What's your opinion about living in interesting times?
Drunk commies deleted
13-12-2005, 22:17
I've heard that there's an old Chinese curse that says "May you live in interesting times". Well, times are pretty interesting right now. France has nearly month-long riots, laid back Australians are seeing a mini race war, the US has invaded Iraq for no apparent reason, tourists in Bali are being blown up, Bird flu will kill us all, unless the greenhouse gasses get us first.
We live in interesting times. Personally, putting aside the human suffering, I'm kind of excited about the times we're living in. How about you folks?
Melkor Unchained
13-12-2005, 22:21
All times are interesting times. A hundred years ago people would be saying the same thing about the advances and social happenings of that time as well. It's sort of like how we like to say "what a time to be alive!" without taking into account the fact that countless generations before us have probably said the same thing about their lives, on account of the advances made back then.
It just goes to show, there's no time like the present, eh?
I don't know...I think all times were pretty interesting. If hunger didn't get you, raging hordes of invaders, or disease might...random rapings and pillagings and entire cities being put to the sword (or the stake, in Ivan the Terrible's time)...having your knee chewed off by hungry coyotes...all make for interesting stories.
Naw, I'm not particularly 'excited' about the times we live in. More like...full of dread. Because there are SO many problems to deal with. It makes me want to go live in a cabin with my family, a thousand kilometres from everyone else.
No matter when or where you live you live in interesting times. At what point in the history of human existance have things been globally boring?
There is always something interesting happening at some level, from local to global.
Melkor Unchained
13-12-2005, 22:24
Hahahaa! I beat you both! :p
Hahahaa! I beat you both! :p
Jackass. You misused your mod powers to go back in time.
OR
Great minds think alike.
OR
Idiots seldom differ.
Drunk commies deleted
13-12-2005, 22:25
All times are interesting times. A hundred years ago people would be saying the same thing about the advances and social happenings of that time as well. It's sort of like how we like to say "what a time to be alive!" without taking into account the fact that countless generations before us have probably said the same thing about their lives, on account of the advances made back then.
It just goes to show, there's no time like the present, eh?
Quit harshing my buzz man.
Dishonorable Scum
13-12-2005, 22:25
Well, would you rather be living in interesting times, or be dead and very, very bored?
Easy choice, from where I stand. (Never mind that I'm sitting.)
:p
Melkor Unchained
13-12-2005, 22:28
Quit harshing my buzz man.
I'm just doing it becasuse I don't have my own buzz yet.
Although it is almost 5 o'clock. I guess I could start drinkin' :D
Secluded Islands
13-12-2005, 22:30
not that interesting to me. id rather live around the late 1700's in france ;)
The Squeaky Rat
13-12-2005, 22:30
How about you folks?
Call me Rincewind.
Drunk commies deleted
13-12-2005, 22:32
Call me Rincewind.
Why?
Sock Puppetry
13-12-2005, 22:33
We live in interesting times. Personally, putting aside the human suffering, I'm kind of excited about the times we're living in.Eh.
It's a living.
:D
Why?
That Chinese saying is also used as a curse in the Terry Pratchett book "Interesting Times".
Conscribed Comradeship
13-12-2005, 22:42
interesting times. is that like the periods of time between naps?
Liskeinland
13-12-2005, 23:16
Interesting times are fine as long as they are actually interesting, not just disastrous. Something involving a mystic sword would be nice...