If you had a time machine, would you...

Robert**** · March 13th, 2009, 01:38 PM

If you had a time machine, which of the following centuries would you most like to visit?

Why?

If you pick "other", please mention which century and why you picked it.

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**Jimi75** · March 13th, 2009, 01:59 PM

I'd be right down there in Israel with Jesus and I'd check out what it is all about him and what he did. I'd enjoy the Sermon on the Mount and I'd be right there in Golgotha. I'd try to become a disciple.

Alternatively, I'd travel with apostle Paul.

NO THIS IS NOT A RELIGIOUS THREAD NOR SHOULD THIS MOTIVATE YOU TO DISCUSS MY CHOICE IN ANY RELIGIOUS WAY.

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**Bloozcat** · March 13th, 2009, 02:23 PM

I think I'd just wait until the Powerball Lottery was worth about 200 million, go forward just enough to see the winning numbers, then come back play those numbers for that week...

Hey, you gotta have some source of income if you're going to be a leisurely time traveler...

Spudman*** · March 13th, 2009, 03:35 PM

I posted 18th century but only if I could take my skills that I currently possess. Otherwise I thought going back before Christ would be cool too but it would be probably 1500 years before...and I'd like to have my current skills.

**street music** · March 13th, 2009, 04:08 PM

I would just choose to be part of the 20th. I haven't seen a lot to sway me to any other time.

**tot_Ou_tard** · March 13th, 2009, 07:44 PM

I picked 24th century so I can visit my great great grandfather. He was a sweet soul & I miss him.

**R_of_G** · March 13th, 2009, 07:56 PM

I chose other. I'd either want to go to somewhere around 500 BC to learn directly from the Buddha, or I'd be happy to visit some parts of last century from slightly before my time to see Miles and Coltrane and George Harrison.

**tjcurtin1** · March 13th, 2009, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by Spudman

I posted 18th century but only if I could take my skills that I currently possess. Otherwise I thought going back before Christ would be cool too but it would be probably 1500 years before...and I'd like to have my current skills.

Hmmm... Spud, what skills are you referring to? They didn't have guitars back then, but you mention your skills twice so I'm curious...

And Robert, what on earth made you put the 9th and 10th centuries among the few options?! A frightening time to be about, I should think...

There's no time like the present; from my knowledge of history, we're pretty fortunate to live where and when we do - if we're just talking a VISIT, any time period has its fascinations for me and amazing personalities to meet - hard to choose! I wouldn't mind going with Tot to the 24th; it's always nice to go somewhere where you know someone you can visit...

**sumitomo** · March 13th, 2009, 09:05 PM

I think it would be cool to meet up with Tot and Duck Dogers in the 24 1/2 century.Sumi

**sunvalleylaw** · March 13th, 2009, 11:01 PM

I say either the 19th century, beginning with the trapper era before Lewis and Clark, or the first half of the 20th century. I am fascinated by American history, and both those periods interest me very much. Jimi's answer is also very compelling though.

**Tone2TheBone** · March 14th, 2009, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by Jimi75

I'd be right down there in Israel with Jesus and I'd check out what it is all about him and what he did. I'd enjoy the Sermon on the Mount and I'd be right there in Golgotha. I'd try to become a disciple.

Alternatively, I'd travel with apostle Paul.

NO THIS IS NOT A RELIGIOUS THREAD NOR SHOULD THIS MOTIVATE YOU TO DISCUSS MY CHOICE IN ANY RELIGIOUS WAY.

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Paul was a convert after the fact so I'd probably want to chill with Peter.

**SuperSwede** · March 15th, 2009, 03:25 AM

I would go back to 1959 and buy a couple of then brand new Les Pauls.
Perhaps a couple of strats as well..

**Guitar-Chris** · March 15th, 2009, 06:32 AM

I wouldn't go that far back. For me, it would be a great pleasure to be part of the hippie subculture around 1967-69. Ok, I was born in 1967 so I'm allready a children of that culture

But beeing around 20-25 that time would be great.

Look what 1967 was in music

**just strum** · March 15th, 2009, 06:46 AM

Hmm, a thread of religion and greed.

I would go forward to see how all of this turned out.

**oldguy** · March 15th, 2009, 07:34 AM

Originally Posted by just strum

Hmm, a thread of religion and greed.

I would go forward to see how all of this turned out.

**just strum** · March 15th, 2009, 07:40 AM

Originally Posted by oldguy

The glass is half full.

**oldguy** · March 15th, 2009, 07:57 AM

Originally Posted by just strum

The glass is half full.

That reminds me............ if I had a time machine, I'd try and find out who first said..........
"An optimist says 'The glass is half full'
A pessimist says 'The glass is half empty'
A realist says 'That glass is twice as large as it needs to be'. "

**just strum** · March 15th, 2009, 08:13 AM

Originally Posted by oldguy

That reminds me............ if I had a time machine, I'd try and find out who first said..........
"An optimist says 'The glass is half full'
A pessimist says 'The glass is half empty'
A realist says 'That glass is twice as large as it needs to be'. "

Well, we know they weren't sitting in a bar when they said it.

**wingsdad** · March 15th, 2009, 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by Guitar-Chris

I wouldn't go that far back. For me, it would be a great pleasure to be part of the hippie subculture around 1967-69. Ok, I was born in 1967 so I'm allready a children of that culture

But beeing around 20-25 that time would be great.

Well, '67 may have had the Summer Of Love and been a great year in music, filling young heads like mine with optimism and idealism, but 1968 wasn't quite as much fun.

In 1968, my generation lost all semblance of the innocence that had spawned that subculture.

If you've got about an hour or so, watch the series of 6 vids here and imagine yourself witnessing these things at the age of 18, as your generation passes from an age of innocence to one of fear and confusion.

If you DON'T have that kind of time, then please skip past 1968 to 1970, to the last video posted here:

I don't want to go back there.

Still think you'd want to?

Maybe if I could just cut everything off at August 1969, with Woodstock.

But if you were a college student on May 4, 1970, gathering around the TV in the dorm with your classmates to watch the evening news that night was the penultimate nightmare:

That evening, I smoked pot for the first time in my life. I couldn't see the point of a future anymore.

The only good thing, I guess, was I also picked up a guitar again that night for the first time in 3 years, having sold all my stuff to 'get serious with life'.

Within the next week or so, the National Guard set up shop on or around campuses throughout the nation in anticipation. My college closed and sent us all home, giving everybody a "Pass" grade for all courses instead of a specific grade. Before they could though, we all tasted tear gas and pepper gas; the Guard shot that stuff off to keep us in our dorms so we wouldn't come out to hurt them with our words.

When I got home, my parents were relieved. I went out and bought my Guild D-40. I still have it, and all the emotions of those times locked into the grain of its wood.

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