BeeR Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Let's say you're able to go back in time and: 1. Visit for a week 2. Visit for a year 3. Live the rest of your days Let's assume health is not an issue (you have the means to ensure you can address any health issues even though that time cannot), you can speak the language, you can bring significant others with you, but you will not be allowed to significantly alter history (eg you can't go back and kill Stalin before he comes to power). Basically the appeal of these is just the time/culture itself. Where would you go, if anywhere? I suspect most on the last one would stay right here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muck Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 1) A random week when I was a teenager, so I'd have a better sense for what I will be seeing out of my kids in the next several years. 2) The last year of Christ's life. 3) I would pick pretty much any time since the advent of central heat/air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliaz Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Let's say you're able to go back in time and: 1. Visit for a week 2. Visit for a year 3. Live the rest of your days Let's assume health is not an issue (you have the means to ensure you can address any health issues even though that time cannot), you can speak the language, you can bring significant others with you, but you will not be allowed to significantly alter history (eg you can't go back and kill Stalin before he comes to power). Basically the appeal of these is just the time/culture itself. Where would you go, if anywhere? I suspect most on the last one would stay right here. 1. New York City sometime during the roaring twenties 2. 1969 (so i could experience the counter culture movement of the Summer of 69') 3. While the title of the thread is 'if you could visit/live in any time' I do see you called out in the body 'back in time' but mine is forward - I've like to live out the rest of my days starting in 2065. I figure by that time our medical technology will be to a point where we can extend our life through replacement organs and being able to cleanse our bodies of dying and defective cells. I'd like to live long enough to see a human step out on to the surface of another planet. I highly doubt that will happen in 54 years but it could so I'd have to start there. I'd like to also be around for when our earth bound telescopes are finally able to see an exoplanet. I really want to know what that kipler planet looks like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazinib1 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 1. Egypt during the building of the Sphinx just so I can ask why 2. The Myans...so I can ask why 3. Neanderthal days. Cause I would rule and wouldn't get arrested for pulling my girls hair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovers Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 (edited) Let's say you're able to go back in time and: 1. Visit for a week 2. Visit for a year 3. Live the rest of your days Let's assume health is not an issue (you have the means to ensure you can address any health issues even though that time cannot), you can speak the language, you can bring significant others with you, but you will not be allowed to significantly alter history (eg you can't go back and kill Stalin before he comes to power). Basically the appeal of these is just the time/culture itself. Where would you go, if anywhere? I suspect most on the last one would stay right here. 1. Stonehenge 2. 1 BC (actually, 33 AD... you get the drift...) 3. 1960. A couple (or ALOT) of bets in Vegas, some IBM stock... yeah, that's what I'm talkin about. Edited December 19, 2011 by Rovers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Cornelius Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 i want to go back and ride dinosaurs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I Like Soup Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 (edited) Let's say you're able to go back in time and: 1. Visit for a week 2. Visit for a year 3. Live the rest of your days Let's assume health is not an issue (you have the means to ensure you can address any health issues even though that time cannot), you can speak the language, you can bring significant others with you, but you will not be allowed to significantly alter history (eg you can't go back and kill Stalin before he comes to power). Basically the appeal of these is just the time/culture itself. Where would you go, if anywhere? I suspect most on the last one would stay right here. I love this kind of stuff. 1. Visit for a week - back in the dino days, say the late Jurassic. 2. Visit for a year - a. ancient Rome during Octavian's rule b. ancient Greece, 480BC c. the Medieval Times, say around 1000AD. 3. Live the rest of your days - in our time because it is what I know. Edited December 19, 2011 by I Like Soup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted December 19, 2011 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 Guess I should answer: 1 - I should probably answer Jesus' time for a year and I might, but for now I'll say a week, simply to meet or even be around Him, hear him preach etc. 2 - Roman times are tempting but I think the 1770s to see that going on. Early 20th century is temping as well. 3 - Maybe now, but assuming people I care about are there, late 40s are very tempting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovers Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Guess I should answer: 1 - I should probably answer Jesus' time for a year and I might, but for now I'll say a week, simply to meet or even be around Him, hear him preach etc. 2 - Roman times are tempting but I think the 1770s to see that going on. Early 20th century is temping as well. 3 - Maybe now, but assuming people I care about are there, late 40s are very tempting. In 1960 I could meet myself as a middle aged man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duchess Jack Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 (edited) 1. Visit for a week Ancient Rome (so long as I was a citizen or higher) 2. Visit for a year 1969 3. Live the rest of your days Colonial America Edited December 20, 2011 by Duchess Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitansFan Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Visit for a week: 3 billion BC, to see what sky and RR were like as kids Visit for a year: Feudal Japan Live the rest of your days: Either our current time, or some time in the future after which we have colonized other planets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godtomsatan Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 1. Mid-december, 2011. 2. winter 2011 through fall 2012. 3. now and into the future. What's the point? Everything is filtered through your modern day context, so you're not really experiencing it the way anyone who lived through a particular era would. Besides, now is the most interesting time the world has every experienced, so it would all be a letdown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 I love this kind of stuff. 1. Visit for a week - back in the dino days, say the late Jurassic. 2. Visit for a year - a. ancient Rome during Octavian's rule b. ancient Greece, 480BC c. the Medieval Times, say around 1000AD. 3. Live the rest of your days - in our time because it is what I know. Weird.......my PM to you had pretty much precisely the same two as 1 and 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpholmes Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 1. New York City sometime during the roaring twenties I'm on a huge Lost Generation kick right now... reading through Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Dos Pasos. Would love to be in the Big Apple post WW1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuke'em ttg Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Jam in Joes garage Rome Dana Point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEC=UGA Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 i want to go back and ride dinosaurs! Visit a local nursing home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEC=UGA Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Guess I should answer: 1 - I should probably answer Jesus' time for a year and I might, but for now I'll say a week, simply to meet or even be around Him, hear him preach etc. You wouldn't understand a word he was saying... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted December 21, 2011 Author Share Posted December 21, 2011 What's the point? Everything is filtered through your modern day context, so you're not really experiencing it the way anyone who lived through a particular era would. So? Besides, now is the most interesting time the world has every experienced, so it would all be a letdown.That's a matter of opinion to put it mildly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenzal rhomb Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Visit for a season - Whitechapel, England in the fall of 1888 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Visit for a season - Whitechapel, England in the fall of 1888 Frenzal Rhomb is Jack The Ripper! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenzal rhomb Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Frenzal Rhomb is Jack The Ripper! Saucy Jack please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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