What have we learned from history?

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Naa, the yweren't as superstitious as medieval christians......
I would be regards as a soothsayer....and a scientist..... :wink:

[Paullus Scipio]

Good luck with that one !! ( what's that? someone whispering he's a witch, burn him?) ...or a more colloquial equivalent "He must be a Druid..." :lol: :lol:

[P. Clodius Secundus]

Try making a Black-and-Tan with Guiness and a cherry lambic. Yummmm! Even though it's not German, it reminds me of a Black Forest cake.

[PhilusEstilius]

I think that Caesar would sack Marc Antony and employ Byron right away if not only for his charm.

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

What have we learned from history ?

NOTHING.

End of discussion.

(STOA)

LOL

M.VIB.M.

[Jona Lendering]

What have we learned from history ?
NOTHING.

And how did we learn that? Isn't that conclusion based on a careful analysis of, ahem, historical precedents? :wink:

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

Well....it is based on a cynical stoïc world view, a nihilist and misantropic approach and a certain amount of historic precedents which span the era 1940-2009.........

All of which make me indeed believe the world has not learned anything from history...

Also, where the ancient authors (Roman) used moral standards in their twritings, Mos Maiorum, the pesent day historians seem to be preoccupied with Rankian discourse, positivist, idealist, meta historic and anti historic writing....

(Oh how i hate Historiography, the art of cumbersome floating in your own esoteric, filosofical self importance...
A bit like didactic scholars who write books on teaching but who have never taught any class of pubescents, and still envisage
that their way of teaching is the best... id like to see them in front of 30 or so 13-16 year olds.....)



M.VIB.M.