+51 I`m not the only one who wish I lived three hundred years ago, instead of now, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, actually I would have wanted to live with the dinosaurs a even longer time ago...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh yes. With typhoid water, rotten food, the Plague, smallpox, measles, tuberculosis, slavery, constant war, starvation, poverty, deadly work, the constant smell of horse, cow and human waste, body odor, a world lit only by fire, kings, queens and tyrants, no civil or human rights, kangaroo courts, summary executions, entire city burnings, rats and other vermin, rabies, syphillis and gonnorrhea, arranged and forced marriages, wife beating, lynch mobs and witch burnings, forced religious participation, a world where as few as 10% of humans could read, write or even speak well, floods, disasters with no relief, mud paths for roads, highway robbers, marauders and brigands, ungodly epidemics, rampant ignorance and superstition, hospitals were death houses and doctors bled you dry if you had a fever like they did to George Washington, pestilence, famine, bad music and rotten acting when you got it at all, bread so bad you tripped your brains out or died, fetid fields with no drainage, no sewers, a bath you had to pay for and told when you needed one by the Church- maybe three times a year and the military press that would take every man from 16 to 50 and send him off to a war where he would surely die the worst ways possible because some king couldn't get on with another king because he lost at cards. Where the life expectancy was about 32 and the judge you might stand before in the dock was little more than a teenager, where going to prison was more often a death sentence, furniture in your hovel was scarce, everyone ate from the same dirty bowl with his or her fingers and slept with four others on a bedbug ridden and filthy pallet, where scabies and skin diseases were the norm and your teeth fell out before you were 25, even less and there was no defense against wild animals except your wits, a knife if you had one and possible and muzzle loading 25 pound iron Flintlock that took the best man a full minute to load and maybe shoot and where women were treated as draft animals and breed mares with no rights except that which their husbands gave them, if any and sometimes whipped them regularly just as he did the chiuldren and where childbed fever claimed a full 55% of new mothers. And it was t least ten miles on horseback or on foot on a badly made road to get to an outpost store to get the bare basics of flour, a side of bacon, some nails, gun powder, lead balls, tinder and flint, a knife, maybe a wash tub, coal or whale oil for the lamp, sugar in a bag, maybe some cloth, needles and thread, a new pot or two, maybe some patent medicine that had no more than alcohol and a little morphine or camphor or mercury, and prices were precious, where in winter you starved, got beriberi, scurvy, yaws, palagra,(the plague of corn visited upon the Indians by the Spanish and Portugese armies, worms, catarrh, rickets, whooping cough, diphtheria, undulant fever and other diseases where you died in utter agony while your family looked pitifully on. Back then death was looked upon as a commonality and even a blessing. And in the cities it was worse with crime a hundred times worse than even today. Now did you really want to live in those times?

by Anonymous 10 years ago