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Tranceownslol can't be 15. I call alt

1800's

I don't know; maybe a dozen centuries ago or so.

I want to play life on hard mode. Life should be a challenge, but today's society is so backwards that I would have to go very far out of my way to avoid having all my basic needs met. Human beings have an inherent need to confront meaningful problems. These days, most people have to resort to deluding themselves into believing that the most petty inconveniences and insubstantial obstacles are crises of the highest order.

It's really rather tragic: our ancestors grew too adept at overcoming their problems. So now, with the only real problems trivialized, we spend our energies fighting imaginary ones. If you spend your life dealing with fake problems, then it seems to me you are basically living a fake life.

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Originally posted by boris_the_bear im happy with the era i live in. be it another time, i could've been killed in a war, mowed down by a pandemic or shot by a traveling gang

all of which are still quite possible today. lol.

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Originally posted by Arbiter I don't know; maybe a dozen centuries ago or so. I want to play life on hard mode. Life should be a challenge, but today's society is so backwards that I would have to go very far out of my way to avoid having all my basic needs met. Human beings have an inherent need to confront meaningful problems. These days, most people have to resort to deluding themselves into believing that the most petty inconveniences and insubstantial obstacles are crises of the highest order. It's really rather tragic: our ancestors grew too adept at overcoming their problems. So now, with the only real problems trivialized, we spend our energies fighting imaginary ones. If you spend your life dealing with fake problems, then it seems to me you are basically living a fake life.

i bet you wouldnt last 5 seconds 1200 years ago. the only thing that big brain of yours would get you back then is killed

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Originally posted by Arbiter I don't know; maybe a dozen centuries ago or so. I want to play life on hard mode. Life should be a challenge, but today's society is so backwards that I would have to go very far out of my way to avoid having all my basic needs met. Human beings have an inherent need to confront meaningful problems. These days, most people have to resort to deluding themselves into believing that the most petty inconveniences and insubstantial obstacles are crises of the highest order. It's really rather tragic: our ancestors grew too adept at overcoming their problems. So now, with the only real problems trivialized, we spend our energies fighting imaginary ones. If you spend your life dealing with fake problems, then it seems to me you are basically living a fake life.

That's a very interesting take on modern life, and not all that ridiculous.

Have you ever wondered why mental issues like depression and ADD aren't present in Africa? It may well be because those afflictions are unknown/unreported, but I think it's more likely that Western society has created these conditions like some kind of giant, society-wide psychosomatic action.

I think you're right in a way; the average modern man isn't faced with enough challenges and so has to invent them for himself.

Hey guys, i heard our well established health regulation system in this beautiful industrialized nation has granted certifications to witch doctors and voodoo magic.

No, that would not boil over well with the public, which is why they (africa humans)have their magic for adsandess, and we are spending 90million a day with super computers trying to mix lithium and helium together in the form of a "pill" which will solve sdepresion

to be a teenager in either the 80s or 90s. i was a kid in the 90s and im a teenager of the 00s. everyone tells me id fit into the 80s perfectly though. my type of music and the entire new wave / romanticism era is pretty much what im about .

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Originally posted by narcism 60's the beatles

and the 1990s..if i was only 5 years older at the time..

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Originally posted by KilldaDJ and the 1990s..if i was only 5 years older at the time..

You have the worst avatar on this entire forum.

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Originally posted by Arbiter I don't know; maybe a dozen centuries ago or so. I want to play life on hard mode. Life should be a challenge, but today's society is so backwards that I would have to go very far out of my way to avoid having all my basic needs met. Human beings have an inherent need to confront meaningful problems. These days, most people have to resort to deluding themselves into believing that the most petty inconveniences and insubstantial obstacles are crises of the highest order. It's really rather tragic: our ancestors grew too adept at overcoming their problems. So now, with the only real problems trivialized, we spend our energies fighting imaginary ones. If you spend your life dealing with fake problems, then it seems to me you are basically living a fake life.

you think that's bad, did you see that last episode of The Hills?!

You are speaking on behalf of the minority of todays population. Why go back 1200 years when you can worry solely about where to get your next meal in Somalia today? not so romantic anymore is it...

Victorian, easily.

1950'a is a close 2nd.

So what about you, Domesticated? Which era, and why?

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Originally posted by Sushipunk So what about you, Domesticated? Which era, and why?

He'd like to live during the height of the Roman empire so he could bone all the young boys he wants.

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Originally posted by Audious He'd like to live during the height of the Roman empire so he could bone all the young boys he wants.

Wasn't that the Greeks? Or both? He does live in Melbourne though.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Wasn't that the Greeks? Or both? He does live in Melbourne though.

Both.

i'm perfect with the time era we're living in right now. if anything, it's the future i want to see, which doesn't scare me one bit as i have faith in humanity (lol).

1930s. Not for fashion or music, but to see the places of the world that have now been overdone, commercialised etc, eg the best beaches & of course, Art-Deco is cool. Also houses built in the 1930s take the best bit out of victorian era ones and make them better. Win.

i wonder if people's choices would differ if they didn't get to choose the social strata they'd be born into in ye olden days. does anyone really want to live like 2009 indian serfs in medieval europe during the black death? sure, it might be life on "hard mode" but i tend to subscribe to this theory: the generations that suffered before me did so in order for me to indulge myself and have fun.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN i wonder if people's choices would differ if they didn't get to choose the social strata they'd be born into in ye olden days. does anyone really want to live like 2009 indian serfs in medieval europe during the black death? sure, it might be life on "hard mode" but i tend to subscribe to the theory: the generations that suffered before me did so in order for me to indulge myself and have fun.

I cba to find your first post, but I remember being aged 10 at school and my teacher for the year was mad at my fascination with computers and told me several times that they would never ever lead to anything good or productive. Maybe I should give him a call & ask what he thinks now

The 90s were awesome but then again I already lived in that period. I agree that we're in the golden age now. Anything before doesn't compare when you look at the big picture (except maybe the late 90s...)

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Originally posted by Fledz The 90s were awesome but then again I already lived in that period. I agree that we're in the golden age now. Anything before doesn't compare when you look at the big picture (except maybe the late 90s...)

Nah, the 90s were way cooler than the 00s. Culturally, this decade has been a rather large fail.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Nah, the 90s were way cooler than the 00s. Culturally, this decade has been a rather large fail.

i shot a kookaburra in the 00s though. that's gotta be worth something.

i wish i was born in the 70s so i could be able to live in the 80s... seeing as how i was born in 89, i was born in the 80s, yet never experienced one bit of it, but if i could only live in one decade, it would be the 90s;

cmon, it had bill clinton, video games, tv shows, movies, and the golden era of trance music.

are you kidding me?

its like after the y2k scare, pretty much everyone got scared, emo, and rampant on destroying everything the world; including the environment.

and the only thing thats going for this decade is technology.

...and the iphone as it seems.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN i shot a kookaburra in the 00s though. that's gotta be worth something.

Native animals are highly protected, under law. Are you owning up for a massive fine PKC?

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