What is your opinion of history?

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Maranatha
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12 Apr 2010, 1:09 pm

It repeats a lot.

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12 Apr 2010, 2:31 pm

Maranatha wrote:

It repeats a lot.

I haven't seen that many wives turned to salt but it makes for a spicy marriage.

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12 Apr 2010, 3:23 pm

The instructions given to Lot's wife were:
"Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away."

Lot's wife is an illustration of two choices:
1) Turning the heart toward God. ( facing God's mercy, i.e. Christ ).
2) Turning the heart toward sin ( facing God's judgment on sin, i.e. wrath ).

If you are talking history through the Biblical narrative, this is the recurring theme from Genesis to Revelation:
Sinners reconciled by and through God's grace (vs.) God's current and impending wrath on sin.

In the Biblical sense, yes, this scenario repeats itself a lot.

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12 Apr 2010, 3:28 pm

Fuzzy wrote:

iamnotaparakeet wrote:

The technology, which is the application of science, has some advancements as all the permutations and combinations are being gone through, but the science itself, the chemistry and physics, upon which the technology is developed, has basically been about the same for the last few decades. People seem to have lost interest in learning physical sciences and tend to be more lackadaisical just expecting the future to come to them.

Oh I see what you are getting at. I dont completely agree, but you have a point. Still, the physical sciences are oldest and have more ground covered than the others. Usually in science the revelations come from left field, so to speak. Some astrophysicist or some such will have an epiphany that causes excitement in chemistry. Its like a chair with one long leg.. the other sciences have to catch up for progress to be made.

As far as lackadaisical, I think average people are losing sight of the frontiers. My other post outlined how that might change.

Did you look at reprap? I thought that might be the sort of thing that interested you. It involves physical science, material work and an opportunity to be giving.

Reprap? Did you give me a link at one time? I don't recall it. If you want to post it again, that would be cool.

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12 Apr 2010, 5:01 pm

It's a useful enterprise.

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12 Apr 2010, 5:42 pm

"He who controls the past commands the future, He who commands the future, conquers the past."

So, google then.

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