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

[Robert]

How Brown was alive in 1888.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[DVV]

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

[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]

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.

[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.

[c.d.]

Folks please read post number 4 in this thread. What is being posted now is not what I intended. It is a philosophical question and has nothing to do with what a particular time period might have to offer.

c.d.

[Beowulf]

My grandfather was born 1900, very close to that time. He was from Scotland, tall and thin and looked quite a bit like all those guys over there at that time. He was very old fashioned and quite intelligent. My grandmother close to that time, and from Ireland very much old fashioned and kept her place. They had a lot to do with my childhood.

Being an American I thought everybody ate eggs in the shell out of an egg cup, said aeroplane, whirlybird, cont-n-entl for continental and many other things for a long time. When the truth finally unfolded, and still is actually, I was surprised to find out how immersed in some of that older other culture I was. How comfortable it is to me. I think it's possible I would have felt somewhat cozy in 1888.

So in thinking of this, yes, I think in a way, it does.

[GUT]

Some rude people on these boards have implied that I like to stir .

So on the philosophical side,

If you believe in life after death, the Christian sort, Reincarnation or some other formulation, not being alive in 2088 cannot bother you [as you will be]. Now with many of those belief systems you ere also alve in 1888 so again it shouldn't bother you.

[lynn cates]

philosophy

Hello CD. Pursuant to your request elsewhere, I have looked over this thread. Yes, #4 helps--but "bother" is hardly a philosophical term.

I think Julie--post #9--nailed it: at least, from a quasi-Thomistic point of view.

Cheers.
LC