For me it is the “fall of the Berlin wall” and the celebrations after the border openings.
I don’t know how much of an"historical event" it is now, but if I showed up to Steven Hawking’s “Time Traveller party” I imagine it would become one.
Plot twist: show up one day after
Jesus throwing the conmen out of the church.
I don’t care for the religion, but if this actually happened, it would be so satisfying to see. So-called “christians” act more like the ones he kicked out than their supposed “lord” himself.
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven.
~Jesus Christ
I don’t think it’s fair to just say “Christians”, it’s really the US-based evangelical prosperity gospel preachers. They really are the modern version of the money lenders in the temple.
They’re basically “pay for pray” m/billionaires using religion to exploit the poor and hopeless while travelling in their private jets.
They pay no tax and live in luxury while claiming that their success is proof of God’s love.
If that’s how things worked, then Mother Theresa would have been rich. Ghandi would have owned a Bentley. But of course, that’s not how God or love works at all, and it makes me really angry.
I’ve often thought about becoming a Christian version of Mr Beast; raising tons of money and giving away every single penny. Telling people that prayer is free and God loves them no matter what. Paying off people’s mortgages and bills if they are suffering, regardless of their religion.
And then turning around to those prosperity gospel preachers and challenging them to do reverse tithing, 90% of their income goes to charity, not 10%. No living in mansions paid for by their church. Not taking any appearance fees or book royalties. Exposing them as the grifters they are.
I haven’t done that already because I would want to do an actual Bible studies degree first, otherwise I’d feel like just as much of a fraud.
If I can experience it without dying, I’d say the asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs.
I also vote for the asteroid but with zero caveats.
Lol. You at least want to survive long enough to see the explosion.
Jan 6, so i can blast benny hill music.
i wanna visit that one Christmas in world war one where they all got over their shit for a day and had snowball fights and stuff. play in the snow with some of the most damaged and traumatized people in history.
I thought they played football.
shit IDK, either way. that’s where i want to go.
If you wanna get depressed, look up what happened to these soldiers afterwards
i already have experienced a few in my lifetime. i can’t say that they were generally positive experiences.
May you live in interesting times!
Apparently this saying is a curse and not a blessing
nobody knows that better than those who have lived in interesting times. as one of those people, i assure you it is.
I’ve never confirmed it, my understanding is it’s a very old phrase that has been mistaken. I want doubting it just my knowledge of it
Love the confirmation of it’s accuracy though!
Apollo moon landing
The problem with most major historical events is that they’re not fun. I would choose Field of the Cloth of Gold because it was just a big festival for weeks.
The surrender at Appomattox, so I could tell the Union generals to keep burning until every plantation and its owners were ash
Jesus dude, you should go join the IDF, you’d fit right in.
race: plantation owner
lmfao
Brutus stabbing some little king wannabe.
I’d love to be in the room when George Lucas first screens Star Wars to Spielberg and pals. The version before Marcia Lucas saved it with her editing prowess.
The Battle of Agincourt. It would be interesting to confirm how effective the English longbows really were compared to the theory that the mud was really the deciding factor against the French.
Also the battle of Hastings. To see how a shield wall worked.
Julius Caesar declaring himself an emperor, the celebration and seeing the man that essentially turned rome from a powerful republic to the most powerful empire with a military that dominated majority of europe.
Does Woodstock count?
Why shouldn’t it count?
Because it wasn’t that long ago.
But it’s still considered a major historic event. The Berlin wall falling was even more recent and definitely historic.
Non sequitor here but both of these things happened during pablo picassos lifetime
As a great name in the artworld i was always surprised that lived in the modern era and not a previous one like many other “everyone knows these names” artists
Its not impossible that woodstock contributed to the wall coming down
Was a huge cultural event that wildly exceeded expectations and became a phenomenon
Then the wall came down about 4 years later
Edit: i have been fact checked and found wanting. 73 is not 83
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Oh damn. I actually checked quickly and saw 73 guess i missed that badly thanks for the fact check kind stranger.
Mine would be witnessing the first nuclear explosion at the trinity test site.
Like…up close??
As close as possible
