The Past, The Present and The Future

 

Those that manipulate the past in order to suit the present, end up destroying the future!

A Little History Lesson - Calm Down!

I have lived through:

- the oil shock
- the three day week
- numerous market/property crashes
- dock strikes
- miners' strikes
- power workers' strikes
- sugar shortages
- petrol shortages
- power cuts
- potato shortages
- the drought of 1976 and corresponding water shortage
- toilet roll shortages (yes, a genuine shortage as opposed to a panic bought "temp out of stock" issue)

All of the above might have been, at the time, inconvenient; but they are in the past (forgotten by many) and we moved onwards and upwards.

Whatever we face now will pass, and we will move onwards and upwards!

Momentous Change

Change is never quite as "momentous" as thought by those undergoing it when viewed through the prism of history.

History

History is malleable and subjective, not set in stone.

Changing History

Those who think that they can change history are deluding themselves, individuals are but grains of sand being buffeted by the ocean of history.

Making History

Certain individuals would kid themselves, and others, that they are "making history".

No one "makes history", they are merely part of it.

Optimism

Optimism is often kicked in the nuts by history.

History

You can no more change history, than you can disinvent the atomic bomb.

Bold Moves

Bold moves make history.

Bold Gestures

Bold gestures can give history a nudge.

Expunge The Past At Your Peril

Those who seek to change the present and enhance their own power by expunging comments, people and actions from history are in danger of themselves being expunged.

Hope

A regime or government that offers it subjects no hope of better things to come, but merely offers them a perpetual struggle against a state hyped "threat", is destined to be consigned to the funeral pyre of history.

History

History rewards those who demand the impossible.

History

History is written not to revere the dead, but to inspire the living.

The Good Old Days

Those in Britain who hanker after the so called "good old days", when shops shut on Sunday, should go and live in Germany.

There, many shops shut on Saturday at 2PM and don't open again until Monday.

Of course, this is extremely inconvenient for the consumer and has severely damaged the economy; so maybe the "good old days" are something best consigned to the dustbin of history.

London

London has been a major city for over 2000 years.

It has survived fire, flood, plague, rioting, the Luftwaffe and the IRA.

Yesterday's attack by human scum will not destroy it, London will survive long after their intellectually and morally bankrupt theocracy has been consigned to the dustbin of history.

Religious Intolerance

Those religions that do not tolerate freedom of debate and thought will die of entropy, and will be consigned to the dustbin of history.

Sex Scandals

History is littered with the shattered corpses of politicians' careers, destroyed by their sexual peccadilloes.

The solution is simple, castrate all politicians when they take office.

Christmas

It is often lamented by people that the "true meaning of Christmas" has been lost. They claim that Christmasd has become far too commercialesed, and that the Christian values of caring for others and giving have been lost.

I would suggest that these people are neglecting history. Christmas is a Christian festival, which has been imposed on a much older winter festival.

The pre Christian winter festival was a time of overindulgence and merriment; where people ate and drank as much as was possible, in order to forget the bleak mid winter and try to keep their spirits up until spring.

The modern day overindulgence, that the West engages in at this time of year, is in fact a reversion to this mid winter practice; and is therefore highly traditional.

Conmen

How to spot a conman:

-They have large amounts of "flash money".

-When it comes to agreeing prices and payment dates, they claim poverty.

-They do not respond to enquiries concerning their non payment of bills

-They rewrite history to suit their needs.

-They play the wounded party in any dispute over contracts.

When you come across these people, avoid them.