Current Events > Do you ever wish you lived in the past?

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Lion_of_Gemini
12/28/21 11:19:52 PM
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Despite being connected by technology, people are more isolated and unhappy than ever. It seems like the future is bleak and that there is nothing to look forward to. It's not an optimistic time. We're likely just dust in the world and will disappear into nothing one day.

One thing I am jealous of people in ancient times is just how much more interesting and fascinating the world must have been back then. Just look at the list of deities that used to exist:

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gods_and_goddesses
https://simplewikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mythologies

They really believed all of this was real. They really believed we lived in a world in which giants, monsters, and ghosts existed and could be anywhere in the world. It's both terrifying and fascinating. It's like living in an actually JRPG without any of the actual dangers of them (Think Sin from FFX) actually attacking.

I know these creatures likely aren't real, but widespread belief that they existed seems like a far more fascinating reality than the existential one we live in today.

Combine that with the belief that magic, gods, and an afterlife and it seems like we got the boring world.


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FortuneCookie
12/28/21 11:20:39 PM
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I mean...

You could always become a neopagan if that's your cup of tea.
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Lion_of_Gemini
12/29/21 5:31:26 PM
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FortuneCookie posted...
I mean...

You could always become a neopagan if that's your cup of tea.

Its not the same when you know its not real.

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Xethuminra
12/31/21 11:52:55 PM
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The 80's is about as far back as id wanna go. Living in the ancient past just wouldn't be fair. I'm bigger, stronger, and MUCH smarter than them. They don't have any of the medical knowledge that I do. They don't have any of the security measures meant to keep me in check. I would feel extremely threatened by everything around me. It would be ugly
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PMarth2002
12/31/21 11:56:18 PM
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No. The present sucks, but the past was generally worse.

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MorbidFaithless
01/01/22 12:08:25 AM
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As much as some aspects of the past are appealing, I think we underestimate just how awful day to day living must have been.

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NoxObscuras
01/01/22 12:11:26 AM
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As a black man... No, not really

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B18Champ
01/01/22 12:11:27 AM
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Growing up in the 90s was pretty awesome. I would love to go back
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Nukazie
01/01/22 12:12:27 AM
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sometimes, i wish i was besides jesus getting whipped

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The Wheelman1
01/01/22 12:17:25 AM
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Id go back in a heartbeat. The 90s and 2000s were the best years of my life.

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Flauros
01/01/22 12:18:23 AM
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i would love to sped a week in the 1950s. Just to see how it was. I could hang out with my great grandpa and see all his crazy inventions.

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smoke_break
01/01/22 12:18:53 AM
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This is going to sound boomer'ish but as a kid growing up in the 90s, people felt more connected. I wouldn't mind living as an adult then. Take me back to around '95 when the original PlayStation dropped.

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cjsdowg
01/01/22 12:19:21 AM
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Seeing a I am black, I would not want to go back beyond the 90s.

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MedeaLysistrata
01/01/22 12:19:46 AM
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No... I'd just end up in the present again

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NatsuSama
01/01/22 12:20:32 AM
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Fuck no. I'm brown skinned.

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Unspecified_NPC
01/01/22 12:24:18 AM
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I'd go back to the Great Depression because I would fit in just fine

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bigblu89
01/01/22 12:25:08 AM
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Technically, we all did live in the past.

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PrettyBoyFloyd
01/01/22 12:25:52 AM
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Back to the 1980s or early 1900s.

Also as long as I could keep my current knowledge or half ass sense I have.

Like imagine being in 1914 and someone bragging about some new fangled thing and thinking "you haven't seen shit yet".

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InTheEyesOfFire
01/01/22 12:26:35 AM
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B18Champ posted...
Growing up in the 90s was pretty awesome. I would love to go back


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LeoRavus
01/01/22 12:26:36 AM
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People still believe in gods, goddesses, and saints today. They probably had atheists back then too but they weren't allowed to talk about it without being executed.

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Ivany2008
01/01/22 12:27:32 AM
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I wouldn't mind going back to the 70s. I don't think I'd want to go any further back than that. The 80s were such a heavy decade for hard rock and great metal music, and I think if I had graduated high school before computers really became a big deal, then I'd be set for life.
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PrettyBoyFloyd
01/01/22 12:28:52 AM
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LeoRavus posted...
People still believe in gods, goddesses, and saints today. They probably had atheists back then too but they weren't allowed to talk about it without being executed.

I figure most were Deists.

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Xethuminra
01/01/22 12:32:22 AM
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'85-95'?

Id do something crazy like rip off modern gaming.

"Hey guys! Check this out. It's called Minecraft. Oh, my next game? This is Portal. Youre gonna love it. Ok. I had this cool idea. My new game is called Halo. It's a lot like Doom, but I tightened the controls & added a ton of weight to the recoil. Cool, right? What do you think of this music & those colors & the vehicles? Now, for my masterpiece.... Bioshock . You've never seen anything like it before!"

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MabusIncarnate
01/01/22 12:32:34 AM
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I feel like being a teenager in the 60s was the era I was meant to be in.

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Xethuminra
01/01/22 12:33:38 AM
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*kicks Mabus back to the 60's*

trololololol
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ForsakenHermit
01/01/22 12:44:24 AM
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I have things I want to see be invented in my lifetime. If I lived in the past that would make it nearly impossible for that to happen.

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Master_Bass
01/01/22 12:45:20 AM
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No, I imagine I'd be even more miserable in the past.

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LordYeezus
01/01/22 12:46:48 AM
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We need NerveGear from SAO more than ever. Literally would stay inside forever.

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Umbreon
01/01/22 12:47:00 AM
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NoxObscuras posted...
As a black man... No, not really


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greyfox747
01/01/22 12:48:08 AM
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Im a queer woman so Im good out here

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Lion_of_Gemini
01/02/22 3:31:02 AM
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You can get your fix other ways.

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Kloe_Rinz
01/02/22 3:31:46 AM
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no, i wish i was born in the distant future. either i would be born dead because humanity is extinct, or i would be born into a futuristic utopia
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BloodMoon7
01/02/22 3:46:46 AM
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We have Flat Earthers today you know. That shit is still fascinating in some ways. Fascinating how these people exist.

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Guide
01/02/22 3:58:49 AM
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I really like having plumbing.

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Kim_Seong-a
01/02/22 4:19:38 AM
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Imagine travelling and living in the golden age of piracy.

You're just a regular old, able bodied English male, minding your business, when some Navy press gang comes and forces you into the military. Then you work for slave wages on some dumb boat, addled with shitty diseases, until you get boarded by pirates.

Now the pirates are a bunch of raping, pillaging assholes, but they seemed to have invented a form of functional democracy that's a better deal for you, so you defect and join them. Life still sucks, but you get paid better and you've got a cool hideaway in Jamaica.

That is, until your ship gets caught in a storm, and you survive, only to get stranded in the doldrums. You watch your crewmates go progressively mad from dehydration and starvation as you burn through the rations.

You're staring at a gun barrel because your captain has to start killing crewmembers to ensure enough rations remain for some survivors. The sun is hot, you're drenched with sweat, but your mouth is dry. You lack the energy to resist your fate. As you close your eyes, you hear a distant gull cry.

Your last thoughts are "Gosh, at least I won't be around to live through 2021"

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BloodMoon7
01/02/22 4:24:05 AM
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Kim_Seong-a posted...
Imagine travelling and living in the golden age of piracy.

You're just a regular old, able bodied English male, minding your business, when some Navy press gang comes and forces you into the military. Then you work for slave wages on some dumb boat, addled with shitty diseases, until you get boarded by pirates.

Now the pirates are a bunch of raping, pillaging assholes, but they seemed to have invented a form of functional democracy that's a better deal for you, so you defect and join them. Life still sucks, but you get paid better and you've got a cool hideaway in Jamaica.

That is, until your ship gets caught in a storm, and you survive, only to get stranded in the doldrums. You watch your crewmates go progressively mad from dehydration and starvation as you burn through the rations.

You're staring at a gun barrel because your captain has to start killing crewmembers to ensure enough rations remain for some survivors. The sun is hot, you're drenched with sweat, but your mouth is dry. You lack the energy to resist your fate. As you close your eyes, you hear a distant gull cry.

Your last thoughts are "Gosh, at least I won't be around to live through 2021"
I mean yeah tbh. Probably got to fuck whenever you went ashore.

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Kloe_Rinz
01/02/22 4:29:54 AM
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Kim_Seong-a posted...
but you get paid better
not as a pirate you dont. pirates were raping, pillaging homeless assholes on a boat living on the very edges of society outside government or military control, no comfort in your life whatsoever, concerned whether you will even have a meal this week or not
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nfearurspecimn
01/02/22 4:49:49 AM
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Not at all. I'm right where I want to be.

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xMythic
01/02/22 5:14:19 AM
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NatsuSama posted...
Fuck no. I'm brown skinned.
Lol same. I'm Native, so the years 1492-1990 are to be avoided.

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Talib_21
01/02/22 5:45:20 AM
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I wouldve loved to be a teen in the 70s

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3PiesAndAFork
01/02/22 8:59:53 AM
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NatsuSama posted...
Fuck no. I'm brown skinned.


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Southernfatman
01/02/22 9:00:02 AM
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Sometimes I wish I was around my parents' age. I'd be born around '60, get to have childhood years for most of the 60s, be a teen in the 70s, be in my 20s in my 80s, 30s, in the 90s, etc. I'd get to hear all the great music and watch the great movies that I love in their prime and have the perks boomer had/have and I would be dead before the world goes to shit. I feel like I'm too used to modern comforts and the internet though. If I were transported back in time, it would be a very rough few months to a year.

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superman 2000
01/02/22 9:01:15 AM
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NoxObscuras posted...
As a black man... No, not really


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Feline_Heart
01/02/22 9:01:25 AM
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I dont want to live in a time before I was born but I think about what it would be like to start my life over again from 10 years ago all the time

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