One way time travel: which way do you go?

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Go back into the past farther than the last century means you get to experience the hygienic practices of that time. No thank you, I like my toilet.
 
Zzyzx_Road said:
Go back into the past farther than the last century means you get to experience the hygienic practices of that time. No thank you, I like my toilet.
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People never washing their hands…food preparation practices that would horrify a serial killer…chamber pots being emptied into the streets…folks bathing once a week, if then…no such thing as shampoo/shaving cream/toothpaste…no such thing as fabric softener (ever worn clothes laundered without it? A hairshirt is infinitely more comfortable)…no antibiotics…no anaesthetic…the picture grows more dire hourly…
 
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Zzyzx_Road:
Go back into the past farther than the last century means you get to experience the hygienic practices of that time. No thank you, I like my toilet.
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People never washing their hands…food preparation practices that would horrify a serial killer…chamber pots being emptied into the streets…folks bathing once a week, if then…no such thing as shampoo/shaving cream/toothpaste…no such thing as fabric softener (ever worn clothes laundered without it? A hairshirt is infinitely more comfortable)…no antibiotics…no anaesthetic…the picture grows more dire hourly…
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So jumping forward a thousand years, do you think we were as good now as we were going to get?
 
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So jumping forward a thousand years, do you think we were as good now as we were going to get?
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Its not a one way road, living standards could easily decline rather precipitously in the future.

They did in the past, the classical era before the fall of Rome in the 5th Century was a much more genteel life than in 1000 AD
 
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I’d travel back to the 1820s. Find out about my ancestors that I’m currently trying to research.

Failing that, I’d go back to the Tudor times, just to see what Henry VIII and his successive wives were like. And Mary and Elizabeth I.
 
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That’s just the thing though. I don’t know if that’s entirely true. I suspect my future self may, au contraire, be living in the past. It’s hard to verify though. People like that are awfully hard to connect with.
 
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I would also like to go back to London around the turn of the 16th century and see Shakespeare’s plays at the Globe. Many linguists now think the London accent of that era was identical to a modern-day Boston accent, and I 'd love to hear Romeo intoning ‘But saaft! What light through yaandah window breaks?’ It would also be interesting to see boys playing the female roles, as was done at that time. To see boys playing Lady Macbeth, or the wicked sisters Goneril and Regan, is an unimaginable experience.
 
You can relive the experience now. They have built a replica Globe in London. My wife and I went to see Hamlet there a couple of years ago. You sit in the same type of seats or stand in front of the stage exactly as you would have done in the original. And if you stand and it rains, you get wet. Luckily we were sitting as it absolutely poured down half way through the play.

All the female parts were actually played by females by the way.
 
Yeah, but I want the whole original experience: boys as Juliet, Rosalind and Cressida; weird Bean-town accent, all of it.
 
Zzyzx_Road said:
Go back into the past farther than the last century means you get to experience the hygienic practices of that time. No thank you, I like my toilet.
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Yes we use to wipe our bums with our hands and then smell them. So what? Why are you so prejudice against ancient practices?
 
IWantGod said:
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Zzyzx_Road:
Go back into the past farther than the last century means you get to experience the hygienic practices of that time. No thank you, I like my toilet.
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Yes we use to wipe our bums with our hands and then smell them. So what? Why are you so prejudice against ancient practices?
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I should tell you guys how this should work.

It’s like you’ve got the choice of two Tardis (Tardii?). Each has all the mod cons and you can return to the present any time. But one will only send you back in time (and return you) and the other will only send you forwards (and return you).
 
As much as I would like to go back and correct the mistakes I made years and years ago, and I have thought about it-I wouldn’t be where I am now.
If I had made some different choices, I wouldn’t have these children I have now, because I would be living elsewhere and would not have married my husband(I may have a different husband and children and wouldn’t know any different I guess.) Or no husband and children and not know any different.
That’s a tough one.
I think we are meant to travel in time second by second to the future.
With Jesus return time as we know it will cease to exist- we will live in the eternal now.
There is actually a scientist (physicist) trying to create a time machine to go back to see his Dad who died when he was a baby. You can Google it.
I wonder what the moral aspect of traveling in time would be from God’s point of view, and trying to change things, could they be changed, ect.
 
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Futaba said:
Can you elaborate more about this? [the rapture]
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That would seriously derail this thread. If you are curious about the Catholic perspective of the rapture and end times, the main site of catholic.com has information on it. Or you can start your own thread on the topic – I actually highly recommend that course of action. 😃
 
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