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To: spintreebob
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

— George Santayana

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

— Party slogan, 1984
What do you mean to say by advising “look to the future”?

The Bible is a book about the past, warning us that many things in there are set down for us as examples of both how to live and how not to live. Are you implying we should forget it?
17 posted on 03/07/2023 8:32:36 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

The Bible teaches to look to the future. The Old Testament looks for the Messiah. The New Testament tells us to look to the future.

At a more specfic level, Israelites fleeing Egypt made a mistake when they looked back to Egypt. Lot’s wife made a mistake when she looked back to the party life she used to live in sin city.


20 posted on 03/09/2023 3:11:09 PM PST by spintreebob (ki .h )
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