Was the world destroyed and re-made on January 1, 1990?

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Do you think that's true?
Not literally no, but a LOT changed around 1990, so maybe in a poetic sense 14%  14%  [ 6 ]
Not literally no, but a LOT changed around 1990, so maybe in a poetic sense 14%  14%  [ 6 ]
Sorta. 1990 was one of the biggest changes in history and society ever. 5%  5%  [ 2 ]
Yes, I personally noticed a cosmic shift right on/around that date. This isn't the world of the 80s and before. 10%  10%  [ 4 ]
No, that's ridiculous. 57%  57%  [ 24 ]
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02 May 2012, 4:16 am

Okay I guess this was a stupid thread. I guess as I was born in 1990 anything before that isn't 'real' to me in a way. Though of course it is since stuff that happened before '90 still reverberates into the present.



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02 May 2012, 12:22 pm

donnie_darko wrote:
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

Guess what said that?
An idiot?


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02 May 2012, 12:30 pm

donnie_darko wrote:
Everything before the 90s seems different to me. Is this just a copy of the 1989-and-before world/universe?


It only seems that way. If you study history throughly you would know how much has NOT changed.

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02 May 2012, 4:33 pm

Vexcalibur wrote:
donnie_darko wrote:
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

Guess what said that?
An idiot?


Is Socrates an idiot?



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02 May 2012, 7:51 pm

donnie_darko wrote:
Okay I guess this was a stupid thread. I guess as I was born in 1990 anything before that isn't 'real' to me in a way. Though of course it is since stuff that happened before '90 still reverberates into the present.

No, don't worry about my narkiness - it just happens to me. I'm nostalgic, but I don't think you'd find empirical evidence to what you're feeling.


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02 May 2012, 10:52 pm

Wow who actually voted they did notice a cosmic shift? Explain! I am interested.



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03 May 2012, 10:23 am

donnie_darko wrote:
Vexcalibur wrote:
donnie_darko wrote:
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

Guess what said that?
An idiot?


Is Socrates an idiot?
I am not sure he existed...


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03 May 2012, 10:26 am

The entire cosmos was created last Tuesday and we were created along with it complete with our memories.

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05 May 2012, 3:10 pm

What about the year 2000?



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05 May 2012, 6:25 pm

Time ended

Yesterday.



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05 May 2012, 8:29 pm

donnie_darko wrote:
What about the year 2000?

At least you can say that the world (well, Eastern Europe, anyway) was figuratively destroyed and recreated circa 1990. Nothing like that happened in 2000.



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05 May 2012, 10:35 pm

AstroGeek wrote:
donnie_darko wrote:
What about the year 2000?

At least you can say that the world (well, Eastern Europe, anyway) was figuratively destroyed and recreated circa 1990. Nothing like that happened in 2000.


Hmmmm .... East Asia changed pretty rapidly around then didn't it? Not within a couple years like in East Europe though.



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01 May 2013, 7:10 pm

The first Web server was created on Christmas Day 1990. Maybe that could be thought of as the birth of a "New world" if not so much the death of an old one? (Of course the Internet is 20 years older than the web)



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01 May 2013, 8:19 pm

The cold war ended, and the berlin wall fell, and the soviet union fell apart, in the late eighties. And the nineties were the first 'digital decade' So things did indeed change alot around that time. Both socially and technologically.

So you could make a case that was a pivotol year-now that I think about it. It may not be just an artifact of you being born that year.

The first world war resulted in the rise of communism, and begat the second world war a generation later. The second world war led almost immediately to the cold war. The cold war lasted for two generations (the late fourties until the late eighties). So when it finnally ended that was the true end of world war one- or of the issues set into motion by world war one.

I had similar thoughts when I was your age- but pushed back in time. My parents grew up in the "inter war" period between the world wars: movies, radio, the jazz age, the great depression. I and my boomer contempoararies grew up the post second world war age: TV, rocknroll, the space age, the cold war, To me the year 1945 was a huge boundryline in time (much like 1990 is for you). The era before the end of world two seemed as foriegn to me (a teen in the late sixties) as a foreign country. And that was during tumult of the late sixties - civil rights- vietnam- and age restrictions when going to movies started- when the world was being remade again ( a generation after world war two). I came up with the theory that history went in 25 year cycles( the aproximate length of a generation)- two decades of deceptive calm- followed by a half decade of sudden change. The first world war ended in late 1918- then there was two decades of deceptive calm- then the world changed by the war (39-45). Then there was 20 years of the deceptive post war calm that ended around 1965. Then you had the upheavals of the late sixties.



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01 May 2013, 10:30 pm

I doubt it. David Koresh only declared the End Times in 1993, and Marshall Applewhite spoke of recycling the earth in 1997, I think.



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01 May 2013, 11:58 pm

1990 is basically when the internet became widespread use.

Heck yeah its changed :)