If I was allowed to take back the knowledge I have now with me, IŽd do it. And use the advantage to take over the world ensuring there would be no more wars, seeing as I rule it all who would there be to have a war with.
Of course rebels would be ruthlessly wiped out in the manor of the day.
I would write up the ISO/ITIL processes before Information Technology existed. I would write up the physics theories and laws before they existed and take credit for it all HEHEHEHE!
They'd call it "Gargonian Physics" and "Gargone's Laws" instead of Newtonian Physics and Kepler's laws.
I'd explain how subatomic and atomic particles worked...uncertainty principle, etc.
I'd encrypt all of this stuff, long hand, with an AES encryption, 128-bit, of course, with an 18 character key, using complex combinations of characters, ensuring that it wouldn't be cracked until computers were powerful enough to crack it. (Not really possible with the computers we have now...it'd take trillions of years to crack something like that, with a super computer. Maybe distributed processing would reduce the time to just thousands of years, but in 20 years, it could just take a few years to crack it.)
So, anyway, I'd get credit for tons of discoveries and I'd hide information that'd be too dangerous in an encryption that couldn't be cracked some time, and I'd wrote tons of political philosophy.
Hell, I could invent flying and we'd call it "Gargone's Principle" instead of Bernoulli's principle . WEEEEE!
I'd save up my farts....then light my farts and fly to the moon.
I'd know about goods and resource locations, modern farming techniques, bla bal bla. All sorts of stuff that would make my "stay" very pleasant.
Anyway, I could give it all up ONLY if I could take back my knowledge. It'd be fun trying to invent/come up with all the good stuff these days. I wouldn't get bored.
what about the political problems and superstitions of the ppl and church..
you think you can create some kind of paradise but ppl will be there to stop you and you might have more immediate problems then showing how wind current works and flight dynamics
No cars? No refrigeration? No tv? No deoderant? No take-out Chinese food at midnight? Having to shit in a hole in the ground?
No, I think I'll keep my present life. And I have anger issues, so I'm pretty sure I'd go over board when it came to punishment. So its better if I just stay put.
I learned on the History Channel that the phrase "getting caught with your pants down" comes from the Middle Ages when a Scottish king was assassinated by a mole in his palace while he was literally taking a shit.
No, most people don't, you can't build an immunity against them either. With poor healthcare in 1400s Europe (comparable to the modern US) sicknesses we see as minor today were likely to cripple you.
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People would be easy to control. With my knowledge, I could convince the pope that I was divinely sent from the future. Using my knowledges...I could help people get healed n'stuff. I'd claim to not be a special being, but just a nice dude. Knowledge can be used to manipluate: the Catholic Church has been doing that from the beginning.
the cold wouldnt kill you or the flu unless you cant take care of yourself and lack some very basic understanding of taking care of urself. blankets, proper heating.. plenty of liquids.. Soup is always good.. etc etc..sweat it out your body heats itself to try to kill the virus.. if you died b/c of those two i feel sorry for you and you should be living in a bubble..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7a9lMSwL8
People did die of those things all the time, seasonal flus can be much worse than you seem to think. Even strep throat and earaches were lethal back then. I would much rather live in a time when doctors had some idea what they were doing and the protection of herd immunity was present.
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