Why does Leo study history, politics etc if it doesnt exist?

[Leo Gura]

13 hours ago, Striving for more said:

@Leo Gura In what ways can studying history be used as a practical PD tool ? Or is it merely for the purpose of understanding 

Many ways.

Understanding IS practical.

12 hours ago, TrippyMindSubstance said:

@Leo Gura Doesn't this apply to science and materialism as well?

Science yes, materialism no.

You can do all of science without materialism. Materialism is a false and unnecessary metaphysics.

It's sort of like you're saying that ether, caloric, phlogiston, and miasma are necessary parts of science. They are not. Science works just fine without them.

[xxxx]

Our emotions have always been paleolithic, and pattern recognition happens when we study it through time. Where we are right now is because we took the path these emotions laid out for us.  

Of course, in the meta-sense it is all imaginary - your question, breathing, hunger, grandma's cookies, grandma.

However, you wouldn't be using this forum on your gadget to ask this question if it were not for history. The institutions and god-like technology that we have is all due to diligent study over time, through success and failure - on what served these paleolithic emotions the best. 

You are the manufacturer and product of history - don't you want to know what you comprise of? It's all a part of 'feeling' and 'understanding'.

Now that I think about it, what else do we have other than history? 

 

 

Edited December 22, 2020 by xxxx

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[The_Alchemist]

3 hours ago, JosephKnecht said:

To get the last 7%, you must forget the 93%.  

80/20 af, love it!