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05 Oct 2017, 3:37 pm

They didn't have "national anthems" back then.

But seeing the other six of the "Seven Wonders" (that's what you're talking about) would be awesome. Only the Pyramids survive. But seeing the Colosses at Rhodes, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (there was recent PBS show about finding possible remains of that), The Lighthouse of Alexandria, there was a big statue of Zeus, and I forget the rest, in their primes would certainly be something to see.



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05 Oct 2017, 4:29 pm

I'd do a reverse Marty McFly and stop my parents from meeting.



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05 Oct 2017, 5:03 pm

^ Uhmmm...

But you wouldn't have been born then.



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05 Oct 2017, 5:58 pm

Since religion came up, it would be interesting to be there at the birth of the major religions to see just what really happened... though I don't suppose I'd understand what anyone was saying! Though I guess we're assuming there are no limits to what we can do.

Watching the ancient Olympics could be fun too...

What would it be like to spend some time watching ancient rulers going about their business? Great inventors and pioneers? Watching the creation of great works?



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05 Oct 2017, 6:12 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
^ Uhmmm...

But you wouldn't have been born then.


Well duh.



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05 Oct 2017, 6:25 pm

What I am asking is is that WHY you wished they had never met? Or for some other reason?



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05 Oct 2017, 6:37 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
What I am asking is is that WHY you wished they had never met? Or for some other reason?


Both.

I think they would have had better lives. They are nothing alike and have had an unhappy marriage. It would have been better if they hadn't met.

I don't value life. I have me a useless personality type that makes social things hard and I'm lonely and unhappy. If I could disappear out of existence that would be awesome.



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06 Oct 2017, 12:22 am

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If it were possible, I would travel back in time to the 1980's in a way where history couldn't be altered, and I would be able to see and look around and explore the surroundings without any having any consequences.

-LegoMaster2149 (Written on October 3, 2017)


Welcome to the 1980s where....

Women have big hair.

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Most cars are ugly.

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Blazers with shoulder pads are in style.

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New York has the crime rate of a 3rd world country, and looked like one too.

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The most popular singers both have names that started with M

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Only one of them wears a single glove.

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And Cindy Lauper just wants to have fun.

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Your sister rides one of these.

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And watches Punky Brewster

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And everyone watches these shows.

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Most people don't have computers, but in the very off chance that they do, it's one of these.

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And most people don't have video game consoles, but if they do, and it's not one of the above, then it's one of these.

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Most people also don't have cell phones, and don't know they exist, but rich people have car phones.

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Most people can only receive phone calls at work and at home, and their home phone...at least the one in the kitchen, looks like this.

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The lack of cell phones necessitates alternate forms of communication.

For example, pay phones.

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And note passing.

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Important people used pagers to be notified to find a phone and call someone.

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Since you don't have a cell phone, you had best make your social plans either during school, or after school between the hours of 3pm and 6pm, and 8pm and 8:45pm. 6:30pm to 7:30 pm is dinner time and your friend's parents will berate you if you call too close to 9pm even though they will be up until 10pm.

Kids play outside much of the time...

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And that's where they invented break dancing.

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This is what people listen to music on.

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And this is what they pirate it on.

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Sears with their comprehensive catalog is the Amazon.com of the 80s.
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And this is what people use instead of Wikipedia.

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Russia is communist and this makes for many good movie plots.

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And China is too.

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06 Oct 2017, 9:14 am

The best way to describe the 1980's. ;)



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06 Oct 2017, 10:56 am

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07 Oct 2017, 8:00 am

Thumbs up for the big 80s post. Transported back in time! :)



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09 Oct 2017, 6:20 pm

Travel back to billions of years ago when Earth was nothing more than a volcanic crater ball, and then beyond that when Earth itself was created as a star, and then maybe when the postulated multidimensional hologram that incorporates the universe itself was developed.

Travel to America and seek out the formation of the Yellowstone super volcano and caldera over 2 million years ago. I would not be able to witness any of it’s eruptions obviously as it would be too dangerous.

Seek out the formation of exotic and now long extinct mammal species from many millions of years ago.

Travel back into several thousand leap year stages from the 300,000-year period of the origins of homo sapiens (or beyond that if found to be true) in order to witness the ongoing biological evolution of humanity (survival of the fittest) and how it pertains their trans mutational stages of human consciousness from primitive (prehistoric) caveman to historical civilizations 10,000 years ago.

I would obviously look for lost, forgotten, and ancient civilizations thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years ago, and I would be extremely angry if any of these civilizations are found to be thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years technologically, spiritually and economically advanced ahead in comparative to our modern civilization (6000 to 10000 years, correct me If I’m mistaken) such as the Atlantis and Lemuria mythologies which I don’t believe in. In regards to advanced technology, if the theoretical legends were found to be true, these would be considered things that I believe are being covered up in ultra-secret, beyond classified black budget projects (some of which take place in underground military bases withheld from the public for decades and still ongoing) since the mid 1950's like Zero Point Energy (Tesla's Free Energy); Anti-Gravity Technology, Teleportation, Advanced Medical Technologies e.t.c by developing them from using Nikola Tesla's concealed research (or any other inventor), which may or may not have been utilized as a ministration from reverse engineered interstellar spacecraft, which is likely to explain the enumerated sightings of the triangular TR-3B anti-gravity vehicle over the years worldwide, or it may simply be fully man-made.

Seek out visits, if any, by Ancient Aliens thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years ago and try to meet up with them if they are not hostile

Seek out the foundation of the first ever organized religion of the Neanderthals, or perhaps the true evolutionary origins of religion in regard to human consciousness.

Travel back to the important civilized millenniums of Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt, and in the case of Egypt, witness through the future in time the how the development of Pyramids was immaculately formulated.

I would travel to the early foundation of the Ancient Mesopotamian Civilization (existed since the Neolithic Revolution during 10,000 BC period), starting with Akkadian Empire (and take Carl Benjamin with me) during the Early Bronze age, then on to the first Babylonian dynasty; the Assyrian Period, the Neo-Assyrian empire, the Neo-Babylonian Empire and lastly in Persian Babylonia (when the famous Babylonian exile took place during late 500 BCE) and learn their how they evolved in their contributions to science, tradition, innovations agriculture, It has been said that this civilization was not only responsible for inventing our debt based monetary and banking system (IMO), but also for the creation of money and the financial practice of banking itself.

Travel to the period of Jesus Christ, and then find out his true, systematic biological descendance (the Holy Grail), and then seek out the real Ancient Christian Bible developed in early antiquity AD (and perhaps the Torah). Both of which are said to be suppressed and withheld by the administrators of the Vatican Secret Archives.

I would travel to Ancient England 1800 to 800 years ago and witness the establishment of the City of London “Crown Corporation. “

Travel to back to the early 20th century and the 1960's to 1980's in my Ayrshire hometown when it was once an independent, productive and thriving market town, instead of the corporate globalist, decrepit, and deindustrialized cesspit of a ghost town laden with betting shops, charity shops, budget shops, investment banks, pawnbrokers, payday lenders, "job support" centers, accountancies ("financial support"), monopolies, "gift" shops, nail-bars, "boutique beautician" stores, coffee shops, jeweler shops and mobile phone repair shops. I would love to taste Cadbury's, Lindt Chocolate and local luxury handmade chocolate made in those days from confectioners.

Travel back to the late 17th century (1694) London and witness the establishment of the Bank of England and the resuscitated development of the fractional reserve banking system. I would have planned to fund a mass counteraction revolution against the instigation of these financial policies and ask for paper money to be introduced as a form of money. But then, since winning money from past lottery numbers during the 20th century for the sole purpose of funding such a campaign would not be classified into economic circulation as money in those days and therefore such a proposition would easily be rendered useless. If this had never happened and the fundamental principles of Sovereign National Credit (Debt Free and Interest Free Currency) was preserved, and then incorporated with let’s say, the introduction of paper money in the early 18th century (if it had ever happened in the United Kingdom), then the Laissez Faire Industrial Revolution of the 1750’s to the early 1900’s would have experienced a much more productive, prosperous and enlightening transmutational outcome by a hundred-fold.

Travel to London again in 1914 during the advent of WWII, when the treasury issued debt and interest free currency known as the Bradbury Pound (no fractional reserve lending, usury nor government borrowing) was introduced in order to halt the serious economic repercussions that the critical shortage of gold reserves owned by the private commercial banking system had.

Travel to the USA in the 1950's to 1960's, win millions of money from upcoming sporting events of all kinds from a retrospective records guide like Biff Tannen did with the Almanac, and fund myself a powerfully provocative political campaign (if they ever allowed non-US citizens to run for president or as a congressman :mrgreen:) to educate the populace about the criminal corporate international financial sector, the debt based monetary and banking system, the principles of Sovereign National Credit (Debt Free and Interest Free Currency), how the US government is covering up the existence of advanced, suppressed, and beyond classified technologies such as Zero Point Energy or Free Energy and Anti-Gravity Propulsion Technology (since the mid 1950's) as they would completely curtail the efficiencies of the "conventional," global macroeconomic system ( Post-industrial, Technocratic, Kleptocratic and Corporate Neo-Feudalistic Globalist system involving the concomitance of the multi-trillion fossil fuel and energy industry, the private commercial banking sector (inc International Finance, Multinational Investment Banks and "Casino Capitalism"), multinational corporations, and mass production industry), especially combined with Debt Free and Interest Free Currency and a local, decentralized public banking system, all of which as juxtaposed energy and financial systems would lead to the propositioned formulation of a "Sovereign, Self-Sufficient, Decentralized, Localist Market Economy" (my envisionment of a Futurist, Utopian Enlightenment and a Multi-Dimensional, Transgalactic Civilization). Lastly, I would expose the Hegelian Dialectical Divide and Conquer Ideological Collectivist Matrix (global division and culling of the human species through scientifically, morally and rationally groundless cultural; religious, political, philosophical, ideological, and "scientific" paradigms from Antiquity, to the Age of Enlightenment to Post-modernism) and how it would get significantly worse in the next few decades through postmodern identity politics.


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13 Oct 2017, 9:09 am

I would also go see The Haçienda in Manchester, dance my ass off in that club and have a good time.



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13 Oct 2017, 11:18 am

naturalplastic wrote:
^ Uhmmm...

But you wouldn't have been born then.


That's likely the goal. :wink:

I'd go back in time and bite all the best rhymes.


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13 Oct 2017, 11:21 am

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I don't value life. I have me a useless personality type that makes social things hard and I'm lonely and unhappy. If I could disappear out of existence that would be awesome.


You sound like me, even if I could somehow have a 'perfect' life, I'm not sure I'd want it or enjoy it anymore than the one I actually have.


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13 Oct 2017, 5:06 pm

Save Lincoln, thus insuring the success of Radical Reconstruction. Maybe see to it that the guy who Booth assigned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson went through with it.


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