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Chapter 2: THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY
George Santayana: "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
George Bernard Shaw: "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."
George Wilhelm Hegel: "What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have
learned anything from history, or acted on principles."
Ambrose Bierce: HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by
rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
The above definition of history could accurately be applied to the way history is taught as a subject in schools and
colleges. The history taught by academics is ‘mostly false’ and focused on events that are ‘mostly unimportant’ that
come about as result of the machinations of those in power at any given time. Such powers that be act to serve only
their own interests, never those of the masses. So superficial history primarily concerns itself with the exploits (usually
murderous) of the rich and powerful and from one generation to the next the script remains unchanged. The stories of
emperors and popes and of kings and conquerors are mostly falsified accounts of the conquests of megalomaniacal
men and on the rare occasion a woman who through subterfuge and deception conquered nations and continents and
the known world and in the process killed millions of their own and tens of millions of their enemies. The only lesson
such histories teach us is that mankind’s greed and drive for power are so strong that in every generation and in every
nation there will arise men and women who will stop at nothing to rise to the top even if it means treading down upon all
those who might stand in their way. This rise to the top invariably involves shedding of blood and mostly that of
innocents but that is of no concern to the Alexanders or the Caesars of yesteryear or of the present time. So academic
history can be summed up as follows:
• Struggle for power; usually falsely categorized as a struggle between good and evil, between the good guys
and the bad guys. In reality it is usually a struggle between equally corrupt power hungry megalomaniacs who are hell
bent on maintaining their hold on power or satiating their undying greed for more power at any cost.
• This struggle invariably ends in war in which copious amounts of blood are shed by the struggling parties.
• Struggle ends in temporary victory for one party until another party arises to challenge the ruling power.
• The masses are always under the boot of the rulers; when there is a struggle between two rulers it is the
masses that become canon fodder. When there is no struggle between rulers the rulers use their sheriffs to keep their
own subject masses in servitude and hesitate not to spill the blood of their own. To stay in power the rulers as a rule
have to shed blood whether that of their ‘enemies’ or their own kin. Historically speaking rulers have shed more blood of
their own subjects than they have of their so-called enemies.
• Historically the privileged few of the ruling class have exploited their own subjects to keep
themselves enriched and have used the very same masses they exploit to defend or enlarge their
territories.
• All one can learn from such histories is that history will repeat itself and warfare and bloodshed will continue
apace until man finally blows the planet to kingdom come.
Pearl S. Buck: "One faces the future with one's past."
David C. McCullough: "History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way
we are."
However there is a real history not taught in schools or churches without the knowledge of which we can never know our
past, of facts that have eternal consequences such as WHO WE ARE, HOW WE GOT HERE AND WHY ARE WE HERE?
Without this knowledge it is not possible to understand the present and it is impossible to accurately plan for the future.
Real history of the past is only found in one book in this world and that is The Bible. This history is confirmed by cultural
evidence such as that provided by mythology of various cultures and also scientific evidence as provided by geology
and archaeology. To gain an understanding of our place in the Cosmos and the Earth we first must gain an
understanding of the Creator of the Cosmos and of the Earth.
Jesus said ‘I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.’ Beginning with Genesis and ending with the book
of Revelation the Bible spans a time frame that actually transcends time itself; it begins before ‘The Beginning’ and ends
in eternity where there is no ending. It explains how God created everything, not in some mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus
kind of way that no one can understand yet is expected to believe much as so-called ‘science’ tries to explain creation
with the ‘Big Bang Theory’ that is more mumbo jumbo and hocus pocus than it is science. No the Bible explains creation
in a logical, reasonable and one may say scientific manner that does not stretch credulity; granted it is still a matter of
faith since none of us were there to see it but it is reasonable and logical more than any other explanation for our
existence. It is more logical and reasonable than the ‘THEORY’ of evolution, the ‘Ancient Astronaut’ hypotheses or the
Annunaki / Space brother theories of Zechariah Sitchin and others. As this ancient timeless tale progresses through the
pages of this book it will become apparent to the readers that though the so-called church has done an admirable job in
trying to convince their flocks that God is a mystery that is impossible to understand The Book itself tells us otherwise.
I John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may
know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and
eternal life. If Jesus Christ came to give us an understanding of God then God should no longer be a mystery for us;
or at least he has pulled back the curtain enough for us to see that there is a solution to the mystery even if the full
picture is not yet apparent to us. The study of history then must begin with God and the question we need to ask is who
is God? I will rephrase this question and ask ourselves, what is God?
Coming soon / Chapter 3
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