What age would you choose to live?

[Duguntz]

Actually, it's thousands, not millions

~Jirisys (your daily source for evolution)

B ut if we speak from the australopitechus who appeared (appeared is a quied odd word in fact...) from who the earliest fossil found is little older than 4 millions years old, wich make millions of years before the apparition of Homo Erectus around 2.5 millions years ago, wich still make millions of years ;) And of corse, chimps wouldn't become new humans... but did really nobody realized that I was being sarcastic in my other post and I was being using metaphores to express an opinion?

[Mouzafphaerre]

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This very age despite all setbacks. Internet, computers, cellphones, EB, more chicks to pick up... Bona mala superant.
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[seienchin]

the 17th century in China.... enjoying a live as a manchurian noblemen... All I need is some time to fight as heavy HA, and everything (slaves, money, and delicious foodstuffs) will come automatically without any expense...

Well, who says that you are born as a manchurian noblemen? Maybe you will be born to become a Eunuch ;)
I am happy as it is, but if I had the chance to time travel I would travel to Edo Period Japan. Probably the only way to not die a death by warfare or disease.

[Macilrille]

Yeah, you right, you right. Exceptions probably made for the chiefdoms, hereditary positions were more of a strict responsibility than a right or privilege. In the northern bands of the Great Plains, if you weren't doing what your people wanted you to do, then they would just leave your band and migrate to the band of another chief, if not simply strip you of your responsibility outright. Besides, power was also shared with the council, the elders, and the warchiefs, so once again, being a hereditary chief was more about representing the will of your people rather than being something of an absolute monarch (in the case of my own ancestors, anyways).

Of course, the role of chief wasn't always hereditary in present-day Canada, nor was it the only hereditary position in many cases. After all, Canada is a huuuuuuge place, spanning across 1/3 to 1/2 of a huuuuuuge continent, and the countless cultures vary... alot. This should probably be taken into account, since we live half-way across the continent from each other, my Algonquin brother.

Ehhh... most band societies develop into tribal societies with hereditary positions developing especially as it moves towards chiefdoms then kingdoms. How do you think the European, etc nobility developed. It it quite evident in Danish history how chieftains and warlords grew into nobility ruled by a king merely marginally more powerful.

I would chose to live now, would like to take my experience and self-confidence and reel time back 25 years while keeping that (keep your daughters safe), and being a heroic Viking Warlord seems nice as a dream. However, the diseases, squalor, etc would probably not be so fun...

[Ludens]

This very age despite all setbacks. Internet, computers, cellphones, EB, more chicks to pick up... Bona mala superant.

[Megas Methuselah]

This very age despite all setbacks. Internet, computers, cellphones, EB, more chicks to pick up... Bona mala superant.

Don't forget universal healthcare, wooooh! That stuff saved my life way back; no way in heck my poor family could have afforded me. Today's society is much superior than yesterday's, and is only getting better.

[NikosMaximilian]

Don't forget universal healthcare, wooooh! That stuff saved my life way back; no way in heck my poor family could have afforded me. Today's society is much superior than yesterday's, and is only getting better.

Only for some people in some countries... in some regions (specially in the African continent) people live crowded in huge cities with worse health conditions than those of the Middle Ages.

[vartan]

Only for some people in some countries... in some regions (specially in the African continent) people live crowded in huge cities with worse health conditions than those of the Middle Ages.

People need to urbanise more and create sustainable, liveable communities unless they want to see this Earth wither away.

[satalexton]

I'd actually want to witness the future instead of the past...perhaps The Great Crusades. I want to witness the reconquista of the universe, led by the Emperor.

[Megas Methuselah]

I'd actually want to witness the future instead of the past...perhaps The Great Crusades. I want to witness the reconquista of the universe, led by the Emperor.

I want to see Mankind subjucate primitive alien worlds as we achieve our manifest destiny in the universe.

[satalexton]

subjucate!?!?!? We Kill the Xenos, Purge the Roman, Burn the Unclean! Carry the Emperor's will as your torch, with it destroy the shadows.

[Hannibal Khan the Great]

subjucate!?!?!? We Kill the Xenos, Purge the Roman, Burn the Unclean! Carry the Emperor's will as your torch, with it destroy the shadows.

I think Meth was referring negatively to European treatment of Native Americans. Very Understandable.

[Cute Wolf]

I think Meth was referring negatively to European treatment of Native Americans. Very Understandable.

perhaps if given a time machine, Meth will doing time travel before colombus found Americas, warn his ancestors, create supperior weaponary and actics, and go invade the Europe

[Megas Methuselah]

perhaps if given a time machine, Meth will doing time travel before colombus found Americas, warn his ancestors, create supperior weaponary and actics, and go invade the Europe

No. I'd bring back some disease inoculations. That's all they'd need to prevent centuries of conquest, genocide, displacement and everything that has to do with humanity's most shameful case of colonialism.

[Cute Wolf]

No. I'd bring back some disease inoculations. That's all they'd need to prevent centuries of conquest, genocide, displacement and everything that has to do with humanity's most shameful case of colonialism.

And antibiotics in case the disease got a mutation...

but don't forget to bring some pen and papers.... and start writing your constitution, and made yourself king of America... (or whatever name you choose, Methusica or whatever). Ah yes, teach your people to cast some cannons, and when Colombus try to land, greet em with a salvo or two... (surely, they'll never back)

[Megas Methuselah]

but don't forget to bring some pen and papers.... and start writing your constitution, and made yourself king of America... (or whatever name you choose, Methusica or whatever).

Why? I am already descended from a long line of hereditary chiefs that weren't stripped of their titles until the Indian Act.

Ah yes, teach your people to cast some cannons, and when Colombus try to land, greet em with a salvo or two... (surely, they'll never back)

If foreign diseases won't be taking out some 90% of the overall population, they won't need my military knowledge.

[Cute Wolf]

Why? I am already descended from a long line of hereditary chiefs that weren't stripped of their titles until the Indian Act.

If foreign diseases won't be taking out some 90% of the overall population, they won't need my military knowledge.

You'll need the cannons for the coup'd etat... because your ancestors most won't believe in your story easily, and you must doing some necessary fight...

Afterall, who'll believe that their mighty civilization got ruined in no more than half a millenia, just because some meddlesome immigrants?

[Megas Methuselah]

A couple cannons won't help. They'll run me down like a dog, scalp me, skin me, and tie me up to suffer and dry in the prairie sun.

[Cute Wolf]

A couple cannons won't help. They'll run me down like a dog, scalp me, skin me, and tie me up to suffer and dry in the prairie sun.

Then couples of shotgun could help a lot.... just said "I have the Thunder's power... everybody... bow to me or face my wrath!!!"

[Megas Methuselah]

Then couples of shotgun could help a lot.... just said "I have the Thunder's power... everybody... bow to me or face my wrath!!!"

Haha, you think my ancestors are mindless savages?

[Cute Wolf]

Haha, you think my ancestors are mindless savages?

I'm quite sure they never see a shotgun before...

Not only mindless savages will fear shotgun, but I'm sure that even the brightest Hellenes, Medieval Knights, Persian Scholars, or even anyone before guns was invented, will be shocked...

[satalexton]

Lykos, in ALL history, in ALL times, there is only ONE TRUE BARBAROI.

Remember that.

Sorry Meth, Wolf didn't mean it at all =]

[Cute Wolf]

Lykos, in ALL history, in ALL times, there is only ONE TRUE BARBAROI.

Remember that.

Sorry Meth, Wolf didn't mean it at all =]

I only want to give him some advice how to use Psychological warfare, and mount a coup d'etat to his ancestor's rule.... (NOTE: I will do the same thing when I arrive in the very beginning in Nurhaci's reign... but using machine guns and mow those horse archers down to show them... who's the boss)

[Duguntz]

I want to see Mankind subjucate primitive alien worlds as we achieve our manifest destiny in the universe.

seconded (with all the relative context that this post implies)!!!

No need of cannon, wolf! only mistake Native did back in 1492, is that they were friendly with the handful of europeans that came in Antilla, and letted colombus go back to tell what he saw... Then, another mistake made by natives, in 1534, where my people lived (border of Saint Lawrence river, near the present site of montreal) is that they welcomed friendly Jacques Cartier, even leted him make an outpost for his colonist! yes... LETTED him do so, because don't forget, that, back then Native weren't dealing with english and french armies, but only with crew member of a pittyful expedition. Then, with Samuel de Champlain, Algonquin people allied with the french to help fight the Iroquois and English... but anyway... fact is that what destroyed the First Nations, before sickness, was friendship, was generosity. then, sickness and european greed effectivly cleared the path for european dominance in americas... now, just for the fun of it... imagine that, back in 1492, Colombus and his remaining 30 or so crew, would have been killed, and never got back to spain to tell the crown (who already didn't believed he'd make it back) what he saw... History MAY have been VERY different...

@Satalexton : We never shall forget who are the TRUE Barbaroi ;)

[Bucefalo]

5 years old, but with the knowledge i have now.

[jirisys]

seconded (with all the relative context that this post implies)!!!

No need of cannon, wolf! only mistake Native did back in 1492, is that they were friendly with the handful of europeans that came in Antilla, and letted colombus go back to tell what he saw... Then, another mistake made by natives, in 1534, where my people lived (border of Saint Lawrence river, near the present site of montreal) is that they welcomed friendly Jacques Cartier, even leted him make an outpost for his colonist! yes... LETTED him do so, because don't forget, that, back then Native weren't dealing with english and french armies, but only with crew member of a pittyful expedition. Then, with Samuel de Champlain, Algonquin people allied with the french to help fight the Iroquois and English... but anyway... fact is that what destroyed the First Nations, before sickness, was friendship, was generosity. then, sickness and european greed effectivly cleared the path for european dominance in americas... now, just for the fun of it... imagine that, back in 1492, Colombus and his remaining 30 or so crew, would have been killed, and never got back to spain to tell the crown (who already didn't believed he'd make it back) what he saw... History MAY have been VERY different...

@Satalexton : We never shall forget who are the TRUE Barbaroi ;)

Conjugation FAIL!

Anyway: 2 times, 35 CE (so i can kill jesus myself and declare the ruling church, the of the flying spaghetti monster one)

3/Oct/1492 on Guanahani, to tell Colombus (with some heavy assault rifles and shotguns) that if he enslaved or touched any indian i will blow his brain out, and kill everyone else

~Jirisys (agree with Meth, can i haz a ballon? lol, just kidding)

[Duguntz]

I admit, my conjugaison i nenglish suck asses... But yet, in french I've a poetry book soon to be edited XD congugaison : NOT FAILED!

[Fluvius Camillus]

Conjugation FAIL!

Anyway: 2 times, 35 CE (so i can kill jesus myself and declare the ruling church, the of the flying spaghetti monster one)

3/Oct/1492 on Guanahani, to tell Colombus (with some heavy assault rifles and shotguns) that if he enslaved or touched any indian i will blow his brain out, and kill everyone else

~Jirisys (agree with Meth, can i haz a ballon? lol, just kidding)

If you want no christianity you should instead let him live, and let him have a peaceful little life.

~Fluvius

[Duguntz]

BACK TO TOPIC!!!!

[plutoboyz]

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Anyway: 2 times, 35 CE (so i can kill jesus myself and declare the ruling church, the of the flying spaghetti monster one)...

then people will crucified you, like they did to Jesus. :p

anyway back to topic. I really want to be involved in Bubat tragedy. resolving misunderstanding by killing Gajah Mada. yeah!