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Originally Posted by Flamenspiel
That's a just a function of your current demographic, once your older and have more experience in life, history and your personal experience becomes more significant.
Young people need to sell their skills and smarts and downplay experience to get ahead, this will permeate your entire world view and it is a survival skill. Everyone goes through that phase. Once you get older, it changes, you will find that ignoring history and experience is.....ignorance.
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See, I consider adhering to ancient texts as if they are the word of some omnipotent entity to be exactly the opposite of learning from history. Our history also tells us that there are many things untrue or contradictory in these texts, yet we cease to adapt our knowledge.
I wasn't meaning for all history in general. Of course we need to keep a hand in it to learn from (even if we rarely, if ever, do). I meant in the case of leaving old religions behind, history is where they should stay, just as ancient pagan religions have. We can still talk about Zeus and study the culture surrounding those beliefs without adhering to them like they are the be all-end all.
