So today is the anniversay of what could have been the most effective terrorist attack ever...

[BAYLOR]

James the I had the potential to be a great king. He had a good intellect but unfortunately, that same intellect was attached to a personality that was meanspitrited, self absorbed and immature. But that said ,it's very fortunate that that nut job Guy Fawkes failed because the resulting civil war would likely wrecked Britain.

 

[Vertigo]

Any worse than the one that came along 35 years later anyway?

 

[Vladd67]

Any worse than the one that came along 35 years later anyway?

Strange to think that if the Civil War hadn't happened then the Sealed Knot re-enactment society would never have been formed, I would never have joined and would probably never have met my wife. Stranger still, it can be argued that if it wasn't for the Civil War my children would never have been born.

 

[BAYLOR]

Any worse than the one that came along 35 years later anyway?

If Charles the I had backed off the divine right of Kingship flap , the the notion of being an absolute monarch and the taxes. He might have gotten to live a lot longer and probably saved alot of lives because there would have been no English civil war and very likely the uprising in Ireland that happened during Cromwell's rule would never have happened . Had Charles bee willing to ceded some power to Parliament , he still would have remained king with a life of privilege and some power .

 

[BAYLOR]

Strange to think that if the Civil War hadn't happened then the Sealed Knot re-enactment society would never have been formed, I would never have joined and would probably never have met my wife. Stranger still, it can be argued that if it wasn't for the Civil War my children would never have been born.

You can't know that for sure. Things that are meant to happen do happen .

 

[Gramm838]

You can't know that for sure. Things that are meant to happen do happen .

Nothing is meant to happen, it either does or it doesn't. If you think things are meant to happen that implies we are living to a script, which is rubbish.

Anyway, the most important thing about the ECW and revolution was that it gave Maggie the opportunity to point out to the French that we tried revolution over 100 years before they did it, and we realised it was a bad idea...LOL

 

[BAYLOR]

Nothing is meant to happen, it either does or it doesn't. If you think things are meant to happen that implies we are living to a script, which is rubbish.

Anyway, the most important thing about the ECW and revolution was that it gave Maggie the opportunity to point out to the French that we tried revolution over 100 years before they did it, and we realised it was a bad idea...LOL

I have disagree on that first bit. But to each his own

Interesting point on Thatcher, I love it.

 

[JoanDrake]

We are living to a script, but the writer keeps revising it.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

but the writer keeps revising it

Or writers?

 

[Vladd67]

We are living to a script, but the writer keeps revising it.

Life is not a first draft.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

Life is not a first draft.

Depends on your views concerning reincarnation.

 

[Vladd67]

Depends on your views concerning reincarnation.

Surely that is just the next book in the series?

 

[AnyaKimlin]

Surely that is just the next book in the series?

Thought that was Nirvana.

 

[Vladd67]

Thought that was Nirvana.

Isn't that the warm glow you get when you finally finish the last book in a series?

 

[Ray McCarthy]

when you finally finish the last book in a series

I often get a blue feeling, a depressed feeling, if the author is dead.
Sometimes I get it finishing writing.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

Isn't that the warm glow you get when you finally finish the last book in a series?

It's War and Peace - the book that never ends.

 

[Grimward]

Or Disney/Marvel, where no one is ever permanently dead. How did this get so far away from the terrorist attack?

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Because it's the Internet.
You don't have asbestos lined suit of armour from days of yore ...

On usenet / newsgroups via NTTP protocol rather than web pages.

 

[steelyglint]

Had the Civil War not happened England would still look pretty much like it does today. Things would probably work about the same, too. The only thing that would be significantly different would be the population. There would be just as many people, but they would be different people.

Of all the men who went out and died in the Civil War a great many would have been relatively young men. The young women they left at home would, after the men died in battle, have gone on to marry and procreate with others who survived. Had those men not died many of them would have become husbands to those women, thus their progeny would be genetically different. They would represent a very significant fraction of the population by now, so the country would be just as populated, but most of us here now wouldn't be.

The royal family would be a different bunch, too. Perhaps even different enough to have avoided one or two of the wars that came along after the Civil War would have taken place. Maybe they'd have been closer to their European kin and things like WWI might not have been necessary. Then, as the humiliation of the 'Vaterland', was the cause of one of the larger chips on Hitler's shoulder, even WWII might have been avoided.

Mind you, whoever the royals would have become back then would almost certainly have got England involved in other wars, that never happened in this timeline, resulting in possibly similar outcomes to those wars noted in our history.

Whatever the weather, the non-event status of the English Civil War would have one very definite effect - Numismatists would lose a number of highly-prized collectables - there would be no 'Siege Money' from the various cities that experienced such tactics. Those items are now extremely rare and sell for tens of thousands.

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[BAYLOR]

Depends on your views concerning reincarnation.

We live many lifetimes until we get it right .

It's just a thought.