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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: hpi]
    #8016876 - 02/13/08 10:01 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

i suppose you're right if you base your opinions of what is advanced relative to things like star wars and star trek, but truth is often stranger then fiction...

this era is the human races time to decide if we are going to destroy ourselves with our technology, or if we're going to use it to advance to a higher level as a race and take out place amongst the stars. it's a very exciting time. what we do now is very important to many future generations i believe.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8016878 - 02/13/08 10:02 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

i would liked to have been born and raised into a much simpler, less urbanized time/lifestyle. but i can make it work in this day and age as well.


i would like to ask this:

do you not think, that if you had born 500 years ago, that you would also think
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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.




after all, every nanosecond (you get my point) is us being on the edge of life


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8016880 - 02/13/08 10:03 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

To this day I feel miffed that I can't just levitate using my mind. I hate climbing stairs.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: demiu5]
    #8016899 - 02/13/08 10:08 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

i know what you mean, and i know it sounds arrogant, but i truly believe this time period is different and actually is the cusp of something. i mainly think this because of the incredible rate that technology is advancing, the incredible rate of world-wide population growth, the threat of possible world changing pollution, and the fact that weapons exist on this earth that could wipe out the entire human race in a flash. things really are a bit different from 500 years ago imo. i think it's pretty easy to realize. eventually it's all going to come to a head and it's sink or swim time.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: demiu5]
    #8016900 - 02/13/08 10:08 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Oh, I definitely think that. In no way am I trying to say that now is better than any other time. I'm just trying to express my great enthusiasm and fascination with Now! :tongue:


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: MOTH]
    #8016906 - 02/13/08 10:09 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

If human beings could levitate obesity would be much more widespread and as the skyline would be blocked by floating fatties we'd never see the sun again.

Unless of course levitating burned calories.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: WhiskeyClone]
    #8016913 - 02/13/08 10:11 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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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: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8016934 - 02/13/08 10:18 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

the headline of this thread doesnt make sense


grow some fucking pine trees then


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: theorganicdomino]
    #8016950 - 02/13/08 10:22 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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If human beings could levitate obesity would be much more widespread and as the skyline would be blocked by floating fatties we'd never see the sun again.

Unless of course levitating burned calories.




Well, I think you'd have to reach a point of physical/mental/spiritual union before you'd be able to levitate, which means you'd likely be pretty fit. Plus, who's to say we couldn't have sky-sports?


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8016962 - 02/13/08 10:25 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Growing up around seedy jazz joints in the 30s or 40s would be cool I like to think, but I really don't wish I was born in another time period.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: alphabeatu]
    #8017090 - 02/13/08 10:56 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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the headline of this thread doesnt make sense


grow some fucking pine trees then




:lol:... a post like that and you're worried about OMR making sense?


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8017705 - 02/13/08 01:33 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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Oh, I definitely think that. In no way am I trying to say that now is better than any other time. I'm just trying to express my great enthusiasm and fascination with Now! :tongue:




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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: hpi]
    #8017887 - 02/13/08 02:14 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

come to think about it. for women, any time prior to today must have been kind of crappy.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: appleorange]
    #8017925 - 02/13/08 02:25 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

OMR, Now is better. Next will be better yet. Too bad we're going to miss it.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: zappaisgod]
    #8017976 - 02/13/08 02:41 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

i want to go back to 1997


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    #8017980 - 02/13/08 02:42 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Was that the last time you got laid?


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lame attempt by a 22 year old virgin, i get married in exactly two months


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8018017 - 02/13/08 02:50 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I dont i like it right here right now.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8018060 - 02/13/08 03:02 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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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.




A tricorder? You want a fancy pants scanner? The holodeck and teleporters are totally way more cool+useful.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8018082 - 02/13/08 03:07 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

My ideal time Asimov writes about in several of his novels. Not the Foundation series where the empire is dead, I want to live in the Golden Age. Nothing I want to do more than go into space, and specifically be able to go to different civilized planets. One day I hope to get rich enough to fly into space, even if I have to save up a million dollars, Ill spend it and be poor for the rest of my life.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8018088 - 02/13/08 03:10 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

That's "The Stars my Destination" (no comma) by Alfred Bester. One of the absolute classics of science fiction. I've read it many times. A fabulous book. So much imagination packed into such a short space.

Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation
Deep space is my dwelling place
The stars my destination


I can't recommend this book too highly. Just a fabulous work of art. Raw, brutal, punchy, imaginative, brilliant, muscular writing.

Here's the first paragraph of chapter one. I love the first sentence. I can still quote it from memory --

"He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead. He fought for survival with the passion of a beast in a trap. He was delirious and rotting, but occasionally his primitive mind emerged from the burning nightmare of survival into something resembling sanity. Then he lifted his mute face to Eternity and muttered: 'What's a matter, me? Help, you goddamn gods! Help is all."

Later parts of the book describe synesthesia -- the confusion of sense known to some psychedelic voyageurs where colors are tasted, sounds are smelled. It is so well done you'd swear the author had tripped repeatedly on high doses of purest LSD -- yet the book was published in 1956.

Just over two hundred pages in pocketbook format, this is a staggering achievement considered by many readers -- and writers -- to be the greatest single science fiction novel ever written.

Do not miss this book. It can be tricky to find, sometimes, but worth the effort.



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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: Phred]
    #8018097 - 02/13/08 03:11 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Yea decent book. My grandfather had an absurd amount of science fiction which we took when he died. I peruse that whenever Im back home and grab a bunch of stuff. One day I picked that up


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: hpi]
    #8018180 - 02/13/08 03:35 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Sometimes I wish I had been born in the medieval times, but then i remember the plague, and I'm happy where I'm at.:lol:


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: TheCow]
    #8018185 - 02/13/08 03:36 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Multi-vac would be awesome.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: Phred]
    #8018256 - 02/13/08 03:57 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

RE: "The Stars, My Destination"

Sounds like my type of book. I'm a casual scifi fan and I like when authors try to add a unique style to their work (ie Ulysses, Sound and the Fury).


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8018276 - 02/13/08 04:04 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Well said... and I concur.

This is quite a fascinating and exciting time to be alive. Could very well be a turning point of human evolution. I'm glad I'm here to witness and take part in it.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: Shroomism]
    #8018840 - 02/13/08 06:32 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I kind of wish I were born 4000 years ago or some such.

Being a pure animal. Living with the land seeing the beauty of it all everyday. Running into people and talking about fucked up shit.

I feel to far removed from my roots living today. It really is a pain to see a big ugly red tin building labelled STAPLES with paper laying all over the place accumulating by a rusting ugly fence. I also hate relying on other people's devices to live.

Oh well, maybe I just need to adapt.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: PyroBurns]
    #8020661 - 02/14/08 12:32 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Hell no you don't need to adapt! Buy yourself a couple acres of lands (with some forest, and maybe a little open field as well) and then just fend for yourself. if you're a good enough hunter/farmer you should be able to live out the rest of your life without complications :grin:


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8020693 - 02/14/08 12:42 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

A dude I knew swore he didn't belong here, opposite of you. He said he wished at his age he'd have lived in the 60s instead.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: Robo]
    #8020699 - 02/14/08 12:43 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I myself am interested to find out what happens 2012 :tongue:


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: Robo]
    #8020718 - 02/14/08 12:47 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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A dude I knew swore he didn't belong here, opposite of you. He said he wished at his age he'd have lived in the 60s instead.




im in the same boat as the guy you talked with. sometimes i feel SO out of place here in the time im living. i make the best with what i got, i cant complain too much. but i would really really like to have been the age i am now in the height of the 60s psychedelic craze.... i would have fit right into that mess of shit.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: wrestler_az]
    #8020750 - 02/14/08 12:56 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

It didn't last though, the whole psychedelic craze. It was a counter-culture with idealogy going nowhere, it was almost fake.....the whole hippy movement. It would have been fun,yes...but you would have just grown out of it inevitably. Still would have been fun to have lived through it I guess. Must of been fun times, nonetheless.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: Robo]
    #8020788 - 02/14/08 01:06 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: Robo]
    #8020816 - 02/14/08 01:17 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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It didn't last though, the whole psychedelic craze. It was a counter-culture with idealogy going nowhere, it was almost fake.....the whole hippy movement. It would have been fun,yes...but you would have just grown out of it inevitably. Still would have been fun to have lived through it I guess. Must of been fun times, nonetheless.




sure... and i am willing to accept that, in this hypothetical time travel scenario. actually, im sure that the current position i find myself in with the psychedelics and such, will also be something i grow out of, eventually. nothing lasts forever you know. i wouldnt expect it to last... i dont think id even really want it to. but to be alive in a time when acid flowed like water... would be nice.


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Re: I never wish I had been born into a different time period. [Re: PyroBurns]
    #8020832 - 02/14/08 01:21 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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I kind of wish I were born 4000 years ago or some such.

Being a pure animal. Living with the land seeing the beauty of it all everyday. Running into people and talking about fucked up shit.

I feel to far removed from my roots living today. It really is a pain to see a big ugly red tin building labelled STAPLES with paper laying all over the place accumulating by a rusting ugly fence. I also hate relying on other people's devices to live.

Oh well, maybe I just need to adapt.




I have really grown to enjoy the age of comfort we live in. Imagine sleeping in the dirt night after night, no aspirin for a headache, having a bad tooth pulled out with only ice for anesthetic (if you're lucky), dying at age 30...


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