ANOTHER ERA

WHICH ERA WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE IN?

  • 1585 - 1660

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • 1665 - 1745

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 1750 - 1825

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 1830 - 1905

    Votes: 1 4.8%

  • 1910 - 1985

    Votes: 1 4.8%

  • The Present

    Votes: 9 42.9%

  • 2020 & Beyond

    Votes: 6 28.6%

  • OTHER

    Votes: 2 9.5%
  • Total voters
    21
Malakai

Malakai

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I've always imagined visiting King Arthur's court.  To watch some of the iconic moments of in the history of my country.  I've even thought about going so far back that I could watch Christ sacrificing himself on the cross for the world. 

So in what era would you like to live/visit? Make this topic more interesting and explain your reasons why.  Most of the answers we get with these polls can provide for some hilarious commentary, for proof check out the topic titled Pizza! Pizza! or click here

 
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I chose 1910 - 1985 because of the upheaval that happened.  Not just world wars, but man walking on the moon, technological marvels, and and other landmark happenings.  

 
Only picking 1830-1905 because the romantic period of music was from around 1820-1900 and that's my favorite musical period because it was revolutionary in the evolution of the double bass (My main instrument). Before the romantic period the bass was used to either double the cello or have uninteresting parts because nobody thought that a bass player could play anything fast or hard. Two fine gentlemen, Domenico Dragonetti and Giovanni Bottesini were virtuosos with the bass and wrote several solo works in which the bass plays both fast and high (Highest I've seen written is a G8, however the bass transposes an octave lower so it sounds G7, far beyond the typical range of the instrument [E1-C4 or C1-C4 with an extension]). I owe everything the bass is considered today to those two men. I also am a fan of other romantic composers like Tchaikovsky, Verdi, and Beethoven (In that order) and I feel like that would be an excellent place for me.

 
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Thanks but i prefer not to die to war, shitty illness or something that is completely avoidable in the present day

Also, I have too any video games, anime and other stuff to catch up on so present day it is

 
Visiting the other periods might be nice but to actually live in times where women had no rights and a lack of hygiene and medical knowledge are rampant? No, thanks

 
I do not want to live in any era that doesn't have the medical advancements we have today. I do not want to live in an era of war which is basically every era before the end of World War II (for my country). And I do not want to live in an era where I don't have the rights that I have today. Therefore I'll remain in the present despite all of its flaws.

 
I picked 1585-1660 like milord but mainly cuz I have wondered quite a bit about what would be the best job on that time, my life would consist of me either being a Baker or a blacksmith, possible sail with great portuguese discoverers once I have gotten old and stay in brasil with a sugar cane farm till the end of my days. 

 
Bangas said:
I picked 1585-1660 like milord but mainly cuz I have wondered quite a bit about what would be the best job on that time, my life would consist of me either being a Baker or a blacksmith, possible sail with great portuguese colonialists once I have gotten old and stay in brasil with a sugar cane farm till the end of my days. 
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With the incredible life expetancy of ~60 years if you were lucky and didn't die from an unknown illness in the Portuguese colonies which the people from Europe knew nothing about. Btw.. I fixed your original statement because "great discoverers" sounds as if these people weren't murderers. :)

 
Mitsuru said:
With the incredible life expetancy of ~60 years if you were lucky and didn't die from an unknown illness in the Portuguese colonies which the people from Europe knew nothing about. Btw.. I fixed your original statement because "great discoverers" sounds as if these people weren't murderers. :)
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discovers ( sailors) are different from colonialists

 
Milord said:
discovers ( sailors) are different from colonialists
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The people who "discovered" places often ended up being colonialists themselves. Columbus also "discovered" Latin America and ended up returning there when they were already being colonized.

 
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Mitsuru said:
The people who "discovered" places often ended up being colonialists themselves. Columbus also "discovered" Latin America and ended up returning there when they were already being colonized.
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it's easy to judge passed actions with morals and ideals of today, if you grew up backed then you would probably be has immoral as some of them,and if they grew up in the society of today they would probably have the same ideals as you do.

 
Milord said:
it's easy to judge passed actions with morals and ideals of today, if you grew up backed then you would probably be has immoral as some of them,and if they grew up in the society of today they would probably have the same ideals as you do.
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It's easy to judge passed actions and I'll definitely do it no matter what my ideals would've been back then. That's not a reason at all not to criticize what Europeans have done to natives in all parts of the world. Our sense of entitlement has led to the doom of millions of innocent people. I will not stop criticizing how an estimated 36 million people have died during the first century of Spaniards colonizing Latin America just because moral values have differed between then and now. Besides, there were also people back then already who opposed the atrocities committed towards natives like for example Bartolomé de las Casas.

 
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Mitsuru said:
I will not stop criticizing how an estimated 36 million people have died during the first century of Spaniards colonizing Latin America just because moral values have differed between then and now.
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More like because no one realized that the colonizers would bring diseases against which the native immune system was unprepared

 
Micchan said:
More like because no one realized that the colonizers would bring diseases against which the native immune system was unprepared
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I know that and I did not say they were shot, hung or whatever. But the Spaniards didn't care about the natives dropping like flies.

 
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