Does It Bother You That You Were Not Alive in 1888?

[sdreid]

No to either. The maximum human life span has been determined to be ~125 so I'll be gone by 2072 unless there's some sort of breakthrough. That doesn't mean that I won't be trying for 2088 though.

[DVV]

My beloved Chris is gone, and I'm hoping to join him sooner rather than later.

Dear Ginger, I know what you mean.
But my Lydia would hate hear me say so.
Sooner, later...let's say I don't care.
I just want to join her, anytime.

[GUT]

I'm by no means wealthy, but I've got all kinds of luxuries, and toys, and a general quality of life that kings and emperors couldn't have managed a hundred years ago. I like it where I am.

Nor, though, would I want to be physically immortal, although I do believe that people who can hang on for another 50-75 years or so will probably have that chance. My beloved Chris is gone, and I'm hoping to join him sooner rather than later.

G'day Ginger

What you say reminds me of a dear frien who was born n the late 1800's and lived to the 1980s he grew up in a family in England with servants but after his fathers death the family fell on hard times.

He always said he had more servants in the 1970's than his family had in the early 1900's just that now he called them a Hoover, Electricity a Washing Machine a telephone and the like.

I am sorry that you are missing your beloved so much, but know that I would feel the same if I lost my darling.

[DVV]

And I must, by the way, congratulate England for its excellent Bowmore and Bruichladdich.

[DVV]

Hi David

Nietzsche would have been in hot water with the Scots for transferring Hume to the English.

Robert, I've decided Scots are English since the referendum that Nietzsche clearly foresaw.

[Ginger]

I would be happy to be alive in any bygone era if I was a multi millionaire because poor or working class people had it tough.

I'm by no means wealthy, but I've got all kinds of luxuries, and toys, and a general quality of life that kings and emperors couldn't have managed a hundred years ago. I like it where I am.

Nor, though, would I want to be physically immortal, although I do believe that people who can hang on for another 50-75 years or so will probably have that chance. My beloved Chris is gone, and I'm hoping to join him sooner rather than later.

[Steadmund Brand]

Hi David

Nietzsche would have been in hot water with the Scots for transferring Hume to the English.

Hi Louisa

I'm not sure I'd like to be alive in a previous era even as a multi-millionaire. Think of the medicine. Think of the dentistry.

Go back 400 years and I'd have been too early for Mozart.

No, I'd like to visit other eras in a time machine, popping in and then popping out again.

Now thats the answer!!!.. I would love to go see a few events and get out...

I would never have wanted to live then, I am way too big for that era..and sideshow life wouldnt be for me.. plus buying or even finding clothes to fit.. yikes... shoes alone would be impossible to find (and no i'm not "freakish" by todays standards... still huge, but not freakish.. 6 feet 5 inches 300 plus pounds.. in 1888..."freakish")

Steadmund Brand

[Robert]

Hi David

Nietzsche would have been in hot water with the Scots for transferring Hume to the English.

Hi Louisa

I'm not sure I'd like to be alive in a previous era even as a multi-millionaire. Think of the medicine. Think of the dentistry.

Go back 400 years and I'd have been too early for Mozart.

No, I'd like to visit other eras in a time machine, popping in and then popping out again.

[DVV]

Calling Nietzshe...calling Nietzsche...

How Brown was alive in 1888.

"Les Anglais.... cette race si peu philosophe..."

Grrr... I've quoted the other post....but casebook quotes the other post.

[louisa]

I would be happy to be alive in any bygone era if I was a multi millionaire because poor or working class people had it tough.

If you believe in reincarnation then we've never stopped being alive, in one body or another.

[Robert]

How Brown was alive in 1888.

[AlanG]

no and no

[Harry D]

It's actually kind of a moot question. 'You' are the genetic makeup of your parents, and their parents, and so on and so forth, reaching back generations. Your sense of self and identity has been shaped by the culture and society you were raised in. Therefore, how does one rationalize the idea of being born in a completely different time and/or place?

[Robert]

Calling David Hume....calling David Hume...

[pinkmoon]

A life of misery and poverty no thanks? however the chance not to be with the wife it could well be the thumbs up on this one