donnie_darko
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 Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:19 pm Post subject: Was the world better today or 100 years ago? |
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| Do you think people really got along better a century ago? People always b***h about how 'things are today', but is it really warranted or are people just uneducated? |
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LKL
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I vote for not only uneducated but unthinking. Just in terms of modern medicine and dentistry, leave alone all of the social liberties women have gained, I would choose to live now rather than a century ago. |
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Vigilans
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| LKL wrote: | | social liberties women have gained |
I think compared to 100 years ago, social liberties have gotten better for just about everyone 
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LKL
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Vigilans wrote: | | LKL wrote: | | social liberties women have gained |
I think compared to 100 years ago, social liberties have gotten better for just about everyone |
Yes, I agree. I should not have limited the statement in that way; I was thinking on a personal level. |
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Joker
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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| 100 years ago I would have been killed along with my native american ancestores it's a good think I was born in 1989. |
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Vigilans
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| LKL wrote: | | Vigilans wrote: | | LKL wrote: | | social liberties women have gained |
I think compared to 100 years ago, social liberties have gotten better for just about everyone |
Yes, I agree. I should not have limited the statement in that way; I was thinking on a personal level. |
Nothing wrong with that
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ArrantPariah
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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LIBERALS!!!!  |
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Stargazer43
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| I'd say it's better today. 100 years ago you had a world war brewing, an industrialization running amuck, and a lot more disease and general health problems. I do think that culturally the world was better off 100 years ago than today, but in terms of quality of life I'd certainly pick modern times. Now if you said 200-300 years....I might have more trouble choosing lol. What can I say I'm a junkie for the era! |
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minervx
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:27 am Post subject: |
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| When Europe was uncivilized, African Americans/Women were second class citizens in America? |
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Declension
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:31 am Post subject: |
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A lot of problems have been defeated or severely weakened, but there will be new problems to face. I think that overall, we can be proud of what we have achieved in a few thousand years of civilisation.
In general, if I was given a time machine, I would come to the conclusion that forward = better. |
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Declension
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sorry, double post
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Jacoby
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:00 am Post subject: |
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well i do like modern medicine and the internet
Saying that, it would of been kind of cool to live a hundred years ago. Interesting at the very least. I imagine if I lived a 100 years ago I'd be wishing I lived a 100 years in the future. |
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Rocky
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:29 am Post subject: |
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I agree with the general consensus so far in this thread. For the reasons already mentioned, now is better than 100 years ago. Besides, I can always read about that era in history books, but they could only speculate about what today would be like.
I would guess that 100 years in the future will be better yet, but I am not sure we can correct for the detrimental way we are treating the environment. |
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Candles15
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 6:18 am Post subject: |
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I think it depends on the way you look at things.
Society wise, I think there's more justice and equality than ever before however, in environmental terms, I think humans are being self destructive as we're slowly destroying the things that cause us to exist in the first place. |
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ArrantPariah
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:38 am Post subject: |
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Everyone knows that the World was at its level best when Jesus was alive, and has been in decline ever since. Things won't get good again until Jesus returns to judge the quick and the dead.
Just ask any Conservative. |
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