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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 04:25 PM Original message |
The proposition that history repeats itself is a fiction. |
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Kraklen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
1. Geez, thanks, Stephen Hawking. |
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Journeyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
2. "Eadem sed aliter." History's motto. . . |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 04:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. "History doesn't repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes" |
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Journeyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 04:46 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. When I was in college, one of my history professors boldly asserted. . . |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 04:49 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Nor are we likely to allow big wooden horses through the city gates again |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 04:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. It's replete with examples of assholes who pull us back. |
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Crankie Avalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
4. Isn't the whole phrase, "Those who do not learn from history... |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 04:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. We learned from history. |
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Crankie Avalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 05:01 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I think the loved ones of all the American soldiers and Iraqi civilians... |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 05:20 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Their sacrifice has increased our passion. |
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Beaver Tail (903 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
5. The saying goes |
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driver8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
6. It is not fiction...man continues to make the same mistakes time |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 04:43 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Then, how did we take the wheel and move into the internet? |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 05:11 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. The Wheel, Internet, and Such Are Techonological, not Human Behaviors |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 05:25 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Humanity created that technology,...not vice versa. |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 05:28 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I've Said All I Can Say in #16 n/t |
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driver8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 07:31 PM Response to Reply #8 |
31. I'm not staying we are stuck...I never mentioned that, in fact. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
12. Dialectical materialism 101. |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 07:59 PM Response to Reply #12 |
35. Who was the have? Cain or Abel? |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 08:11 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. As if they were the only two involved,...BAH!!! |
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The River (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
13. I Just Flipped a Coin Twice |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
17. Ah but history does repeat, maybe not exactly but it does mainly.... |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 05:24 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. "Men make their own history, but they do not do so just as they please... |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
19. I agree: Marx was much better than Santayana on this |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 05:31 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. I've studied neither. I look at human history and know that,... |
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driver8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 07:33 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. What do you mean by expanding?? |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 08:00 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. How dare you treat our soldiers' lives in such a way!!!! |
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driver8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 08:27 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. WTF are you talking about?? I am a veteran and have nothing |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
23. Well I just lost my chance to be worshiped |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 05:36 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Not sure what that has to do with the OP. |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 07:10 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. No way |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 07:41 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. *LOL* |
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leeroysphitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
26. It is the DOOM of Men thatt they forget. n/t |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 07:53 PM Response to Reply #26 |
34. Those who never forget and LEARN from the past,...pull us forward. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 06:12 PM Response to Original message |
27. The odds of our history exactly replicating itself are remote at best. |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
28. Well, congratulations for the most idiotic thread of the year |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 07:30 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Obviously, your perception is set in stone. |
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driver8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 08:24 PM Response to Reply #30 |
38. I'm not judging anyone...I'm just trying to understand. |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-05 11:23 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Ummm,...I was responding to the poster,...you were not the poster. |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-27-05 12:14 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. the cockiness of your approach is tiresome |
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