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Nemo1024
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 25, 2014, 07:20:12 AM
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Quote from: BCEmporium on July 25, 2014, 06:52:14 AM
Quote from: Nemo1024 on July 25, 2014, 06:39:05 AM
As narrow as North-America and Northern Europe. (And Australia, that everyone forgets about, it being somewhere on the underside of the world.)

Is it? The funniest thing is that even other places improved a lot. People tend to compare to those who are better to feel miserable, but if you born 100 years ago at Russia you would be in deep shit compared to Russia today...

That may be so, when you compare Russia today, with Russia, torn by Civil War in the aftermath of WWI and coup d'etat/revolution. However, Russia of 1900, with blooming industrialisation, was better than Russia/Soviet Union of 1914-1950, so development can tack steps backward. For example development took a huge step backwards for Iran/Persia or for Iraq.
I think I'd like to visit the mid-1700's Russia, the time of Lomonosov.
Daniel91
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 25, 2014, 07:11:36 AM
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Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
LOL very interesting question.
I'm fun of history so I guess it will be great to be direct witness of some of greatest events in human history like discovery of America, Miidle age in Europe, Israel in the time of Jesus, China 3 0000 years ago etc.
But, we shouldn't forget that people before didn't have much security as we today, not health care, good income, they didn't live loig as today and most people was slaves.
So, maybe just 1 or 2 % of whole population had some kind of good standard and security so if i was born at that time, I would prefere to be born at least in some royal family Smiley
BCEmporium
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 25, 2014, 06:52:14 AM
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Quote from: Nemo1024 on July 25, 2014, 06:39:05 AM
As narrow as North-America and Northern Europe. (And Australia, that everyone forgets about, it being somewhere on the underside of the world.)

Is it? The funniest thing is that even other places improved a lot. People tend to compare to those who are better to feel miserable, but if you born 100 years ago at Russia you would be in deep shit compared to Russia today, the same for Palestine, Syria and most of the places if not all.
Just if you born in a tribe nobody heard about you can say it's about the same.
Katekyo
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 25, 2014, 06:49:19 AM
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I would like that I was being born today, and that my father was a bitcoin millionaire.
Nemo1024
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 25, 2014, 06:39:05 AM
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As narrow as North-America and Northern Europe. (And Australia, that everyone forgets about, it being somewhere on the underside of the world.)
balanghai
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 25, 2014, 06:33:39 AM
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Quote from: Nemo1024 on July 25, 2014, 06:30:27 AM
Quote from: BCEmporium on July 25, 2014, 06:10:28 AM
No doubt we live in the best era so far...

For a very narrow definition of "we". Wink

I think most people would go with your initial answer - we'd choose to be born in the civilisation that is at the peak of its power at any given time, that is thriving on the fruits of oppression and subjugation of other civilisations which we wouldn't want to be born into.

How narrow is "we".  Grin
Nemo1024
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 25, 2014, 06:30:27 AM
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Quote from: BCEmporium on July 25, 2014, 06:10:28 AM
No doubt we live in the best era so far...

For a very narrow definition of "we". Wink

I think most people would go with your initial answer - we'd choose to be born in the civilisation that is at the peak of its power at any given time, that is thriving on the fruits of oppression and subjugation of other civilisations which we wouldn't want to be born into.
BCEmporium
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 25, 2014, 06:10:28 AM
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Maybe I hadn't explain myself well.
No doubt we live in the best era so far, life expectancy is high, life value is also high, quality of life is higher than it even been, even at some troublesome place.
But this isn't like one day we, humanity, were holding a spear barely dressed and in the next day came an alien and we got cars, internet, planes, meds, docs and all of this. Evolution is a ladder, made step by step by the civilizations that came before us. My question is then around of those civilizations, if it happens that you were born in the past and could choose (yes, I know, we can't choose either), which of those civilizations or places you rather be part of, which of those evolution steps are more worthy of your admiration.
Possum577
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 25, 2014, 12:49:11 AM
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100 or 500 years from now...I've seen today's world. I've read about yesterday's world. The only thing I don't know about yet is the world of tomorrow.
negafen
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 25, 2014, 12:20:19 AM
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Quote from: jjc326 on July 24, 2014, 11:49:03 PM
In terms of chance of living to an older age I believe we are in the best era ever. And all the modern comforts too. Heck we might blow each other to smithereens but for now we at all lucky to be born now.

Yes.

Always better to be born as "late" as one can and enjoy the fruits of our ancestors.
jjc326
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 24, 2014, 11:49:03 PM
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In terms of chance of living to an older age I believe we are in the best era ever. And all the modern comforts too. Heck we might blow each other to smithereens but for now we at all lucky to be born now.
zeeshan98210
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 24, 2014, 09:11:43 PM
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There is probably no reason to born on those stinky eras, there is a big chance infants born on that era will never reach adulthood. If you say travel I will like to travel on that eras but born no way.
CripLib
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 24, 2014, 08:58:57 PM
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in the 60's/70's. I would love to have gone to the Woodstock festival.



Peace & Love!
BCEmporium
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 24, 2014, 08:19:33 PM
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Quote from: hua_hui on July 24, 2014, 08:12:38 PM
Meaningless to answer such question! We can't choose the place we born.

Surely, just a what if you could and you were born somewhere in the past.
hua_hui
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 24, 2014, 08:12:38 PM
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Meaningless to answer such question! We can't choose the place we born.
BCEmporium
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Re: Where would you prefer to born if you were born at another era?
July 24, 2014, 06:57:08 PM
#1
My options would be:

2nd Millennium BC
Egypt

1st Millennium BC
China

III to I BC
Greece

I AD to IX AD
China or India

IX to XIII AD
Arabia or Iran

XV to XVIII AD
Japan

XIX AD onwards
Europe or USA
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