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worker201:
ergo, Windows is a disease?
(sure seems like it to me...)
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: pofnlice ---history is written by the winners/those in power...who really knows?
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Of course those in power write history in their favor, if they had the power (and scribes and libraries to do it) why not ? who was there to force them to write down history without bias ? I know that history is heavily biased from the many many different takes on the same event in different history books. This is most noticible to me (but not limited to) in World history as told by the USA ... what a bunch of BS ... that's why I very much distrust history books. Unless they come up with some real evidence (as opposed to falsified evidence) they can't fully convince me that anything they say happened really did happen. Now, I'm not saying I don't believe in history, I'm just saying that I distrust it very much. Usually in any given argument I'll momentarily assume that the history told to me is (for all intensive purposes) true ... but there is always in the back of my mind the fact that the rich and powerful wrote history in their favor, and that history has also been twisted through the ages by those translators and editors and new all powerful leaders wanting to improve their image.
PS. I just remembered there was an article on how the government was re-classifying historical documents ... removing them from public access until they are further revised ... it was in another post somewhere in here, lemme see if I can find it.
GenuineAdvantage:
I trust The History Channel
pofnlice:
[offtopic]History is what it is. It will always be written by the ones who make the decisions and victories...and the ones who control the documentation.
Yes, American History is different than others. IE...American revolution v The Colonial revolt of 1776. History is a matter of perception as well. It all depends where your standing when something happens. What you think you saw, someone an equal distance away, looking from an opposing ngle will generally have a similar but very different story...nothing new....[/offtopic]
How about them windows as a virus target???
worker201:
--- Quote from: pofnlice ---[offtopic]History is what it is. It will always be written by the ones who make the decisions and victories...and the ones who control the documentation.
Yes, American History is different than others. IE...American revolution v The Colonial revolt of 1776. History is a matter of perception as well. It all depends where your standing when something happens. What you think you saw, someone an equal distance away, looking from an opposing ngle will generally have a similar but very different story...nothing new....[/offtopic]
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[OFFTOPIC]Of course that's true. But the problem is that many people define parts of their existence based on what they consider to be historical truths. Millions of Americans believe right now that Iraq had done something to deserve invasion, that the US was forced to drop the atomic bomb in order to save the lives of American troops, and that American troops were sent to Vietnam to protect the South Vietnamese non-communists (sources available, just ask). Believing such garbage doesn't harm anyone in and of itself. However, these beliefs affect how people make decisions about other things that do harm others. Opening people's eyes to the truth of just one event can have a cascading ripple effect that affects all of society. So we should probably take the importance of multi-faceted history lessons pretty seriously.[/OFFTOPIC]
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