If youy could live in another historical period, which would you choose ?

[Johan]

If you were given the opportunity to live (not permanently) in another historical period, which would you choose ?

I think I would try living as an athenian citizen around 450 B.C.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

I'm an optimist these days and the only thing better than 2015 is 2016. My peoples either come from dirt or ice. I also ain't giving up my DirecTV w/DVR fer nuthin'.

 

[Jagger69]

I truly envy "the greatest generation" of my father but, if anything, I would retrace the steps of my paternal grandmother. She was born in 1897 and died in 1996 at the ripe old age of 98. She witnessed everything that happened from the horse and buggy era to the space shuttle. There were more technological advancements just within her lifetime than in the entire recorded history of mankind prior to her birth. I used to love to sit and listen to her stories as a kid....talking about World War I, the roaring 20's during which she had been a "flapper", the rigors and hardship of the great depression, the intensity of WWII that saw the USA rise to the world power that it still is today. She lived through the Eisenhower years that spawned the cold war, saw JFK assassinated on TV, the race riots and Vietnam War of the 1960s tear our nation apart, saw Nixon resign in disgrace. In the meantime, she saw countless friends and relatives come and go, endured 3 marriages, witnessed the births of several dozen grand and great-grandchildren. She saw communication methods evolve from the simple telegraph to the internet, saw the civil rights movement go from Jim Crow to (allegedly) equal opportunity and rights for all. She was an eye-witness to the most amazing events that occurred in the history of civilization. Her life amazed me as a child and continues to amaze me to this day. She lived during the greatest period in human history in my estimation.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

I wonder if one day we'll have a Renaissance of the Path of Least Resistance. A world of weed, television, and sitting back getting my dick sucked until I pass out sounds good to me.

 

[Mr_Stiffy]

I'd like to live in 2005, except the 2005 depicted in the 1986 animated Transformers movie. I want my hoverboard and a car that looks like Hot Rod, God damn it.

 

[TheProcrastinator]

Being a member of the upper class in the Byzantine Empire in about the year 1000 would be interesting, but it'd be equally interesting to visit India in about 1600 or China in 1700, to see various non-Western civilisations at their pinnacle. We also know less about those places in those periods than about pretty much any point in Western history in the last 400 years, so you'd learn a great deal.

 

[Will E Worm]

At least let's go back to the 1980s or 1990s before Obama.

:yoda:

 

[CrimsonBolt]

the current one, i can't imagine the world without the porno!

 

[Supafly]

I would choos the year 2364. I would want to be the Ten Forward host on the USS Enterprise D (NCC-1701-D)

Of course, I would make some slight changes like some very private Holo Suites

 

[sean miguel]

I wouldn't want to go too far back in history when the treatment for anything from a migraine to dengue fever would be leeches sucking on my nut sack.

I'd have to say the American Wild West. I'd still be home in a sense, just way back when. I'd want to be one of those bad-ass if caricature gunslingers with the slung-low, tied-down holsters, the questionable eye patch and facial scar and the rangy and loyal mutt for a sidekick. I'd help the helpless and right wrongs with six-shooter justice. And when the job was done, I'd ride out of town remaining the enigma known as The Drifter.


Want some? Get some.

 

[Chopper3000]

So long as sexual deviancy is encouraged I'm fine with any time period.

 

[bahodeme]

I truly envy "the greatest generation" of my father but, if anything, I would retrace the steps of my paternal grandmother. She was born in 1897 and died in 1996 at the ripe old age of 98. She witnessed everything that happened from the horse and buggy era to the space shuttle. There were more technological advancements just within her lifetime than in the entire recorded history of mankind prior to her birth. I used to love to sit and listen to her stories as a kid....talking about World War I, the roaring 20's during which she had been a "flapper", the rigors and hardship of the great depression, the intensity of WWII that saw the USA rise to the world power that it still is today. She lived through the Eisenhower years that spawned the cold war, saw JFK assassinated on TV, the race riots and Vietnam War of the 1960s tear our nation apart, saw Nixon resign in disgrace. In the meantime, she saw countless friends and relatives come and go, endured 3 marriages, witnessed the births of several dozen grand and great-grandchildren. She saw communication methods evolve from the simple telegraph to the internet, saw the civil rights movement go from Jim Crow to (allegedly) equal opportunity and rights for all. She was an eye-witness to the most amazing events that occurred in the history of civilization. Her life amazed me as a child and continues to amaze me to this day. She lived during the greatest period in human history in my estimation.

Jag,
Did someone ever record her talking about her life and her thoughts about the changes she seen? Because that would have been great, to put it mildly.

Sorry, that farthest I would go back is the 70's for obvious reasons

 

[darthtexan]

None. Hygiene and sanitation was never as good as it is today. I cringe at the lack of indoor plumbing and air conditioning in the old west. And don't even think about the middle ages!! No sealant on rooftops to keep bird shit out, having to wipe your ass with leaves, (or wool if you're rich.) Having to bury your shit if you don't have access to a moat. Heck, even as recently as 20 years ago I don't think adult wet wipes were widely manufactured. Im not even sure body powder was widely manufactured. And I seriously doubt temperature controlling underwear existed. Though there is a huge part of me that wants to go back to the 80s and 90s.

 

[knowone]

Atlantis, if and when it existed.

 

[bahodeme]

None. Hygiene and sanitation was never as good as it is today. I cringe at the lack of indoor plumbing and air conditioning in the old west. And don't even think about the middle ages!! No sealant on rooftops to keep bird shit out, having to wipe your ass with leaves, (or wool if you're rich.) Having to bury your shit if you don't have access to a moat. Heck, even as recently as 20 years ago I don't think adult wet wipes were widely manufactured. Im not even sure body powder was widely manufactured. And I seriously doubt temperature controlling underwear existed. Though there is a huge part of me that wants to go back to the 80s and 90s.

Ah but you could invent these things (toilet paper especially). Body powder has been around for while.

 

[GodsEmbryo]

If you were given the opportunity to live (not permanently) in another historical period, which would you choose ?

I think I would try living as an athenian citizen around 450 B.C.

Hmm... It's the word "live" that makes me flinch. I wouldn't mind visiting any old civilisation (Roman, Greek, Byzantine...) in any giving century during it's existance. But living? Assuming I could speak the language, pick up the habits, know the politics, and pick up a skill to survive, I don't know if I could overcome the hard conditions these people lived in.

 

[hYdl1d3]

The first thought that came to mind was the conveniences we live with in the current age but there is no doubt it would be something to see the Babe hit homeruns or a T-Rex running at it's prey... the beginning of life on earth. The Reagan era?

 

[Rey C.]

Though there is a huge part of me that wants to go back to the 80s and 90s.

I wouldn't mind a do-over on the 80's myself. As for any other time period, I wouldn't want to take the chance of being plopped down and finding that I was a Stranger in a Strange Land... which quite often led to bad things happening to one.

I could go back to ancient Rome. That might be cool. But it's not like I could tell Julius Caesar not to act like a tyrant and get things stirred up. Just go with the flow, man. This could be a great gig for another thousand years, if you don't set any bad stuff in motion. And if he did anyway, it's not like Brutus and Cassius would follow my suggestions on how to win the war and maintain the Republic. As a simple observer, I don't think I'd want to be a witness to mankind beginning a downward spiral, which would stunt its growth and development by a good 500-700 years. What happened way back then is a partial explanation as to why we're (still) so damned backward now.

 

[Rey C.]

Atlantis, if and when it existed.

Well... yeah!

But with my luck, I'd get there on the day when somebody would be asking, "Say, where's all that water coming from?!"

 

[FreeOnes_Adam]

Great topic!

That would be really hard to nail down for me. I am an old soul in a young body

I would be tempted to hit up the 1920s, but I would be tempted with many many other periods if I was forced to choose one.