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.

[Michael569]

If you study history you will notice a similar pattern repeating itself over and over again especially in the European history. What Romans did 2000 years ago is not that different to how British treated people of India and Oceania and not different to how Hitler treated people in Eastern Europe. Our technology has evolved by as humans our mindsets are pretty much similar in that most people are driven by wealth, power and status. Instead of hitting brick walls with Trebuchet we now hack each other's websites, lead pseudointellectual debates and launch airstrikes on civilian objects in the name of democracy and freedom. But we haven't really changed that much. The motive of greed, deception and manipulation are the same.I find it fascinating that the more I study european history the more of these similarities are popping up. 

If everything seems pointless you may as well just sit on a couch 24/7. Maybe it would make for a nice life but enlightened or not, there is a lot of fascinating stuff to explore even if in the grand scheme of things nothing make sense you still have to spend your time doing something for the next 80 years. Find a way to serve the humanity in the most meaningful way. 

[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

[seeking_brilliance]

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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!