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| + Steve | Mar 5 2016, 08:50 PM Post #1 |
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Do you think someone from say the year 500 would be able to live a normal life in present day? Assuming they get over the anguish of never being able to see family and friends again would they be able to cope with the world? Some times I imagine would be incompatible, humans from as far back as 10,000BC would probably never fit in for instance, potentially I guess but most likely not. But I wonder how people from today would fit in to the world 200 years from now? (this is assuming we continue to advance and don't have major setbacks) Currently many older people struggle to wrap their head around technology younger generations find simple, such as smart phones. Not that they can't learn at all. Would people from this age of technology be able to understand technology in the future? We're a lot more knowledgeable about advanced technology, perhaps future tech wouldn't be so foreign as current tech is to old people. Maybe it would be even more complicated but surely we wouldn't seem as primitive as a cave man would now? |
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| + Pelador | Mar 5 2016, 09:06 PM Post #2 |
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Couple of points that need to be made here. One: People from just 400 years ago would struggle with the language differences. Two: The difference in social attitudes would be very difficult to get their heads around. Only as far back as 100 years ago, it was deemed a perfectly reasonable opinion that the Jews were evil and should be exiled or exterminated. Not to mention what people thought about black people and women. Even ideas about education and childcare would be radically different and along the lines of what we consider to be extreme. Three: People have held the same levels of general intelligence since as long as we've existed. There's no evidence of less capacity to learn in older generations of humans. Of course that doesn't mean they weren't stupid by our standards. Remember there was less information available to learn after all. I think if they were younger then they could adapt to the technology. I think older people always struggle to learn no matter what century they are from. |
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| + Steve | Mar 5 2016, 09:18 PM Post #3 |
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Yeah that's basically my thought behind this since we're all at around the same levels of brain capacity would it be possible to adapt to totally different worlds? I think if we can teach a gorilla sign language then someone from like 3000 years ago could possibly be taught English, it'd definitely be a challenge but they could probably learn to sign first and then branch out from that. But could they ever hold a steady job and be "normal" I wonder? Obviously it'd be mad for them to become a CEO or something. Though I suppose most likely life would be made even more confusing for them since they'd end up being a celebrity. Edited by Steve, Mar 5 2016, 09:20 PM.
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| + Pelador | Mar 5 2016, 09:21 PM Post #4 |
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They would find it very difficult to change their personal, moral and social values. |
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| Goddess Ultimecia | Mar 5 2016, 09:26 PM Post #5 |
 
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I would not last well if I was sent 40 years or more into the past, as someone who's skin isn't white and is more a golden tan I'd likely be subjected to discrimination. When my hair is grown out I look black, when it's buzzed I look Mexican. Either of those two have not had a nice time in terms of America's social scene. |
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| + Sandy Shore | Mar 5 2016, 09:31 PM Post #6 |
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Does this then apply to immigrants with very different personal, moral, and social values, too? Sorry to go somewhat off-topic, but I'm very curious as to your answer on this. As for their use of modern language and technology, I'm sure it would depend heavily on their age when they make the time-change, and that individual's own ability to learn. |
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| + Steve | Mar 5 2016, 09:34 PM Post #7 |
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Actually yeah didn't think of that side of it... Wonder what would be harder, going forwards or backwards in time? Assuming you can work around language barriers. I feel like going back might be quite a bit harder, adapting to the brutality of some times in the past, the lack of medicine, creature comforts and all sorts would be a challenge. Even if you'd be the most knowledgeable person on the planet by far that wouldn't stop some noble claiming you as a slave in some places/times. At least going to the future generally people are likely to be a bit more understanding of your situation 
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| + Pelador | Mar 5 2016, 09:34 PM Post #8 |
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I suppose so. Of course having extreme views is perfectly fine so long as they don't act on them or try to entice violence. Free speech and all that. As for going back, I wouldn't even be able to stand the 1990s now, let alone the 1890s. I have too many comforts that I'm used to. Edited by Pelador, Mar 5 2016, 09:35 PM.
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What will you do when you get old?
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nvmnd I'm wrong
Edited by Helvius Pertinax Augustus, Mar 5 2016, 09:36 PM.
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| + Pelador | Mar 5 2016, 09:38 PM Post #10 |
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Yep you were.
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| + Sandy Shore | Mar 5 2016, 09:45 PM Post #11 |
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What if theirs is a time and place where they're used to acting on such views, not just holding? Aren't they far more likely than anyone else to act on said views, or seek like-minded others? As for the 1990's... no one deserves to experience Vanilla Ice a second time. |
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Yeah it looks like Germany is the only place in Europe where it doesn't apply. |
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| + Pelador | Mar 5 2016, 09:52 PM Post #13 |
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Then they would be dealt with by the authorities as is the case with any violent criminal. It's not like we also don't have our fair share of home grown violent thugs. |
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| Darker | Mar 5 2016, 09:56 PM Post #14 |
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Where what it doesn't apply'? |
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Mar 5 2016, 09:59 PM Post #15 |
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Freedom of Speech. Some places have some restrictions, like Greece on insulting Christianity or the Greek president but you don't actually serve jail time for it, you just get a slap on the wrist or if it was printed, it taken away if caught. |
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