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HISTORY IN THE MAKING 2008-2016

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We've spent a good many years discussing politics, life, society and history. Most of all, the makers of history. The great events that changed the world - people, places, actions. Small acts have changed its hard-worn course, and effort and circumstance can make of its small actors immortal greats. In line with that sentiment, it seems pertinent now to recognize the potential of those who've made up this community for years, obvious through their contributions to the spirited debate and discussion that has proceeded here. HITM has sadly gone silent, though perhaps not lacking for things to say about making history, but rather for the realization that it is time we all commenced to do so, and make our mark.

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What Does History Mean To You?
Topic Started: Jan 26 2009, 01:24 AM (3,783 Views)
Lazurath
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'Cause then we'd have no-one to argue with <_<
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DragonLegend
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Gandavien, stop being an asshole. I've been here since the beginning of this forum, and I have the right to say whatever I want as long as it's allowed.

If you don't like it, feel free to leave.
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gamemonkey
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Ok guys, let's not get nasty. Obama has some good ideas (especially getting rid of NCLB) and I agree, there is too much of an over-population on the planet. But if you look at Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, we developed many many colonies on other planets. Why in the hell can't we colonize the ocean??? There's absolutely no reason except that nobody can afford to do it, mostly because of the issues with the cost of petroleum and all of the stupid wars going on. Personally, I think that, while war is a necessity (and quite an interesting topic), we need to cut down on the number. Many wars we fight are completely and utterly retarded. A lot of this is caused by the over-population, which causes economic problems, which gives people reason to do stupid things, so really it's one big circle. If we're gonna fix any of this CRAP, we need to fix it all at once, or find a solution to everything (and please guys, don't bring up Revelations- I realize that would fix everything, kinda obvious that there aren't gonna be any problems in human society if there aren't any humans alive ) ;)
"No, to understand who a person really was, what his or her life really meant, the Speaker for the Dead would have to explain their self-story -- what they meant to do, what they actually did, what they regretted, what they rejoiced in. That's the story we never know, the story that we never can know -- and yet, at the time of death, is the only story truly worth telling."
-Orson Scott Card, "Speaker for the Dead"

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"The only energy that can be destroyed is sin."
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DragonLegend
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What in the hell are you talking about?
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Parasky
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DragonLegend
Feb 6 2009, 03:35 AM
What in the hell are you talking about?

Don't you remember? All those planets we colonized? Mars and Venus and Klendathu and Hoth?
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DragonLegend
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Nope. We didn't even land on Mars.
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Parasky
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Oh yea, I forgot. We never did go to any other planets, did we? Well, not in person anyways.
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DragonLegend
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We'll land on Mars in a year, I think. I'm not sure, I saw something about it on the History Channel a few months ago.
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Ww2nerd
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How can you watch history channel and still have such an appallingly biased perspective of things?
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun,
by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold...
the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see...
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

- Robert W. Service
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Lazurath
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I wouldn't say a year. I'd say 2016 at the earliest. We could've made it by now, if we didn't give up our Space Affair in the 70s (and no, Dragon, we did. No-one has landed on the moon since the 70s.)
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MaxJ
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Parasky
Feb 6 2009, 04:48 AM
Oh yea, I forgot. We never did go to any other planets, did we? Well, not in person anyways.

Only robots landed on Mars a few times, no humans(that will take at least 10 years more).
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Ww2nerd
Feb 6 2009, 04:16 AM
How can you watch history channel and still have such an appallingly biased perspective of things?

What does a TV channel have to do with my political views?
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Ww2nerd
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You can't watch the history channel and be biased. It's physically impossible.
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun,
by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold...
the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see...
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

- Robert W. Service
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UnknownCow
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Ww2nerd
Feb 6 2009, 09:50 PM
You can't watch the history channel and be biased. It's physically impossible.

You're kidding right? The history channel shows a bias all the time.
"Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution." -G. K. Chesterton
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Hyperactive Jam
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The history channel overuses its visuals.
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