If you could live in a time/place other than your own.......

Where? Why?

Published on July 28, 2005 By ----- In Misc

If you could live in a time, and/or place other than your own, what time and place would you choose? Why?

I would choose Ancient Egypt around the time of its dawn. I would choose it because I have always had a fascination with the culture, people and architecture. Such marvels as the Sphinx, Pyramid of Cheops/Khufu, and the stepped pyramids in southern Egypt are wonders that have yet to have been fully explained in how they were built. The fact that they have lasted for thousands of years proves that, IMO, the Egyptians were skillful architects.

As for a time, I would love to live during or around the beginning of written history…(Link)…..to see how humans developed with ‘history recording every triumph and folly’……

Comments

Manopeace

on Jul 28, 2005

I would choose Ancient Egypt around the time of its dawn.

You could have joined the chain gang I was in when I built the pyramids;)

-----

on Jul 28, 2005

You could have joined the chain gang I was in when I built the pyramids;)

LOL, so what about you?

sushiK

on Jul 28, 2005

I would do late 1800's or early 1900's in America
I think it would be very cool to see America unspoiled and at a time when people were better to eachother

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on Jul 28, 2005

I would do late 1800's or early 1900's in America
I think it would be very cool to see America unspoiled and at a time when people were better to eachother

Interesting...yeah...i would agree with you in thosewere the better times...

Manopeace

on Jul 28, 2005

LOL, so what about you?

Always had the fantasy that I was a Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War (1936) fighting the fascists....
I used to dream about it all the time.

-----

on Jul 28, 2005

Always had the fantasy that I was a Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War (1936) fighting the fascists....
I used to dream about it all the time

--Interesting, do you believe in past lifes,(if you do) you should have a transgression done, though if you do, be extremely careful, there are some who will lead you, planting the 'memories' into your head...had one done to me a few years back, found out (not yet verified) that i lived during WW2 in Nazi Germany, lived in india during the late 1800's, and lived in ancient egypt around the time of tutenkhamen(sp)....puts new meaning to the phrase "lived many lives"...

drmiler

on Jul 28, 2005

It would be a toss for me. Either late 1800's to early 1900's, American west, or middle ages in europe. You know...knights of the round table and crusades.

Manopeace

on Jul 28, 2005

--Interesting, do you believe in past lifes,(if you do) you should have a transgression done,

lol... enough transgressions done to me right here on JoeUser...

-----

on Jul 28, 2005

lol... enough transgressions done to me right here on JoeUser...

--Really...

It would be a toss for me. Either late 1800's to early 1900's, American west, or middle ages in europe. You know...knights of the round table and crusades

--Hmmm, that would be interesting, the knight thing, but i've gotta say that i would have a hard time not criticizing some of the actions done by some of the middle age kings/queens.... just thought the actions were a bit...stupid/repetative...

stutefish

on Jul 28, 2005

Wow. The 1800s saw the rise of Industrialization. You may want to reconsider living then. Pollution was rampant, deforestation proceeded unchecked, and sweatshops were the norm for production of goods.

Not to mention hygiene was worse, disease was much more common (and much deadlier), and women were most certainly second-class citizens.

Me? I'd choose the Future.

Let me ride a probe into the Sun's chromosphere, or drift for weeks over Saturn's Rings, or travel the ice-buried seas of Europa in a robot submarine. Let me surf the storms of Jupiter's upper atmosphere. Let me mine an asteroid, or ride a comet around the Sun, or visit the heliopause.

That's the time period I'd choose.

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on Jul 28, 2005

Let me ride a probe into the Sun's chromosphere, or drift for weeks over Saturn's Rings, or travel the ice-buried seas of Europa in a robot submarine. Let me surf the storms of Jupiter's upper atmosphere. Let me mine an asteroid, or ride a comet around the Sun, or visit the heliopause

-- like an immortal... LOL ...that would be fun, reminds me of 2001: A space odyssey...and 3001...

crimson

on Jul 28, 2005

As a Native woman, I don't think that any earlier generation after colonization would be a good idea, but it would be an interesting experience to see what life before 'settlers' arrived. If I could be non-Native and go back in time, I'd love to visit Paris in the late 1800's.

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on Jul 28, 2005

NickyG

--(No offense to your tribe) The tribe in my hometown used the town and left it high and dry during the late 1900's....they "complained" that they should be compensated for the lands,etc... taken from them, and the city coucil agreed, and it was agreed upon, then...2 years later...they sold the city the land, then repeated the process all over, only asking for more money...they did this again, and by the time it was over(the tribe own the lands know,btw, and run a casino, quite a popualr one too) the city paid about 16.8 million over the course of the deals...now, i agree that what happened to them and other tribes is wrong (i myself am 1/8 Cherokee,1/16 Souix/Lakota) but geez, i don't understand why they did what they did...they got a heck of a deal the first go round...

drmiler

on Jul 28, 2005

Hey stute you missed my qualifier "the American west"! And as a cowpoke the sweatshops, pollution and deforestation would not have meant much to me.

-----

on Jul 28, 2005

deforestation

--What! That is an insult...my family has always advocated re-planting of trees....how could you.....(Just kidding, LOL...my (about 4-5 generations back) family's "industry" of choice, i think it was my great-great-great (or 2nd great) grandfather, was part owner/manager of modoc lumber...or something similar, he was featured in newspapers,magazines,etc...He was honest, hardworking, and well known throughout the west (not sure how far east...) in the lumber industry...

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