If You Had The Chance To Go Back To 1969 At The Age Of 19 Would You?

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  1. Lego Batman

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    Id much rather go back
    Before WW2
    As an observer of course
    the 1950s cars
    60s
    Civil rights marches
    70s disco can you dig it
    80s break dancing again loved that shit
    I am to fat for that now
     
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  2. Trems

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    I was 4 at the time. It was good, but 19 would have been better. As much as I'd love to dive in, we have it so good right now, and I have way too much good in my life to casually toss aside.
     
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  3. bry75

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    I was born in 75. I would love to go to 1969 at 19.
     
  4. soulpoker

    soulpoker Senior Member

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    The music, the cars, the sex...hell yeah! Though I would miss some of the technology, but all candy, pop, etc. had real sugar.
    Just to see the bands live especially when they were up and coming!
     
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  5. highlander69

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    nope was in school I hated school!!
     
  6. Eric50

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    Yes. I think that would have been fun.
     
  7. Angelmama

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    You bet I would. I would write down all those mistakes I made the first time around and avoid making them again...
    Oh wait. In 1969 I was only 16.
    Never mind.
     
  8. Reverand JC

    Reverand JC Willy Fuckin' Wonka

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    As a 45 year old who's studied the history and culture we've fucked up so hard we've gone back further than '69. Technology has helped the regression.

    C/S,
    Rev J
     
  9. soulpoker

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    As someone who's similarly aged, I agree overall, but I say there are exceptions. The LGBT community is more accepted than it was back then, even by hippies, or at least acknowledged as more than a fringe group. Also more in the open is domestic and sexual violence against women and children. I question whether it occurs significantly less, but at least we know about it, which allows for more victims to be helped, rather than feel obligated to grin and bear it lest they be blamed for their violation.
    I also agree to some extent with technology not helping. It's so easy to put up an anonymous and unvetted but credible (to some) meme on social media and have it seen by many people who believe it without questioning only because they want to believe it, which emboldens sometimes questionable, let's say, ideologies. That's not making America greater again.
    On the other hand, car engines are more efficient and less polluting. Fundamentally new technologies promise even more of that.
    It's a mixed bag. The last four years have been shitty and fixing that won't happen overnight.
     
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  10. Angelmama

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    I dropped out in 69.
    I went back for my GED when I was 32. I then went to Greenfield Community College and got my degree in English, Creative Writing, and Art.
    It's never too late...
     
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  11. newo

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    I was actually 15 in 1969, a little too young for Woodstock, so yeah I'd love to go back as a 19 year old.

    It's 1969 so I'd bet all my money on the NY Mets and Jets. Then over the years I'd be sure to invest in Apple, Microsoft, etc. when they were fledgling companies. Talk about learning from the past!
     
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  12. Angelmama

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    CAPITALISM!
    People are always asking me whether I was at Woodstock.
    I was just 16 but I'd quit school and planned to go.
    My mother found out so locked me in my room.
    It was only supposed to be a small festival so I wasn't missing much... if I had only known!
     
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    i was 15 in 69 allso honestly i didn t even know about it till album came out...Funny tho i had lot of people tell me they went people my age and younger hahaha Like going to VFW lot of vets The older they get better they were. war and draft was over when i graduated people that grad after me tell me they nam vets haha most only joined case was eather that jail or canada. Now they all war heros haha
     
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    I think Woodstock was 6 9 .Yes I wish I was old enough to have been there.
     
  15. Angelmama

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    If everyone who claimed to have been there really were there would have been multiple millions.
     
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  16. newo

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    I was 15 and living in Massachusetts in 1969, less than a day's drive from Woodstock, and I had heard there was going to be a big music festival, but I didn't think much of it at the time. I thought, "I can't afford it, and besides my folks would never let me go!" After it happened I was kinda pissed that I had missed it, wished I had told my folks I was going camping with a friend, and then hitchhiked there with him.
     
  17. Tyrsonswood

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    At this point I would go anywhere/time, just as long as I don't have to do 2020 over again... Fug that shyt.
     
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  18. Angelmama

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    Just to go back to 2016 would be enough I guess.
    Rig the election to get rid of Trump.
    Even Hillary would be better. I kinda held my nose to vote for her but I bet she'd have handled the virus problem MUCH better!
     
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  19. soulpoker

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    But you-know-who wouldn't stop bitching about losing...which actually isn't too different the way it turned out because his entitled, narcissistic ass is always bitching about something anyway.
     
  20. Angelmama

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    At least he wouldn't be doing it 24/7 on every news station...oh, and on Faux.
     

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