Let’s say we have a Time Machine that can go only back to the 1930s and 1940s. Would you take it?

June 26 | Self

[HypatiaTaught]

My parents are both passed. They were born in the 1920’s, Dad served in WW2 and Mom worked at Bell Telephone. She also had 13 kids and became an RN, but that is another story. Both would often tell me of the extremely tough times during the Great Depression. Mom said she remembers as a little girl with nothing to eat, she would sometimes chew the edge of a pencil just to satisfy the need to chew. Dad also experienced the lack of food and till his last day, never let any food go to waste. Found out after his passing from his friend at Dad’s funeral, he told me of the horrific days in Guadalcanal. My dad lost his buddy right before his own eyes, from a grenade blast. My Dad when asked, never ever shared his experience, only saying you don’t need to know.

In America, (not Europe) with all the terrible circumstances and events in the 1930’s and 1940s, they still had something that we no longer have. They had America. They had true family values. There was no social justice hijacking of businesses or the individual. There was no platform to allow or perpetuate the psychosis of one gender to say they are the opposite gender. There was no “Defund the Police”. There was no demonization of our Flag. There was no cancel culture. There was no one party rule. There was no enforcement of a fake vaccine that causes countless deaths and disabilities.

So my question to you, if you could go back to the 1930s or 1940s in exchange with our current times, would you?

[Gen.Blather]

” Currently in South Dakota where I hope to NEVER move.”

I was in the rat race, with a high stress job and a McMansion. I sold the McMansion at the peak in 2008 and moved into an old double wide on property in the woods. It was a huge step down in class. (Big step up in actual utility, though.) One day the neighbor lady brought me a “bucket” of chili. Handing me a spoon, she said, “I hit a turkey on my way home. Fried him right up. He was delicious! You can only eat the breast on them, ‘cause the rest is like shoe leather. Then, right up there at the corner? Somebody hit a poor little deer. Well, I backed right up and threw him in the trunk. Need any hamburger?” I paused on my third spoonful of chili, looking at it. She said, “Oh! No! That’s not deer meat. Remember that coyote? That’s him.”

I have now moved even further into the country. My neighbor raises cattle. I was chopping down a tree and another neighbor came over with his chainsaw. (Bonding, I guess.) God, I love rednecks. I feel cheated I didn’t discover them sooner.

[HypatiaTaught]

Let’s say you had a time machine that would take you back to right here and now. What would you do?
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I see what you did there...

Thank you!

:)

[redangus]

I think there were a lot of Harolds. I can’t imagine what my dad would think of BLM Antifa, police that won’t stop rioter and the company he worked for for years celebrating perversion.

[ought-six]

Well, the 1950s, anyway.

[Salvavida]

And get further from the return of Christ? Have you lost your mind?

What do you think this is all about? Your comfort?

[alexander_busek]

Yep... So many today are adversed averse to working.

Regards,

[AFret.]

“And today a bunch of childish, perversion loving, hate filled people who don’t hold a candle to men like our fathers are destroying everything they fought to preserve.”

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Could not have said that better than you did...thanks.

Father was a B-29 pilot on Saipan. Flew the Tokyo fire raids in March of 1945. Finest man I’ve known, and a true gentleman.
Loved this country as only men and women of that generation could.
As much as I miss my parents, I’m glad they aren’t here to experience the final days of what was once America.

[ArtDodger]

Thank you.

[Amendment10]

turbculosis -> tuberculosis in post 100.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Those who abide in Christ Jesus have something far better, being incorporated into all of time and eternity toward a blessed end and completion. They can rejoice in each moment of life with a humilty that acknowledges God’s almighty and merciful hand.

As an exercise in cerebral fantasy, however, my answer would be “ no.” I am living at the best possible time in the best possible place.

[The Louiswu]

“ You’d find yourself completely out of place. We are uniquely the creatures of our time. Which is why we should not try to evaluate the motives and morals of our ancestors, because those were the motives and morals of that time. Evaluate not, lest you be evaluated. And, leave the damned statues alone.”

Absolute Truth!

[Captain Peter Blood]

With the knowledge I have now, yes I would. I would go to Los Angeles where there was lots of opportunities.

[The Louiswu]

This thread has mad me smile, laugh and cry a little.

[cuz1961]

If I could replace the driver for Patton to make sure he lived to smack down every Communist regime of the next 30 years I would.

As a kid I was not a fan. But I eventually read a boatload of ww2 military men.

Monty was a pompous arse who I think was a Nazi sympathizer , and Patton was the best general we had.

[StAnDeliver]

Knowing what I know, and with only the clothes on my back, hell yes.

Starting with sports, I'd be Emperor Biff Tanner in about 3 years.

Then right after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Mao would get a hot pineapple in his CCP base in Yan'an, and China would obey the same terms Imperial Japan got.

Then arm the Mau Mau's to the teeth in British East Africa and move their uprise timetable up 10 years.

[Nateman]

I rather go into the future. The near future if this Communist Revolution fails, or the far future if it succeeds.

[gcparent]

I’d take 1950s

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They had America. They had true family values.

Lots of men were abandoning their families because "They couldn't bear to see them suffer."

There was no social justice hijacking of businesses or the individual.

You apparently were not aware that the Communist party and unions were doing just that.

There was no platform to allow or perpetuate the psychosis of one gender to say they are the opposite gender.

You are correct there. And the word is SEX. Gender is a language term.

There was no “Defund the Police”.

Please go read up on the riots caused by the unions and their communist puppet masters.

There was no demonization of our Flag.

See above.

There was no cancel culture.

Bull.

There was no one party rule.

Yes. There was. Same party as now.

There was no enforcement of a fake vaccine that causes countless deaths and disabilities.

Give you that one. Of course they were giving lobotomies to people on the flimsiest of excuses.

[Fiji Hill]

I would like to go back and live in 1929. My father, who was alive at the time, told me that I’m crazy to want to live in that year. But in 1929 Hollywood, Broadway and popular music were experiencing their Golden Ages, we had a Republican president and Congress, California had a Republican governor and two Republican Senators, girls had hairdos that made them look really cute, and the USC Trojans dominated college football.

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As for the culture. You’d find yourself completely out of place. We are uniquely the creatures of our time.

Too true. I find much that is valuable and admirable in my parents' world, but I know I wouldn't fit in there because I grew up differently. People now expect more stimulation and want more self-expressiveness and fewer constraints, even if we don't know that we do.