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DJJasonp · 06-11-2014, 07:18 PM

Spinoff from the concert thread....

If there was a significant historical event that you could have been at live and in person (with no chance of dying or having any harm befall you) - what would it be?

And to make it interesting, you can witness this event by going back in time, and having all the knowledge you currently have carry with you to that place and time where the event occurred.

This is not a "prevent it from happening" opportunity - just as a witness.

My first thoughts - would have to be the last supper (and days following crucifixion) and the JFK assasination.

What say you?

**BigRedChief** · 06-12-2014, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by MTG#10

I believe Hitler hated Jews and had a lot of them killed. I dont believe it was anywhere close to 6 million though. I'm not an anti-semite; I just think that number has been severely inflated and there is a lot of evidence that supports this belief.

You should have kept your ignorant thoughts to yourself and your fellow Hitler apologist's. Your stupidity is dumbfounding.

**BigMeatballDave** · 06-12-2014, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by MTG#10

I believe Hitler hated Jews and had a lot of them killed. I dont believe it was anywhere close to 6 million though. I'm not an anti-semite; I just think that number has been severely inflated and there is a lot of evidence that supports this belief.

I suppose you think the Moon landing was fake.

Are you a member of the Flat Earth Society?

Boise_Chief · 06-12-2014, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Cooter Bailey

It's a huge stretch to call this proof. There are writings about a lot of fictional people and fictional events thru the ages. Proof? Nada.

If you don't want to believe, don't that is on you. If you want to be ignorant help yourself.

But consider this how many letters from the Roman empire still exist today in any form. The letters from Pliny the younger are coming from an anti-christian viewpoint on how to prosecute christians. This is from 110 ad. he would know about the existence of a man that had been executed a hundred years before. That would be like us doubting the existence of John Wilkes Booth.
He doesn't doubt that a man named Jesus that is the basis of this faith existed. That would have been an obvious thing to persecute them over ( they follow a man who never existed)

I don't want to drag this into DC but is your google broken, you might want to do a little research if you want to argue this point.

Boise_Chief · 06-12-2014, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by C3HIEF3S

I would like to go back and watch AustinChief create Chiefs Planet.

I was around (not at his house) I think you'd find it vaguely anti-climactic. It was cool but Custer's last stand would have more action.

Pepe Silvia · 06-12-2014, 04:35 PM

History is overrated.

**Rain Man** · 06-12-2014, 04:41 PM

I think there are three critical issues that should be considered strongly in historic event time teleportation. Most have been touched on, but I think we need a post that clearly delineates a policy. When one of us eventually has the opportunity to do so, we want to make the most of it and not waste it. So I hereby present the three guiding philosophical principles of time travel teleportation, along with a third optional but recommended principle.

#1 - The event should actually be something that was not a mundane event at the time.

Some things have great historical important, but by themselves they're rather mundane. For example, if you want to see Jonas Salk cure polio, that's great, but you're going to travel back in time and witness a person getting a vaccination. Is that really the best use of your time travel dollar? Same with most of the Lewis and Clark expedition or crossing on the Mayflower. Unless you're into the details, they're just hiking and sailing.

#2 - The event should be something that can be understood.

This is a tough one, but must be said. If you would have no idea what's going on due to language or other issues, then you're going to lose some impact. For example, seeing the signing the Magna Carta would be cool, but most likely it would just be a bunch of people talking gibberish and then the guy with the crown and fur collar signs a document.

#3 - The event should have some sort of mystery or uncertainty to be solved.

This is important. It would be a cool experience to go back to V-E Day in Times Square or see the signing of the Declaration of Independence, but we pretty much know what happened. This is true of many things in the era of videorecording like the moon walks. You don't need to time travel if you can just pop in a video. In some of these events, perhaps a greater value would be finding the stuff that's not documented, such as perhaps the discussions leading up to the signing of the Declaration, or Hitler's bunker the week before V-E Day.

#4 (optional, but recommended). The event should be something that is reasonably pleasant to see.

This is optional, and there may certainly be value in viewing an unpleasant event. But for you people who want to go back and see a biblical character get crucified, I ask, "Really?" That's probably an unpleasant thing to watch. Same with Hiroshima and a whole lot of battles. Rather than watching the battles, which are a bunch of bleeding and screaming and gore, perhaps you should watch the general's tent or other headquarters, which contains the most interesting elements from a historic/mystery standpoing, but also won't ruin your shirt and leave you psychologically scarred.

Chief Roundup · 06-12-2014, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by BCD

I suppose you think the Moon landing was fake.

Are you a member of the Flat Earth Society?

But, but, but the shadow wasn't right.

MTG#10 · 06-12-2014, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by BigRedChief

You should have kept your ignorant thoughts to yourself and your fellow Hitler apologist's. Your stupidity is dumbfounding.

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Originally Posted by BCD

I suppose you think the Moon landing was fake.

Are you a member of the Flat Earth Society?

I said I believe Hitler was responsible for the deaths of a lot of Jews. I'm no apologist...he was an evil piece of shit. But 6 million, all Jews? From all the research Ive done that number isn't practical or possible.

The number 6 million people claim includes people that werent Jewish at all, but were killed for being gay, Catholic, or Roma. Not to mention after emigrations and evacuations there weren't even close to 6 million Jews left in Europe to be killed.

The number of people murdered doesn't matter anyway, the crime stands as a warning of the depravity and evil to which all humans are capable of sinking.

**ptlyon** · 06-12-2014, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by PackerinMo

History is overrated.

Without history there would be no yesterday and therefore no Beatles. So yah, history sucks.

**bevischief** · 06-12-2014, 05:57 PM

Atlantis before it sank/disappeared.

Coochie liquor · 06-12-2014, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by MTG#10

April 29th 1992

There was a riot in the streets tell me where were you....

Sfeihc · 06-12-2014, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Prince22

Superbowl IV

THIS.

Pepe Silvia · 06-12-2014, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by ptlyon

Without history there would be no yesterday and therefore no Beatles. So yah, history sucks.

That's not history, that's a distraction from real history.

CoMoChief · 06-12-2014, 07:34 PM

Coochie liquor · 06-12-2014, 07:36 PM

Also I'd like to go back to Chiefs war room during the first round of the 1983 draft, and tell them FOR GODS SAKE TAKE MARINO, or anyone not named Blackledge.....

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