Exar_reborn Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 Mine is definetly middle ages, I would be immortal though so I could go to all the ancient civilizations and tear everything up with my supreme akido skills. I'd also use a claymore (type of sword) for the europeans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exar_reborn Posted April 26, 2003 Author Share Posted April 26, 2003 DOH!!! someone yoink this post over the the Off topic I thought I was still over there sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setsuko Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 I've studied history for as long as I've been able to read, and frankly... if I had to choose one time period where I would be the happiest, it would either be now or just before mankind left the trees. Because I like having working sanitation. Things like food that I know is not poisoned. Oh, and that penicillin sure is handy, since without it, I wouldn't have lived to be six months. And medieval music sucks ass. Really, I doubt I'd have any fun in any other time period, especially if I'd remember what I'd missed out on. Why the tree thing? Because most archaeologists and historians agrees that mankind was propably the happiest at that time. You spent a maximum of three hours working (gathering food), and spent the rest of the day sleeping, playing and having sex. Though, I'd guess it wouldn't be that fun if I wasn't an homo habilis myself. I'd miss The Simpsons. EDIT: and I'd especially avoid warring in a feudal setting. You know how tough those guys were? On most battlefields, you find the remains of soldiers who has enormous axe cuts in their skulls, severed arms and broken limbs. Mind you, this was not what they died from: often the wounds have started to heal, meaning that the soldier survived both the axe in the head and the severed armed, only to attend to ANOTHER battle, only to die out of sickness and infections. Compare that to todays wusses who sits on a battleship and fires cruise missiles by pressing a button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacco Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 This place is not very popular yet and may take a while to get it moved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Gaarni Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 DOH!!! someone yoink this post over the the Off topic I thought I was still over there sorry. *yoink* Done. This place is not very popular yet and may take a while to get it moved. Oh, I wouldn't say that. As for the topic, I have no personal favorite era to live in. I'm too happy in my current era. I do have another favorite universe though to live in. Guess which one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exar_reborn Posted April 26, 2003 Author Share Posted April 26, 2003 I just love all of the medieval stuff to much. The great battles the, epic conflicts. 300 spartans vs 10,000 turks? and the spartans won. All of the crusades, William Wallace, El sid, Saladin, Ghengis Khan, Attila the Hun, Montezuma, cortez. Its just all to fascinating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setsuko Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 Hehe, first: they were not turks. Turkey didn't exist by then, they were persians, which is a totally different thing. And if you study the battle of Thermopylae, you notice that 1: there were several hundred other greek warriors there too, and 2: in spartan history, they don't count the slaves that were forced to fight as well. So, if you take a careful look and discard heroe epics (which is a bunch of tales people told when they were drunk to impress others), a more believable odds is about 2000 vs 8000. And after all, they did lose! The spartans were slaughtered to the last man! The whole point of that epic is that the spartans refused to retreat, and therefore none of them survived. Mind you, I also find hisoric eras very fashinating, but I'd rather cut my arm off than live in them. All those 'great and intriguing' episodes and persons were cruel and cost hundred of thousands of lives. Those spartans you mention with such awe, are also the spartans who ruthfully built their entire civilization on war and slavery, and who worked as hard they could to erase humanity from their inhabitants. Cortez? Hernan Cortez would make Charles Manson look like a tellytubby. Interesting, yes. Horrible abominations to mankind, yes. Something I would like to experience? No. See my point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exar_reborn Posted April 26, 2003 Author Share Posted April 26, 2003 Haha ok set you have that on me but I'm only 16 so i haven't gotten to major in ancient european history in college yet. But the point was that the persians (sorry those middle easterners are all alike lol) never got thru and not all died from what is past down there were only 2 survivors of the spartans. Not sure if that is totally true but the history channel said so!!! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setsuko Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 I trust the university litterature more than the history channel. But it is good to see people who are interested in history. After all, if more people knew what happened before, we would avoid future catastrophies (for instance, the US is acting in Iraq exactly as Brittain did when it occupied Iraq in 1918, which continued until '47 or something like that. When we have evidence of the misery that us Europeans caused when we colonized the rest of the world, why would someone be so stupid that they repeated our mistakes?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thew Rydur Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 Yeah I think the Middle Ages and ancient times would be cool and all, but I don't think I could handle the sanitation. Plus the fact that I'd probably be dirt poor, and practically be a slave. I might like to live back in the 40's or 50's though, just to see what it was like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exar_reborn Posted April 26, 2003 Author Share Posted April 26, 2003 Yeah sanitation was a big no no, Have you see "Black Knight" with martin lawrence you see it there. nasty. But I would just love to experience the thrill of a battle, (not as an arrow catcher of course) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackrabbit Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 My favorite era would be futuristic. Mind you, it's all in my head since...you know, we have no historical (would that be the right word in this situation?) information on it. I picture it as being a dark place with underground clubs and crime. Kind of like the bad parts of Coruscant. It's a nice place to live though, if you like not seeing the sun that much . I don't know, I've read and played too many "Gothic Sci-Fi" things, and I just think they're all awesome. Huge cities, maybe inside domes because we've nuked the planet and can't live outside. This future also, for some reason, doesn't have a lot of the things you would expect the sci-fi to have; floating cars, lasers, instant food. You can get cybernetic arms and stuff though. Well, I don't think I explained any of that very well. Just know that my favorite era would be futuristic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobaWP Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 This sounds like a essay question that you would see in history class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setsuko Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 Jackrabbit: into Bladerunner, are we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackrabbit Posted April 27, 2003 Share Posted April 27, 2003 Actually, I feel like a real tool. I haven't seen Bladerunner ...but I've heard of it, and I really want to. ::30 seconds later:: I just visited the Blade Runner website to get more info, and now I want to see it even more. I'll have to get it some day...apparently the SpecEd. DVD is coming out soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exar_reborn Posted April 27, 2003 Author Share Posted April 27, 2003 Well just look at Jack's icon its Outlaw Star a very good futuristic show about assasins for hire. Download it on KaZaA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackrabbit Posted April 27, 2003 Share Posted April 27, 2003 Actually it's Cowboy Bebop, but I do like Outlaw Star too. Well, it's been 24 hours, and I've already went out and bought Blade Runner . I'm going to watch it as soon as I get home tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setsuko Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 Blade Runner is a really good movie. One of Harrison Ford's very best movies and also one of the best sci-fi noir ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenJediGrinch Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 I prefer the American Civil War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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