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To: thecodont

When the past is worshipped like a God there can be no future.


8 posted on 10/03/2010 10:10:50 PM PDT by Al Gore Vidal
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To: Al Gore Vidal

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.


9 posted on 10/03/2010 10:13:15 PM PDT by Don W (I keep some folks' numbers in my 'phone just so I know NOT to answer when they call...)
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To: Al Gore Vidal

If you don’t know your past, you won’t know what to do with your future.

The past is important.

“When the past is worshipped like a God there can be no future.”

No one is suggesting we “worship” the past.

We appreciate our past. Take Betsy Ross’s house. We don’t tare it down. We leave it there and share her PAST because of the role she played in our history.

I don’t know of anyone here that is “worshipping a railroad warehouse”. We should preserve our history.

We don’t ignore the Old Testament. It helps us understand the New Testament and our Christian heritage through the Jewish histry. We LEARN from our PAST.


18 posted on 10/04/2010 8:36:13 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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