I’m very erudite in History

[Blaise N]

Hi everyone,

Id like to ask a question regarding something I enjoy very much.

Like the title states,I’m very erudite in History of wars,Us history,general history,and Geography.However I’m slightly very very slightly worried that being smart in this material isn’t Good,Is it a good thing I like history?

 

[Ceallaigh]

I can't think of anything bad about being a historian. I've always been interested in history myself.

 

[Abaxvahl]

Hi everyone,

Id like to ask a question regarding something I enjoy very much.

Like the title states,I’m very erudite in History of wars,Us history,general history,and Geography.However I’m slightly very very slightly worried that being smart in this material isn’t Good,Is it a good thing I like history?

History is an extremely useful thing to know and study. I'd say it is a good thing. Model yourself after the historians who put together books of the Bible like Chronicles, or how St. Luke did research for his Gospel, clearly studying history is not a bad thing.

 

[Ceallaigh]

The Bible is a history book. Historians and archeologists have used the Bible as a guide for centuries.

 

[Nitsud]

If the history that you are educated in is the truth then I'm sure it is a blessing to you, the site and those who congregate here.

 

[timothyu]

What most historians overlook is the lessons learned. Mankind keeps making the same mistakes over and over and history teaches nothing except maybe a better way to next time get the upper hand temporarily. This rather than how to avoid the skirmishes and oppression in the first place. If historians did their job, the system man has employed since the beginning would have been changed by now.

 

[Ligurian]

Hi everyone,

Id like to ask a question regarding something I enjoy very much.

Like the title states,I’m very erudite in History of wars,Us history,general history,and Geography.However I’m slightly very very slightly worried that being smart in this material isn’t Good,Is it a good thing I like history?

Yes.

 

[Ligurian]

What most historians overlook is the lessons learned. Mankind keeps making the same mistakes over and over and history teaches nothing except maybe a better way to next time get the upper hand temporarily. This rather than how to avoid the skirmishes and oppression in the first place. If historians did their job, the system man has employed since the beginning would have been changed by now.

Unfortunately, it's the best warriors who write history books.

 

[timothyu]

Unfortunately, it's the best warriors who write history books.

True but they all fall and never write why.

 

[Occams Barber]

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[Occams Barber]

What most historians overlook is the lessons learned. Mankind keeps making the same mistakes over and over and history teaches nothing except maybe a better way to next time get the upper hand temporarily. This rather than how to avoid the skirmishes and oppression in the first place. If historians did their job, the system man has employed since the beginning would have been changed by now.

I think you're being a bit harsh on historians. The job of a historian is to investigate and report on historic events - hopefully accurately and hopefully without too much bias.

It's up to the relevant bits of society to decide what to take from history to improve the future and avoid past mistakes. Historians rarely have the power to change societies directly.

OB

 

[AgapeBible]

I hate war. Most of history is very sad, war, injustice, crime, violence, plaques, illness, idol worship, evil witchcraft religion, greed, vanity, slavery, dirty nasty politics, poverty, extortion, lies, gambling, oppression, suppression of different races and women, dirty unclean filthy squalid cities with unhealthy conditions, disease, etc.

I like the history of fashion, art, archetechture, building, gardening, scientific technology, medical technology developing the cure for diseases and better health cleaner living, healthier nutrtion more middle class less poverty and squalor, more justice, human rights, freedom, equality, love, kindness, manners, hope, faith, patience, tolerance, peace, compassion, good civilization instead of barbarianism

 

[timothyu]

I hate war. Most of history is very sad, war, injustice, crime, violence, plaques, illness, idol worship, evil witchcraft religion, greed, vanity, slavery, dirty nasty politics, poverty, extortion, lies, gambling, oppression, suppression of different races and women, dirty unclean filthy squalid cities with unhealthy conditions, disease, etc.

Welcome to the traditional ways and will of man

I like the history of fashion, art, archetechture, building, gardening, scientific technology, medical technology developing the cure for diseases and better health cleaner living, healthier nutrtion more middle class less poverty and squalor, more justice, human rights, freedom, equality, love, kindness, manners, hope, faith, patience, tolerance, peace, compassion, good civilization instead of barbarianism

Welcome to the ways and will of the Kingdom.

 

[Ligurian]

True but they all fall and never write why.

Sometimes they do write why... but these books are not best-sellers.

"For Cadwallader's mother was own sister to Penda, and her mother was of a noble family in Erging and Euas: and Cadwallon had married Cadwallader's mother when he made the league with Penda. During these disturbances, a pestilence and a famine...
When it ceased, those of the Saxons who had escaped it, sent information to Germany, that the island was destitute of inhabitants, and advised them to come and take a cheap possession of it. That people therefore collected an immense number of men and women, who "with their queen Sexburgis" landed in the North, and settled in the kingdom from Norway* to Cornwall;{*} there remaining no Britons able to oppose them."
--Peter Roberts' translation of the Brut Tyssilio, from the Red book of Hergest, called the Chronicle of the Kings of Britain
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* Albany,... {Scotland}
{* "Triad 7. There remained none of the Loegrians that did not become Saxons, except those that are found in Cornwall, and the Commot of Carnoban (Cornavii) in Deria (Deira) and Bernicia in this period."
(see also Richard of Cirencester's Description of Britain, translation by Giles...
and remember that Inconvenient History is often called "forgery"...
tptb's usual way of dealing with what's been dragged out of hiding.}

 

[Ligurian]

Hi everyone,

Id like to ask a question regarding something I enjoy very much.

Like the title states,I’m very erudite in History of wars,Us history,general history,and Geography.However I’m slightly very very slightly worried that being smart in this material isn’t Good,Is it a good thing I like history?

"Some persons will perhaps say that this kind of work is not absolutely necessary either for divine worship or greater things. But let them know that leisure hours may be dedicated to the study of the antiquities of our country without any derogation from the sacred character. Yet if censorious people envy us such pleasures at leisure hours, hastening to the end and almost arrived at the goal, we here check our steps."--Richard of Cirencestor, Description of Britain, Giles' translation

Needless to say, Richard was censored... then called a forgery, so we wouldn't read his book.

 

[Ligurian]

I think you're being a bit harsh on historians. The job of a historian is to investigate and report on historic events - hopefully accurately and hopefully without too much bias.

It's up to the relevant bits of society to decide what to take from history to improve the future and avoid past mistakes. Historians rarely have the power to change societies directly.
OB

Where do you suppose the textbooks come from, which are taught to school children? Are both sides of the known invasions ever taught... anywhere? Aren't the languages of countries also being changed via the schools? What sort of society is left to the indigenes, but that of the conquerors?
Seriously.
The "historians" are the leading edge of societal change. And these "historians" include all forms of the MSM. What is and isn't published by them... and when, clearly shows their agenda. What is and isn't censored tells you their plan at any given time.