As per example, I suffered through a power outage as a result of Hurricane Rita last month. Yes I was often quite bored and hating my situation, but we did fine. We used candles, read, went outside and jumped on the trampoline, played cards, and sang to ourselves and each for entertainment. We quoted movies, reminisced, looked at pictures, went for walks. It was actually quite refreshing, I wouldn't mind going through it again. I do enjoy the internet and video games and listening to music more too much to easily give them up, though, and the methods of lighting, heating, cooling down, and preparing food have become quite essential to our lifestyles. The only people not suffereing in all those situations being lost are farmers in California =p
And for my efforts to heave things back on topic:
I keep seeing all the nice things of all the time periods. I tend to be more optimistic, I realize.
65 Million BC. I would love the environments of the prehistoric age, the relaxation of just being with people, catching food and eating it, bundling up when cold, swimming when warm, creating music through rather organic instrumentation, expressing oneself through dance, singing or spoken word.
12,000 BC. I would enjoy Zeal for all obvious purposes of being lazy AND happy and powerful and floating in the air on a beautiful island, with everything provided for me. In a Zeal-less 12,000 BC, though, I wouldn't enjoy anything about the area. Too cold, bleak (and very limited) environments. Few people. They truly were Dark Ages, I feel bad for those people
600 AD. Medieval times. Castles, knights, royalty, peasants and peons, simple housing. 600 AD takes the good things of our earthly medieval times and combines them with good things from later periods of time in our own earthly timeline. It would be nice, especially after the war, using swords and bows and arrows instead of easily more dangerous firearms and other highly technological weapons. Seems they have electricity at this point, too. Not bad...not sure I'd like the air, though...too murky and foggy.
1000 AD would be awesome, except for the fact that there isn't enough technology to make living conditions ideal with heating and cooling...though they DO have fridges and ovens...so I guess that's a totally incorrect claim...hmm. And they have radios. But they don't have visual technology yet, so no video games or computers. Ah well, there are better wastes of time, I'd probably be more ideally happy in 1000 AD.
1999...dunno. Not enough info about this time period. 2300 AD? Obvious answer: No...at least for the ruined future. The new future?...again, we don't know enough about, so I can't say.
The End of Time? I'd die of boredom. No way, man.
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