IF You Could go Back in Time...

cinamin · Post by **cinamin** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 8:57 am

IF you could go back in time and live through any 5 year period in history, which period would you choose?:-4

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:03 am

the last 5 years would be good so much i would change

would have been closer to my bro on the night he died stoped the attack

been there the night my dad passed away

told him one more time i loved him

the last 5 years where it all went wrong

jess

cinamin · Post by **cinamin** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:06 am

No, I meant a time period not recent.

Musiclover89 · Post by **Musiclover89** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:10 am

I would probably jouney back to the time when Elvis first enterd the Music Secene

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:15 am

cinamin;691951 wrote: No, I meant a time period not recent.

sorry

cinamin · Post by **cinamin** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:28 am

el guapo;691954 wrote: sorry
ooops, it's okay.

chocoholic · Post by **chocoholic** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:44 am

Regency England - especially if it were possible to meet Mr Darcy (sigh:o)

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:03 am

1910-1915

A very romantic time just coming away from the victorian era, yet still fairly modern

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:19 am

the '50s - classic time @ 1956

Patsy

Patrick · Post by **Patrick** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:58 am

1939-1944... As a history student planing to write my thesis on global economics of this time and their effect on WWII this would prove invaluable.

weeder · Post by **weeder** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:12 pm

1965 thrul 1970 Happy family life.. Great Home.. Good friends... Ballet

lessons... Wonderful high school years. Also met and lost the love of my life in 1969.

neffy · Post by **neffy** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:41 pm

i bet you lot cant guess what time i would like to go back?:wah::wah:

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:44 pm

neffy;692048 wrote: i bet you lot cant guess what time i would like to go back?:wah::wah:

1669

neffy · Post by **neffy** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:53 pm

el guapo;692049 wrote: 1669

naughty:)

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:59 pm

neffy;692051 wrote: naughty:)

1734

neffy · Post by **neffy** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:21 pm

further back than that jesse

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:29 pm

neffy;692066 wrote: further back than that jesse

1066

neffy · Post by **neffy** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:31 pm

much further than that :-2

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:56 pm

Rome--------100 BC

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:57 pm

neffy;692072 wrote: much further than that :-2

0001bc

littlemissgiggle · Post by **littlemissgiggle** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:39 pm

neffy;692048 wrote: i bet you lot cant guess what time i would like to go back?:wah::wah:

around 1300 bc

:-3

cinamin · Post by **cinamin** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:33 pm

Yeah I'd like to live during the Roman times.

If I were a goddess.

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:44 pm

Just after Civil War. To see what the country was like the first few years after the war.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 5:43 pm

This is a good question. As someone interested in history I've often thought about this.

Given that I'm diabetic, if I was to live in another era as I am now (ie time travel back as I am now then stay there) I'd only live a few days then die, so on those grounds I'm probably best living when I do, ie now. Without my insulin I'd probably have two or three days to look about & learn before the condition overcame me, as was the lot of diabetics pre the availability of insulin to inject. Given that insulin to inject was only available from the 1920s, & free medication (in Britain) only came about with the National Health Service I couldn't really have much chance of survival with any quality of life pre 1945.

But if I could time travel back & be a healthy person there would be other things to think about. I'd want to have a good quality of life, so that would necessitate being quite well off, rich enough to be able to travel & see how things were done without being tied to the drudgery of eking out a living at the bottom levels of society. Money always brings greater freedoms of lifestyle choice, & escape from the less pleasant aspects of the age in which you live, it's only recently that the poor & unemployed have been spared the hardships of earlier times. Education, which helps us appreciate things beyond basic survival, was itself a luxury of just the wealthy until fairly recently (in historical terms).

So assuming I can go back in time both healthy & rich these are several eras I'd like to visit. But I don't think I'd like to stay there forever unless I knew I could be at least as happy & comfortable as I am here & now. Rather I think I'd like to time travel back to them with some means of recording them, (ie a camera), & then come back to this present day era as a sort of historical expert, maybe with the facility to go back when I pleased to look into further things as they arose in my interests.

These are some eras of history (off the top of my head) that I'd like to go back to & learn more about.

The building of stonehenge, how did they do it, & why?

The lost city of Atlantis, just how technologically advanced was it?

The building of the pyramids in ancient Egypt, how did they do it with the technology & knowledge of the time?

The time of Christ to see Jesus, what sort of person really was he?

The Roman era

The Saxon era

Tudor times

The later Victorian era, say from about the 1890s up to the start of World War 1, this would probably be my choice if I could only make one - being a member of the upper middle class or aristocracy at this time would fascinate me.

I'd also like to follow my family line back in time from now through ALL the eras in time, just to meet them all & see what sort of people they were, what they did for a living & just basically how & where they lived.

An interesting sideline to a question like this is if I could travel back in time how much practical knowledge & understanding could I take back from my 21st century life to advance understanding & maybe even change life in the era I went back to? Could I, for example, teach Tudor people how to make a bicycle - assuming the technology existed back then to make suitable wheels before rubber was invented, & assuming a chain mechanism could be built to drive it - hell, I don't even know if lightweight metal wheels existed back then!!

The danger with a question like this is maybe in overlooking the simple everyday things ordinary people had to do just to stay alive given the constraints on them by what they had available. It's maybe all too easy for us to think we'd LIKE to live in another era just because we have the time & luxury - helped by books, TV, the internet etc - to get a PARTIAL picture of what we THINK life may have been like.

But a good question. I wonder if people asked themselves the same in Tudor times, in Victorian times, in ANY time. And I don't just mean people after an invasion thinking back longingly of their freedoms before the invadors took over (ie the Saxons hating the Normans), I also mean people living in comparitavely settled times - that's to say if they even knew what times were like for people living before them - which for the uneducated (education being the privilige of a minority for most of history - was maybe only limited to what was passed down by family members, a sort of living history clouded by inaccuracy & the habits of prefering to be selective in what good things were remembered!

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 5:50 pm

I've just re-read the question & now I see it said for just a 5 year period. But that doesn't change most of what I've said. In some eras of history probably many people couldn't guarentee with any certainty the chance of surviving even 5 years.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 6:03 pm

A good book for anyone interested in this question (particularly the family history point I made) is Sarum, by Edward Rutherford. In it he traces the lives of about 5 families living in Salisbury from stone age times through to the present day.

See this link for a summary.

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/s ... rd/362137/

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 6:10 am

Any time during the medieval crusades I suppose. Just plunk me down in the middle of it.

neffy · Post by **neffy** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:02 am

el guapo;692079 wrote: 0001bc

that will do :wah::wah:

neffy · Post by **neffy** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:04 am

Joe;692167 wrote: A good book for anyone interested in this question (particularly the family history point I made) is Sarum, by Edward Rutherford. In it he traces the lives of about 5 families living in Salisbury from stone age times through to the present day.

See this link for a summary.

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/s ... rd/362137/

i can see old sarum from my bedroom window:D

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:56 am

neffy;692365 wrote: that will do :wah::wah:

never would have thought queen neffy

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:53 pm

Joe;692167 wrote: A good book for anyone interested in this question (particularly the family history point I made) is Sarum, by Edward Rutherford. In it he traces the lives of about 5 families living in Salisbury from stone age times through to the present day.

See this link for a summary.

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/s ... rd/362137/

Also Dublin by the same author for his treatment of Irish history

cinamin · Post by **cinamin** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:43 pm

Nomad;692333 wrote: Any time during the medieval crusades I suppose. Just plunk me down in the middle of it.
Hmmm isn't that around the time when Jesus lived? I saw a PBS film about that. Those crusading guys were mean.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:12 pm

cinamin;692436 wrote: Hmmm isn't that around the time when Jesus lived? I saw a PBS film about that. Those crusading guys were mean.

Somewhat later - 1100 - 1350 AD.

Mean is a pretty good description - as much a danger to their friends as their enemies. They stopped in Constantinople to re-supply at one point and ended up about destroying the place (easier than fighting the Saracens).

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:12 am

jimbo;692496 wrote: apart from going back in time to save family members from being murdered or from dying ,what could you hope to achieve ??? i always thought i'd go back and shoot Hitler and save millions of lives but how about if there was a guy worse than Hitler that could of come along 10 years later ,who maybe had access to a bombs and could of taken over the whole planet ,costing a billion lives ,all in all i think time travel should be left well alone

the answer you seek is in a film the butterfly effect

you cant just change just one thing

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:00 am

el guapo;692511 wrote: the answer you seek is in a film the butterfly effect

you cant just change just one thing
I hear Marylin Monroe did a good Butterfly effect.

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:06 am

YZGI;692581 wrote: I hear Marylin Monroe did a good Butterfly effect.

yzgi i just know im missing the joke here

do tell

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:13 am

el guapo;692582 wrote: yzgi i just know im missing the joke here

do tell
Lets see here. Marylin supposedly had a technique she used on the Kennedy brothers when they had oral interaction she called the butterfly.:wah:

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:16 am

YZGI;692585 wrote: Lets see here. Marylin supposedly had a technique she used on the Kennedy brothers when they had oral interaction she called the butterfly.:wah:

ok so she went bob bob bobing down the jfk way