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Old 03-31-2014, 03:27 AM
 
Location: Somewhere below Mason/Dixon
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He would think the technology was the work of the devil, and he would think most people were practicing witchcraft. He may go right into some kind of shock or unconsciousness from the shock of seeing it all.

 
Old 03-31-2014, 05:07 AM
 
Location: Connecticut
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It's hard to say but at this point I would gladly trade places with him. Maybe not with a man from Boston but a man from Virginia.
 
Old 03-31-2014, 05:35 AM
 
Location: Connecticut
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1)Where is the ice house? How does the food keep in the cold box that is in the kitchen?

Interesting exercise.
I looked into different ways store foods without a refrigerator. Most of the alternatives were being used by people back then. Canning didn't come out until 1795 but it was something that they were at least capable of doing in 1714. He might be more impressed by canned foods than by the refrigerator. If he looked in my refrigerator he might wonder why I bother to keep it running at all since most of my food is in cans or boxes on the shelves of my pantry.
 
Old 03-31-2014, 07:48 AM
 
Location: Currently living in Reddit
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- that he gets fined for dumping a bucket of excrement out his window
- there are witches everywhere and you can't burn 'em any more
- WTF is "light" beer?
- the accent sounds just as silly as it did 300 years ago
 
Old 03-31-2014, 08:08 AM
 
Location: SoCal
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The Internet? Haha try electricity in general.
Wasn't electricity discovered in the 1700s, though?
 
Old 03-31-2014, 08:09 AM
 
Location: SoCal
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It's hard to say but at this point I would gladly trade places with him. Maybe not with a man from Boston but a man from Virginia.
You want to live in a time when (almost) any disease could have killed you? Am I understanding you correctly here?
 
Old 03-31-2014, 08:11 AM
 
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The number of Catholics and their power.
The number of outspoken atheists and their power to attack and restrict Christians.
 
Old 03-31-2014, 08:19 AM
 
Location: Central Florida
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The Kardashians.
 
Old 03-31-2014, 08:36 AM
 
Location: Texas
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If a man from Boston in the year 1714 were to wake up in Boston in 2014 what do you think would surprise him the most about life today?
1714 was pre-industrial. It was a world alien to ours.

Most of our modern existence would be utterly incomprehensible to him. He'd be incapable of absorbing explanations of electricity and energy usage. He'd think he was in a nightmare with everything except some parts of language being completely foreign to his experience.
 
Old 03-31-2014, 09:02 AM
 
Location: On the East Coast
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If a man from Boston in the year 1714 were to wake up in Boston in 2014 what do you think would surprise him the most about life today?

Indoor plumbing/toilets

Computers, cellphones and other gadgets.

Airplanes and helicopters would scare the pants off him.

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