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Post by onethreetwo on Sept 16, 2021 5:13:42 GMT
If you buy vintage appliances, furniture and clothing, a little paint, forgo modern electronics and conveniences, and have the willpower to adopt a mostly hermit lifestyle. You could mostly live a life decades in the past if you wanted to bad enough.
Would anyone here consider this lifestyle, or are you happy living in 2021?
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Sept 16, 2021 8:09:41 GMT
You are still living in 2021 even if you do all those things.
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Post by Catman 猫的主人 on Sept 16, 2021 11:54:39 GMT
What if you have medical conditions which require modern treatments?
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Post by politicidal on Sept 16, 2021 15:36:50 GMT
Some call it willpower, others call it mental illness. Eh, it's all good.
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Post by Salzmank on Sept 16, 2021 15:52:34 GMT
According to Somewhere in Time, you can hypnotize yourself back into 1912. I’ve always been tempted to try it.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 16, 2021 16:56:03 GMT
We haven't bought any new appliances, car, furniture or much of anything else new in 15 years. We don't even have a mobile phone; only a land line. So in a way, we're already living in the past, albeit a fairly recent one.
Trouble is, no matter what past you choose, you're still paying 2021 prices for any of the necessities: utilities; gas; groceries; even a 12-pack of beer (yes, that's a necessity). Given the choice, I'd prefer to live in the present, but with the prices of the past: $.29 for a gallon of gas; $2.90 for a decent meal out; $29 for an outfit (pants, shirt, belt, shoes); $290 for rent; $2900 for a new car; $29,000 for a house, and so on.
Now, if somebody could arrange to figure out how to work that setup, that's the kind of past I can live with.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 16, 2021 17:19:53 GMT
According to Somewhere in Time, you can hypnotize yourself back into 1912. I’ve always been tempted to try it. Have you seen Berkeley Square? In this 1933 film, Leslie Howard wills himself back to the time of the American Revolution, and the life of an ancestor. The poor ancestor, however (also played by Howard) finds himself exchanging places with his 20th-century descendant, with no idea how or why he got there, or what hit him. Rather than the grand romance of Somewhere In Time, it plays as a mostly light and charming, fish-out-of-water comedy of manners.
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Post by Salzmank on Sept 16, 2021 17:33:27 GMT
According to Somewhere in Time, you can hypnotize yourself back into 1912. I’ve always been tempted to try it. Have you seen Berkeley Square? In this 1933 film, Leslie Howard wills himself back to the time of the American Revolution, and the life of an ancestor. The poor ancestor, however (also played by Howard) finds himself exchanging places with his 20th-century descendant, with no idea how or why he got there, or what hit him. Rather than the grand romance of Somewhere In Time, it plays as a mostly light and charming, fish-out-of-water comedy of manners. Yes, and I liked it a lot. “Hm, the man must be gifted with second sight. Such feats as this are common in Scotland.”  I’m such a sucker for the time-travel/alternate-universe romance…
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Post by loofapotato on Sept 16, 2021 17:40:08 GMT
I know a guy who still lives vicariously through his youth when he threw for 4 touchdowns in single game for Polk H.S.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 16, 2021 17:57:38 GMT
Have you seen Berkeley Square? In this 1933 film, Leslie Howard wills himself back to the time of the American Revolution, and the life of an ancestor. The poor ancestor, however (also played by Howard) finds himself exchanging places with his 20th-century descendant, with no idea how or why he got there, or what hit him. Rather than the grand romance of Somewhere In Time, it plays as a mostly light and charming, fish-out-of-water comedy of manners. Yes, and I liked it a lot. “Hm, the man must be gifted with second sight. Such feats as this are common in Scotland.” I’m such a sucker for the time-travel/alternate-universe romance… You appear to remember it better than I do. I've seen it only the once, and really need to revisit it when I can. I adore Howard, and have been on a completist mission for some years. I believe I've got only four features left. And to think, when I first saw GWTW (my only exposure to him at the time), I felt there wasn't much to him. The Petrified Forest changed all that a few years later, and he's never disappointed me since. I agree time travel is an irresistible notion, but even if offered the opportunity, secure in the knowledge I could return at will from whichever time I'd chosen, the possibility of it being fraught with unforeseen difficulties, complications, dangers or whatnot would scare hell out of me.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Sept 16, 2021 18:35:38 GMT
I hold onto some vestiges of the past and it's nice to reminisce, but I wouldn't want to be frozen in time.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 16, 2021 18:40:45 GMT
You can never go back.
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Post by Salzmank on Sept 16, 2021 18:43:49 GMT
You appear to remember it better than I do. I've seen it only the once, and really need to revisit it when I can. I adore Howard, and have been on a completist mission for some years. I believe I've got only four features left. And to think, when I first saw GWTW (my only exposure to him at the time), I felt there wasn't much to him. The Petrified Forest changed all that a few years later, and he's never disappointed me since. Got to check out more Howard… There are a lot of titles on his filmography I haven’t seen! As for actors I adore enough to want to check out everything they’re in… William Powell, John Barrymore, and Patrick McGoohan come to mind. Alas, in McGoohan’s case he tended to be in some pretty awful movies (less so, of course, TV), but he’s just so compelling, so intense and on-edge, that it almost becomes hypnotic. I’m almost always captivated by what he’s going to do next.Oh, rationally I definitely agree (and of course I know the past was not some utopia, what with the bigotry, fewer medical treatments, etc.). But I can’t deny that when I went to France I kept hoping that car in Midnight in Paris would pull up… 
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Sept 16, 2021 19:00:28 GMT
Or you could do a mix of both and create a retro futuristic diesel punk home with 1940s/50s appliances with some modern tech mixed in! That would be kinda neat.
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Sept 16, 2021 19:51:05 GMT
You could live in the past by traveling near the speed of light!  |
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Post by Sarge on Sept 16, 2021 21:44:57 GMT
You could live in the past by traveling near the speed of light!
 You are always moving forward in your timeline and aging at your normal rate.
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Post by langdona on Sept 17, 2021 21:50:21 GMT
Nah but some vintage bathrooms and crap are pretty cool
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Post by paislene on Sept 18, 2021 0:12:03 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2021 2:11:07 GMT
You are still living in 2021 even if you do all those things. Party pooper. |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 18, 2021 2:15:55 GMT
Okay, Shyamalan.
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I’m such a sucker for the time-travel/alternate-universe romance… 
