If you could....

[Danustouch]

If you had a time machine, and could travel back to any place, time, event, or period in history, where would it be?

[Earthcup]

Atlantis just to see what it was like if it ever existed...

[Azure]

Ha! I'd probably have a brain hemmorage from the stress of trying to decide, if there was only one.

[Melysande]

Pleistocene Epoch. Or else the 24th century (in Trek history) after the Dominion War.

[Theres]

man, that would be hard to decide.
perhaps London in the late 19th century. the Golden dawn, Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes (he was too real!). revolutions in art, music, and invention.
a rich period indeed.

[Mnemosyne]

I am quite fascinated with classical Greece. However, I don't think that I, being a woman, would likee to be in that time period, since all the good women had to sit at home working on their looms. I'll have to think about the questions thoroughly before I decide. After all, I would have to consider how social class and gender would affect my life if I took a time machine to visit the past.

[Danustouch]

Some Events I would like to witness, if I had a time machine:

The Ghettysburgh Address,
The Sighning of the American Declaration of Independence,
Patrick Henry's Speech,

I think I'd like to travel back, and meet Jesus during one of his teachings...maybe, the one where he spoke the "Beatitudes"...

An ancient Beltaine Festival,

Arthurian times, to see if he really existed, once and for all...

those are the ones I came up with right away...oh..and the March On Washington for the Civil Rights Movement, where Martin Luther King made his famous speech.

And..of course...the First Woodstock :)

[Ball-Bhreac Ròn]

oh, definately just Britain in the Iron Age...:mmm:...but I wouldn't like to go there with all the knowledge I have today, I think that it would be too hard, because I know how easy life could be. If I was reborn there, as myself, then I suppose I'd be happy.

[Flaire-FireStar]

The landing of the first Europeans on North America
One of the ice ages. :)
To the Pax Romana (I think that's what it was called)

[Mnemosyne]

Good choice, Flaire. I would love to visit Rome during the Pax Romana. I don't know about the Ice Age though. bbrrrr.
I think that it might be kind of interesting to live during the Scientific Revolution. I would be able to see all the progress people were making in the fields of astronomy and math.

[Calixto]

Oh man!

What a list of times....dude, I'd be awfully busy. :)

I happen to live 3 blocks from the church where Patrick Henry gave his famous speech...

[Danustouch]

Cool! I think that that is one of the most tremendous speeches ever given. Totally inspirational.

I would like to see the speech that William Wallace gave to his men, too..but..heh...I have this tiny eensy weensy thing about bloodshed, so I don't think i'd linger around for long. lol.

[Flaire-FireStar]

Originally posted by Mnemosyne
Good choice, Flaire. I would love to visit Rome during the Pax Romana. I don't know about the Ice Age though. bbrrrr.
I think that it might be kind of interesting to live during the Scientific Revolution. I would be able to see all the progress people were making in the fields of astronomy and math.

As much as I hated learning about it in school...I think it would be a great place to visit if I could. :)

[Theres]

the very beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
maybe i could throw a wrench in the works and get them to think twice!

[Danustouch]

Sounds like a good idea, Greenman..but then...we wouldn't have our computers to talk about it :) heheheh. And it would then be unlikely for you to have developed this hypothetical time machine, and you might get trapped there...heheheh.

I would also like to be around during the pioneer days, I think :)

[Mnemosyne]

Why would you like to visit the Pioneer Days, Danustouch? We always used to learn about the pioneers in elementary school here. I know that this must be a stereotype of the pioneers, but they were always shown working, working, working, and working. I was just wondering what kind of fun these folks had.

[Danustouch]

I'm not implying that I'd like to visit because i think it would be completely fun. But rather because so much of these lands had not been settled, and not been explored yet, it would be amazing to see the US in that "rough" state, as yet, fairly untouched. I guess that is basically why. Wide open spaces..how differen't everything must have looked then. And to be able to explore some of it..now THAT would have been fun.

[Mnemosyne]

I understand your point completely, Danustouch; it would have been exciting to have seen new lands for the first time. I was thinking a lot about that yesterday after I read your post. Yes, I went to this museum near my home called the Workmen and Temple Homestead Museum. These men. Workmen and Temple. owned a HUGE part of the LA area from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. I learned how these men first settled back east and then ended up settling in New Mexico. After troubles with the Mexican government, they moved to the LA area. I can't believe that this area was once so desolate. Well, thanks for making me think about being a pioneer, Danustouch.

[Danustouch]

Yep, Mneosymne, I watched a documentary a while ago about how LA got it's start. It's amazing to see how it has grown from such roots....