History Repeats Itself!!!
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Because our kids would rather play video games than read.
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There not indian there Apachee Siox Etc....   Europe changed this continet   funny how history repeats its self in a different way
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This is just step 40032 in our slow but gradual march to an Orwellian 1984 hell.  I'm waiting for the majority of Americans to wake up (they may have already) to this fact that every day this war on terror is costing us our freedoms that we enjoyed just a few short years ago.  You should see the video of the woman getting arrested for having a copy of the Constitution in her car (and a Michener novel, LOL), after being almost sickeningly polite to the officer questioning her.  I just see myself in the same situation having the same thing done, it scares the hell out of me.
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It is typical of the kinds of minutae that pebble the OT.  These situations no longer apply.  The book is out-of-date TO SAY THE LEAST and should be completely revisited and brought into the 21st century.  This is not to say that it should not continue to be read as a piece of historical literature, but please, don't consider it a relevant source of moral advice.
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Can you provide a link/links to this amazing occurance?\n"Every time"....so how many times has it been?\nYou provide the facts so others can refute.\nHow can people refute when you don't provide any evidence?
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Try reading your history book, dear.  \nAnd yeah, "were?"  What's up with that?
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You are SO right!! What a joke! The question is, are they going to let it continue?????
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President Bush didn't "rig" anything.  What I find interesting is that these people seem to forget that there is a record of things they said in the past.   Thanks for pointing this out though.
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Differing opinions due to ignorance.Past ,present and future it will still be due to this!
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Here are lots of things that happened.  I don't think they are called current events when they happened thirty years ago though!
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Yes, it is inherent that the human race repeats itself again and again, whether it be mistakes or discoveries.\n\nI had read something in the last year that discussed this exact theory. Some scientist (I forget if it was a historian or another type of academician) had recently published a theory stating that society and people will always be rediscovering the same concepts and go through the same errors in each time period. His theory was that since the way we learn is through experience, and if we haven't experienced something yet, we will need to experience it to truly have a frame of reference. Thus society tends to forget lessons that have been learned if the people in that society were not directly involved in those lessons.\n\nWe can see this in today's society. We have already seen the atrocities of war in the beginning of the 20th Century - famine, genocide, discrimination, etc. Yet these same problems and same concepts are re-emerging as the people who lived through those times die and newer generations who have no real experience of those scenarios become the majority.\n\nYou can see it in every teenager. As they emerge from childhood and become teens, they start to really develop their own sense of independence, self-being and identity. The things we tell them as parents since we have experienced it ourselves become ignored by them. Their frame of reference is limited to what they have experienced so far. Since what we are telling them is beyond their frame of reference - it ends up being ignored - until they experience it themselves.\n\nInterestingly enough, this whole theory that this modern day scientist developed regarding this reiteration of the same themes and need to relearn the lessons of history and ideas is not something new. According to the link that I was reading this from, there was an economist or philosopher in the 1500s or 1600s who had developed the same theory and had given it a specific name. Of course, as a self-fulfilling theory, that theory had been forgotten until it was "discovered" by this modern day philosopher. I'm sure that same theory was discussed in ancient Greece or Rome or Egypt or China and had been similarly lost until it was "discovered" by the next philosopher.\n\nUnfortunately, I don't have the link anymore to that site - until it becomes "rediscovered" by someone else.\n\nInterestingly enough, this whole concept occurs in literature as well. I had been reading a fantasy series by Robert Jordan. This Wheel of Time series has this same concept. It depicts time as a wheel with the different periods as a spoke or arc of that circular wheel. When we are in one spoke or one era, we can look behind us and see parts of the wheel, but not the whole wheel. The part that we can see clearly is history. As it fades further away it becomes legends. Soon even that is forgotten as those sections of the wheel are no longer visible. Eventually though, that section of the wheel comes back to our frame of reference, along it all the mistakes and lessons of that time. Its a very interesting theory that Robert Jordan presents in his series and of course it is a wonderful series to read if you enjoy fiction.
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does it matter what history says????
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Reminds me of the questions coming from women and children in Auswitz in the early years of WW II, "where are the Americans, the British, doesn't anyone know what's going on?"  Why should we fight other people's wars?? hmmm, i guess there are plenty of reasons, but i still hear those ghosts and don't want to relive the past.
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Check your History book!
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Jim W, when was the last time "sounds like someone else I know", (which is what you meant by "sound familiar?")behead someone for their religion??? People need to wake up. The threat is real. They are integrating into society everywhere. Look at France!! Look at Britian, hell and even Cananda, where they also have been given pretty much free reign.
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BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN BRAIN WASHED!!!!
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OH, Good Lord!! You all need to get a grip!! You keep talking about the PAST like it can be changed and like wars are or were EVER "fair". YES the Native Americans were treated unfairly, ok? YES we fought the British, ok? So what? That was history. WE BEAT Mexico!!  OKAY!! We never STOLE a d^ ^^n thing from Mexico!!  IT's HISTORY! PAST!Done! Kaput!! Stop living in the PAST! This is HERE, NOW, 21st CENTURY, 2006! OK? WE, the USA, NOW have laws AGAINST ILLEGAL ENTRY!  We HAVE fought to make this country what it is today, for our rights, for our freedoms, for our LAWS. Without those LAWS enforced we'd still be like the "Wild, wild, west", no lawmen for hundreds of miles and then occasionally a Marshall, or small town Sheriff. Men in my family fought many wars to make this country what it is today. Our Native Americans fought and died for this country. Our Native tongue was used as secret communications in WW II. We contributed to making this country what it is TODAY. If our men, all those who fought and those who died, had not done so, who would be clamoring to get in here? Not many. You say we are Nazi? WHAT? We fought the Nazi's!!  We Have rights, freedom, we can make our own choices, we vote, we don't commit genocide, we are not racist! We have laws that all are to abide by, LOVE it or LEAVE it, that's ONE of the CHOICES we ALL have!! Unless of course you're ILLEGAL, then you shouldn't HAVE a CHOICE because you are not a LEGAL CITIZEN.\n\nIllegal invaders don't have the guts, the pride, the values, the nobility or bravery to do what our forefathers and our young men today do. There may be some Illegal immigrants in Iraq, fighting right alongside our boys, and THEY are the exception. These criminals coming across our border sucking up welfare, increasing crime, closing hospitals, bringing in diseases, living off our hard earned dollar and getting freedoms and 'rights' they didn't earn is an outrage. They should go back home before the red-hot tempers turn to white-hot rage!!\n\nOur government turn a blind eye to their illegal entry, but they KNEW it was against the law!! They came anyway, they are responsible for their OWN actions!! Ignorance of the law is NO EXCUSE!!\n\nSweet Lou--You asked what I have done to ensure our freedoms are not abused. Well, I vote, I write and e-mail my senators and congressmen, I go to town meetings in my community, as much as most people do. The male members of my family have fought in all the wars in the USA from the Revolutionary War to Iraq. I don't need to explain a da** thing to YOU. It wouldn't matter if all I did was cast my vote at elections, I am an American and I don't feel like illegal people should come here and take what MY family and OTHERS have FOUGHT and DIED for!  And I will voice my opinion like anyone does. It's one of those rights my family and others FOUGHT and DIED for!\nWhat have YOU done to assure our freedoms are not abused. You shouldn't let that alligator mouth of yours overload that pea-brain.