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Do you feel like you were born too late in history?
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:15 pmby Keshetar
I am not that good with expressing myself in a long wall of paragraphs but here it goes.
I was born in 1991, which was the last decade of the 20th Century and the last millennium. Sometimes I find it hard to identify with being a 2000s teen. I'd rather been born anytime earlier in history before the time I was really born because I really missed out on some good things. I know that most eras had their own troubles too.
I'm disappointed with the current state of our world governments and the current state of our representative democracy is pretty negative. I always bother my mother with questions and rantings and I get too philosophical sometimes. I don't want the world as we know it to die.
In my lifetime we are also supposed to be the first generation to have it "worse" than our parents, even when we have the advancements our parents didn't, but that doesn't mean much to me. This "technological singularity" and immortality sounds like more dystopia than paradise. If you read Kurzweil, he predicts the singularity to hit in our lifetime at the latest 2045. I wish all this crap could happen after I'm dead, instead. We can't take the bad with the good anymore. There just can't be. For example, I don't think I want to give up learning and working on a craft to earn a good paycheck.
In a short version, I can say that the majority of today's generation's future is very bleak and if I just had a wish at the end of my lifetime, one of them would be to re-live and interact during the time, say when my parents were growing up. Even my parents call it crazy.
Posted:
Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:20 pmby Nervium
Nope.
I mean, it would have been worse.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:21 pmby Olthar
Nope. If anything, I was born too early. I'd have rather been born roughly now-ish, if not later. I'd have liked both greater societal advancement and stronger medical technology when I was a pre-teen. It would have made my life much better. Sure, I enjoy being an OG Pokémon fan and lording that over you kids today, but I would give that up in a heartbeat if I could get the childhood I needed.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:22 pmby Soselo
Thinking about this critically-
NOPE. 
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:24 pmby Imperium Sidhicum
I can relate, though for different reasons.
I wish I was born a time when honour, brave heart and a strong sword arm were a man's most valued possessions, when men were still men and women were women, when things were kept more simple and sensible, and when there was still plenty of unknown lands for brave men to discover and conquer.
I suppose the mission of my current incarnation is to learn to see benefits in the twisted present-day ways as well and realize that truth and right can take many forms.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:25 pmby Zavea
if the alternative is having been born too early and having to experience a fraction of billions of years as an ocean plankton, i'll deal with this era
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:26 pmby Condunum
Keshetar wrote:I am not that good with expressing myself in a long wall of paragraphs but here it goes.
I was born in 1991, which was the last decade of the 20th Century and the last millennium. Sometimes I find it hard to identify with being a 2000s teen. I'd rather been born anytime earlier in history before the time I was really born because I really missed out on some good things. I know that most eras had their own troubles too.
I'm disappointed with the current state of our world governments and the current state of our representative democracy is pretty negative. I always bother my mother with questions and rantings and I get too philosophical sometimes. I don't want the world as we know it to die.
In my lifetime we are also supposed to be the first generation to have it "worse" than our parents, even when we have the advancements our parents didn't, but that doesn't mean much to me. This "technological singularity" and immortality sounds like more dystopia than paradise. If you read Kurzweil, he predicts the singularity to hit in our lifetime at the latest 2045. I wish all this crap could happen after I'm dead, instead. We can't take the bad with the good anymore. There just can't be. For example, I don't think I want to give up learning and working on a craft to earn a good paycheck.
In a short version, I can say that the majority of today's generation's future is very bleak and if I just had a wish at the end of my lifetime, one of them would be to re-live and interact during the time, say when my parents were growing up. Even my parents call it crazy.
Tell me, when would you have preferred to have been born? Before the internet? Before vaccinations? Before sanitation?
The future of most of every generation is bleak. Most people do not go far in life. That is a fact of life in this world.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:26 pmby Greater Weselton
I am fine with when I was born. It would have been nice to appreciate the Padres playing at Qualcomm Stadium though.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:26 pmby Brillnuck
Imperium Sidhicum wrote:I can relate, though for different reasons.
I wish I was born a time when honour, brave heart and a strong sword arm were a man's most valued possessions, when men were still men and women were women, when things were kept more simple and sensible, and when there was still plenty of unknown lands for brave men to discover and conquer.
I suppose the mission of my current incarnation is to learn to see benefits in the twisted present-day ways as well and realize that truth and right can take many forms.
I agree. However, I like today's technology.
I feel like I'm born too late, and too early.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:27 pmby Olthar
Imperium Sidhicum wrote:I wish I was born a time when honour, brave heart and a strong sword arm were a man's most valued possessions, when men were still men and women were women, when things were kept more simple and sensible, and when there was still plenty of unknown lands for brave men to discover and conquer.
Sooo, you wish you were born in a fantasy novel?
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:29 pmby Lancaster of Wessex
I relate. I feel I should have been born in the early 1960s or 1970s perhaps. I've always been an "old soul," even as a child.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:29 pmby Scepez
Probably.
My age is the age-group everyone pretty much hates.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:29 pmby Nervium
Olthar wrote:Imperium Sidhicum wrote:I wish I was born a time when honour, brave heart and a strong sword arm were a man's most valued possessions, when men were still men and women were women, when things were kept more simple and sensible, and when there was still plenty of unknown lands for brave men to discover and conquer.
Sooo, you wish you were born in a fantasy novel?
Where violent and easily preventable death lurked around the corner!
Oh, those were the days!
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:29 pmby Condunum
Soselo wrote:Thinking about this critically-
NOPE. (
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Slavery today is worse (and more plentiful) than it was during the zenith of the atlantic triangle. Slavery is far from an old problem.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:30 pmby Saiwania
I'd like to live in the past but have knowledge of the future, that way I can become very very rich by knowing exactly what to invest in.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:30 pmby Greater Weselton
Condunum wrote:Soselo wrote:Thinking about this critically-
NOPE. (
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Slavery today is worse (and more plentiful) than it was during the zenith of the atlantic triangle. Slavery is far from an old problem.
Slavery barely exists today.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:31 pmby Lancaster of Wessex
Greater Weselton wrote:Condunum wrote:Slavery today is worse (and more plentiful) than it was during the zenith of the atlantic triangle. Slavery is far from an old problem.
Slavery barely exists today.
Slavery is still rife in many places, it's just off the radar, largely. But it exists.
Source:
http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/findings/#how-big-is-the-problem
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:32 pmby Scepez
Greater Weselton wrote:Condunum wrote:Slavery today is worse (and more plentiful) than it was during the zenith of the atlantic triangle. Slavery is far from an old problem.
Slavery barely exists today.
Haha, nope.
I heard slavery in India is a pretty big issue.
Que Manisdog...
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:32 pmby The Orson Empire
No, I don't. I would rather be alive now than at any other point in the past, as life back then was horrible.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:32 pmby Soselo
Condunum wrote:Soselo wrote:Thinking about this critically-
NOPE. (
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Slavery today is worse than it was during the zenith of the atlantic triangle
Oh? Do tell.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:32 pmby Condunum
Greater Weselton wrote:Condunum wrote:Slavery today is worse (and more plentiful) than it was during the zenith of the atlantic triangle. Slavery is far from an old problem.
Slavery barely exists today.
Between 21 million and 30 million slaves worldwide is not barely existing.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:33 pmby Empire of Narnia
Completely disregarding things like technology and healthcare I would want to have lived in the Victorian era, 1950's or 1980's.
That's just judging by culture and fashion though. Technology always moves forward so the modern era has more fun things to do.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:33 pmby Arumdaum
nah
if anything, too early
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:34 pmby Lancaster of Wessex
Empire of Narnia wrote:Completely disregarding things like technology and healthcare I would want to have lived in the Victorian era, 1950's or 1980's.
That's just judging by culture and fashion though. Technology always moves forward so the modern era has more fun things to do.
*laugh* The 1980s were fine for technology and healthcare largely, thank you very much.
I miss life pre-Internet.
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Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:34 pmby Liberatin
No, I am fine with the time I was born. These times are far more interesting.