[ SECRET POST #4063 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4063 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Time Travel

[thewakokid]

Well, I mean, nowhere in western Europe, sure, Britain, France and the like. There's a period of america you'll want to avoid, but prior to that you might be ok. I mean, White straight christians have not been oppressing the whole world for it's entire existance.

A lack of hygiene, however, has been oppressing the ENTIRE world untill very recently. I wouldn't even wanna go back 100 years to any place on earth, but that's another concern

Re: Time Travel

[(Anonymous)]

Right, so as an English speaker, I'd be stuck to places where

A) nobody speaks English
B) nobody who speaks English views me as an equal

Is it that surprising I'd rather simply not go?

Re: Time Travel

[thewakokid]

See my above point. This whole time travel thing comes with certain expectations. Like, the expectations that you can communicate, and have a serviceable level of the local currency, and you are able to travel around. Like, if you want to be a real buzz kill, you cant just say "Send me back about 300 years" because then you'd be in the middle of space because 300 years ago the planet was not where it is today.

Re: Time Travel

[(Anonymous)]

The question didn't come with any of that specified.

Unless you're OP and amending the question?

Re: Time Travel

[thewakokid]

No, but it is sort of expected. Like when people fantasise about visiting ancient Rome, they aren't looking for opportunities to be eaten by lions in the Colosseum, that's not the point of the exercise "How would I suffer if I went on a time travel vacation?!"

Hell, you could do that with real life. "Where do I want to go on holiday?" "DO I want to go to the Malaria, or the bad water, or the civil unrest, or the excessive heat, or the excessive cold, or the place that's just the same climate as where I already live, Eh, whats the point, I'll just say in an feel sad".

Seriously, Edward Scissor Hands playing Volleyball.

Re: Time Travel

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think you're getting my point, so I'm going to stop playing with you.

I like the present more than anything in the past. We're getting better! If that's misery to you, you're the weird one, buddy.

Re: Time Travel

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt but be real. NO ONE here would be able to communicate in English if we're looking over 500 years ago anyway. And doesn't view you as an equal? For goodness sake, you don't seem to have a very charitable view of history at all. Do you think the concept of racial equality is a particularly new one? Non-white people have been traveling, trading, joining monasteries/clergy, and just living normal life in Europe for thousands of years. And homosexuality was, believe it or not, much more recently considered a big deal and even throughout the medieval period when it was supposedly condemned by the Catholic church, it was very rarely actually punished. Not to mention, not all societies were Christian/Muslim/Jewish, and not all concepts of these religions were even consistent, coherent, or literate throughout Europe and surrounding areas.

tl;dr don't be a martyr, you'd probably be fine.

Re: Time Travel

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, but let's be clear here, the question didn't say it was only a temporary visit and the question didn't say language barriers would be magically erased.

So yes, I would think an English speaker saying they want to visit Babylon would find themselves in trouble.

And I would absolutely not want to be one of three Chinese traders that settled down in an Old English speaking area with people I can barely understand. "There were one or two around" doesn't mean you want to be one of them. The Roma and Jewish people have traveling traders and been treated terribly for ages.

With those 3 criteria removed anyway, I answered the question above.

Re: Time Travel

[tabaqui]

What you said, only much better than I could have.