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Post by alexp88 on Jul 17, 2020 18:32:29 GMT -5
So do you guys and gals ever wish you were born in a different era, if so which one and why?
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Post by someonerandom on Jul 17, 2020 19:17:45 GMT -5
I was born and designed (in a lab) for the current era. Current era is the best. Fuck the other ones. 2020 has its problems but I still think it’s the best era that has existed for the most people. You could say that maybe the 90’s or 50’s or something were better, but it was only better for certain people, and even that can be argued. Best technology and the most knowledge humanity has ever had, right fucking now. Also, most acceptance of alternative lifestyles I believe the world has ever had, currently.
I wish I could be immortal and just live until I decide to kill myself. I am super curious what 2100, 2200, 2300, etc are going to be like. Right now my goal is to make it at least to 2080. I would accept vampirism in a heartbeat. Just stake myself with some wood if it comes to that.
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Post by wonk on Jul 17, 2020 19:26:36 GMT -5
While today has the most knowledge, it also has the most ignorance.
I was a teen in the 80's and without a doubt it had the best music, the best clothes and the best hair!!! Hahaha
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Post by someonerandom on Jul 17, 2020 19:32:15 GMT -5
While today has the most knowledge, it also has the most ignorance. I was a teen in the 80's and without a doubt it had the best music, the best clothes and the best hair!!! Hahaha People have always been ignorant as shit. I think while the ignorance is more noticeable now, there is probably less of it overall. Not that there’s any good way to quantify or measure “ignorance” in different time periods. Thinking about it, we do have more refugees right now than we have ever had in human history, although I don’t know how that measures with percentage of total population. Definitely still a lot of really bad shit happening these days. I like to think it’s still better than in the past. Not like war or genocide has not been happening constantly since the very beginning. Maybe technology has made it more deadly or destructive. I dunno. I still think this era is probably the best. |
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Post by SouthernCalGal on Jul 17, 2020 19:50:21 GMT -5
Throughout my life I’ve always thought I was meant to be a teenager in the 60’s. I would have loved to be 18 in 1969. I would have traveled to be at Woodstock enjoying all the music, free love 😉, the rain, the mud, the assorted other things floating around. I would have been passionate about the politics of those times and would have joined the anti-war protests. I would have been a vegetarian hippie living off the land and communing with others. I know this about myself from a period in my younger life. I was born in the late 60’s so I guess I have a bit of that spirit in me.
The only problem with this is I’d be 69 now and the chance of me figuring out I was a dev probably wouldn’t have happened. So, I’ll stick to being happy in the era in which I grew up in-the 80’s! I enjoyed the 3rd round of 60’s music and the 2nd round of punk music. Oh, and I can still protest now and still go to outdoor music festivals. 🤷🏻♀️
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Post by devogirl on Jul 17, 2020 22:39:44 GMT -5
Well I wrote a whole giant novel set in 18th century London so I do love that era but I wouldn't want to actually live there. If I was transported back in time, I would probably die of smallpox immediately. I am very curious about the past and would love to momentarily see almost any era but staying is a big no. Things now are far from perfect but in terms of rights for women and minorities, and medical advancements, past eras are worse.
In terms of more recent decades, it drives me crazy when people refer to the decade when they were a kid as a simpler time. It was simpler because you were a child, duh! Especially 80s nostalgia, yuck. I was a child in the 80s and remember hating it even then. Nuclear war seemed like a very real possibility, how is that a simpler time? TV, fashion, food, everything was terrible. Also all the adults in the 80s were nostalgic for the 1950s, the time when they were kids.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2020 23:05:45 GMT -5
It's not a bad thing to think about the old days when we were kids and life was indeed still simpler in our own little worlds. There is nothing wrong with being nostalgic about it. I was a teenager in the 80's and life was actually not all that easy for me but it was also a fun time to be young. My teenage years were filled with angst though.
Everyone has their "time" that they like to reminisce about and mostly it is probably when we were kids and teenagers. Every era has its good and bad things, it's the story of humankind and our history and existence on Earth.
I feel very drawn to the European middle ages and also to the 50's/60's here in the US or Europe.
Like SouthernCalGal mentioned, I would have totally been hanging out with Charlie Manson in his commune and made love to everyone and probably been high most of the time, dancing around the fire with flowers in my hair. Maybe he would have killed me eventually.
As for the middle ages, I see myself as some kind of witch/healer or something, it would have been in Europe somewhere, I am drawn to everything in the Northern Hemisphere. So, that being said I probably also would have been killed.
I have a book called "Awakening Past Lives" and I've been wanting to read it but I need to be more focused for it because it is basically about reincarnation and has exercises and stuff with it to possibly explore some past existence.
I don't like our modern day and age too much really for many different reasons...
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Post by LaMara on Jul 18, 2020 6:36:58 GMT -5
So do you guys and gals ever wish you were born in a different era, if so which one and why? I’d wish to visit a different era as an observer. I’m an art historian and Italian on top of that so I would like to check out Renaissance Venice and Florence. But I wouldn’t want to be born any time in the past because I’m a chick and I don’t particularly enjoy exploitation, forced marriage (in alternative prostitution or become a nun), lack of basic human rights and being a mother of 4 by the age of 25. Time travel is likely a white het cis male hobby  |
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Post by SouthernCalGal on Jul 18, 2020 7:26:17 GMT -5
Dani, I don’t think I would have gravitated toward the Manson commune but there were some cool ones in Malibu that I have learned about through older people who were a part of them. 😉
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Post by robbb on Jul 18, 2020 7:28:12 GMT -5
I am a child of the 70's, aged 4 to 14, but I've often thought I'd like to be the age I am now, living where I live now and doing the job I do now but in the 70's. I feel it was just a simpler more respectable time.
Also since moving into my house which is 178 years old I have often thought I'd love to time travel to see what the house and village were like at different times in it's history.
R.
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Post by Amee on Jul 18, 2020 7:44:25 GMT -5
I agree with what others have said that for actual living, no time beats today. But for a couple of months with a guarantee of unharmed return to the present, these are my top 3: 1. The American Frontier/Wild West in the 19th century. Because rough men on horses are almost as hot to me as PWDs. (Shout out to the makers of "3:10 to Yuma" for combining the two  ) 2. Israel a couple of years A.D., because I want to know if Jesus actually existed and if so, what he was like. I would also go for a trip to Rome during that time, because Ancient Rome is fascinating. 3. Around 6000/7000 BC in Germany, because this was apparently a time (and place) when humans started to settle and farm, while there were still some hunter-gatherers around. I would just find it endlessly fascinating to know how those people lived and socialised and what they were like. Edit: I know the time travel preferences aren't really what OP was asking about, so a quick addition: Apart from the obvious drawbacks of shitty medicine and hygiene and so on, I'm somewhat conflicted about the 18th and 19th century. I would be totally cool with wearing slim waisted dresses all day and having lots of babies. I can also see the benefits of arranged marriage, because this modern dating world is exhausting. But I do really appreciate having been able to get an education, so... |
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Post by newmn on Jul 18, 2020 8:00:30 GMT -5
I am a child of the 70's, aged 4 to 14, but I've often thought I'd like to be the age I am now, living where I live now and doing the job I do now but in the 70's. I feel it was just a simpler more respectable time. Also since moving into my house which is 178 years old I have often thought I'd love to time travel to see what the house and village were like at different times in it's history. R. I feel the same way. There’s a curiosity about experiencing the bits of childhood memories as an adult during that period of time. There are so many modern conveniences we have now that would be missing in a different era. So it’s more about time travel than actually living in a different time. I like my indoor plumbing and internet too much! |
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Post by devogirl on Jul 18, 2020 8:52:10 GMT -5
I would be totally cool with wearing slim waisted dresses all day and having lots of babies. You can still wear those fabulous dresses today, that's what cosplay is for! or theater, living history museums, etc. I have done it and it's super fun, plus you don't have to worry about disease, lead-based makeup, lice, lack of shampoo and laundry machines etc etc. Corsets are really not that uncomfortable except for the Edwardian wasp-waist style, that's the kind that makes you faint. If the bottom of the corset doesn't reach below your ribcage, you can still breathe normally.
But as for having lots of babies... childbirth without modern medicine is like the #1 thing I would avoid in my imaginary time-travel. Also the chance many of those babies would die in infancy or childhood, ugh, no thank you.
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Post by Amee on Jul 18, 2020 11:36:22 GMT -5
I would be totally cool with wearing slim waisted dresses all day and having lots of babies. You can still wear those fabulous dresses today, that's what cosplay is for! or theater, living history museums, etc. I have done it and it's super fun, plus you don't have to worry about disease, lead-based makeup, lice, lack of shampoo and laundry machines etc etc. Corsets are really not that uncomfortable except for the Edwardian wasp-waist style, that's the kind that makes you faint. If the bottom of the corset doesn't reach below your ribcage, you can still breathe normally.
But as for having lots of babies... childbirth without modern medicine is like the #1 thing I would avoid in my imaginary time-travel. Also the chance many of those babies would die in infancy or childhood, ugh, no thank you.
Living history museums sound awesome! Actually, thinking about it now, I would assume that in some of the historic museums here in Vienna some of the employess dress up to do guided tours for kids (or even adults). Why didn't I think of that when I was still in University? That would've been the perfect student job for me! And yes, child mortality would be the #1 turn-off to me. According to Wikipedia, something between 20% and 50% of children died before reaching puberty during pretty much any era before the 20th century. No thank you, indeed! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 12:50:28 GMT -5
Dani, I don’t think I would have gravitated toward the Manson commune but there were some cool ones in Malibu that I have learned about through older people who were a part of them. 😉 Okey dokey, take me with you  |
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