If You Could Time Travel...

To me the middle ages have little appeal.

I can think of a few times I'd like to visit - pre-Roman Britain when Stonehenge was in its heyday. Maybe that would be the only way we'd ever really understand what it was for.

Also Egypt at the time of the people who built the Sphinx. It would be interesting to check out the climate.

 

I would travel back to before I blew all my money on drugs,and do exactly the same thing again...

 

i might be curious to see exactly where i am, a thousand years in the past. and a thousand years before that and so on, as far back as there was a breathable atmosphere, which of course also means the existence of plant life and so on. i know people have been here for around 11 thousand years at least, within a few hundred miles of my current location, and i'm sure there's been more go on between each of those 11 one thousand year jumps then most historians know or care about.

i'm sure if people could actually go, those who made it back alive would learn how bullshit most of their fantasies about the past really are. i also believe people everywhere need to learn more about the past and even the most distant past of the very spot right where each of us actually are.

as recently as a thousand years ago, most of the terms and concepts people take for granted today, would be very nearly meaningless. more then two thousand years ago they would absolutely.

a thousand years age there was no place being called america, and no one here calling themselves a white race. the words capitalism and marxism, would of course both be unrecognized and meaningless.

there was of course trade and economic activity, but it wasn't the most central thing to everyday life. how to build shelter from what nature provided, and how to live on what could be cultivated or found in nature, right where you were, would have been. and how to be creative and artistic with it as well.

of course i like the idea of the wheel, ways to guide it and ways to propel it, and while you will find wheels that far back, you might not find them here, and where you would have found them, you'd have had mostly beasts of burden or yourselves to pull them with. rome had its roads and aquaducts and those interest me, but that's about the only thing about the past of that part of the world that does.

very little was built where i am with anything that hasn't long ago rotted away. but that doesn't make it any less fully functional at the time it was.

human life depended entirely on harmony with nature and the land, even whether most people who lived then were actually thinking those terms. many if not most cultures might well have been, or at least doing so after the fact because they had to.

i could ramble on a bit more about that, but i think i'll stop before i end up writing a book.

 

The whole of them? Although I picked the industrial era myself my second choice would probably be the early middle ages. But especially as a subject of interest (without considering time travel ) the middle ages appeal a lot to me. I sometimes think by talking about the general conditions and happenings of and in the 'dark ages' and of course by names like this these centuries and life in it gets stigmatized a lot. If you look at the general consensus and what people were supposed to think (and knew with certainty) it may seem like one big madness. Of course it all depends where you lived and the people you associated with (same as nowadays frankly). And if we would conclude differently: it was one of the best times to become a real hermit (in west european areas at least)

 

The reason is that I think I've been a little bit saturated with medieval history throughout my life. Living a a child in a town that was built by the Normans, there was a lot of focus on that when I was at school. Later on, I did develop an interest in some aspects of the period, but that has now largely waned.
Overall, although there was some richness to medieval culture, I do find it all a bit stark.I know that's a generalization,but perhaps I'm just a little bored with it. These days I am more interested in ancient history and conversely,modern history.

Of course, I'm quite happy to talk about the middle ages if the topic comes up - and actually without knowledge of that epoch you can't have much of a grasp on western history in general

 

That is understandable: i have the exact same with WW2 (with which I was pretty much obsessed as a kid ) and also had a lack of interest in the roman history for a large part of my life. But I was fascinated and in love with medieval times as well since I was a kid but that love and fascinations has only grown bigger. I've grown an interest in roman history as well, it's hard not to once you begin to grasp their influence on societies and how they shaped and developed their cities, culture and society!

 

WW II is another area to which I too have been over exposed :book: .

The Romans I find quite interesting - no need to list 'what the Romans did for us' I think.

Incidentally, I notice that today is the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem. Sorry to mention the war.....hard to get away from it sometimes. :army:

 

To the time of Robin Hood.

 

Hey we got robbin hoods right now. I would like to see american forests and rivers without clear cutting and dams. Logging practices have changed and some dams are being removed so I don't know which way to go backward or forward.

 

5th/6th century or the days of Richard Lionheart (or somewhere in between)?

 

Oh it has to be the days of Richard the Lionheart.

Maybe start there and then travel trough the 14th/ 15th century. That would make most sense, right?

 

You would skip a 100 years then since he died at the end of the 12th century. But it makes sense to me to want to go to that time, yes.

 

I'd go way back to right before life begun. I'd like to see it happening.

Absurd, I know, but one can always dream.

 

There’s a widely held belief in temporal mechanics that it’s impossible to go further back in time than when the time machine was first built. So unless the government is hiding a time displacement machine at some top secret research lab (possibly at Area-51) it would have limited use.

However if it was built by the ancient Sumerians and lost over time, only to have been recently rediscovered - we’d have 5000 years in which to explore.

Hotwater

 

With the technology today, Id go back with a century and make billions by buying patents and stock in any and all. The crash wouldn't be effected in the stock if the correct ones were bought, None! Cash is king, gold/diamonds and will go up and $50 invested will be a 7 figure turn around!
Id also like to meet up with the james brothers and John Dillinger with modern technology and pretty much be un-stoppable. Not to shoot people, But to be shot and a vest stop anything, Ballistic gear, Kevlar and weapons. Many thinks could be changed with in mere seconds.
But for the most part, Going back and making tons of $$ so I can really sit around and do not shit!

 

I'd just go to the future and buy t chnology when it's cheap, travel back sell it for far more.

think about a tablet like the one I'm typing on now, in the future could be more powerful than the most capable computer cluster of today.

 

1994?

 

Much depends on whether he/she was referring to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) or Robin Hood: Men In Tights (1993)


Hotwater

 

^obviously it wasn't disney's robin hood, because nobody wants to go back to 1973.

 

If I had to go back to a film version - it would most definitely be Disney's Robin Hood.



I would also go back to the days of Jesus.