View Full Version : Does history repeat itself?
rocketman123
Mar 1st, 2006, 05:08 AM
Do you all believe that history repeats itself? All the falls of all the great empires that were built before our time and their downfalls. Do you think such a thing will happen again or are we better prepared for it than the people in the past?
fakishan
Mar 1st, 2006, 05:29 AM
Do you all believe that history repeats itself? All the falls of all the great empires that were built before our time and their downfalls. Do you think such a thing will happen again or are we better prepared for it than the people in the past?
sure, empires fall and rise, but no one can say when. they can guess, but they tend to forget that they had guessed wrong the last ten times :rolleyes:
when ever people are scared and don't know what to expext, they expect the worse. While us Westerners may say bad times are head, maybe, just maybe, those enslaved by our policies (whatever they may be, good and bad) might see the times ahead as a golden age or a time for freedom and opportunity.
as long as humanity survives, it's all good.
gh05t
Mar 1st, 2006, 06:01 AM
Sounds like a homework assignment? :D
Isn't this just a saying by those that wish to be metaphorical, proverbial and philosophical and so definitely should not to be taken literally?
Efx
Mar 1st, 2006, 07:42 AM
I believe that as soon as we forget our history, it will repeat itself.
mlc2000
Mar 1st, 2006, 08:20 AM
I forgot that licorice (in great quantities) give me wicked gas.
Those who forget their past are doomed to repeat.
Today is no exception. >:(
teknoluv
Mar 1st, 2006, 08:31 AM
Sounds like a homework assignment? :D
LOL! It probably is. ;)
15-20_God
Mar 1st, 2006, 09:01 AM
the quote "does history repeat itself" comes up time and time again throughout the course of history. therefore history repeats itself.
Rometiklan
Mar 1st, 2006, 01:08 PM
It's a glitch in the Matrix.
Princess Buttercup
Mar 1st, 2006, 01:14 PM
It's a glitch in the Matrix.
very funny,
was it not Zola who said even if we rise ourselves out of the gutter it is our destiny to return there over the generations.
repeating the same mistakes that got our ancestors there
Becks
Mar 1st, 2006, 01:20 PM
No. It's like fashion. Something like it will happen again, but it'll be totally different.
Princess Buttercup
Mar 1st, 2006, 01:23 PM
No. It's like fashion. Something like it will happen again, but it'll be totally different.
very very funny :D
nubbie
Mar 1st, 2006, 01:27 PM
I believe that as soon as we forget our history, it will repeat itself.
Well said!
NLI10D
Mar 1st, 2006, 01:36 PM
I believe that as soon as we forget our history, it will repeat itself.
so we forgot all about the holocust that's why rwanda happened?
the sad reality is alot of people dont care when crap happens if it does not affect them directly and considering how we live in a pretty self centred society we dont care half as much as we should.