"History is always on the move, slowly eroding today's orthodoxy and making space for yesterday's heresy." Do you think this quote is true? And can you provide any examples?
2007-02-02 02:35:49 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I do think it is true...
I'm gonna use the example of the USA Catholic Church....
(by the way, I'm a recovering Catholic)
The day to worship is on Sunday.... Sometime along the way they decided that was not convenient, So now it is acceptable to attend church on Saturday evening.
Another example using the same group... They used to fast for forty days and nights at Easter time.... Now they don't eat meat on Fridays.....
2007-02-02 02:50:03 · answer #1 · answered by and,or,nand,nor 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever heard of the Laws of Thermodynamics? These laws are never broken - they are as true as the Law of Gravity. Simply put they are;
1) You cannot win in this game.
2) You cannot break even in this game.
3) You cannot get out of the game.
The 2nd Law in particular, Entropy, states everything moves from order to disorder. Energy moves from a usable state to a less usable state.
Entropy always has a negative value. Never positive. Theoretically it can be zero. Everything causes Entropy.
2007-02-02 02:48:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't, not entirely.
Everything spoken out loud and put into a sentence (making some sort of sense of course.) has some element of structure and validity because it is opinion... Even complete and total nonsense can be valid nonsense... Most belief's are personal opinion based on personl experience and it is the number of people who agree with anything that makes it valid or not.
Sounds like a slightly jaded person said this... So this would be valid to those others who find it makes sence to them.
To me, not so much... I find it to be a bit, back asswords myself...
2007-02-02 02:43:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely...man is always seeking to better himself.....yesterdays heresy..the earth is flat...the earth is the center of the universe...man will never fly...man will never reach the moon...blacks are not people..women are not equals....all of these were believed true at times in our past...people that denied these "truths" were persecuted and humiliated yet today they are facts of life...to quote from men in black..."Imagine what you'll know tomorrow"
2007-02-02 02:48:15 · answer #4 · answered by kerfitz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.........history is a selection of of activities and thoughts from the previous that we discover ways to verify approximately previous blunders to attempt to evade them interior the destiny. We additionally study approximately previous successes that we are able to attempt to emulate. yet specifically we study approximately magnificent human beings and what they have been able to end of their lifetimes, whether we are talking approximately Joan of Arc, King Arthur, Napoleon, Cleopatra, George Washington, Queen Elizabeth, Ben Franklin or FDR there have been some magnificent human beings in history and those are those we study from. that's what history is all approximately to me.
2016-11-02 03:17:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not at all.
We are always constantly learning from our former mistakes, all errors that our society has commited through out history. Not that we don´t make them again, but at least we try.
2007-02-02 04:21:29 · answer #6 · answered by whothatBE 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry. I have lots of other things to do.
2007-02-02 02:43:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋