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Post by Xcalatë on Aug 1, 2021 9:34:32 GMT
Out of the following, which would you choose?
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Aug 1, 2021 9:40:45 GMT
I would say born in the past like a couple of hours earlier than when i was actually born.
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Post by ghostintheshell on Aug 1, 2021 14:32:17 GMT
Born in the past, wayy back in time....like Ancient Greece
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Post by twothousandonemark on Aug 1, 2021 15:36:33 GMT
Future. The past was Cold War or WWII or worse without electricity & available drive thrus.
At least the future if it sucked I'd just jump off a bridge. I'd probably jump to 2140. I think the next 100 years is going to be a global slog - put me over the other side of that.
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Post by Nora on Aug 1, 2021 17:12:59 GMT
Future for sure. At least 200 years out.
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Post by someguy on Aug 1, 2021 20:18:14 GMT
Future. I have a feeling most people who think they would like to have been born in the past would regret it if they actually got their wish.
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Post by theauxphou on Aug 1, 2021 20:56:55 GMT
500,000 years in the future, just to see what it’d be like.
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Post by Jason143 on Aug 1, 2021 21:42:47 GMT
Past for sure. Anywhere from 500-2000 years ago would be good. Would love to know what it feels like to live without cell phones, Internet, social media, television etc. Experiencing people interacting the old fashioned way everyday would be interesting. Going to future I would guess it would be more depressing than it is now with even more technology integrated in everyday life.
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Post by gw on Aug 1, 2021 22:01:21 GMT
I can't vote because I'm not sure. If I were certain that the future would be better I'd go for the future but seeing what's happening to the biosphere and the atmosphere it's very likely there will soon be an apocalypse. The present isn't that great due to being mentally ill. And the past is just terrible from a hygiene perspective and a knowledge perspective. I can't decide.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Aug 1, 2021 22:50:18 GMT
To be born in the past, any time before you were born
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Post by divtal on Aug 2, 2021 0:02:34 GMT
Future. I have a feeling most people who think they would like to have been born in the past would regret it if they actually got their wish. Agreed. I think it's a positive component of human nature to be able to adapt to challenges that come our way.
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Post by vegalyra on Aug 2, 2021 16:01:53 GMT
Born in the past, probably late 1800's USA or England, or alternatively sometime during the Byzantine Empire's heyday. I'd love to see Constantinople in its prime. If I could choose, I'd want to be born into some kind of minor nobility or upper merchant class. I wouldn't want to zoom into the past just to be a laborer in some salt mine and die by the time I'm 35.
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Post by mystery on Aug 2, 2021 16:27:48 GMT
My first impulse is to say I wish I was born in the past, but the reality is, I've seen and done so much more than even my mother and grandmother, much less all the ancestors before them. I would have liked to be part of the age of exploration, and sail the world looking for spices or gold or the fountain of youth. But chances are I would probably end up dead pretty quickly, and even if I didn't, exploring any of those cultures in depth would be very difficult, if not impossible. It would have been amazing to see dinosaurs or other extinct animals from the past, but I would have gotten myself eaten. Life was incredibly short and brutal in previous centuries and millennia. It's so easy to idealize the past from the comfort and safety of our modern lives, where most people have such petty and trivial problems that people from the past would probably just laugh at our foolishness and weakness. And for good reason.
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 2, 2021 16:33:51 GMT
Can I just be rebooted with the knowledge of all that I’ve done and the wisdom to avoid doing (most of) that again?
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Post by ghostintheshell on Aug 3, 2021 5:58:43 GMT
500,000 years in the future, just to see what it’d be like. There's be nothing to see but a scorched earth either from supervolcanoes or Sun entering its unstable 'giant' phase which burns through atmosphere
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Post by Xcalatë on Aug 3, 2021 7:57:49 GMT
500,000 years in the future, just to see what it’d be like. There's be nothing to see but a scorched earth either from supervolcanoes or Sun entering its unstable 'giant' phase which burns through atmosphere Not sure about volcanoes, but the sun wont become a giant for at least a few Billion years more (it will be 10% brighter in about 1 billion which will likely turn earth into a version of venus and continue to expand for another 4 billion until it becomes a red giant and swallows the inner planets including earth.
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Post by uncreative on Aug 3, 2021 18:39:29 GMT
The past sucked. Why would anyone want to live there? 99.9% of the time you'd just be a peasant with a miserable life, assuming you even survived to adulthood. Give me the future so I get my sex bot and teleporter and flying car.
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Post by Aj_June on Aug 3, 2021 19:25:39 GMT
Past (although I will definitely like to be born in a powerful family so as not to suffer the worst of history)
1. Early Edo period, Japan (Tokugawa shogunate)
2. Vedic Civilisation, India
3. Ancient Egyptian Period (when they built great pyramids)
4. Pre-Islamic Mesopotamia
5. England, Victorian Era. (Great phase in many different ways)
6. Gupta dynasty, India. ( the most prosperous times)
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Aug 4, 2021 8:35:45 GMT
The past sucked. Why would anyone want to live there? 99.9% of the time you'd just be a peasant with a miserable life, assuming you even survived to adulthood. Give me the future so I get my sex bot and teleporter and flying car. Its because people are romanticizing the past.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Aug 9, 2021 8:39:49 GMT
Assuming the future we're talking about is full of starships, advanced robotics and computers, miraculous medicine and holograms I'd opt for that. Not a future involving extensive ecological and environmental ruin.
The past in general was pretty bad. Bad medicine, shorter lifespans, sexism, racism, religious intolerance, frequent conflict, an appalling low standard of living for most, famines, etc. No thank you.
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