You have to choose a specific place and year and can't come back to present time. You have to live out the rest of your life at the age you are now in whichever place/time you choose. Can't take back any items. Which time/place you choosing and why?
You get to go back in time, but...
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If I can be rich I'd go back to 1890 England and live out my days in an estate as gentry. I'm 39 now so I'd be gone before the 1950 (probably).
You can't be rich haha
Fine. Same time and place but as a farmer or some other vocation like that. Just not in a city.
Teacher_Ag said:
You can't be rich haha
So no going back 3 yrs and just Biff Tannen-ing sports and stocks?
Easy- 1950 america. Finish out my life before the communist subversion. Doubt i'd have much trouble with sports betting, movie script writing, mineral buying, or stocks as a means to get rich either.
There is really no time that is "better" than the present.
There has never been an "easy" time period without a "big bad something" lurking in the back of everyone's thoughts.
I would have also said being landed gentry in England in the 1800's. Yet you would have been sending your sons off to all parts of the British Empire with the high probability of being killed or dying of disease.
There has never been an "easy" time period without a "big bad something" lurking in the back of everyone's thoughts.
I would have also said being landed gentry in England in the 1800's. Yet you would have been sending your sons off to all parts of the British Empire with the high probability of being killed or dying of disease.
Well, crap.Quote:
You have to live out the rest of your life at the age you are now in whichever place/time you choose.
For an old fart, no time like the present. Modern medicine and conveniences, and not going to live long enough to see America fall.
This was my thought as well.cbr said:
Easy- 1950 america. Finish out my life before the communist subversion. Doubt i'd have much trouble with sports betting, movie script writing, mineral buying, or stocks as a means to get rich either.
It is amazing how different an experience some Americans would have in the 1950's than others.
pmart said:
It is amazing how different an experience some Americans would have in the 1950's than others.
No birth control pill, largely no A/C in the South, no civil rights or ability to vote if non white.
expresswrittenconsent said:pmart said:
It is amazing how different an experience some Americans would have in the 1950's than others.
No birth control pill, largely no A/C in the South, no civil rights or ability to vote if non white.
I am not even sure I could be married to my wife. My parents certainly would have faced much more extreme social pressure (white and Hispanic) than they already did if not also legal barriers. Loving vs Virginia was in 1967.
While there are periods of time in history I would like to have witnessed to get the real story, I can't think of a period of time that I would want to permanently live.
Headed back to College Station 1893 and befriend LS Ross, who will be the same age as me, and become a prominent member of the A&M faculty and write out a proclamation that all buildings of the A&M campus, present, and future, have to be of the same brick color and design and landscaping are to be perfect! No future soviet-style architecture to be allowed.
I remember people didn't live as long then. Most men in our town were considered old if they lived to their mid-sixties. Wasn't nothing to see one die from a heart attack in their 30's-40's. Everyone smoked, ate trans-fats and pastries for breakfast and desert. Heck, even the doctor I went to smoked.AgBQ-00 said:This was my thought as well.cbr said:
Easy- 1950 america. Finish out my life before the communist subversion. Doubt i'd have much trouble with sports betting, movie script writing, mineral buying, or stocks as a means to get rich either.
If I could go back, not as the old fart I am now, send me back to be born in 1920.
Be a kid during the good times of the 1920s.
Get tough during the Depression.
Graduate from the A&M College of Texas, maybe even get to live a semester or two in those new, modern dorms they're building on the south side of campus.
Commission in the Army Air Corps, become a fighter pilot, with the exceptional eyesight I also am ordering.
Shoot down five or more Japs or Jerrys, survive intact.
Get in on the longest period of peace and growth in American History.
Get rich and grow old and healthy with my beautiful wife and fantastic kids.
Be a kid during the good times of the 1920s.
Get tough during the Depression.
Graduate from the A&M College of Texas, maybe even get to live a semester or two in those new, modern dorms they're building on the south side of campus.
Commission in the Army Air Corps, become a fighter pilot, with the exceptional eyesight I also am ordering.
Shoot down five or more Japs or Jerrys, survive intact.
Get in on the longest period of peace and growth in American History.
Get rich and grow old and healthy with my beautiful wife and fantastic kids.
Back to 2003 when I left A&M and moved to Dallas. I'd move back closer to home and spend as much time as possible with my dad who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in '06 and passed in 2010.
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now that is certainly true....no time better than about ten years ago to be a minority american.... though wouldn't it be interesting to have the opportunity to improve that?pmart said:
It is amazing how different an experience some Americans would have in the 1950's than others.
the opportunity to create wealth in the same ways as i mentioned would still be there. even though discrimination was huge, it could not have prevented using that knowledge in the same way i intended. stock market, bookies, literature, screen writing, etc., armed with hindsight, they couldn't stop a person, no matter who it was, from becoming incredibly wealthy.
such a person could use their knowledge to amass magnificent wealth... then use that wealth to turn the civil rights movement in the right direction, prevent the MLK assassination, prevent the exploitation of minorities by big government through the civil rights act and all the minority family destruction the welfare state caused. prevent the socialist takeover of education... that kind of wealth could have made a dramatic improvement on the education and ability of minority families to gain real equality rather than be exploited by politicians... that's a pretty fascinating thought experiment. america could be such an incredible place.
Wow, if only one black person went back in time, racism could be ended.
cbr said:now that is certainly true....no time better than about ten years ago to be a minority american.... though wouldn't it be interesting to have the opportunity to improve that?pmart said:
It is amazing how different an experience some Americans would have in the 1950's than others.
the opportunity to create wealth in the same ways as i mentioned would still be there. even though discrimination was huge, it could not have prevented using that knowledge in the same way i intended. stock market, bookies, literature, screen writing, etc., armed with hindsight, they couldn't stop a person, no matter who it was, from becoming incredibly wealthy.
such a person could use their knowledge to amass magnificent wealth... then use that wealth to turn the civil rights movement in the right direction, prevent the MLK assassination, prevent the exploitation of minorities by big government through the civil rights act and all the minority family destruction the welfare state caused. prevent the socialist takeover of education... that kind of wealth could have made a dramatic improvement on the education and ability of minority families to gain real equality rather than be exploited by politicians... that's a pretty fascinating thought experiment. america could be such an incredible place.
Would you also go back to post ww2 Germany and save those millions of German citizens from being starved to death by that same government that you are pining for?
By the way, I hope the winky face conveyed the playful manner of my comment referencing another thread. I support your right to share information you believe to be true even though it doesn't shine glowingly on our country. No country's history is perfect, we can only try to make the future better.
lol, i guess we could play this forever.
but if i were really going back in time to make a difference in the world, rather than enjoy the hell out of myself, then i would go back to about 1905, prevent ww1, and eliminate socialism from ever gaining a serious foothold anywhere. that would help the entire world tremendously, including minority americans.
your post did make its point though. i was raised in a poor as **** for most of my childhood, went to an almost all black elementary, got to stay in battered women's shelters with my mother in a state where she knew no one; then lived in south africa, then in west germany.... then came back to east texas literally just as those schools were desegregating. i would say i have unique experience and outlook on race.
and yet, i had not considered the racial (or sexist i guess) point in picking my time and place to go back to. which is, i guess, my first experience of something like 'white privilege'
i quit posting on that other thread because i shared personal second hand related experiences told to me in childhood, and everyone hated me for it....so i posted some internet links backing it up... and everybody hated it even more....no one controverted any of those facts or stories with any links or facts of their own, and i had about enough.
it really wasnt a top 100 topic for me, so they can have their opinions or whatever.
but if i were really going back in time to make a difference in the world, rather than enjoy the hell out of myself, then i would go back to about 1905, prevent ww1, and eliminate socialism from ever gaining a serious foothold anywhere. that would help the entire world tremendously, including minority americans.
your post did make its point though. i was raised in a poor as **** for most of my childhood, went to an almost all black elementary, got to stay in battered women's shelters with my mother in a state where she knew no one; then lived in south africa, then in west germany.... then came back to east texas literally just as those schools were desegregating. i would say i have unique experience and outlook on race.
and yet, i had not considered the racial (or sexist i guess) point in picking my time and place to go back to. which is, i guess, my first experience of something like 'white privilege'
i quit posting on that other thread because i shared personal second hand related experiences told to me in childhood, and everyone hated me for it....so i posted some internet links backing it up... and everybody hated it even more....no one controverted any of those facts or stories with any links or facts of their own, and i had about enough.
it really wasnt a top 100 topic for me, so they can have their opinions or whatever.
i think you underestimate what a really wealthy person can accomplish if they set their mind to it. especially if they knew the future.expresswrittenconsent said:
Wow, if only one black person went back in time, racism could be ended.
Dang Canyon, you and I are thinking exactly alike here. Although I'm not going to be overly picky as to which service I fly for; the US Navy had some damn fine planes too.CanyonAg77 said:
If I could go back, not as the old fart I am now, send me back to be born in 1920.
Be a kid during the good times of the 1920s.
Get tough during the Depression.
Graduate from the A&M College of Texas, maybe even get to live a semester or two in those new, modern dorms they're building on the south side of campus.
Commission in the Army Air Corps, become a fighter pilot, with the exceptional eyesight I also am ordering.
Shoot down five or more Japs or Jerrys, survive intact.
Get in on the longest period of peace and growth in American History.
Get rich and grow old and healthy with my beautiful wife and fantastic kids.
Yeah, but you had to live on a boat.
BUT you left out the part of getting called back to service in 1950 and having to fly F-84's (not F-86's) in Korea out of s88t hole forward bases for 2 years....CanyonAg77 said:
If I could go back, not as the old fart I am now, send me back to be born in 1920.
Be a kid during the good times of the 1920s.
Get tough during the Depression.
Graduate from the A&M College of Texas, maybe even get to live a semester or two in those new, modern dorms they're building on the south side of campus.
Commission in the Army Air Corps, become a fighter pilot, with the exceptional eyesight I also am ordering.
Shoot down five or more Japs or Jerrys, survive intact.
Get in on the longest period of peace and growth in American History.
Get rich and grow old and healthy with my beautiful wife and fantastic kids.
Drop 4 kids in the 5 years after WWII, run a farm, so I'm not subject to call-up.Quote:
BUT you left out the part of getting called back to service in 1950 and having to fly F-84's (not F-86's) in Korea out of s88t hole forward bases for 2 years....
Brings up a story from my father-in-law. He was playing football for Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State) in the fall of 1945, having turned 18 that September. (That was their MNC season) His mom came to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans with his draft notice. (We're pretty sure he's the only survivor of that 1945 team.)
He returned to OKAM, cleaned out his locker, and joined the Navy for a full three year tour. He needed the GI Bill for college, and wanted to get his obligation finished. He said some of his hometown buddies made fun of him as he boarded the bus, as they had taken the option of 90 days active service, then going into the reserves. They thought he was a fool for going for a full tour.
When Korea rolled around, he had already served and was going to college, and all his smart@$$ buddies were getting called up for active duty. This time, he was the one laughing at them as they boarded the bus.
Early July 1947. Near Corona, New Mexico.
Grab some popcorn...why the ongoing cover-up? The Phenomenon: FF to 1:22:35 https://tubitv.com/movies/632920/the-phenomenon
An est. 68 MILLION Americans, including 19 MILLION Black Children, have been killed in the WOMB since 1973-act, pray and vote accordingly.
TAMU purpose statement: To develop leaders of character dedicated to serving the greater good. Team entrance song at KYLE FIELD is laced with profanity including THE Nword..
The greater good?
An est. 68 MILLION Americans, including 19 MILLION Black Children, have been killed in the WOMB since 1973-act, pray and vote accordingly.
TAMU purpose statement: To develop leaders of character dedicated to serving the greater good. Team entrance song at KYLE FIELD is laced with profanity including THE Nword..
The greater good?
Bring your camera for proof.
It would go beyond obtaining "proof". Ensuring the original, valid story is released. No weather balloon nonsense and back tracking.BQ78 said:
Bring your camera for proof.
How would things be different today if the ole switcheroo had been avoided?
Grab some popcorn...why the ongoing cover-up? The Phenomenon: FF to 1:22:35 https://tubitv.com/movies/632920/the-phenomenon
An est. 68 MILLION Americans, including 19 MILLION Black Children, have been killed in the WOMB since 1973-act, pray and vote accordingly.
TAMU purpose statement: To develop leaders of character dedicated to serving the greater good. Team entrance song at KYLE FIELD is laced with profanity including THE Nword..
The greater good?
An est. 68 MILLION Americans, including 19 MILLION Black Children, have been killed in the WOMB since 1973-act, pray and vote accordingly.
TAMU purpose statement: To develop leaders of character dedicated to serving the greater good. Team entrance song at KYLE FIELD is laced with profanity including THE Nword..
The greater good?
until these guys show up.Spyderman said:It would go beyond obtaining "proof". Ensuring the original, valid story is released. No weather balloon nonsense and back tracking.BQ78 said:
Bring your camera for proof.
How would things be different today if the ole switcheroo had been avoided?
1901 when my grandfather was born. I always thought he lived through an amazing time. He was too young for WW1, too old for WW2, and too poor to notice the Great Depression. Just think of how much changes happened from 1901 - 1989.
Plus he died before all the craziness started.
Plus he died before all the craziness started.
That's my first thought, but I might start sooner. Maybe in the 40's (I know we won WWII and Korea, so no stress there). I wouldn't want to have to live through the late 1960's again.cbr said:
Easy- 1950 america. Finish out my life before the communist subversion. Doubt i'd have much trouble with sports betting, movie script writing, mineral buying, or stocks as a means to get rich either.
I forgot how seemingly every freaking adult smoked back then. Took my two grandfathers at just about my current age.Cen-Tex said:I remember people didn't live as long then. Most men in our town were considered old if they lived to their mid-sixties. Wasn't nothing to see one die from a heart attack in their 30's-40's. Everyone smoked, ate trans-fats and pastries for breakfast and desert. Heck, even the doctor I went to smoked.AgBQ-00 said:This was my thought as well.cbr said:
Easy- 1950 america. Finish out my life before the communist subversion. Doubt i'd have much trouble with sports betting, movie script writing, mineral buying, or stocks as a means to get rich either.
Rabid Cougar said:until these guys show up.Spyderman said:It would go beyond obtaining "proof". Ensuring the original, valid story is released. No weather balloon nonsense and back tracking.BQ78 said:
Bring your camera for proof.
How would things be different today if the ole switcheroo had been avoided?
Or these folk?
Grab some popcorn...why the ongoing cover-up? The Phenomenon: FF to 1:22:35 https://tubitv.com/movies/632920/the-phenomenon
An est. 68 MILLION Americans, including 19 MILLION Black Children, have been killed in the WOMB since 1973-act, pray and vote accordingly.
TAMU purpose statement: To develop leaders of character dedicated to serving the greater good. Team entrance song at KYLE FIELD is laced with profanity including THE Nword..
The greater good?
An est. 68 MILLION Americans, including 19 MILLION Black Children, have been killed in the WOMB since 1973-act, pray and vote accordingly.
TAMU purpose statement: To develop leaders of character dedicated to serving the greater good. Team entrance song at KYLE FIELD is laced with profanity including THE Nword..
The greater good?
Back to 1963. Would be a great 10 years of cars, man.