If you had a time machine....

Bryant said:
There are too many places I would want to go back to. Picking one or even a few would be impossible. Sorry my post couldn't be more interesting. : (


Bryant
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Let me help you;

You would be born in Germany , went to school with a guy called Udo, and you guys start a band called Accept.... :headbang:
 
First and foremost, i'd wait outside of the studio where Bob Rock and Motley Crue were recording Dr. Feelgood, i'd wait for the very last day of it, because i want the album done, it's a good album. But then as soon as Bob walks out, i'll shoot him.

Then, i'll go to 1984, armed with a camera, and......well, that's kinda personal. But it invloves my biological ex- father and my brother. I'll just do what i have to do.

Then, i'd go with Abryl, and make damn sure Mrs. Cobain takes those birth control pills.
 
madcheese9377 said:
I hate those people, BASTARDS! My friend(bud1) started smokin and went to his friends house(bud2), they got stoned, bud1 left and bud2s' mom busted bud2, when she asked why was he smoking again he told her bud1 got him back into it, but it was actually the other way around, bud1 had quit and got talked into it again by bud2, then bud1 wasn't allowed to see bud2 for about a month. The truth was, bud2 never quit he just smoked before school so his mom wouldn't bust him.
I'd go back and kick bud2's ass for it, that dudes an idiot and very irresponsible, some people shouldn'e be allowed to smoke, he is one of them. And so am I which is why I never started.
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Buds should never get into bud... :Spin:

Stop throwing things at me... :yuk:
 
Hawk said:
And indeed here I am doing what you said. Not because I am "cleverer" than you but because I had the interests and took the time and effort to study the subject :D

You sound like a clever guy to me Baldy :headbang: And you have my respect dude! :wave:

But back to the king Arthur era. There's a new movie out that deals with the subject in a very good way. You see Kings Arthur s troops wearing Roman helmets. The Roman Empire ended in about 475. No not precisely on the 1st of January of that year but vaguely around that date. And thats were the so called "dark ages" started. Named so because much of what the old Greeks and Romans discovered was lost and destroyed. Sometimes by misguided Christians that felt that the ancient heritage was dangerous the the new emerging Christian fate.

The Dark Ages lasted from 475 AD [fall of the Roman Empire] to round and about 100 AD The story of King Arthur however played around the 375/400 AD era. That is, just after the Romans left the British Isle. The power vacuum left by the Romans is contested by several tribes and the battle for Britain is on!!

Now but to the subject of this tread. What would be the answer of a history freak??

Well I would love to meet some historical figures. Almost too bad I am a atheist or I would have the comfort of believing that I would meet them in the end, or should I say after the end ? :)

Anyway here are some names:

Aristoteles
The father of logic and thus of the scientific process. Imagine chatting philosophy with this giant!! I would be in total awe!!

Thomas of Aquinas
The man that reintroduced the Aristotelian viewpoint back in the west. Many scholars suspect Aquinas was a closet atheist because his "Five Ways to Prove God's Existence" were so based on logic that they were self-defeating. These days the church will not go anywhere near any logical argument for the existence of god. I would love to debate philosophy and theology with him. Maybe Aristotle could join us!

Leonardo Da Vinci
The true Renaissance man! Painter, architect, scientist, medic, philosopher and mathematician. Should be interesting to meet him! I would tell him how much he is admired now, because in his day he was hated by a lot of people. He used to dig up the dead illegally to study the human body in spite of the fact that the church was dead set against this. You could be burned at the stake for this!


Thomas Jefferson.
I've read his letters and two biographies. A lifelong defender of "man's rights" and a slaveholder! I would ask him about this contradiction. In a letter to George Washington he writes that he doubts that slaves could learn to read. He believes that they were not capable of intellectual work and therefore were better of when "taken care of" Its hard to explain his viewpoint from the perspective of our time. In those days there were no black intellectuals. They were forced to do hard physical labor and it was forbidden to teach them anything including how to read. Did Jefferson really mean what he wrote? Or was that just a cheap racist rationalization? I think it is the last and I would love to confront him with my viewpoint. Still hindsight is always 20/20. I do know Washington did not agree with him because he let his slaves go free as soon as he could.

Adam Smith
Proponent of the Scottish enlightenment and one of the first modern economist. I would love to chat with him about his "Labor theory of value" [hereafter LToV.] This LToV was seized on by Karl Marx to develop his exploitation theory and thus used to justify Socialism.

In 1871 it was demonstrated that the LToV was wrong and thus the exploitation theory was false! But Socialism already had the momentum and could not be stopped. Besides the proof against the LToV was demonstrated in obscure scientific journals mostly on the European continent when the focus of economic theory had shifted to the UK and the US.

Ludwig von Mises.
An amazing Austrian economist! He predicted the fall of the Soviet Union in 1920! And already knew by what cause it would go down. He said that in an economy were capital good were the property of the state and thus were not bought and sold on a market against a market price, their economic value could not be known. And because the value of capital goods could not be known so the value of the products they produced could not be known. Hence in a true socialist economy no rational economic calculation was possible. And if that is true no economy would be possible. Only chaos and shortages could be the result.

von Mises would be productive until his 93th birthday. I could have talked with him for days because he was also a very good historian!

And as last I would go back to the year 1978 and relive all the years thereafter and not change a bloody thing!!

Well, I hope its not too long winded [OF COURSE IT IS HAWK!!!] :p.

I just wanted to express my admiration for some of the people above.


And as last I would go back to the year 1976 and relive all the years thereafter and not change a bloody thing!!
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I am sooooo not reading all of that :Spin:

Oh, and seeing Rainbow Rising live would own all, as well!! :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
 
madcheese9377 said:
That wouldn't happen, I would have to shove everyone to the ground so hard they would be coughing up dirt for 6 hours.
I'm like a tank, I'd run all your asses over and then shit next to you so you can sit there having to smell my poopie :yuk: .
:lol:
This is fun. :D
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I got my 24 inch pythons, brother! I'll throw you around from one end of the room to the other, dude! Whatcha gonna do when the Nickster runs wild on you!?
 
Wicked Child said:
I got my 24 inch pythons, brother! I'll throw you around from one end of the room to the other, dude! Whatcha gonna do when the Nickster runs wild on you!?
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:Smug: Oh yeah... :ill: :Smug: well...uhm... :ill: screw you...bunghole.(while running away) :D
Well I'm about little bit bigger than half your size due to not working out in 8 months. When I was 16 I was benching 250 lbs, and EVERYONE knew not to mess with me. But I was a gentel giant, untill someone pissed me off, those were the days.
 
Abryl said:
I thought of something else: Stop the murder of John Lennon.
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I would go back in time and stop Abryl from stopping the murder of Lennon. :) I would also make sure that Yoko got wacked that night. 2 down 2 to go!!!!
 
madcheese9377 said:
:Smug: Oh yeah... :ill: :Smug: well...uhm... :ill: screw you...bunghole.(while running away) :D
Well I'm about little bit bigger than half your size due to not working out in 8 months. When I was 16 I was benching 250 lbs, and EVERYONE knew not to mess with me. But I was a gentel giant, untill someone pissed me off, those were the days.
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Yeh, i WISH i was like that. I'm actually a pipsqueak. I can defend myself, but i don't look strong, and i'm not mr. universe, either.
 
Abryl said:
You want a beat up too? ;)
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Hmm, I may be interested. Do you wear tight black leather, chains and a whip?:loco:
 
Wicked Child said:
Yeh, i WISH i was like that. I'm actually a pipsqueak. I can defend myself, but i don't look strong, and i'm not mr. universe, either.
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Well I doubt any of you could match my speed and my knowledge of the human body and it's weaknesses. I could break someones elbows if they were to grab me by the neck or my shirt sleeves.

I'd like to go to the year 2100 to see what the world has done to itself.
Then go to the 50s and get taught every thing all the rock and roll guys new and jam out with the old dudes at the local bar. Hell yeah :headbang:
 
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