Does history repeat itself?

figuratively speaking it seems the past always has a few similarities to today. Does history repeat itself, is humanity so predictable?

Doesn't look like it to me.

Yes it does. I recently researched my family history. Specifically Clan Lamont and the Maronites and well yes I must say history repeats itself.

yes it does.

Yup. Basically evil powers rise, America kicks their ass. Repeat.

Us Canadians just stand on the sidelines like the parents "No matter what happens, Canada still loves BOTH of you!!"

Yup. Basically evil powers rise, America kicks their ass. Repeat.

Us Canadians just stand on the sidelines like the parents "No matter what happens, Canada still loves BOTH of you!!"

Bluestorm-Kalas

Bahaha, well put.

Yup. Basically evil powers rise, America kicks their ass. Repeat.

Us Canadians just stand on the sidelines like the parents "No matter what happens, Canada still loves BOTH of you!!"

Bluestorm-Kalas

Yup. Basically evil powers rise, America kicks their ass. Repeat.

Us Canadians just stand on the sidelines like the parents "No matter what happens, Canada still loves BOTH of you!!"

Bluestorm-Kalas

By that logic communism isn't evil, which is hard to believe.

Yup. Basically evil powers rise, America kicks their ass. Repeat.

Us Canadians just stand on the sidelines like the parents "No matter what happens, Canada still loves BOTH of you!!"

Bluestorm-Kalas

Also, yes. History does repeat itself. I'd like to draw everyone's attention to the Lincoln/JFK coincidences.

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Yup. Basically evil powers rise, America kicks their ass. Repeat.

Us Canadians just stand on the sidelines like the parents "No matter what happens, Canada still loves BOTH of you!!"

pengo93

By that logic communism isn't evil, which is hard to believe.

Maybe just not evil to Canadians eyes.

Also, yes. History does repeat itself. I'd like to draw everyone's attention to the Lincoln/JFK coincidences.

pengo93

Yeah good examples.

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Yup. Basically evil powers rise, America kicks their ass. Repeat.

Us Canadians just stand on the sidelines like the parents "No matter what happens, Canada still loves BOTH of you!!"

VisigothSaxon

By that logic communism isn't evil, which is hard to believe.

Maybe just not evil to Canadians eyes.

Then why did Americans rise up against them? If communism isn't evil then Americans invaded for nought, making them the evil ones, hence, America must rise up against itself. But, seeing as communism is most likely evil, but was not defeated, then this argument is flawed.

I dunno, I just like to find contradictions.

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By that logic communism isn't evil, which is hard to believe.

pengo93

Maybe just not evil to Canadians eyes.

Then why did Americans rise up against them? If communism isn't evil then Americans invaded for nought, making them the evil ones, hence, America must rise up against itself. But, seeing as communism is most likely evil, but was not defeated, then this argument is flawed.

I dunno, I just like to find contradictions.

What makes you think it isn't evil though? That is what I don't understand. The US and its ideals have always been with and were founded on good intentions.

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Maybe just not evil to Canadians eyes.

VisigothSaxon

Then why did Americans rise up against them? If communism isn't evil then Americans invaded for nought, making them the evil ones, hence, America must rise up against itself. But, seeing as communism is most likely evil, but was not defeated, then this argument is flawed.

I dunno, I just like to find contradictions.

What makes you think it isn't evil though? That is what I don't understand. The US and its ideals have always been with and were founded on good intentions.

Good intentions often lead to bad results. But seeing as communism is almost certainly evil, then that just makes the earlier statement regarding "ass kicking" false. Communism's gluteus maximus remains unscathed from any boot, sandal, sneaker, jogger or metatarsal.

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Then why did Americans rise up against them? If communism isn't evil then Americans invaded for nought, making them the evil ones, hence, America must rise up against itself. But, seeing as communism is most likely evil, but was not defeated, then this argument is flawed.

I dunno, I just like to find contradictions.

pengo93

What makes you think it isn't evil though? That is what I don't understand. The US and its ideals have always been with and were founded on good intentions.

Good intentions often lead to bad results. But seeing as communism is almost certainly evil, then that just makes the earlier statement regarding "ass kicking" false. Communism's gluteus maximus remains unscathed from any boot, sandal, sneaker, jogger or metatarsal.

I don't know if communism was intended to be evil, but it did cause evil and was clearly inferior to Capitalism. IE the Russian Economy collapsed in the arms race while the Capatilist US economy only grew.

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By that logic communism isn't evil, which is hard to believe.

pengo93

Maybe just not evil to Canadians eyes.

Then why did Americans rise up against them? If communism isn't evil then Americans invaded for nought, making them the evil ones, hence, America must rise up against itself. But, seeing as communism is most likely evil, but was not defeated, then this argument is flawed.

I dunno, I just like to find contradictions.

More or less, yeah.

One of the most egregious forms of history repeating itself, in my view, is the transition from Judaism to Christianity to modern Christianity. About when Jesus arrived on the scene, Judaism was basically structured with the masses on one side and the religious leaders on the other, and the former more or less were supposed to just listen to the latter and go with it, and there was a ****load of rules and so forth, too. People were kind of starting to get the sense that maybe this is BS, so along comes this Jew named Jesus and he pretty much says, "Yeah, you know all that stuff in our holy scriptures? It's basically just telling us we should love people." (and yes, he totally did say this, it's right there in Matthew 7:12). And people were like, "Hey, this guy's pretty awesome," and the very first Christian churches weren't even churches at all, people just got together and worshipped God as equals, learning from one another.

Fast forward 2000 years into the future, and Christians are still worshipping God together in a group as equals, learning from one another. Oh, wait, no, actually, they've got the masses on one side and the religious leaders on the other, and the former more or less are supposed to just listen to the latter and go with it, and there's a ****load of rules and so forth, too.

So yeah, humans pretty much suck at learning from history. :P

I think it tends to do so, it's sort of just human nature.

figuratively speaking it seems the past always has a few similarities to today. Does history repeat itself, is humanity so predictable?

buldog300

Of course it does. Times were hard during the early 80's. Times are hard for many now. At least I learned my lesson from the first time and wasn't affected that hard this time around.

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Maybe just not evil to Canadians eyes.

Bluestorm-Kalas

Then why did Americans rise up against them? If communism isn't evil then Americans invaded for nought, making them the evil ones, hence, America must rise up against itself. But, seeing as communism is most likely evil, but was not defeated, then this argument is flawed.

I dunno, I just like to find contradictions.

My bad, I just think about random crap too much, it wasn't so much starting a political debate than just me being a smart ass. Please accept this picture of some puppies as an apology.

History doesn't repeat; it rhymes. ;)

*counts the number of times people have invaded Russia during the winter*

no...I dont think it does...

figuratively speaking it seems the past always has a few similarities to today. Does history repeat itself, is humanity so predictable?

buldog300

Yes, it does...specifically, you see it a lot right here in GS.

Mod history repeats itself a lot.:lol:

That depends on whether or not people pay attention to it.