lucky to live in current times

India
June 14, 2010 1:37pm CST
whenever i think about our current ages ,we say pollution ,poverty,famine,natural disasters like tsunami ,many cyclones etc,but,do you think we would have been much safer together,i dont think so,imagine you are living in delhi in the 15th century,and dont think you are living in a safe zone,as the ruler from mongolia timur is waging a massacre against delhites,swords pierce through the throats and bodies!now imagine you are a scientist who is on the verge of a major discovery in the 16th or 15th century when the catholic church is at it's dominance,so,you cant make public your discovery and live it with to your death,as you risk being tried for heresy and senteced to death!now imagine you are living in mayan times,there it was common practise to offer human sacrifices to the sun god,and mind you the choices were always random,and only the people from the royal family were spared!now if you were in the middle of the rasputin's wickedness in russia,you risk being assasinated if you open your mouth!same is the case during the times of the pharoas or the egyptians,same was the case during the time of jesus ,you risk your life when you opened your mouth,so see it's much better to open your mouth in todays times which very much support free thought and expression,see how much we moved on from our past heritage,and now don't say that i wish i would have been born in the age of newton or copernicus,because you dont know about the reprecussions coming!LUCKY TO LIVE IN CURRENT TIMES!
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• Pamplona, Spain
20 Jun 10
Hiya roger, Lucky to live in current times there is a lot of truth in that. At least now we can´t be burned at the stake for heresy and all those cool things they invented then like those nice torture chambers and instruments. If you were the Wife of Henry The Eighth you did not stand much of a chance of being saved if he had got it into his Head that you were "being a Traitor" to him. He would soon whop you off to the chopping block too. So you are right looking back on those so called good old days in a way it is better to be living now than then. When People mention living in other times I suppose they might refer to when the water was supposedly cleaner and the food a lot more healthy but was it really all that healthy. We can´t really ever know can we because we were not there. I prefer to live now and I was sure glad not to have been one of Henry the Eights Wives.
• United States
15 Jun 10
You're definitely right my friend, life is as easy as can be, even with everything that threatens our lives. However, now it really all depends on where you live! If you live in a bad urban neighborhood, it can be that you get shot, robbed, breathe in tons of smoke a day, all sort of things. However, if you live a life away from everything in the countryside, odds are you're only improving your chances to live longer. I guess really there are bad things and good things to everything!