Fugitive Sex
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How are there serious answers here aside from 'no'? 
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If you could be teleported to a centuries past time and place for a week with no guarantee for your safety, would you do it?
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Rockondevil
Member
Nah. The past doesn't interest me enough to jeopardise my safety.
The future on the other hand is a definitely yes.
Dr.D00p
Gold Member
Going back to the very day to meet the smart motherfucker who came up with the idea for the greatest con job in human history..Religion.
..and telling them just how much misery & human suffering their Ponzi scheme is going to unleash on the World.
..then shoot the fucker, just in case they don't get the message.
..and telling them just how much misery & human suffering their Ponzi scheme is going to unleash on the World.
..then shoot the fucker, just in case they don't get the message.
LegendOfKage
Member
How are there serious answers here aside from 'no'?
1) Spend time with a survivalist in current time to learn how to live off the land, just in case.
2) Go back with a currency if allowed, such as a small amount of gold.
3) Go back to one of the most recent times allowed, which would likely mean the best chance for safety. Statistically speaking, the old west was supposed to be really not all that violent, for example.
4) Get a job.
5) Buy and bury as much as you can of anything that would be considered antiques in current time.
6) Dig up antiques when you return to current time.
7) Sell antiques for lots and lots of money.
Of course I wouldn't do any of that, because it's not a good idea to go screwing around with time.
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ResilientBanana
Member
The 60’s. Sex drugs and rock and roll baby!
BigBooper
Member
How do you know?
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Nope. I've got a pretty good thing going on here.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
"Wow this place is awesome. Hey by the way everyone, the world is rounddddd. Let go of me!? What ... unhand me you ruffian, what are you doing to my eyes!?!? No .... nooooooooooooo!"
AJUMP23
Gold Member
There was a black African king that had so much gold, it basically became valueless in the places he would visit because of how much gold he used.
Mansa Musa (Musa I of Mali)
Mansa Musa (Musa I of Mali) was the king of the ancient empire of Mali in West Africa.
www.nationalgeographic.org
daffyduck
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daffyduck
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AJUMP23
Gold Member
Oh we would all die....just the communication barrier would be enough to get us killed, but it would be interesting.
AJUMP23
Gold Member
Can I take a couple of loaded rifles with me. I would live a lot longer if I could. That might be interesting to have 1000 rounds of ammo a couple of clips and walk into an ancient empire and just wreck up history.
It would be worth going to the Library at Alexandria and collecting a lot of knowledge we lost.
It would be worth going to the Library at Alexandria and collecting a lot of knowledge we lost.
haxan7
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daffyduck
Member
Hopefully not for your first option.
AJUMP23
Gold Member
First option was to go meet Jesus, I posted about it earlier in the thread. Maybe I could race John the Revelator just to see how fast he is.
MastaKiiLA
Member
Fuck no. 2 reasons:
- The past was so much worse than the present for people who look like me.
- Even English a century ago would be hard to communicate in, compared to modern English. You'd be a mute for a week.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Absolutely. Imagine if you could make Doritos or coke for example. There's more flavor in those than any ancient food. You'd be made a king with a harem.
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German Hops
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief
You're black AND deaf? That's two strikes right there
AJUMP23
Gold Member
AJUMP23
Gold Member
This is the butterfly effect. the greatest reason to not go into the past.
Ballthyrm
Member
- Go back in the past
- Scratch your feet on a rock
3. Get infected
4. DIE
Option 2:
3. Swear, take the lord name in vain
4. Get mobbed
5. DIE
Option 3:
3. Ask for help
4. "We don't like people like you around here"
5. Get murdered
Option 4:
3. Go see the local Witch Doctor
4. get "Help"
5. DIE
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German Hops
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief
What killed you was your grammar.
kiunchbb
www.dictionary.com
I could save millions of life with vaccine and medicine, but I need cash now.
Nevermind, just realized it has to be a century past, I do want to meet Buddha in India, but probably ended up dead.
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BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
Let's say I was able to bring an entire collection of camping equipment and gear (including a telescope), food, water + a portable filter to clean more water, and a rifle with ammunition. I would then love to travel to a temperate remote forested location in the UK during a time prior to the industrial revolution and simply camp for a week. Enjoy what the environment must have been like, seeing a night sky completely and utterly unmarred by light pollution. Perhaps sneak near a village to observe the people from afar.
I would never want to spend a week in any centuries old society, however. As romantic as some periods and places seem the world sucked prior to and even during the industrial revolution. Too dangerous, too unsanitary, etc.
I would never want to spend a week in any centuries old society, however. As romantic as some periods and places seem the world sucked prior to and even during the industrial revolution. Too dangerous, too unsanitary, etc.
This was my first thought. Get in there with a camera and start recording.
Or set up a blind with a bunch of drones and record arial footage of the massive battles of the past. Waterloo, Thermopylae, Hastings, Acre. Just seeing what it was actually like, the diverse range of ethnicities and genders on full display
would be awesome and well worth the trip, even if you just stayed hidden for all of it. Even flyovers of ancient cities at their height would be awesome. The Colossus, the Pyramids, Hanging Gardens, the Aztec or Incan empires, whatever existed in north america pre-smallpox. So much we really don't know.NGL, kinda curious how appealing a pre-modern woman would be. Hairy legs and pits, very different make-up and physicality, probably skewing WAAAYY younger than I'd like though. Was Helen of Troy worth it? Cleopatra?
RAÏSanÏa
Member
To breathe non-industrialized air for a week in a peaceful setting. Sure. There's lots of isolated places a person could get clean water, good weather and survive easily for a week without much risk. For populated, a multicultural society would, then as now, likely be the safest for a stranger. Where diversity, science, math and music are valued. Ancient Alexandria during the reign of Berenice II. Would try to meet her or at least get a glance. Study up on ancient Greek before going. Visit the library. Provide intellectual curios for access, lodging, and food.
MaestroMike
Gold Member
Hel! nah atm, but when I'm an old man and death is at my door hel!z yeah getting eating by a T-rex would be kinda cool
edit: I guess its only centuries and not millions of years. I guess I'd go before there was industry and pollution and the oceans were clean I'd try to eat a lot of seafood hopefully I land in italy or spain
edit: I guess its only centuries and not millions of years. I guess I'd go before there was industry and pollution and the oceans were clean I'd try to eat a lot of seafood hopefully I land in italy or spain
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You..... ahhhhh... might wanna reconsider the end game in that scenario
DragoonWalker
Member
Thaedolus
Gold Member
You..... ahhhhh... might wanna reconsider the end game in that scenario
Kamina
Golden Boy
Difficult question.
What sort of timetravel are we talking about? The one where your sctions change the future, the one where a new future timelin branch is created or the one where the time travel only serves to fulfill the predetermined actions that shape future as we know it?
If it is the first i would think of someone who’s live ended tragically and make a plan to correct that.
If it is the second i would not travel at all.
If it is the third the choice is already predetermined anyway.
What sort of timetravel are we talking about? The one where your sctions change the future, the one where a new future timelin branch is created or the one where the time travel only serves to fulfill the predetermined actions that shape future as we know it?
If it is the first i would think of someone who’s live ended tragically and make a plan to correct that.
If it is the second i would not travel at all.
If it is the third the choice is already predetermined anyway.
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Pagusas
Elden Member
sounds like a scenario where you go back and discover YOU were jesus all along… the technologies and modern knowledge you brought with you to the past make people see you as some mortal god. The roman’s end up crucifying you, and the people spread stories and fill in the gaps of your life, making up the virgin birth story and such.Absolutely. I'd want to try to meet Jesus so I'd aim for Jerusalem like 20AD. Can I bring my phone? It has audio translation software. Dunno if it does Aramaic or whatever though. I'd probably need to consult with some specialists before I go. Maybe learn to ride a horse or something
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
I mean, more like that not, I'd go someplace, not speak the language, commit some crime that's incredibly specific and only relevant to that time period, get thrown in a rusty jail cell, and contract a disease from all that old school bacteria that I have no natural immunity to. The crack medical staff would take me onto a dirty cot with dried blood and mucus and saliva on it, and they'd start treating my fever with leeches and blood letting to improve the balance of my humors, before I get sent back to jail, convicted of the crime, and fucking hung in some haybale discount gallows. Townspeople would gather round my still warm corpse to take my clothing or swab cuts of fabric on my blood to have a "souvenir from the strange man," and then I'd have my bemused expression severed head placed on a pike in the center of town to deter would be criminals from making the mistake of disrespecting the king by crossing the street on my right foot first or what the fuck ever. Fuck the past. People were even bigger idiots than they are today, they just didn't have the internet to signal boost it.
Wildebeest
Member
I don't even like to cross the street.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
you would probably catch some long dead disease and bring it to the future and fuck everything up