If given a choice, what year or century would you've chosen to be born on. And why?

282

That would have made 21 by 303.... Of course I would want to be born in Constantinople otherwise it would just suck, but if you can't choose the location in which you are born then 1430 so that I could live to see the fall of Constantinople and the last remnants of the Roman Empire.

1911 but in America

Future: year 2204

Year 5000. It is probably possible to normal people travel into other planets then, and that is something I have always wished to do. Or I would like to be alive in the year where people first come in contact with alien species.

yeh im happy where i am, i dnt really wanna go back to victorian or whatever

Furture maybe 2020 welll aww shit Ill see it anyways

Somewhere during the Civil War (USA) Just to meet Good Ol' Honest Abe.

In the 18th century because I love the way the clothing was

I would love to have had a chance to fight in WWII. Other than that, why the hell would i give up my luxaries? Unless i could go back knowing what i know now. I enjoy having toilets and toilet paper, and not having to hunt what i eat. Though living during the Roman empire might be interesting, however, other than the Pride the Romans had towards Rome. I dont think there is much difference between ancient rome and now. We are both just as materialistic.

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
I would love to have had a chance to fight in WWII. Other than that, why the hell would i give up my luxaries? Unless i could go back knowing what i know now. I enjoy having toilets and toilet paper, and not having to hunt what i eat. Though living during the Roman empire might be interesting, however, other than the Pride the Romans had towards Rome. I dont think there is much difference between ancient rome and now. We are both just as materialistic.

🙄 "I would love to have had a chance to fight in WWII." No offence but as someone who has held back tears in there eyes at the British, Canadian and American cemeteries in Normandy............Thats a crazy thing to say 😕

If you stare from the US cemetery down across the scrub land onto Omaha beach, at whats left of the"mulberry harbour" you would realise that as well. 🙁

yeah, i didn't mean any kind of disrespect. It is hard to explain what i meant by that. Obviously it is easy for me to say something like that in my lap of luxury. Everyman that died in the allied assault against nazi Germany is a hero, a hero that demands the acknowledgment of courage. Allied soldiers knew they were fighting for individualism, and their own perspective of freedom. After finding out exactly what the Germans were doing to the jews, just solidified that what they were doing was honorable and right. Above all would be to earn the comradery of brothers in arms that only war offers.

My reasoning may be compared to why a person becomes a soldier for glory. petty and ignorant it may be, but it is an infatuation i have always had.

I would actually would have liked to be born in the start of the human race time. Im talking like 10,000 years ago, before verbal skills were mastered. Just the thrill of living day by day not knowing if your going to be eaten by a bigger fish, or something must be pretty intoxicating.

Or the Future like year 3000.

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
yeah, i didn't mean any kind of disrespect. It is hard to explain what i meant by that. Obviously it is easy for me to say something like that in my lap of luxury. Everyman that died in the allied assault against nazi Germany is a hero, a hero that demands the acknowledgment of courage. Allied soldiers knew they were fighting for individualism, and their own perspective of freedom. After finding out exactly what the Germans were doing to the jews, just solidified that what they were doing was honorable and right. Above all would be to earn the comradery of brothers in arms that only war offers.

My reasoning may be compared to why a person becomes a soldier for glory. petty and ignorant it may be, but it is an infatuation i have always had.

Fair comment, good post mate

Originally posted by Darth Macabre
I would actually would have liked to be born in the start of the human race time. Im talking like 10,000 years ago, before verbal skills were mastered. Just the thrill of living day by day not knowing if your going to be eaten by a bigger fish, or something must be pretty intoxicating.

Or the Future like year 3000.

😕 They didn't speak english but.........................

id choose to be born in about 2400 😄

Originally posted by whirlysplat
😕 They didn't speak english but.........................

They grunted, and pointed as a way to speak. To me thats not excellent verbal skills. 😄

I love it as it is now... with the tech and stuff, but other then that I'd say 1870's-1920's. I think it would be cool no big cities, or tech stuff but things would just start being invented and I just love that time period.

Probably 1000 years from this would be good too. With my knowledge, I would be an genious in that time. Or an seer.

Or an heathen.😛

Originally posted by Darth Macabre
They grunted, and pointed as a way to speak. To me thats not excellent verbal skills. 😄

🙄 Hmmmm sitting here looking at Brownowski's "The ascent of man" not so sure your right. Its also not how most epistemological thought sees the construction of language.

but...... if you can provide evidence to support your statement😄

1274.

Same year as both Robert the Bruce and William Wallace.

Just so I could fill in the historical gaps. I'd follow them and record their lives for future generations to give a greater understanding of the two greatest Scotsmen ever. Would be awesome to live through the most turbulent and formative period in Scotland's history.

Maybe, if I was lucky, I could help get independence a bitty quicker, thus giving Bruce more time to sort Scotland out, which would hopefully give Bruce time to produce an heir and so the Stewarts would never have been able to arse things up.

yep 1274 would be magic.