Originally posted by Omega Vision
They'd be confused why Western Europe was rebuilt after WW2 rather than being salted and its inhabitants sold into slavery.They'd also think we're mega-prudes for our ideas toward sexuality.
No word for virgin in the Ancient Egyptian language ftw.
That's good, cause the word "virgin" makes no sense.
I disagree with the idea that Ancient Egypt, Persia, Babylon, etc would be "interesting"...again unless you happen to be a King or High Priest. Otherwise it would be a miserable, short, dull life of hard labor and disease.
Of course something needs to be clarified. Are we talking "most interesting time to live in" or "most interesting time to visit"?
Originally posted by rudester
At that same time, scurvy and smallpox, scarlet fever were rampant, no equality for women and johnny depp types probably didnt exsist.
I am aware of all that. I am into pirates so that is the reason. I also had scarlet faver when I was a baby so that exist even in the eightys.
Originally posted by Omega Vision
They'd be confused why Western Europe was rebuilt after WW2 rather than being salted and its inhabitants sold into slavery.They'd also think we're mega-prudes for our ideas toward sexuality.
No word for virgin in the Ancient Egyptian language ftw.
I didn't put that properly...I was more thinking of their respective countries. What would Persians think of Iran now, or what would Ancient Egyptians think of Egypt...
Originally posted by Omega Vision
I disagree with the idea that Ancient Egypt, Persia, Babylon, etc would be "interesting"...again unless you happen to be a King or High Priest. Otherwise it would be a miserable, short, dull life of hard labor and disease.Of course something needs to be clarified. Are we talking "most interesting time to live in" or "most interesting time to visit"?
I don't know...
Persians were pretty enlightened people at the time. In any case, I'd pick Persia or Egypt over savage forest people of Germany at the time...or even Incas.
Although I think India or China would have been good. Ok, maybe not ancient China that much, but India would have been fun...ner.
Originally posted by lil bitchiness
I didn't put that properly...I was more thinking of their respective countries. What would Persians think of Iran now, or what would Ancient Egyptians think of Egypt...
The Egyptians would wonder why the Pharaoh is in an iron cage and his general is in charge. 😛
I personally think that the time that we are living in right now is the most interesting time ever. It's a time that has many unknowns. The world may become a one world government, with the idea of walking towards a Utopian type of society, or it could become a chaotic mess where war and famine dictate the outcome of who survives, and who does not. In my opinion, what makes it the most interesting time, is the unknown. Up or down, forward or backward, it's up to us.
Originally posted by StoicEh, that's kind of a cop-out answer. We can look at the current time with future-gazing eyes, whereas we know about the past. There's fun in predictions that isn't there for retrospection. If we were late 18th or 19th century people asking the thread's question, we'd feel the exact same way. "There's so many unknowns" in the French and American Revolution and rise of industrialism, or "so many unknowns" in the rise of imperialism and the arms race in Europe.
I personally think that the time that we are living in right now is the most interesting time ever. It's a time that has many unknowns. The world may become a one world government, with the idea of walking towards a Utopian type of society, or it could become a chaotic mess where war and famine dictate the outcome of who survives, and who does not. In my opinion, what makes it the most interesting time, is the unknown. Up or down, forward or backward, it's up to us.
Everyone thinks their own time is the most important/interesting/meaningful.