, technology, changes in work all have had their positives and negatives, sometimes the one outweighs the other and vice versa.
 
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Dav said:
I see my post was completely ignored.:(
Seriously, try living an entire year without heating, air conditioning, computers (no DP), refrigerators, television....

I think it'll trump everything good that can be derived from the past.
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One form of entertainment to rule them all, whore houses! :cool:
 
Ahmed Shaheen said:
I've got a question here ..
If we went to either Future or past, will you prefere to have the same way of thinking of either future or past people, or remain the same way you think time being ?
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My mindset is who I am. I'd prefer to keep it in either direction.

Especially since in the past it would lead to power.
 
The 1960s, as an Apollo astronaut.
 
ronpaulvoter said:
Have you ever thought about living in a time other than the present? If so, what time and for what reason?

If we went back in time, we would gain:
* More freedom
* Lower population density
* Less crime
* Better environment

But there would be a trade off of less technology; we would have to give up all the gadgets that were made after the time you chose to live.

So the question is: In what time period would you like to live?

The poll is multiple choice; you can choose more than one time period.
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In a couple hundred years to see what has transpired with the world.

Alternative: 1900-1960... when permits, enviro impact studies, enviroMarxists, and the like would have been seen as retarded at best.

That said, the convoluted system of road blocks and bureaucracy in the Western World has eliminated a tremendous amount of competition, allowing punitive fees over long periods to be charged. When you have to deal with The Beast, actually slay it... and have a record of success, that is an additional, significant cost someone has to pay (end user) and is directly attributable to government busybodies making life tough for businesses.

And to think, it'$ going to get wor$e before it get$ better.

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