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If you could go back

#1 Postby azsnowman » Fri Apr 25, 2003 5:32 pm

If you could go back in time, how far and why?

Me.....I've ALWAYS said I was born 100-150 years too late. I have a true, deep burning passion for the Old West, I collect all sorts of memorabilia from the days gone by. We travel and hike over 1000 miles a week in our business, it takes us WAAAAAY out in the boonies BIG TIME, we've come across so many old homesteads that no humans have been in or seen since the original owners. We've got one whole room here in the house dedicated to just that sort of *junk*. I've got 2 belt buckles from the US 6th Calvary from the original Fort Apache, dress uniform buttons and thousands of rounds from a 50 caliber Hawkins!!! :o

I've always wanted to be a *real cowboy*......yes, I've had the privelage back in my youth to *play cowboy*, my brother in law and sister own over 700 head of cattle on the White Mountain Apache Reservation. They run their heard in the north (about 10 miles to my east) in the summer, done south in the winter, they still do the OLD fashion cattle drive, when time allows, Michelle and I go for the heck of it. Yes, it's a TOUGH, dirty, thankless job, the pay is LOUSY......$200 month but everything is paid for, your clothes, your saddle, your food, every single thing is paid for by the tribe (or should I say YOUR tax dollars :P )

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#2 Postby bfez1 » Fri Apr 25, 2003 6:52 pm

I'd be satisfied just going back 10 yrs. :D
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#3 Postby ColdFront77 » Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:45 pm

To be honest with you, I really don't have a preference at this moment. Although, I would probably interact with people just a little bit differently than I did back when I was in school; meaning I may have corresponded with fellow classmates more so than I did.
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#4 Postby azskyman » Fri Apr 25, 2003 8:12 pm

I'm not all that interested in going back in time...or even reliving my past. But I would dearly like the chance to head back for a few hours to visit with some friends and family I have lost...so I could see their smiles or hear their laughs one more time.
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#5 Postby streetsoldier » Fri Apr 25, 2003 8:14 pm

I must invoke my rights under the Fifth Amendment on this question... :grrr:
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#6 Postby Stephanie » Fri Apr 25, 2003 9:07 pm

Actually, I love the Medieval times. I would love to go back a visit the time of Stewarts and Tudors - jolly ol' England! Of course, I'd want to be a part of the court! :wink:

I alot of my ethnic heritage is from Great Britain. I've always loved reading about King Arthur and Camelot!
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#7 Postby Amanzi » Fri Apr 25, 2003 9:19 pm

Stephanie wrote:Actually, I love the Medieval times. I would love to go back a visit the time of Stewarts and Tudors - jolly ol' England! Of course, I'd want to be a part of the court! :wink:

I alot of my ethnic heritage is from Great Britain. I've always loved reading about King Arthur and Camelot!


Me too Steph! I have always wanted to traverse to Elezabethen times.. I would have made a fantastic princess or queen (heck I would have given everyone cake! oops wrong Queen) and would loved all the pomp and ceremony, but knowing my luck I would have been born a serf! :roll:
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#8 Postby vbhoutex » Sat Apr 26, 2003 1:34 am

If I could go back the only reason I would is to have my old body back(the easy way!) and much more importantly spend some more time with my Dad in weather related activities.

I actually would prefer to travel to the future because it has always intrigued me-ya know UFO's, intelligent life elsewhere, advances in technology and how they affect our earth and to find out if we ever learn that MOTHER NATURE IS THE QUEEN OF ALL AND WILL WIN EVERY TIME NO MATTER WHAT IS THROWN AT HER!
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#9 Postby JetMaxx » Sat Apr 26, 2003 1:38 am

That's a difficult question....

My obvious answer is December 1st, 1977...to tell my mother I love her one more time...and let her know how proud and blessed I am that she is my mom.

I'd also loved to have been alive when the US Constitution and Declaration of Independance were written; when America became a nation.
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#10 Postby WidreMann » Sat Apr 26, 2003 2:28 am

I would also like to go to the future. The past is all well and good, but compared to the present, it just doesn't measure up. I also have faith in humanity - that the future will generally be better than the present. Certainly bad things will happen and there will be missteps and people will suffer, perhaps a lot, just like over the past century. But who here will not say that life is generally better and better for more than a century ago?
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#11 Postby pawlee » Sat Apr 26, 2003 3:07 am

talk about time travel, wouldn't it be cool to watch from high above the earth and be able to see through any body of water as to what lies on the bottom? i say this as i was looking at a pic of NY harbor and wondering what lies in the murky depths after centuries of people have come and gone (boats, cars, junk; each with their own story to tell). likewise the same holds true of the ocean and forgotten shipwrecks long before hulls were made of steel. i also have wondered when looking at massive piles of garbage in junkyards, just how old the items are way down deep at the bottom. for example, what was a useless newspaper or product package in 1910 would yield so much history and perspective in our modern day. between that and all of nature that lies fossilized within the mountains or caverns down deep under the soil, there truly are many many secrets this earth has yet to reveal... p
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#12 Postby streetsoldier » Sat Apr 26, 2003 3:18 am

Let me enter this comment, and think carefully before answering...

The plain fact is that NONE of us now living would have survived infancy in any other age than this one. Measles was a killer (!) up until the early 20th Century, as was polio, chicken pox, tuberculosis, inner ear infections, so many others we don't give a second thought to; sanitary conditions in any age but ours would have killed us off by millions, if not unchecked violence (this especially for "medieval" wannabes), accidents we no longer have due to safety laws, technology, etc., etc.

Point is? God wanted us HERE, in THIS time, to do something which lends the thin thread of our lives their own unique place in His Grand Design; a tapestry, a celestial construction, if you will, in which all things come together in a Whole of which we are,as yet, unaware.

One interesting thought left..."To the extent that one is unhappy with his looks, family, era in which born, hair, what-have-you, this person is really angry with God Who placed him, or her, here."
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#13 Postby Stephanie » Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:15 am

Amanzi wrote:
Stephanie wrote:Actually, I love the Medieval times. I would love to go back a visit the time of Stewarts and Tudors - jolly ol' England! Of course, I'd want to be a part of the court! :wink:

I alot of my ethnic heritage is from Great Britain. I've always loved reading about King Arthur and Camelot!


Me too Steph! I have always wanted to traverse to Elezabethen times.. I would have made a fantastic princess or queen (heck I would have given everyone cake! oops wrong Queen) and would loved all the pomp and ceremony, but knowing my luck I would have been born a serf! :roll:


That probably would've been my luck also!

Bill - You're absolutely right. We were put on this earth during this time period because this was our time to live and contribute to the world. I always thought that I would've been a good hippie - I was born perhaps 10 years too late for that. I remember one time when I was 9 (in 1971 - perfect timing!), I had a Halloween party in school and I dressed up as one. When my Dad tucked me into bed that night I told him that that was what I wanted to be! :lol: He asked me if I wanted to be a good hippie or a bad one and I said a good one (not really knowing that there was a difference). He didn't show it, but he probably wanted to have a heart attack at the time!!!! :lol: :o
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#14 Postby mf_dolphin » Sat Apr 26, 2003 12:15 pm

It's a toss up between Medieval times and WWI. Both times were marked by chilvary from men at arms. I've always felt a strong bond to those times and enjoy reading the history of those periods. Alas, I don't have room for a white horse except in my heart! :-)
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#15 Postby Amanzi » Sat Apr 26, 2003 5:44 pm

mf_dolphin wrote: Alas, I don't have room for a white horse except in my heart! :-)


AWWWW YOUR MY HERO MF... :wink:
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