Things that get you mad, from history.

#141

See, I’m one of those weird guys that doesn’t really get mad at what happened in history. What I do get mad about is if we don’t learn from our mistakes in the past and continue doing things that were wrong then and are wrong today. I see it far too often, a supposedly “moral” people doing immoral things for whatever reason (politics, religion, just plain insanity) and using the same old rhetoric from yesteryear.

But, then again, perhaps that’s off-topic but I don’t get mad at what happened in history. To use a business phrase: It is what it is. It shouldn’t have been that, but it was. So, let’s learn from our mistakes.

#142

hey

hey

know who sucks?

those Wehrmacht guys…

#143

wow, I created a now five page argument with a simple comment stating that i hated nazism in general…

#144

I sort of agree, getting mad from stuff from history is exactly like those feminists who are mad since men from a while ago (not us) used to be douchebags to women (but not them). Or a Jewish person getting mad at a German person even though both of them didn’t go through any of the shit and the German guy’s political opinions is not anything like Hitler’s.

It’s also the same reason I don’t pay undeserved respect to people who are sons/daughters of a person who fought in a war.

If you didn’t go through shit in history, then you don’t deserve to be compensated.

#145

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -George Santayana

#146

I expected better from a Seattleite! > :frowning:

#147

Maybe not so much history, but I hate anyone who’s picking sides of “who’s fault it was that the cold war happen’d” or some crap like that. Seriously, both sides where stupid for not just trusting eachother that no one was planning on launching those nukes first. Mistrust is one of the main reasons of war these days.

#148

no dude, Reagan is already a Martyr just from dying of natural causes. Can you imagine the cult if he was actually assassinated?

#149

I don’t agree with either of these because the actions of the past DO affect the present. If you go out and spend all your child’s college fund on beer and prostitutes while your child is an infant, it does affect your child later in life.

Since it affects the present, I do get mad at it. I guess, in a way, I can get mad at things that happened in the past.

#150

The difference is, there’s no one to be mad at. You can’t change the things that happened, and they have already affected the present. It’s better to deal with the present and learn from the past than to get mad.

#151

That’s applicable to any event ever. It’s impossible to change anything that has already happened, but that’s never stopped anyone from getting mad before. Sure, it would be better if nobody got mad at anything, but it’s not going to happen unless you’re Ghandi or the Dalai Lama or something.

#152

I think even those people get mad at something. No one can control their emotions completely.

#153

yeah, didn’t the current Dalai lama say if he were in the same room with hitler he would not hesitate to shoot him dead?

the Dalai lama came to my school two years ago[/SIZE] :3

#154

Claiming Mengele contributed to scientific progress means your opinions of historical figures are nonsense. Thank you come again.

Also no, the Dalai Lama didn’t say that unless there’s some sort of reliable source for it. Not that A) I’d think less of him or B ) that necessarily means he’s “mad at” Hitler.

#155

Except that the culprits of “bad” things that happened long ago are long dead. I find it silly to be mad at someone who doesn’t exist anymore.
Being mad at someone who’s still around is potentially productive.

#156

Not really, because the thing that they did to make you mad already happened and there’s nothing you can do about it. “It’s better to deal with the present and learn from the past than to get mad.”

It’s EASIER to not be mad about events in the distant past, because there’s nobody to be mad at, but equally nonproductive.

you mean the nazi air force? :3

#157

Ann Coulter

#158

Yes really. Anger can lead to confrontation. Confrontation can lead to resolving a situation and actually doing something about the bad thing that happened.

#159

Anger leads to fear. Fear leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering!

#160

I think Burbinator’s path is more proven in real life than your muppet’s quote. :stuck_out_tongue:

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