I just read this thread and I don't think I want to go back to see wars, but I agree with someone who wanted to go hear the greats preform music. Mozart, Bach, Brahams, etc. and etc. I think I'd like to have been in the audience the first time Handel's Messiah was performed. Seeing Shakespear performed for the first time. Hearing the Gettysburg Address Seeing the sky without light clutter and smog, the rivers and oceans pure and pristine.
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Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. - Frederick Buechner
If society prospers at the expense of the intangibles, how can it be called progress?
I would love to go back and find out what happened to the Mayan civilization. See why they vanished. I think it would be cool to see how the Aztecs, Toltecs, Incas and any other Central or South American people lived. Not sure I'd want to see an Aztec human sacrifice. Too brutal. They ripped the hearts out of their still living victims.
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Cheers! Todd
Normal is a relative term. For some reason it is not a term my relatives use to describe me.
How about for the invention of the shoe, the chair, the wheel. the first STD, first attempted brain surgery, the invention of the game of craps (twisted game) when the native Americans were first being "discovered", when someone found out that you can't breath under water,when someone found out that it is not a good idea to bite down on a piece of foil while having sex, on the moon with Armstrong, would of like to see how pyramids were built, would of liked to hang with Salvidor Dali for a while just because, and would of like to see the event that made our dear Annabelle into what she is today...
The betrayal of Caesar, Henry VIII and his six wives. Valley Forge during the Revolution..............
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I live about 20 minutes from Valley Forge and make it a point to go there every winter. You sit there for a few minutes and get cold and uncomfortable, and you wonder how they dealt with it for an entire winter. Actually, the winter that the Rev war soldiers REALLY hated was Morristown 1779-1780. Bitter cold.
Cool story about Valley Forge was two years ago. Early spring, at the park for a hike, and I went up to on of those wood boxes that hold the pamphlets to get a map. A wee birdie was screeching about, and inside the box was a nest and some eggs. I left my buddy at the box, went over to the National Park Service office, told them what they had, and watched them put cones around the box. From what I understand, that box was closed until the wee birdies launched! Gotta love the NPS!
Eamon
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"I care not whether I die tomorrow or next year, if only my deeds live after me." -Cuchullain
Michaelangelo painting the Cistine Chapel. Noah loading the Ark. President George H.W. Bush when he puked on that guy in the limo. The sinking of the Titanic. Moses parting the Red Sea. Socrates speaking. Pompei. The shot that killed Kennedy. Atlantis. The building of Stonhenge. The view from Justin Timberlakes perspective at last years superbowl. The day Enoch was taken. The resurrection of Lazerus and Jesus. And a trip to the future..........the Rapture, me not being left here of course!!!!
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. ~Mark Twain
Michaelangelo painting the Cistine Chapel. Noah loading the Ark. President George H.W. Bush when he puked on that guy in the limo. The sinking of the Titanic. Moses parting the Red Sea. Socrates speaking. Pompei. The shot that killed Kennedy. Atlantis. The building of Stonhenge. The view from Justin Timberlakes perspective at last years superbowl. The day Enoch was taken. The resurrection of Lazerus and Jesus. And a trip to the future..........the Rapture, me not being left here of course!!!!
I'd like to go back to the old west, and meet the Earps, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, etc. I'd like to see just how the gunfight at the OK corral went down, and just how Pat Garrett killed Billy the Kid.
Some of the concerts mentioned would be good. To hear Bach performed by the man himself would be educational, at the very least. Mozart was supposed to be an awesome performer.
But first, I want to go see the Battle of Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7th, 1941. My father was there.
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"We have enough Youth, how about a Fountain of Smart?" "When the going gets tough, the smart go fishing!"
Enoch was one of two people in the bible who did not experience the physical death but were caught immediately into heaven. I'm sure that was quite a sight.
THe parting of the red Sea and the long day of Joshua.
The day that phrozen custard was invented. (I just invented that spelling kuul)
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