If you could witness any event in history,
 

what would you choose?

Also, if you could find out the precise time of your death, would you want to know?

Thanks.

Europe during WWII.

no, I don't want to know when I will die.

christ's death (if it took place).. or.. well nevermind.
yes, i would like to be able to mark the date down :)

Yeah I'd like to know when I'd die.

I think the Kennedy assassination still intrigues me. I'd love to been there in Dallas to witness one of the most talked about consipracy moments in this country's history. That with knowing what to look for would totally put me in heaven on earth.

Hopefully the gubment will release all of the records soon and we'll know the truth.

They did a special on discovery (or one of those channels) about the "magic bullet" and the did an exact re-enactment of the entire setup. Pretty convincing evidence that the bullet did all of that from one shot.

I would also like to witness Christ's death. IMO that's the story of all stories.

Assasination of JFK

I'd rather be suprised

Super Bowl IV.

And yes, I'd like to know when I die. Because I could change it.

Ya beat me by 1 min!!

I saw that doc. too, where they re-enacted all the photo angles and made all them humanoid dummies and stuff

The Resurrection would be my choice.

edit: 2nd choice - The Immaculate Conception.
edit2: and oh, by the way, yes I would want to know.

Even though I'm not religious, I think that the whole Jesus thing is indeed a great question. However, I have no doubt that his death is probably pretty accurate, so I'd prefer to see the loaves and fishes trick. That would explain a lot pretty quickly.

In terms of secular history, I think I'd like to have been in the room when the Bill of Rights was being drafted. The Constitution too, if I could be around longer.

Damn good choice.
I wonder if it happened the way they said it happened or if all of it was fabricated myself.

Tough question, because it's hard to choose just one specific event to be a part of. I'll go with the time period that involved the life and death of Jesus Christ.

I'm pretty sure I'm already dead...............either that, or I'm living in Wichita, KS.

Well yeah I meant that whole period of time with the last 12 hours of his life to the resurrection.

Theres no way you could change your death date. You could hide out in your basement all day on your death day and still die of a heart attack.

I would like to have witnessed the dropping of the first atomic bomb from the window of the airplane. (Enola Gay??)

I think witnessing such a mass destruction would have struck a major core with me. I think it would have made me humble and very forgiving. I think seeing something like that would have haunted me the rest of the days of my life.

And speaking of life- YES! I'd want to know when I die. Just like the character says in the movie, Big Fish- "I'd like to know 'cause then everything else I do up til then I know I could survive." I think it would make me a very courageous person, but more importantly- I can plan my life around my death.

Decide against Pittsburgh?

Oh. Yeah. That's an even better miracle than the whole loaves and fishes thing.

It'd be nice to learn definitively if western religion is based on a miracle or a hungry coyote.

The Chief's Superbowl victory in 1970.....as it appears unlikely to happen again. :(

:banghead:


As far as my death, I think I'd prefer not to know....I'm a worry-er.

Perhaps you could change the mode, though. On that day, you could avoid all large industrial shredders.

Long story.

Let's just say, we are negotiating terms. Until they decide how they want to proceed, I'm not going to move my family from Wichita. In the mean time, I'm enjoying my limited stay back on the Planet. :)

I could kill myself BEFORE the death date.

Please expedite.

Magic 8-ball says...tomorrow's your lucky day!! :p

ROFL
Literally made me LOL

A couple epic battles come to mind, like the Alamo or Custer's last stand.

Or maybe the crusades.

I'd like to see Jesus give a sermon. I would assume it would be far more inspiring than the other things.
I'd like to see Ghandi's walk to the sea.
I'd like to see MLK's speech in person.
I'd like to find Pamela Anderson pre-sureries, and tell her she looked great as is.

Moses parting the Red Sea comes to mind.. just to see it happen

So what are the details of how I witness this event in history? Am I actually there? Do I have my current knowledge, or am I just an unknowing bystander? Or do I get to watch as a god from the skies, in HD with 360 degree customizable camera angles and zoom?

I would like to have witnessed what made the dinasours extinct, of course chances are that would also be the day I died.

My own birth/the second coming ROFL

I'm down with Moses parting the Red Sea.

Was the resurrection of Christ supposed to be visible, according to the Bible?

Watching the Crusades would suck. All of them involved long, slow, painful marches from Europe to the Fertile Crescent. Most involved various atrocities. One of the last ones involved a holy sacking of *Christian* Constantinople. Mainly, you're talking not alot of bang for your buck there.

I'm thinking I'd want a relatively short (not more than 1 day long) event that was earth changing in some fashion. Random ideas:

1. Death of Christ
2. Resurrection (if visible)
3. Death of Julius Caesar (seems a bit quick and boring, actually)
4. Battle of Hastings
5. Burial of the treasure of Captain Kidd (little historical significance, but side benefit of making me wealthy)
6. Death of Catherine the Great. or, ewwwww, maybe not.
7. Battle of Marathon
8. Battle of Tours
9. Pearl Harbor

Ah, I got ya. But why would you want to do that? Just to cheat death maybe?

Yea, I didn't really know names of any great battles from ancient times. Just about any of the epic battles, as long as it included swords and axes and hacking off of limbs and such. Maybe the siege of a castle. I'm a big fan of that.

Battle of Thermopylae would have been interesting as well

Roswell NM whatever the date was that the UFO was said to have crashed.. just to see if it was true or not

or... just about any day at the Playboy Mansion :)

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the Inquisition and the Knights of the Templars being grilled over worshiping Baphomet.

no.

:LOL:

ROFL ROFL

That would be pretty cool

The creation of the universe.

No.

I'm a big WWII buff so I'd like to be there on D-Day to watch it all unfold the way it did.

I don't want to know when I die. I'd rather be unassuming.

Well I just dropped a bowl of sasla on my keyboard, so I kinda wish I could go back in time and tell myself to not do that

Because of the close proximity to where I live, I would like to see the battle of the Little Bighorn.

Is it too late for me to change my vote? I want to be able to make fun of him when it happened.

It got all in the keys and I decided it wasn't worth cleaning up so I just trashed it and brought out my old one.

Ha ha. You spilled salsa all over -

Eh. It's just not the same when you do it later.

1. The Resurrection
2. The first atomic bomb test at Los Alamos
3. The Kennedy assassination
4. Hendrix at Woodstock

No, I would NOT want to know my death date.

Some other events that would be cool to see:

1. The takedown of the Incan Empire
2. The fall of Rome
3. The last 30 days of construction of the Great Pyramid
4. The Gettysburg Address
5. Washington's speech to the troops
6. The signing of the Magna Carta
7. The battle of Agincourt
8. The battle of Hastings
9. If we could change history, it'd sure be nice to be at the Library at Alexandria ten minutes before the fire started.
10. The Colosseum during a match

lol nice

If you want to know ask me I have tons of background on it. And the answer is you would be somewhere in Palestine by yourself.

Dave

With several fire extinquishers.

Dave

The Dalton Raid on Coffeyville or Gettysburg. I would get more bang for the buck with Gettysburg because it lasted 3 days as opposed to 20 minutes for the Daltons.

Does witness being present? If so, I want to witness Armstrong stepping on the moon since that means I get to be there too! :thumb:


No, don't want to know when I will die.

1) The Titanic (contruction and all that)
2) MLK I Have A Dream Speech
3) The Hindenburg
4) The Gettysburg Address
5) Pearl Harbor
6) Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (From the decision to drop the bomb to everything that happened after)

And no I don't want know when I'll die.

can we change the historic event? or bet on it?

no I don't think I would want to know when I die.

For clarification, yes, you are there (whenever and wherever), and you know what is going to happen. And yes, you can replay the event as many times as you like.

You cannot change the event, however. Just a bystander.

So many choices...

I wouldn't have minded meeting Sir Issac when he was writing the Principia and having the discussion of a lifetime.

Sitting in while Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great would really have been something incredible to me. Two of histories greatest minds (for vastly different reasons, though.)

For dark amusement, I would liked to have watched the Russian Nobles and their multiple attempts on Gregor Rasputin. I think it would have been a real "comedy of errors".

Finally, if I'm allowed to moderately intervene and not just watch, I'd have pushed a certain German Artillery Corporal just a few feet closer to that shell blast back in WW1, and saved the world a lot of trouble.

Nope, I wouldn't want to know when I die. Why ruin the novel by skipping to the last chapter?

Fantastic List! Rep for #9!

OOOOOH! CHECK OUT THE BIG BRAIN ON BRAD! YOU A SMART MOTHER****ER! THAT'S RIGHT!

Que? :hmmm:

but what if all this courageous stuff left you a veggie

there you would lie in a coma until the date you where told

Oooh, yeah. In the RPG I'm playing right now, the big city has an "arena" where you can fight with gladiators for money and fame. Or, you can be a spectator and bet on the fights. I'm looking forward to this part of the game.

If I was a citizen in Ancient Rome, I'd go to the colosseum every, uh, sunday, or whatever.

Pulp Fiction

Que? :hmmm:


Pop culture references aside, I'd want to see it because it's a meeting of two of the greatest historical minds in two of my interests/borderline obsessions:
1)Natural Science
2)Military History.

Thanks for explaining the reference. BTW-The quote is "Brett", not "Brad". ;)

D-Day

And A RESOUDING NO to the swcond question!

1.travel up the missouri river w/lewis and clark.

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I'm surprised by how many people wouldn't want to know the time of their death. Would it make it easier if you only knew the year?

The dawn of man.

Time of death: Not sure i'd want to know that.

No, because then I'd want to know the rest of the circumstances. Then I'd get obsessed with discovering if I could break the chain of causality that led to it. If I succeeded, I'd have to deal with the guilt of having destroyed the timeline, and possibly the universe, by causing that paradox. ;)

Seriously, nope. I don't even want a hint of how the novel ends before I've read it, unless it gets really boring and tedious. JMO.

Great couple of questions, Donger!

BTW, what the fuck is "Chicken Fried Steak?" Is that the same thing as "Country Fried STeak?"

Knowing just the year would be worse. I'd be all nervous not sure when or how it would happen.

What would suck worse if I made it to December. I would be such a basketcase I wouldn't leave my apartment.

Strange people. Very strange.

Yes. In fact, I believe the original modifier was chicken. Some wannabe-homestyle restaurant probably changed it up for marketing.

I'm related to the Dalton's. My grandfather was one of their nephews. In fact, my grandfather just died and we found a shot gun believed to have been owned and used frequently by one of the Dalton boys.

I hate it when restaurants serve "Chicken fried Chicken". God damnit, its FRIED CHICKEN.

Peh. I fucking hate being In Texas. How do you stand living here?

Being one of the soldiers returning home from World War II. The chicks at that time were nailing anybody with a uniform.

Personally, it's be a hard decision for me. Either Pearl Harbor, JFK in Dealy Plaza, Apollo 11 landing or Agincourt.

And I'd absolutely want to know the time of my death.

* Edit - Oh, Battle of Stirling Bridge, too.

I have read quite a bit about it. A lady named Barndollar from Coffeyville wrote a very good book about it. It lasted quite a while as gun battles go and must have been very exciting. Also, the Daltons were related to Robert E. Lee in a back assward manner.