What year would you like to have been born?

[Lleytonstation]

Would you change when you were born? If you could?

I feel like I would enjoy life more in a different Era.

For me I wish I was born in 1930. I guess it all depends on where too, but any earlier might be a problem as I honestly don't know I could do what the soldiers did in ww2. Those men were special.

But being young in the 50s and 60s would of been my choice.

Obviously race and other issues play a role, but for me, 1930.

 

[ollinger]

For me I wish I was born in 1930

The start of The Great Depression?? Peculiar choice

 

[Lleytonstation]

The start of The Great Depression?? Peculiar choice

Could make you a stronger person. Maybe that's why ww2 had such heros who did what they had to.

Plus I would have been a kid the entire time.

 

[Sentinel]

2064.

The year the aliens land.

 

[Midaso240]

1945 I'll say, would dodge WW2 and live through some really exciting times. I mean, think of all that happened between 1960 and 1980 and compare it to 2003 and now. Maybe there have been some technology advancements, but the culture overall doesn't seem that much different to what it was 20 years ago...

 

[Legend of Borg]

Now or the future.

Now is a safe bet because it's the known.

The future could be much better to live in or it could be a hellscape. Risky.

You couldn't pay me enough to live in the past. Human history is horrid.

 

[Poisoned Slice]

72 BCE

 

[RS]

I always hear UK was better in this past. Idk though.

I feel like I would have struggled more in the past. lol

 

[Poisoned Slice]

I always hear UK was better in this past. Idk though.

I feel like I would have struggled more in the past. lol

The pre spreadsheet era.

 

[RS]

The pre spreadsheet era.

No TTW

 

[Poisoned Slice]

No TTW

No homework.

 

[Bhagi Katbamna]

The present time is OK but I would have liked to be born in another 30 years. Even during this time, the average person in the west(and a significant number in the third world) live better than kings did.

 

[LuckyR]

The actual year I was born. Great music. Great old fashioned education, yet got to use computers and the internet as an adult. No draft. Economy through the roof during my investing years. Gonna die before the climate and environment make life unlivable. Learned to play tennis in the Golden Age of tennis, yet got to use modern equipment as an adult.

 

[TheNachoMan]

I’m a straight white guy and my parents always tell me how great the 80s were. So I’m gonna say 1970.

 

[Sudacafan]

I am more interested in which income bracket, as long as it is after the 60's.

 

[WYK]

Could make you a stronger person. Maybe that's why ww2 had such heros who did what they had to.

Plus I would have been a kid the entire time.

Being dead or crippled rarely makes you stronger, though, unless you are big into Marvel comics, I guess.
Depending on where you were born in 1930, WWII and the GD definitely would have done something with you.
And lord help you if you were born in Europe or in eastern Asia, regardless of whose side you were on.
For me, it would be to be born just a couple of decades earlier in the US. Be more of an adult in the 50's, 60's and 70's in the US.
Again, you may run the risk of entering WWII, but I am OK with it. Both parents participated. My mother lost her parents in WWII, my father was in the US Army.
What I really would like to do, if I had it to do over, is run away from home when my father was stationed in Hawai'i in the 70's.
I think I would enjoy island life. Poke, surf, sun, Magnum PI, etc.

 

[AO13]

After the World War 2, let's say in 50s.

But if I could choose, I'd chose different country, not the one I was born in 90s.

 

[Lleytonstation]

Being dead or crippled rarely makes you stronger, though, unless you are big into Marvel comics, I guess.
Depending on where you were born in 1930, WWII and the GD definitely would have done something with you.
And lord help you if you were born in Europe or in eastern Asia, regardless of whose side you were on.
For me, it would be to be born just a couple of decades earlier in the US. Be more of an adult in the 50's, 60's and 70's in the US.
Again, you may run the risk of entering WWII, but I am OK with it. Both parents participated. My mother lost her parents in WWII, my father was in the US Army.
What I really would like to do, if I had it to do over, is run away from home when my father was stationed in Hawai'i in the 70's.
I think I would enjoy island life. Poke, surf, sun, Magnum PI, etc.

I do think most people here are saying skip ww2. However, I also think if you grew up in those days you just did it. They were built different, so we probably would have too.

But you are right, depending on religion, race, sex, and many other things, now might be the best for some.

 

[Lleytonstation]

I’m a straight white guy and my parents always tell me how great the 80s were. So I’m gonna say 1970.

In another life you are a huge Pete fan... Could even ended up a fed fan.

 

[Lleytonstation]

Now or the future.

Now is a safe bet because it's the known.

The future could be much better to live in or it could be a hellscape. Risky.

You couldn't pay me enough to live in the past. Human history is horrid.

The future might not be here ha. So that's a risky one.

 

[MichaelNadal]

Exactly when I was. Grew up in the 90s, saw technology change SO MUCH and will die before AI and climate change kill everyone.

 

[Rago]

Whatever year was before 'modern humanity' began and the associated environmental disaster.

Hot take.

 

[CoolCoolCool]

In a very distant future where we can upload skills and knowledge into the brain like in Matrix. Will take some time cause Elon Musk's brain chip doesn't seem to be it.

 

[Airspun]

Was lucky enough to be born before the internet destroyed humanity with it's toxic anonymity hatred division and lies.

 

[Lleytonstation]

Was lucky enough to be born before the internet destroyed humanity with it's toxic anonymity hatred division and lies.

In a very distant future where we can upload skills and knowledge into the brain like in Matrix. Will take some time cause Elon Musk's brain chip doesn't seem to be it.

It is funny. Some want to go back and get rid of tech and others want to go forward and add tech.

 

[Lleytonstation]

Exactly when I was. Grew up in the 90s, saw technology change SO MUCH and will die before AI and climate change kill everyone.

I would have liked to have been on the titanic. I would have survived of course.

 

[TheNachoMan]

Exactly when I was. Grew up in the 90s, saw technology change SO MUCH and will die before AI and climate change kill everyone.

The way AI is advancing so rapidly, I wouldn’t be so sure about that. lol

 

[Lleytonstation]

The way AI is advancing so rapidly, I wouldn’t be so sure about that. lol

It basically didn't exist till this past year. At least in this form and ease of access.

Time to make a Turin movie about how he killed us all like Oppenheimer.

I'd give humans another 30-50 years. Although if 172cm tries to pass fed in slams then we could speed this up.

 

[Poisoned Slice]

So, life was better in the 1920s. Is that your point, councillor?

 

[TheNachoMan]

It basically didn't exist till this past year. At least in this form and ease of access.

It did, just not to the public. The military have technology that is 10 years ahead of the public. Maybe even more.

 

[Lleytonstation]

It did, just not to the public. The military have technology that is 10 years ahead of the public. Maybe even more.

Oh now I really feel safe.

 

[Poisoned Slice]

''In my opinion, Michael Keaton is the only Batman to look more handsome with the cowl, than without it. The other Batman actors we got are hunks out of the cowl. And this is not a knock on Michael Keaton's appearance, the man is attractive. It's a compliment to his acting skill and the cowl overtakes it.''

 

[Lleytonstation]

''In my opinion, Michael Keaton is the only Batman to look more handsome with the cowl, than without it. The other Batman actors we got are hunks out of the cowl. And this is not a knock on Michael Keaton's appearance, the man is attractive. It's a compliment to his acting skill and the cowl overtakes it.''

I don't like the use of cowl. Not a word we need.

 

[Airspun]

It is funny. Some want to go back and get rid of tech and others want to go forward and add tech.

there's no going back. When holodecks become real, 90% of all males will be dead from dehydration in less than 4 months.

 

[Mainad]

I'm quite happy being born when I was. The past is, quite contrary to what many people seem to believe, a perfectly horrible place compared to the present and there is no part of it I would prefer to live in.

Maybe I wouldn't have minded being born 20 or 30 years later but the future is uncertain with so many doom and gloom predictions about it that I will take what fell to me.

 

[Airspun]

I’m thinking 1973 would be the goat year to he born as an 80s kid and 90s teen/20s that or either 1965 or 1940

 

[MichaelNadal]

I'm quite happy being born when I was. The past is, quite contrary to what many people seem to believe, a perfectly horrible place compared to the present and there is no part of it I would prefer to live in.

Maybe I wouldn't have minded being born 20 or 30 years later but the future is uncertain with so many doom and gloom predictions about it that I will take what fell to me.

There is no way I would want to be born 20 years from now lol the world will be a fn mess

 

[Midaso240]

The present time is OK but I would have liked to be born in another 30 years. Even during this time, the average person in the west(and a significant number in the third world) live better than kings did

Depends what you mean by better. I'm not so sure having more stuff, more convenience really makes most of us any happier

 

[Lleytonstation]

Depends what you mean by better. I'm not so sure having more stuff, more convenience really makes most of us any happier

Exactly. Less objects means more relationships. Well, maybe. But I do think more got done.

 

[CoolCoolCool]

It is funny. Some want to go back and get rid of tech and others want to go forward and add tech.

Technology is a wonderful thing, quality of life improved so much thanks to it. Those who think it's dangerous don't realize that the real danger is human stupidity, not technology itself.

 

[CHillTennis]

The year I was born. I would not change a thing.

 

[Lleytonstation]

Technology is a wonderful thing, quality of life improved so much thanks to it. Those who think it's dangerous don't realize that the real danger is human stupidity, not technology itself.

Yes, but that's because you know about it. In this scenario I am asuuming you are unaware of the future.

Plus, I'm not sure that will always be the case.

 

[Poisoned Slice]

What date would you have liked to be born? The date!

22nd of September.

 

[Lleytonstation]

What date would you have liked to be born? The date!

22nd of September.

April 1, 1930. In Edmonton, Alberta.

 

[Lleytonstation]

@Sudacafan @CoolCoolCool @TheNachoMan

You are loved
You are alive
You are here
You are now

 

[tennis3]

Depends what you mean by better. I'm not so sure having more stuff, more convenience really makes most of us any happier

This is easy to say when you have more stuff and more convenience.

But, happiness isn't a "destination" that you reach when you get more stuff. This is true.

 

[CoolCoolCool]

Who's to say that we haven't lived at different times? I'm not closed to the idea that reincarnation is a thing.

 

[Mainad]

Who's to say that we haven't lived at different times? I'm not closed to the idea that reincarnation is a thing.

I'm often amused by people who casually say, "We've only got one life" or "You're only here once".

How do they know? Try telling that to a baby who has died at birth and probably didn't even know it had been alive, "Hey that was your once chance of life".

I'm not so sure!

 

[Larry Duff]

About 20-25 years ago because even with no tennis talent I could probably win a slam in this super weak era.

 

[Lleytonstation]

I'm often amused by people who casually say, "We've only got one life" or "You're only here once".

How do they know? Try telling that to a baby who has died at birth and probably didn't even know it had been alive, "Hey that was your once chance of life".

I'm not so sure!

I always wonder when I kill an insect or eat fish, what if they have feelings and thoughts?

What if they used to be human?