If I could go to any time and place I would go to the 1600's on the Northwest coast of the US and be a native American, living in unequaled beauty and eating all the good food that is here!

What about you?

ooh ooh dont foget tribal warfare the french plaguing your people with dirty blankets, getting tricked out of your lands, and OOOOoh top it all off Some indian nations practiced canabalism =P

Wow
That is very interesting. I would like to hear more and even all there is to know.
Please don't skip anything.
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whoops
sorry I didn't mean to smile at the wrong time.

TR

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If i could go to any time and place.... it would be the shower in PoD's apartment.... while she was in it..... no wait thats to stalkery... ummm... Id bring a few dozen automatic rifles and cases of ammo back to 563 AD and Take over the world (dont forget your riot gear to prevent arrow attacks ! =) )

"give me your kingdom or ill give you more of my boom stick!"

I'll like to go back in time to let's say 564 AD and give'm lot's of M64 with ammo and instruct them on the art of welcoming "god-conquerors" from the future so they can provide them with a "warm" welcome and all the honors such a visit provides.

Well truly my tought goes more like if I was sent to the past, a few 100's so it is interesting...what the hell could I re-invent (or reproduce is the better word).

Could I make electricity?, what about a light bulb?, rubber?, plastic?

A Pascal adding computer, etc?...

...after much tought I came to the conclusion that I spent way too much time in WOL and haven't learned how to make even fire...let alone war

ya... wuold be so fun watching them gawk in amazement at a zippo.... "the lord.. .he doth maketh flame from yon finger!"

squirt gun in one hand.... zippo in the other, and tell them you control the elements!

I would go back to the garden of eden and stop those idiots from eating the forbidden fruit. If god was truly wise he would of destroyed humans then. They had a choice of listening to the being that created them, or listening to a snake. How could somebody be so stupid. Granted it was a woman that actually chose to listen to the snake, Adam simply showed that even at the beggining men were whipped. God was probably thinking "I'll give them another chance, after all they can't do anything as stupid as this again." I think we have managed to surpass that level of stupidity though.

probably cause it never happend. Biblical historical evidence is shoddy... kingdoms that existed in the bible most times dont exist in real life, no record of king solomon exists, in anything but the bible, also in the time if Jesus jews taught through depiction, they would tell a story and at the heart of the story was a moral, this is actually about the time the bible was created.

Also before Christianity there were hundreds of other religions, what makes everyone think that just cause its the latest fad that its the right one?

Another thing, storys like jonah, and moses, and noah and the ark, are loosely taken from other religions (Noah and the ark bieng a prime example, a similar story appears in 3 other religions that PREDATE christianity, the earliest bieng a man who escaped a flood by building a boat for his family and animals, ill get more info later)

One thing i like to do is this.... have your faith, believe what you want, but dont be arrogant enough to believe that your faith is all that can be.... *(not sayin anyone is arrogant here just pointing out tipical religious believers) YOu do not know the truth, you know what your heart tells you, Sometims the heart is right, sometimes it is wrong, arrogance is saying that your never wrong.

Faith- the belief in someone or something.

I believe there is some higher power.... something had to start this whole thing off... i do not believe humans were sole creatures, i do believe we evolved... i dont believe it was due to any direct intervention from a divine bieng... I believe basically the universe is a cosmic experiment.... Geological records can go back as far as before the bible... to ignore such facts is in itself arrogant.... if you and another woman were stranded on a island, within 4 generations your great great great grandchildren would be retarded.... your great great grandchildren would suffer various defects....

Another point id like to explain. You are in a lab.... your tampering with chemicals and you notice youve created single celled organisms.... YOU created them they did not exist before (yes it can be done please dont start) Do you explain to them why you created them? Do you talk to them and tlel them how you built them in hopes they understand? DO you test them without telling each individual one that they are bieng tested

My example... god expects man to do right without explainging what right is, dont say "the bible says whats right" cause the bible is "new" in the ages of man... and before it were people that never even saw or heard of a bible, cause it wasnt invented yet, there are islands today that people do not have any contact with christianity, are you saying htey are doomed to hell because of the dumluck of bieng bornbefore the bible? or in a place where one is not available or known of? are you saying that billions of asians are doomed to die because there cultural religion does not show them "god" in your vision? that is what the bible teaches. it says those who do not follow god and tkae him into there heart shall never reach heaven? again... take the bible as a guiding path for moral direction... but dont take it too close to heart as if its words are law, cause there are so many parts of the bible that are wrong its not funny.... and ive posted links to passages YOU youself can read that contradict other parts of the same bible version.... EVEN int he original versions and various offtexts and rewrites.... children giving birth tot here own greatgrandfathers.

This is why i pretty much look at the bible as jews taught in the year of christs birth (if he existed, though evidence shows a man named jesus DID preach christianity in that time) Jews in that time taught through story telling, they made up elaborate storys to show a moral of the story, dont steal... dont kill... dont let whales swallow you whole.....

"and jesus walked on water" um... ya thats one way of translating the actual text... in hebrew it also translates "and jesus walked By the water" .... by and on are two very big differances... but to show that jesus worked miracles... lets make a guess as to what the re-writers wrote in eh?

Much of ancient history in general is "hearsay" and if the history of whoever is telling it has been tainted by those about whom he is telling, it obviously can be obscured even more so.
Most educated people always consider the source when reading something derogatory and even go beyond to find motives.
Yes many who point fingers and make accusations have a "skelton in their own closet".

TR

DoRW you really need to get a sense of humor. I make a joke and get a disertation on religion. I am well aware of human evolution, I also have a certificate proclaiming me an ordained minister. When I recieved the offer in the mail I thought that it was to good of a joke to pass up.

"you too can mollest boys... apply from home through your PC!"

Can we all say "OFF TOPIC"? I think so!

How about I go back to the first caveman to make fire and kill him? We might be in the garden of Eden but we would be mighty cold!

i say we go back in time and start a extensive breeding program with kittens, choosing only the meanest and fiercest, and create a army of evil demon kittens and unleash them on the modern world!

Mhhh! ejem! DoRW, hasn't that already happened ... I mean aren't all cats evil egocentric demons?

* runs to hide away from the cat lovers *

If genetic engineers caused each generation to be 1" shorter in about 3000 to 4000 years the average human being would only be 1' tall and all our problems would be over.

TR

I would go to the 70s and become a rock star, I already got the fro, I'd fit right in!

Which band would you have been in? Earth, Wind and Fire? The Dazz Band? Maybe a backup singer to Donna Summer? With a fro like that you could have almost been in The Band of Gypsies! 'cept for the white skin part, I mean...too bad about that.

I would go back to Late Second Early Third Century China to see the Fall of the Han Dynasty... Possibly try to prevent it.

BYO Firearm.