A time before computers and such?
People were alive then?!?
There WAS a time before computers?!?!?
Brain....exploding....

Nah, I like the modern times myself, the technology kicks ass and things are so much better ordered and organised but the politics suck (won't go any futher than that )

Before ANYBODY asks....
I had my username BEFORE the game even existed. Thank you.

Hell no! FD, you crazy.

So much for leave i had to respond to this...


FD i can see what your saying but no, i find the future is where we should be. That doesnt mean we all become cyborg computer nuts, i love going down to cape code (the one place in america i like and was born) and fishing and sailing. But that simplier time is also a time where more died due to worse medicine and surgery techniques. Also car's were badly designed without extensive computer testing.

Sure there are aspects of the future that are bad but the gain can and is much greater. Besides a world without EDM (Code that was for you, i was gunna say techno) would really bite.

Actual, for me, it is before cars. You had only to feed and keep your horse in order to get around.

Heh. In my case, I'd go back to the 1950s and 1960s.

i'd go foward and play halo 4

i dont care about quotas, about rushing, i can sit under a tree and relax. But you wont apreciate relaxing unless you have something stressfull to relax from.

If you spent all your in hobbiton, eventually you're going to yearn for excitement.

I like the current situation. Sure there's social groups that i have a problem with, but by in large, life's grand. And there's nothing stopping me moving out to the country to be a farmer, or to live in a cottage, free from electricity, and live off the little bit of land i own.

no

Uhm.....why exactly do you think things in the past were simpler times? What gave you that idea? Movies? Tv shows?

Times in the past are as hard as they are nowadays. Toys that we have nowadays like cars and computers haven't really simplified our lives all that much if at all. Back then, you were a lot more susceptible to diseases. You couldnt jut drop by your local drug store to pick up some Pepto Bismol if you know what i mean. You had to tough it out.

Life was as difficult as it is today. Just a different kind of difficulty.

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heck no, if i could take digital cameras and the capacity to recharge, and download the pictures from them, then yes

Gotta go with EB I'm afraid. Work would most likely be tougher for lower pay, much less time to spend lazing about. Judging from the pictures you posted FD you yearn for the days of cowboys, and if you were there you'd probably be doing some sort of agricultural work. Even now with all the machinery available to make the job easier being a farmhand is incredibly tiring. I did it briefly at one time, you'd spend your lunch break wolfing down a lunch you'd never normally have the appetite for and then you'd pass out and bleed every ounce of rest possible out of your break. Not exactly relaxing, huh?

I'd go back and change history. I won't say how because it might dredging up politics lol but apart from that I would visit the 1960's, 70's and 80's.

Go to guns 'n roses live concerts, Woodstock '69 and just live in a world where noone gives a damn about what you are and what you do. But I understand what FD is talking about. Where you didn't have to spend 13 years in an institution to succeed and there was no BS in the world, things were straight up. Now you can't trust nobody. Oh well, I guess people will want to live in this era in the future

You are digging for the answers, Until your fingers bleed,
To satisfy the hunger, To satiate the need.
They feed you on the guilt, To keep you humble and low,
Some man and myth they made up, A thousand years ago.

Actually, the old west or that time frame was a lot simpler. Your main worry was putting food on the table. People then cared more about each other. On an average day, I spend 45 min commute to work, work 8 hours, have an hour lunch and spend anywhere from 1 hour to an hour and a half commuting home. Almost 11 hours a day involved in work. Not to metion the stress at work. The old west work was hard, but not that stressful as it is these days, with companies downsizing their staff and the rest haveing to pick up the slack.

The air was clean, the water pure, no pesticides or hormones in your food, that could be imported from all over the world. It was what you rasied and grew. I had a lamb chop the other day, that the package said was imported from astrailia(sp). Not that I have any thing against their lamb, but to import it from so far away, where is the logic.

The beauty of the mountains, compaired to the skyline of a city, there is no compairsume.

It may be more of an issue of age catching up than anything else. But, to have a simpler life, I could give up computers, in a heart beat.

Edit - As far as diseases go, there are more today then back then. Cancer comes from every where today, though I think it is from our food sources, the additives and preservatives. We have children dieing of cancer, and a meriade of other things. So that part can not truly be considered.



Edited by - Finalday on 4/11/2005 5:11:52 AM

In the 1950s and 1960s (especially by the late 1960s), when you compare income percentages, you could save a fair chunk of money aside every year, more so than today, and still be able to come out ahead of the game every year.

And from what all my relatives tell me it definitely was less BS. You could either get a job 'cuz you could do it or you didn't. None of this aptitude-testing, aura-checking, degree-requiring stuff where the company needs to make sure you ain't gonna blow something up.