If you could live in any other time... replied by Arandur @ Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:42:21 -0000

Arandur — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:42:21 -0000

You mean time is “relative?” I think emotional experiences are, too. I think that whatever we’re experiencing we tend to experience within a given range of human emotion, even if objectively the cause or stimulant for those emotions is far different. For instance, to the person who has lost a loved one to a murder or their home and belongings to a natural disaster or arson, or fought in war and saw horrors, the experience of someone who worries or gets angry or deeply frustrated or depressed because of life events like a car crash or word of betrayal from a friend or losing a parent to cancer or something like that seems really petty and minor. But until that latter person has had a more severe event, like the trauma I mentioned before, he experiences emotional range almost as great. Truly traumatic events do cause marginally more extreme emotions, but I no longer dismiss a person’s feelings just because in perspective they aren’t going through much. However, giving and getting perspective really helps one to cope with their emotions.

I think time is relative in a similar way, in the human experience. We are limited creatures with only so much capacity for experience and understanding. I too see God in the great mass of time described by science.

One piece of perspective for you, based on your slightly political comment about health care :) :by that reasoning, what good is any technology if you can’t benefit from it? Yachts, huge screen TVs, or a Harvard (overrated) education? Again the limitations of humans comes in, but this time of our society and ability to own or experience within our lifetimes. No one is entitled to anything, but we do have a basic obligation to look after the basic needs of ourselves, our families, and then our communities, and a further common goal of bettering all of our lives, however we are most wisely able to define that goal.

If you could live in any other time... replied by Lycas7x @ Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:45:57 -0000

Lycas7x — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:45:57 -0000

Time is kind of relevant. I think of geologic time when I think of God. Earthquakes and plates shifting about and ice ages. My concept of civilization and culture are relevant to freedom. What good is medical technology if I dont have access to health care? I would like to live in a time when we didn’t have to worry about cancer.

I like the idea of working hard and saving for my retirement and dying of old age. I still dream about just as much probably as my grandparents did when they reality is that I might cetch a stray bullet in the next drive by shooting or get snagged by a sniper on the way to school, but honestly who dwells on it. We dream hypothetically about living somewhere in the wheel of time and selling our next screenplay.

I cant disregard the supernatural. God makes coincidences. I survived a bad car crash and quite honestly I miss the car. It was paid for already. I think of my hopes and fears when I think about our old summer cottage on the bay with no plumbing. I prefer plumbing and gas over electricity. I’m not that old. I’m a yellow dog democrat. Every year it gets increasingly more difficult to vote liberal. I would like to live in a time when you could listen hard and hear something for the first time.

Somethings are worth repeating but if you live right once is enough. For with much wisdom there is much vexation and he that increaseth his knowledge increaseth his sorrow.

We all know whats going to happen anyway.

If you could live in any other time... replied by kookookachoo @ Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:42:10 -0000

kookookachoo — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:42:10 -0000

Satolkin wrote:>> <i>kookookachoo wrote:</i> >Babbling incoherently is a wonderful thing, in my book, especially because it fills the pages and then I don’t have to write anything thoughtful. That’s how I do reports for work.

You may not remember this, Satol, but the babbling incoherently thing was a double joke for me. I was once accused of doing so waaaay back when in another thread, so I had to take him down… It was so much fun. Ah, history…

If you could live in any other time... replied by FiNiX @ Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:16:17 -0000

FiNiX — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:16:17 -0000

ratboy wrote:
>Realizes that Satolkin is truly President Bush…shock…%>O

Don’t insult him RB! (Satolkin, not pres. Bush.)

If you could live in any other time... replied by ratboy @ Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:06:26 -0000

ratboy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:06:26 -0000

Realizes that Satolkin is truly President Bush…shock…%>O

If you could live in any other time... replied by Satolkin @ Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:38:21 -0000

Satolkin — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:38:21 -0000

kookookachoo wrote:
>Babbling incoherently is a wonderful thing, in my book, especially because it fills the pages and then I don’t have to write anything thoughtful.

That’s how I do reports for work.

If you could live in any other time... replied by absoluteliquid @ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:50:43 -0000

absoluteliquid — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:50:43 -0000

Now you’re talking… with a badass stereo…

If you could live in any other time... replied by kookookachoo @ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:08:25 -0000

kookookachoo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:08:25 -0000

I think a Lincoln Navigator, or a new Suburban, too…

If you could live in any other time... replied by absoluteliquid @ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:06:41 -0000

absoluteliquid — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:06:41 -0000

I think it would be pretty cool to take a modern vehicle (i.e. a Subaru WRX STI) and go back to anytime between the 50’s to the 80’s and terrorize unsuspecting motorists…

If you could live in any other time... replied by kookookachoo @ Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:03:23 -0000

kookookachoo — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:03:23 -0000

Babbling incoherently is a wonderful thing, in my book, especially because it fills the pages and then I don’t have to write anything thoughtful.

If you could live in any other time... replied by Nyarlathotep @ Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:17:54 -0000

Nyarlathotep — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:17:54 -0000

I’m with AL, I like the present age. Besides, you can find groups who reenact everything from Romans to Vietnam (heavy but not exclusive accent on military) and just about everything in between, so you can have your toga or morning frock or whatever, and get your anti-biotics, too!

The Information Age is great… it is too bad we poor humans can only handle so much (often conflicting) data. I try to uphold Information Age values by learning as much as possible and then finding myself reduced to babbling incoherency.

If you could live in any other time... replied by Satolkin @ Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:39:55 -0000

Satolkin — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:39:55 -0000

“Hey, did the U.S. actually have a Victorian era“

Yeah. it did. And esoteric crazieness came from it. Repression breeds the weirdness it tries to suppress.

If you could live in any other time... replied by kookookachoo @ Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:26:29 -0000

kookookachoo — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:26:29 -0000

Hey, did the U.S. actually have a Victorian era? lol

P.S. And did Victoria know that she was establishing an era? Alex, British eras for 200, please. rb?

If you could live in any other time... replied by Sain57 @ Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:09:06 -0000

Sain57 — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:09:06 -0000

In the beginning…...................................
Romans ruled the known world

Or the part when MOngols attacked Japan, except that I could watch near a Hill or something that would give me view and not harm.

If you could live in any other time... replied by Satolkin @ Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:03:23 -0000

Satolkin — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:03:23 -0000

Victorian era, in the U.S..

If you could live in any other time... replied by LdsGal202 @ Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:04:44 -0000

LdsGal202 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:04:44 -0000

If I had to choose I would have lived in the Era around the pride and prejudice movie. I would of liked to be rich though cause the poor at that time all dies of disease and famine :)))

If you could live in any other time... replied by kookookachoo @ Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:29:07 -0000

kookookachoo — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:29:07 -0000

Well, rb, you sure passed me up quickly, I guess I better get on the stick (oh I’m gay, I already am!)

I’m considering the Roman Empire, but as a citizen so that I would have some idea of what was really going on in the world at the time (like they knew! I guess maybe emperor then, or at least a senator).

If you could live in any other time... replied by ratboy @ Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:20:39 -0000

ratboy — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:20:39 -0000

100+ Club…Eat it up…We rule…Bow down…I could go on…But you sad pre-100s might get all jealous and angry…Blow trumpets and such…There goes the neighborhood…Literally…

If you could live in any other time... replied by absoluteliquid @ Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:17:11 -0000

absoluteliquid — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:17:11 -0000

I didn’t mean you, kookoo. Besides, I’m pretty sure you have diplomatic immunity to post whatever you want wherever you want. You’re in the 100+ club.

If you could live in any other time... replied by kookookachoo @ Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:07:59 -0000

kookookachoo — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:07:59 -0000

Hey, I was talking about different eras, so it was close, and rb is pretty liberal…lol fer sure. (or maybe you weren’t even talking to me so I’m being a dick, well, who the heck knows)

I don’t know, tho, let me think about this topic a little more. Maybe in Uganda, during the recent past?

If you could live in any other time... replied by absoluteliquid @ Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:47:53 -0000

absoluteliquid — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:47:53 -0000

Yeah, we LOVE to get off topic in our threads.

If you could live in any other time... replied by jestervr @ Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:40:55 -0000

jestervr — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:40:55 -0000

I love how this now has nothing to do with the original thread lol

Hmmmm It would be really cool to be around when Greece was at it’s peak… To be able to meet people like Archimedes. Imagine that haha.

If you could live in any other time... replied by kookookachoo @ Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:33:08 -0000

kookookachoo — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:33:08 -0000

Why would atheists want to control a human population? The atheists in charge of the former USSR couldn’t control theirs and they killed just about as many people as some christian and indeed supposed secular governments have so why not just agree that human beings just don’t form very good governments sometimes (or many times?). If people such as Idi Amin run things, he didn’t control his population with guns, now did he? Guns are very useful to despots, no matter their religion (or lack thereof). And I’m taking it easy on you, today, Good buddy, JT. Sometimes I think you should explain your statements better at the same time as posted so I (we) don’t have to ask you to explain later. Just putting it out there, guy…

If you could live in any other time... replied by absoluteliquid @ Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:05:42 -0000

absoluteliquid — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:05:42 -0000

“They own America.” -edit

Thank God, which is why we still have the freedoms we do.

If you could live in any other time... replied by emptycalm @ Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:45:44 -0000

emptycalm — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:45:44 -0000

Gunshots are the only thing that get peoples attention these days. I know they still rule the world haha. They own america.

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