Are you kidding? I don't consider myself much of a stoic but I don't think I am spoiled enough that if one cataclysmic event took place, that I wouldn't be able to survive or even function...
That's not what I meant. I think I could survive too, if modern society somehow collapsed, but that wasn't the question.
The question was,
if you had the choice, would you rather live now or in some past society?
I really don't think a girl today is very different from a girl 1000 yrs ago?.. Maybe they didn't use GHD and spray on wax to get those same bouncy waves
Please. I know you're being a little sarcastic, but I hope I don't need to tell you that a woman's social position today is vastly different than it was 1,000 years ago, at least it is in most Western countries. For most of history, women were legally considered the property of men, first of their fathers and then of their husbands. With few exceptions, women had zero political and legal power and never received educations. Some forms of rape—such as marital rape—were not even conceived of as a crime.
I'd very much love to go back to not one but several periods of History.. Would love to see Petra in its glory.. or city of Erum before its destruction...I'd love to change events that took place.. and there are a ton of people I'd love to meet.. I can't imagine anything more robust and animating than re-living a period of history...
Don't get me wrong, I'd love more than anything to
visit past civilizations, to learn from them and see what was really happening.
But I'm not talking about visiting like on vacation, I'm talking about living there permanently. Would you really want to spend the rest of your life in Petra or in 7th century Medina? You're used to a higher standard of living—and this "higher standard" entails much more than mere superficialities like hair treatments.
Not to be galling but we have just a 'barbaric' laws today as we did a thousand yrs ago..
Not nearly as many, I would argue.
I don't mean to suggest that our current laws are better for all cultures and all times. I think societies evolve bit by bit, and the laws are a part of that—I certainly don't think you can simply drop your laws and your political ideology onto an alien society and expect it to magically work better (as Bush apparently thought about Iraq).
But that said, I do think there are certain cultures that are simply better than others. "Better" is not a vague, subjective term here—it is measurable, and it is easy to measure. All you have to do is look at the number of people who choose to move from one culture to another.
Islam was abolishing to slavery
I wholeheartedly disagree. If Muhammad was serious about abolishing slavery then he would not have allowed it in the Quran. Christians make the same arguments about the Bible, which also expressly allows slavery. There is a reason that both Muslims and Christians held and traded in slaves for thousands of years, with no large abolitionist movements in either culture until the advent of secular humanism.
That slaves embraced Islam in no way means Islam is inherently abolitionist. In America, most slaves converted to Christianity. Why? Because their masters told them to. Many of their descendents are still fervent Christians today. While I admit I am not quite as familiar with Islam's history with slavery, I fail to see how it is much different.
And I'm off to bed now too. Good night!
:happy: ... if they do that ticking noise again.... just keep silent for about 10 seconds... then with a loud sudden voice shout "BOOOOOM!" - I'm sure it will break the ice. 
