Where I am currently living either 40 years ago, or about 200 years ago would surely have had me killed or strung up.
what era would have been the scariest to live in?
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Well, since we get the benefit of historical hindsight, I'd say if you're in Hiroshima or Nagasaki and it's the first week of August 1945, you have survival issues on an unrecoverable scale. Aztecs during the slaughter/offering era had low actuarial prospects also. Europe throughout the first half of the 1900's was no picnic, but then, when was it ever until we came along? Century after century. Famine, wars one after another, plagues..
Now, it's a worker's paradise and the beer is good too!
Now, it's a worker's paradise and the beer is good too!
Fear is a state of mind, there always has been, and always will be something out there to get you, it's how you deal with it that matters.
About a year from now.
Just a mere lad at the time... 2nd or 3rd grade or so. Old man was with the old AEC based at the Livermore CA lab. He was out roaming the perimeter of the Frisco Bay Area with Foxtrot 7 (funny what the mind can remember) the station wagon outfitted with radiological measuring devices and commo gear. Mission: detect fallout plumes/patterns, REM rates, wind velocities etc. and send to higher-ups.
Data needed to allow civil defense responses.
Job considered a suicide mission but the old man accepted it..... for the better good, I guess. Mom and I stayed in the trailer at the El-Bar-Dee trailer park in Livermore.
Old man would come home, eat, sleep then off again; rotating with the guy in.... was it Foxtrot 9?
Too young to be scared but was concerned since Mom was kind of shaken.
Cold War.... crazy times the older folks present know of.
When the nuke arsenals reached their max... what was it... 1970s? A full-scale total nuclear barrage would have been excruciating. Especially if there was a lot of ground bursts leading to maimum radioactive fall-out.
Looking back at those times (that could re-emerge with Russia or China or who knows who) makes a "suitcase nuke" or two or the so-called "dirty bomb" look like kiddies playing with tiny firecrackers. Lethal or harmful to those in the immediate proximity and a royal pain-in-the-hiney but far far from country/society destroying.... as 20,000 impacting warheads would likely do.
Boom.
Possibly in the near future if we get a certain woman back in the White House!
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How do we rate Scary, I guess anytime in history people had a short life expectancy could be called scary, but that may not mean they lived their life scared.
I have a client, she is genuinely scared of every 'imminent disaster' that comes up in the news, Earthquake, Terrorists, Flu pandemic, you name it. I got so fed up with her once I had pulled up some stats (I think it was from National Geographic) that showed causes of death and life expectancy, I hoped to convince her that she really had nothing to fear from any of the things I listed above. Now she worries herself sick about Heart disease and car accidents.
I have a client, she is genuinely scared of every 'imminent disaster' that comes up in the news, Earthquake, Terrorists, Flu pandemic, you name it. I got so fed up with her once I had pulled up some stats (I think it was from National Geographic) that showed causes of death and life expectancy, I hoped to convince her that she really had nothing to fear from any of the things I listed above. Now she worries herself sick about Heart disease and car accidents.
Ironically now is probably the 'scariest' time to live because we're constantly bombarded by news and other infotainment highlighting the next thing that is going to kill us, whether it be a terrorist, bird flu, cellphone brain tumors blah blah blah.
Back in the day violent death/disease/hunger etc were a normal part of life and not a soundbite. Our forefathers took it in stride.
Back in the day violent death/disease/hunger etc were a normal part of life and not a soundbite. Our forefathers took it in stride.
I didn't say Aficans was on the Mayflower! I pointed out the era of time, and since you're from my city you know about police torture to convict Blacks. Our current mayor's father was "alledge" to have participated in random beatings of blacks when he was a teen. So reread the "era of time", and nobdy had to "poison" my mind.
Da Game - OK. I get it. You have a chip on your shoulder and an axe to grind. But I didn't say that blacks were from/on the Mayflower. It had nothing to do with you, was my obvious point.
Being from my city, you know it's far far safer in white than in black neighborhods.
Being from my city, you know it's far far safer in white than in black neighborhods.
No "axe to grind or chip on shoulder"... Fact are you wrong.
1) In the 60's black kids just for fun was dropped off in the Bridgeport area just so white adults would chase us as LEO'S would watch.
2) You think it's safer because the Chicago media will report the negative in my community, as a see how they are.
3) A few years ago 3 Africans were playing basketball in LoganSquare was attact by whites.
4) There are more whites in the area I grew up in than (Black) than white, and no harm has come to them.
5) What about the retired police officer living in Florida who was brough back for trail for torture of Blacks in a police house only to the system say " The statue of limitation has expired"
6) DuPage police was under investagation for issuing tickets to 65% Blacks, when only 4% live in the area.
7) A few years back a book was written about Chicago police called "Chopshop" chronicle the police here.
8) I have relatives and friends on both Police & Fire and they are high ranking officals who will tell you simular stories. Also, an ex-GF who is a staff writer for 18yrs with the Sun Times and 17yrs with Crain Chicago business.
So how can you possibly think that my community is unsafe. I live on 85th and Cottage Grove feel free to walk here and you'll feel safe. Or, talk to some Blacks in the know here and they'll say the same thing.
No axe or grind just saying what it is.
Also forgot to add, ask my friend who just recently ran for Mayor here William "Dock" Walls. I played ball with alot of people from to South to West, some went on to fame or pro some like myself did not. Hopefully one day we'll have a brew together on the Lake front and watch the people of this great city.
Sorry to all about the rant didn't mean to hijack.
Sorry to all about the rant didn't mean to hijack.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OKGR480&show_article=1
I don't know, today seems pretty bad.
I don't know, today seems pretty bad.
Da Game - You or I can cite any singular incident, so I won't even try.
I don't think that your perspective is accurate or objective. I prefer to look at the total picture.
I don't think that your perspective is accurate or objective. I prefer to look at the total picture.
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This "total picture" apparently excludes that which does not affect you directly. Let's wait until something happens that doesn't fit into your "total picture," but which does affect you.
So let me guess? Hum, the Euro Americans are moving in what you call "unsafe" area because they need crime in their life. What ever you're on I need some. Or are you saying that a person lynched in America isn't the total picture or are you from a privilege class who benifits from these deeds. Please cite any occasion where a Black mob has lynched anybody, burned a cross or denied acess to make a living.
I guess M.L. King was totally wrong when he stated that "Chicago is the most RACIST city he was ever in". As he was being stoned marching thru Marquette park. How about the FBI along with CPD murdering the Black Panther party on west Monroe St. at 3am as some was still sleeping. Or a few years ago a 13yr old by the name of Leonard Clark was drop off by CP to a park around 32nd Halsted where they knew because he was Black he would be beat (he was)up. Let's not forget Emitt Till who grew up with my mother murdered in Mississippi. This is part of history and factual! OK you may say he was wrong for whistling at a female Euro American and that just one incident. I know there may be other stories in various cities across the nation.
Yes I'm sure from your perspective the civil right movement was not the "total picture" and it was just a "singular incident"
Objective, I'm open maybe there are other cities in this GREAT COUNTRY that has a coexistenance of people. But my era of time reflects that of my people and (possibly) other minorities that may have suffer thru oppression.
Yes this era of time is tough I'm sure for all people, but we walk out the front door day in and day out with the stong sense of equality and the LORD on our side. I still think that inspite of our difference this is still the GREATEST COUNTRY in the world.
This is the Era of time I live in.
This era. So many inflammatory opinions including s/r/p being tossed around, resulting in threadlocks. Especially in this "general" category.
When I was younger it was a lot more safe and sane.
When I was younger it was a lot more safe and sane.
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