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⌈ Secret Post #5945 ⌋

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If you could witness any event in history, but not participate or interact in any way, which event would you watch? Or what time period would you go and see?

Anywhere in pre-Columbian mesoamerica. I'm just so bothered that there was a whole new world of knowledge, culture, and mythology to learn from and it was all scrubbed away.

For the same reason, I want to know what druids actually practiced.

Oooo, yes to both these.

I'm probably going to be up all night now trying to think of the perfect answer. But offhand, I'm gonna say the first writing of the Bible. Because it didn't just appear out of nowhere.

Well, you'll be taking a long time - the bible was written in bits and pieces over hundreds of years by many different authors. And edited by others. And compiled by others still.

Skip to any part that was supposedly dictated by God. I want to know what really happened.

Re: Where would you go in history?

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Re: Where would you go in history?

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Re: Where would you go in history?

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The books of the Bible were written over a period of several hundred years....

I'm torn between the Big Bang and dinosaurs. I wanna see the beginning of the universe and I wanna know if T-Rexes were fluffy bird monsters.

Yes. I want to see the fluffy bird monsters.

I'm fine with knowing about events from analysis after the fact, generally. So what I would want to watch is an event where there is significant mystery or conspiracy around it.

I'm not a huge history buff so my basic taste automatically thinks of the JFK assassination.

The premiere night of Beethoven's 9th, for sure.

Yours is similar to mine. I was about to say the original premiere of a Shakespeare play. Though yours would probably be a much classier experience.

Re: Where would you go in history?

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Oooo, nice.

I was thinking about this today for some reason. It is a hard question because a lot of the really awesome moments in history that I'd love to see, like the civil rights movement, also involve a lot of awful. And I'd probably have a hard time not getting involved even knowing it would change history.

I like the idea of witnessing a culture that has been lost to time or going to see dinosaurs. I think ultimately I would choose to go way back to the very first humans. I'd like to see what the earliest human cultures were like.

Going on the assumption that no one would believe me and I couldn't touch anything and wouldn't be noticed by anyone, but I could bring a recorder, I'm gonna be selfish and dumb and say the first few performances of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera in the West End or maybe on Broadway.

I'm feeling nostalgic and sad because the Broadway production closed today.

I'd bring modern HD drone cameras and film everything.

If we're talking something actually historically or culturally significant, idk. One of the lost wonders of the ancient world or ancient Greece or Rome, still with drone cameras, to see what the painted statuary actually looked like?

Sometime in the pre-Columbian Americas to record extinct languages and cultural practices?

Go watch Minoan bull-jumping?

The construction of Stonehenge as it went from timber to stone?

Go film some dinosaurs on the assumption that no interaction precludes being trampled or eaten?

Idk, too many options if I stop thinking as a sad fan with bad taste in musicals.

Hmmmmm I think the most interesting in terms of solving historical questions would be looking at what proto-Indo-European society was actually like

Or maybe getting a look at some of the historical periods that were really interesting but where our historical record is really thin - like the foundation of Islam, Christianity or Buddhism, or the trial of Socrates

I would want to see the time Bob Dylan got the Beatles stoned

If I was definitely coming back to now, what happened to a massive treasure that is still lost today that I wouldn't feel bad about keeping or selling, like Dutch Schultz's treasure.

Otherwise, if I couldn't interfere, nothing that would include anything violent or horrifying, something happy, something jubilant or triumphant, like the moon landing or the first phone call.

I'd love to go super ancient, especially for cultures where documentation is either thin on the ground or unreliable. Sumeria, Middle Kingdom Egypt, early Han China, etc. Writings for some cultures are extensive but highly biased, or written by a friend of a guy whose dad might have been there for some event, so I'd just want to see what it was really like - what people looked like, what their daily lives were like, etc. Seconding Meso-america, too, and Cahokia at its height.

my own hometown 6,000-10,000 years ago to see what Native Americans were doing all that time before European settlers showed up. that's a big gap in history with no records and i want to know what happened.

also the Cretaceous Period because i want to see what dinosaurs looked like and what they were doing.

Ancient Greece. I’d love to be able to worship at a real temple dedicated to my deities

When and where in ancient Greece, though?

I would want to see some of the great cities of history at their peaks.

10th century Baghdad, 14th century Hangzhou and Cairo, medieval Constantinople, Renaissance Florence, fin de siecle Paris, Vienna and London.

If I could eat things I'd love to go back to Ancient Rome and chow down on some silphium.

If I couldn't maybe I'd hang out around an early Christian church and see how those services went.

But really? I mean I can't prove any of this to add to the academic knowledge, and what if I really love silphium and can never have it again?, so I'd probably go somewhere I can see now gone relatives alive and happy. Maybe my parent's wedding.

maybe the kennedy assassination

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