by DakotaRed 51 Replies latest jw friends
Like xw, I would like to have been a Native American living before the 1700s.
Edited to add: Although I would have loved for my buck to bring me home some scalps from those damn pesky Europeans, I've got to go with Francois on this one. I would like to have been an Indian priestess/princess living prior to when the white men came.
Edited by - windchaser on 27 October 2002 13:44:21
My childhood was filled with stories about cowboys and the Wild West. When the UK got it's second TV channel in 1955, we were flooded with imported Westerns. To name a few: Cheyenne, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, Have gun will travel, loads that I can't recall at the moment.
Even now, the idea of riding a horse with my sixgun strapped to my side, wearing a wide brimmed hat, white of course, appeals to me immensely.
Englishman.
No, we don't have to go back in time. If we had the monetary funds we can exactly do what we like to do. How about Bo Derek and her many horses and living in the country? Doesn't she look healthy?
Guest 77
Most definitely the 1920's, the heady decade of incredible advances in theoretical physics. Arthur Compton, P.A.M. Dirac, Erwin Schroedinger, George Gamow, Loius deBroglie, Max Born, Werner Heisenberg and the like...developing some of the most momentous theories of matter and energy...quantum mechanics, the wave equation, particle physics, applications of general relativity theory, atomic structure...standing on the shoulders of men like Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford, J.J. Thomson, Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Henri Poincare, Hendrick Lorentz, Hermann Weyl.
OH MY!!!!
Craig (of the loves to work the blackboard class)
There were wonderful, thrilling times in the 1914 time period. Why, with Bible prophecy being fulfilled left and right and the opportunity to just be around our first president and the other anointed ones, where else would we want to be? Knowing how we would be pictured as the Elijah class, realizing our heavenly guarantee, what marvelous times to be alive. Oh, how I yearn in the spirit for the good old days!
Thanks for the laugh, minmus.
Guest 77
1960-70's. I would have loved the whole hippie scene! I think I could have made a great "flower child" Free Love...communes....VW van.......the music.......
~Christy of the "wanna be a hippie" class
Dakota Red, I was born in 1940, so I remember part of that era. Big band music was on the radio and on our record player. I also remember the old radio shows, The Green Hornet, The Lone Ranger, The Fat Man, Amos and Andy, Sky King and others. I also remember when tvs were black and white with a very small screen. I remember hot summers with no air conditioning and not being able to sleep because of the heat. I remember coal furnaces and ice boxes with ice, no electrical cooling. I remember out houses and no in door toilet when we lived in the country. I have good childhood memories, but it was not all fun and games. Me, I prefer today with modern conveniences.
I was a teenager through the 60's. It wasn't a bad time for a kid. Post birth control and pre AIDS. Most STD's were cured with a single shot.
There are so many eras I think I would enjoy that I guess I'd need a time machine.
The next one might be pretty fun too.
I would have loved to have been a late-teen/adult in the '60's. All the things going on, peace protests, equal rights for all, awesome bands, and Woodstock!
Closest I can get now is a regional Burning Man (and someday, hopefully, the big one).
