Comments on: History Video Blog #2

By: Dee Anne

Dee Anne — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:50:33 +0000

Hmmmm. . . My easy answer is that I wish I could meet Jesus face to face. I’d like to go to the dinner at Mary and Martha’s. But if meeting Jesus isn’t on the table, then I’d like to go to England at the beginning of the 19th Century, or maybe during Elisabeth I’s reign. Anyway — England. In the past.

By: laurie

laurie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:44:02 +0000

awesome.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:43:14 +0000

You may need some kind of time travel machine to get me that tripod from the Pacific Rim! But thanks for the offer.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:50:34 +0000

Plato’s dialogues and The Republic are worthwhile reads that would be the next best thing to sitting under the peripatetic philosophers. And as for Atlantis…well, have you ever been to Cleveland?

By: admin

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:43:16 +0000

Kelly: No right answer for this, but I would love to putter around in one of the cities of the Roman Empire for a while.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:42:48 +0000

Aye ye ye! I have no idea–I confess that the only thing currently influencing my back-in-time choice is the clothing style and that’s shallow. However, with a few more of these videos, perhaps I’ll have a better idea!

P.S. I dig the new location.
P.P.S. What’s your answer?

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:27:07 +0000

Go Back in Time:

I would go back to the time of the great thinkers: Plato, Socraties (sp?), Aristotle (sp?), and I would sit in their walls of academia and I would learn, I would try to understand their thought process, and try to find the connection of which wisdom came from these men in turn to where we still discuss them to this very day.
P.S. Thanks to Plato, I’d make one more stop, I’d stop to see if I really could find Atlantis.

By: kristen

kristen — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:12:00 +0000

Liam, these videos are great! I’m no history buff but this kept my attention no problem.

I’d time-travel to see the Sermon on the Mount (good idea, Will).

And if it’s any consolation, we also have a tripod, which is located somewhere in our house, which we have never actually used, but which would work a lot better than the stacks of books we always use. We generally find it when we move and use it to take up space in our moving van.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:57:29 +0000

Watch out for those Doctor Who allusions. I suppose it is better than reciting mindless phrases from Monty Python.

Thanks for the comment: So it is a choice between the birth of Christianity and the birth of Rock and Roll?

By: admin

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:52:54 +0000

You mean there weren’t communists everywhere? Boy, I’ll have to rethink the 50s!

By: will

will — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:19:40 +0000

i would only time-travel if i could do so with THE Doctor, with a fully stocked Tardis. But, i mean, then, i would travel anywhere in time! Even traveling to yesterday would be awesome.
Maybe i would like to be present for the sermon on the mount? At the last supper? hang out with Israel in his last days alive? In the 50s when Ike Turner first publicly played “Rocket ’88″?

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:49:24 +0000

According to Manchester, Randolph Churchill also suffered from syphilis which in its tertiary form caused him to go mad.

I always like to think that I would have thrived in the post WWII era, but maybe I would have gotten caught up in seeing communists everywhere and ruined it for myself and others.