For me it is the “fall of the Berlin wall” and the celebrations after the border openings.
I don’t know how much of an"historical event" it is now, but if I showed up to Steven Hawking’s “Time Traveller party” I imagine it would become one.
Plot twist: show up one day after
I guess I might say King John signing the Magna Carta at Runnymede, because it was the foundation for the rule of law in the West. But it was just a bunch of smelly dudes in a marsh. A lot of historical events are important, but not that spectacular to see.
So if I’m honest, it’d be Queen at Live Aid.
Queen at Live Aid.
That’s a great call.
aaaaayyyyyyyy ooohhhhhhhhhhh!
Jesus throwing the conmen out of the church.
I don’t care for the religion, but if this actually happened, it would be so satisfying to see. So-called “christians” act more like the ones he kicked out than their supposed “lord” himself.
I don’t think it’s fair to just say “Christians”, it’s really the US-based evangelical prosperity gospel preachers. They really are the modern version of the money lenders in the temple.
They’re basically “pay for pray” m/billionaires using religion to exploit the poor and hopeless while travelling in their private jets.
They pay no tax and live in luxury while claiming that their success is proof of God’s love.
If that’s how things worked, then Mother Theresa would have been rich. Ghandi would have owned a Bentley. But of course, that’s not how God or love works at all, and it makes me really angry.
I’ve often thought about becoming a Christian version of Mr Beast; raising tons of money and giving away every single penny. Telling people that prayer is free and God loves them no matter what. Paying off people’s mortgages and bills if they are suffering, regardless of their religion.
And then turning around to those prosperity gospel preachers and challenging them to do reverse tithing, 90% of their income goes to charity, not 10%. No living in mansions paid for by their church. Not taking any appearance fees or book royalties. Exposing them as the grifters they are.
I haven’t done that already because I would want to do an actual Bible studies degree first, otherwise I’d feel like just as much of a fraud.
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven.
~Jesus Christ
If I can experience it without dying, I’d say the asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs.
I also vote for the asteroid but with zero caveats.
Lol. You at least want to survive long enough to see the explosion.
Would you rather be on the astroid as it comes to Earth or would you rather hang around the impact zone and wait for it to hit?
Seeing the first person to spell subtle with a b
English got fucked… hard… because so many of the spellings came from people that had weird goals.
Consider phial. Why do we spell it that way? Because some jackass decided that english needed to be more latiny and
phis more latiny thanv. (or maybe it was greek? I don’t remember the exact etymology)Anglish is an attempt to reverse that, and remove Latin, Greek, and French words from English.
Jan 6, so i can blast benny hill music.
i already have experienced a few in my lifetime. i can’t say that they were generally positive experiences.
May you live in interesting times!
Apparently this saying is a curse and not a blessing
nobody knows that better than those who have lived in interesting times. as one of those people, i assure you it is.
I’ve never confirmed it, my understanding is it’s a very old phrase that has been mistaken. I want doubting it just my knowledge of it
Love the confirmation of it’s accuracy though!
i wanna visit that one Christmas in world war one where they all got over their shit for a day and had snowball fights and stuff. play in the snow with some of the most damaged and traumatized people in history.
I thought they played football.
shit IDK, either way. that’s where i want to go.
If you wanna get depressed, look up what happened to these soldiers afterwards
The problem with most major historical events is that they’re not fun. I would choose Field of the Cloth of Gold because it was just a big festival for weeks.
I’ve always wished I could have taken part in the Menlo Park Homebrew Computer Club from 75 to 86.
The first meeting of the club was held on March 5, 1975, in French’s garage in Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California, on the occasion of the arrival in the area of the first Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) Altair 8800 microcomputer, a unit sent for review by People’s Computer Company. Steve Wozniak credits that first meeting as the inspiration to design the Apple I.
So I guess I would use the incredible advancement of time travel to go back a few years before I was born to hang out in some dude’s garage.
This is a great answer. Wozniak’s autobiography is a good read.
Apollo moon landing
The surrender at Appomattox, so I could tell the Union generals to keep burning until every plantation and its owners were ash
Jesus dude, you should go join the IDF, you’d fit right in.
race: plantation owner
lmfao
The Battle of Agincourt. It would be interesting to confirm how effective the English longbows really were compared to the theory that the mud was really the deciding factor against the French.
Also the battle of Hastings. To see how a shield wall worked.
(Putting aside if the Bible’s stories are real or not for a moment…)
Moses talking to God (aka ‘The Burning Bush’).
I’m not religious, but I’d love to witness God actually speaking to somebody.
When hitler killed himself in the bunker. I would have been fascinated to witness how a guy responsible for millions of deaths somehow considered himself the victim and was forced to commit suicide. He was an evil bastard and a coward unwilling to face the consequences of his actions.
Take his bullets and poison away. Let the Russians deal with him.
I’d actually prefer to witness a fair trial. Just because I’d actually like to know how he’d try to defend and explain what he did. It might have given us the chance to study him and what led to him becoming that way.
I’m pro studying people like psychopaths and sociopaths to better understand what it takes to be or become one to prevent horrible outcomes.
We should spend way more time on studying and understanding murderers and the source of their actions.
For sure but I don’t think there’s anything that he could say that would satisfy curiosity. It just would be repetition of the same dogma, like Saddam and Milosevic.
