I personally think it's important to study history. To learn where we came from, and how we got where we are. More importantly, history can be used to learn from the mistakes we've made, so we can avoid repeating them.

Do you agree or disagree? And of course, why?

Man that is exactly what my history said.

"It is not the unknown past we are doomed to repeat, it's the known."
- Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces.

I think I messed up the quote...but the message is there.

*eyes tear up* I love history! You learn about so much, how this came to be, how that was destoryed, what caused this war! I love it sooooo much!

You can learn alot about yourself if you look at your history, your families history!

I also believe that you have to power to change it and be part of it! You could be written down in history texts hundreds of years from now and people could look up to you! History is important, even if you don't think so, it is! I agree!

Perhaps, but isn't the reason you can't repeat the unknown past because you don't know it ever happened? It seems we repeat only the known past because we only know that set of facts.

And we do learn from the known past. Look at the United Nations. It may not be perfect, but it's a lot better than the League of Nations.

true, but compared to government and such, history, to me, is less important. Since society is always changing, the mistakes made once, may not come again. What we should focus on is what will happen in the futur rather than what will happen in the past.

I'm thinking of becoming a history major...(O_O)...I enjoy learning about world events, cultures, and civilizations. All that great stuff. Wars seem boring to read about...they're all relatively the same.

...my favorite television channel is the history channel...

I love History, It tells us what went on before we ever was thought of. I like learned about what made us who we are. How we act and so on. It seems that life acts the same but is treated differently in other ways. But in the end we will repeat history as history has repeated us.

To Clair - I know what you mean! My mother's nana researched that side of the family's history back to the 1600's! I love looking through the geneology book she made and seeing who I'm descended from!

Jenn - I see your point, but past events do have to do with the future. The whole mess in Iraq could have been avoided if the government had just taken the time to look at the way the different branches of Islaam reacted to each other. If he had, he would have known he need the UN's full support to invade Iraq.

Spoon - I like studying wars. Well, in a way. I hate learning about the horrible ways people were slaughtered, but I love to study the different strategies used by military leaders. To see what they did that was idiotic, and what was pure genius. And also wars do change. As more advanced technology is brought in, completely different strategies must be brought into play.
I don't watch the history channel that much, but I have a friend who watches it religiously.

Yeah, my father is working on creating an album of my ancesters! I'm so excited, I haven't gotten it yet and I'm dieing to get it!

I've figured out that I've come from several royal families from several different countries!

I agree.
But there should be some things we should learn. :/
I dont have any examples because my mind is having a blank at the moment, but I learned many things I really wish I didnt learn. (Because of the bloody murders and evil masterminds behind it.)

So I both agree and disagree.

Clair - That's really cool! I'm descended from the Scottish royal line myself! However, I'm pretty sure that's the only royal line I'm descended from. But I do have a number of ancestors who have played small roles in history.

Illusions - Blood murders? :shock:

So cool! History rocks major beans!

Heh, true! But you can't say the future doesn't look cool! ...If you don't include the fact that we might lost half the population to flooding, disease, and climate change from global warming.

I look to all times in human life important. Our past, our present, our future! Without one, we can't the other two!

So true!

So true!

i hate history so much. i find it the most useless thing ever. i don't think i'm ever going to remember anything about history, n'or am i ever going to use it. i don't want to be a historian. i want to sing. what does singing have to do with history? nothing.

I love History so much that I've decied to be a historian... that or a funeral home director!

Tracy - well don't you want to study other music styles, learn from them, be inspired by them? To do that, you need to listen to music from the past. Whether it's a day old or a year old, it's still from the past. That's what history had to do with you.

Clair - Being a historian can be really cool! Though it's tough to seperate personal opinion from fact.
Funeral Home Director? That could be intresting.

Useful! Absolutely useful.

Without looking into the past, we can't correctly interpret the present, or predict the future. Just look at the presidential elections coming up in the US: You have to look at each candidate's plans, and see how our nation's history has responded to them in the past. After all, there's nothing new about health care reform and Social Security. Every single change they're suggesting has already been talked about. If it failed in the past, why would we want to make the same mistake twice.

For the bigger picture, just look at wars and social movements. Out entire history moves in cycles.

*nods* Those two careers have caught my attention. Hey, do you like going to grave yards!? I do cause all the grave stones have a little bit of history to them!

Metatron - Perhaps. But maybe the reason those changes failed was because they were made wrong. Health Care Reform is a good idea, but they don't have enough doctors to carry through with it. Now there's too much demand and too little supply. And the same with Social Security. It worked when people kicked the bucket in their fifties, but now that most people are living until at least seventy, it's no longer effective. The thing is, the new presidents should use the past to figure out what went wrong and how to keep that from happening again.

Clair - I do think grave yards are intresting with all the history that is there, but I'm afraid of death, so I tend to avoid areas like that. I haven't even visited the memorial site for this guy from my school who died on Wed.

History relates to everything. No matter what you are interested in, it would greatly benefit you to study it's past. After all, it can only help you gain a better understanding of the present.

I'm a history major, so of course I love the subject. I don't know what I'd be doing without it.

I think History is useful and stuff but I really do hate history... Most of it really bores me and it's just really hard to get into it. It has to be some part of history that I'm actually interested in and honestly there really aren't many topics of history that I am excited to learn about.

Originally Posted by Knerd

History relates to everything. No matter what you are interested in, it would greatly benefit you to study it's past. After all, it can only help you gain a better understanding of the present.

I'm a history major, so of course I love the subject. I don't know what I'd be doing without it.

Me neither. Without history, we really couldn't exist!