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[CyberMisterBeauty]

Now imagine put a person of the year 3000 B.C in an apple store or in a night club!!!

[SG-1]

you should check out the amish teens during rumspringa. this was a great documentary in national geographic. and yes, they think rock music is loud and noisy, violent, and a work of the devil. it made them very uncomfortable. the end is quite interesting though.

Nice video, I watched all of it and I respect their beliefs, I just feel bad for them since they are doing all that in vain lol.

[EVanimations]

Wow. Very interesting to take another look at our society from a different (if not backward and misguided) perspective.

Those shots of Amish people in their natural environment made them look rather miserable. They're not allowed to have any kind of fun at all, and in fact for them "fun" is doing hard manual labor. So many rules they must follow...at one point the girls were talking about "Oh upper-class scottish etiquette is so confusing".

I was also a little offput by how close-minded and brainwashed they were at first, but it was good to see them gradually open up to new ideas.

I guess they reacted to our society as one would expect amish people to act.

[SG-1]

I think that almost sums up what a pre-industrial person would think of our society. Although they probably already knew that those technologies existed when they were getting into it.

[Skuld]

It would be interesting to see a 14th century starved peasants reaction to a KFC buffet...

[eacao]

I have a feeling they'd vomit very quickly because of the grease.

[EVanimations]

One of the implications of time travel: it would be a terrible idea to eat any food from another era.

If you took someone from the remote past, put them in the present, and made them eat some 21st-century food, their stomachs would curl because their bodies simply aren't used to the vast amount of preservatives and chemicals. Who knows how they would react to the flouride in the wells?

Furthermore, food and water from the past is probably lousy with parastites and bacteria that we've never had to deal with. Eat some meat from the 18th century and suddenly you have typhoid fever. Drink some water from 60 years ago and you have dysentry.

I guess from now on we can assume that a fish out of temporal water would despise food not native to its era.

[Earth001]

How how would someone who has watched the original Star Trek Series were to react to seeing the big battles in Star Trek Deep Space 9 Sacrifice of Angels?





Or Other DS9 Battles?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWi-pJLO2m4&feature=related

Edited by Earth001, 21 July 2012 - 05:33 PM.

[kjaggard]

I have to admit I was commenting on something like this last night. The idea of going back to the last closing days of world war 2. Finding some woman coming home from factory work to take care of her child and reavealing our time travels. The story that comes to mind is of a woman who wants to know what great things have come from the country and the world now that the last great war is over, and men like her husband sacrificed themselves to see an end to war.

It depressed the hell out of me. Because here was the notion of a woman dealing with the brute force of horrible things, where the world was litterally coming out of hell. War, pandemics, dust bowl, and great depression, rampant organised crime, ect ect. Yet there was a startling amount of hope. They saw themselves through those times because they knew tomorrow could be made better.

I almost cried thinking of the answers we'd have to give to that kind of hope. Oh sure we went to the moon, but then we pulled back and now it'll take us longer to get back there then it took them to get there in the first place. Sure we've developed the concept of the vaccine to great improvement... only most of the real killer diseases either beat the vaccines now and are deadlier than before, or they elude the ability to vaccinate. The war to end all wars, wasn't the end of war. Our environment is building toward making the world into one big repeat of the dust bowl. Bankers gambled our economy away. The military industrial complex we were warned about came to pass, and we are sliding into another great depression on the global level; the slippery slope well greased by Banker barons like the coal and steel barons of times before.

Education falters and all but a very few manufacturing processes are gone from our shores. In fact america doesn't really make anything of value anymore. The political system is so full of rules lawyers who spin and twist everything to cross the government desks until nobody knows what it means but it doesn't matter because those that govern do so at the behest of lobbyists who work for the banker barons and corporate giants.

Our children become bloated and spoiled, but for all the weight suffer malnutrition regularly.

It's just so horrifying to realise what we'd have to describe about the things they hoped our future might be. But at the same time I know that's one sided view. We've done increadible things, things they dared not dream or imagine because they couldn't believe it was achievable. But I still think about that mother going home from the factory hearing how it all went from then to now. and it's hard not to imagine a sort of sense of hopelessness settle in. They always had that hope that through the sacrifice they made that there would be reward and a bright path blazed before them; a sort of last great effort before the reward.

In me I know we had the ability to do better with that hope. We've pretty much F-ed it up, a lot. We might be on the verge of taking the future and hope back... But then I have a vision of a ragged looking man coming toward me and his style of dress and things he carries speak of thing unknown, yet. And I'm not sure I want to know what he has to say about our tomorrows.

[SG-1]

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Edited by SG-1, 23 March 2013 - 04:06 PM.