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I never wish I had been born into a different time period.
    #8016594 - 02/13/08 08:26 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Every single day, the complexity and madness of life astounds and astonishes me. Every day I find myself quite convinced that I was born at just the right time, at a cusp, at one of the most interesting and important junctures in all of human history. I don't pine for any other earlier period. I hardly pine for the sixties or seventies. I'm happy where I am. These are crazy times, and we are seeing crazy things, and keeping one's head sane in the face of all of it is a downright thrilling challenge.


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-Erik Davis


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8016605 - 02/13/08 08:35 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

maybe you should read more fantasy books.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: Colbadol]
    #8016610 - 02/13/08 08:36 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I read a ton of fiction, especially science fiction. I definitely get disappointed with the speed of technological advances sometimes, but I don't wish I was existing any later or earlier on the human timeline. Now is good for me.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8016635 - 02/13/08 08:44 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I would like to be in medieval times.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8016644 - 02/13/08 08:48 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I know what you mean. I would have NEVER wanted to be a woman in any other time in history. I definitely appreciate my time period.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8016647 - 02/13/08 08:49 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

but then by the same token youre also kind of saying that this is as good as its ever gonna get.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: Colbadol]
    #8016650 - 02/13/08 08:50 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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Colbadol said:
but then by the same token youre also kind of saying that this is as good as its ever gonna get.




Actually that is entirely an act of you putting words in my mouth or reading things into what I'm saying that aren't actually there.


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-Erik Davis


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8016668 - 02/13/08 09:02 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I agree. I think we're living in one of the most interesting times ever. We are on the cusp of something big, it's palpable.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8016680 - 02/13/08 09:09 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

When I clicked on this thread my mind skipped over the word "never" (because I've seen it so many times) and I thought "OMR couldn't possibly be one of those people." :hippie:

:lol:

Yes I too am fascinated by the age we live in.  Our generation will witness more than our fair share of human history.  Glad to be in the ring for this round.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: WhiskeyClone]
    #8016684 - 02/13/08 09:13 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I just need to start on my closet full of canned food, shotguns and emergency whiskey.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8016686 - 02/13/08 09:13 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I've always seen it as utterly academic - I was born in this time!

To view the past as better is a pure case of peering through the rose tinted spectacles of buffoonery!


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8016738 - 02/13/08 09:28 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I like my "timing" also, but I'm still impressed with the leaps we've made and wonder how awesome the future is gonna be.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: Cowgold]
    #8016783 - 02/13/08 09:40 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I want to live in the future, where I can have instant teleportation to anywhere in the world, and a nanofactory to make me anything, just as long as I downloaded the schematic.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #8016788 - 02/13/08 09:41 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

It would be tough to stop people from teleporting into your living room.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: WhiskeyClone]
    #8016800 - 02/13/08 09:44 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

There is a book called The Stars, My Destination which is by Alfred Bester I believe. It's about a future in which human beings have developed the ability to teleport and so he has to create this entire society which has accommodated security-wise and entertainment-wise to the ability to teleport.


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-Erik Davis


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: WhiskeyClone]
    #8016805 - 02/13/08 09:45 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Hopefuly they will have invented better chastity belts by then.  :paranoid:


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8016812 - 02/13/08 09:47 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
The Stars, My Destination




^^^ Added to my list


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8016843 - 02/13/08 09:53 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

i sometimes wish i could have been part of the old west in it's gunslingin' glory days. that's about it though, i too am happy with this current timeline. so much is going on right now. i believe this is a truly pivotal point in human history, but only time will tell i suppose.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
    #8016852 - 02/13/08 09:55 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I wish I wasn't born in this era. I would like to be born in like the year 3800 or the year 9500 or something like that!

It be SO intense then.

We'd have interstellar travel and living on Mars and the moon and all.

We have shit now, nothing is advanced or barely technological and it sucks. Nothing cool.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: hpi]
    #8016864 - 02/13/08 09:58 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Being a complete Star Trek: The Next Generation geek since being at a young age has left me really pissed off we don't have tricorders yet.


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-Erik Davis


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