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Old 03-20-2018, 05:18 AM   #1 (permalink)
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To be fair, I said at the get-go my particular political lens would make that portion of the conversation fruitless
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Old 03-20-2018, 05:20 AM   #2 (permalink)
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To be fair, I said at the get-go my particular political lens would make that portion of the conversation fruitless
You did. I would be shocked at your particular brand of nihilism, but then, you know, it's you.
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Old 03-25-2018, 04:31 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Been listening a bit to lectures from historian and political scientist Michael Parenti. This one about World War II is especially interesting.

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Been listening a bit to lectures from historian and political scientist Michael Parenti. This one about World War II is especially interesting.

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^Read this for one of my history classes in college. You might find it interesting, history bores me to death.
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Old 03-27-2018, 04:27 PM   #5 (permalink)
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aw, history is the most exciting story ever told, puts all fiction to shame
Only if you're a mundane cretin, but history is indeed the ****.
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After knights and pirates it all gets pretty mundane.. I can appreciate the history of things like medicine, biology, math, etc..
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The thing you have to realize about history is that no matter how accurately it's told or how well, you'll never be able to grasp or appreciate it in the way the people who lived it did. You don't have that problem in fiction.

Assuming I live long enough, I will be incredibly interested in reading the history of the Trump election and 9/11. I bet it's ****, any takers?
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crazier **** has happened in history than our imaginations have ever came up with

in fact quite a bit of fiction is just a repainting of history with dragons or something
Pretty sure they never repainted Ender's Game.
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in fact quite a bit of fiction is just a repainting of history with dragons or something
= I stopped reading fiction when I was 10 years old because I was jealous of the protagonist
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= I stopped reading all fiction except for Nicholas Sparks novels when I was 10 years old because I was jealous of the protagonist
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