You are right on the mark there Tracy. History seems to get diluted with the passage of time and often the historian does not have first hand experience and/or they are themselves biased by their perspectives and/or the reader may simply not relate in the same way in future generations or even in the same generation but from a different culture/perspective.

Its amazing how we convey anything of real depth to anyone. I suppose the trick is to try and keep an open mind and if someone says something that immediately gets the opposing knee-jerk reaction we should think about it a little more deeply rather than simply quote the standard retort. Especially in a forum such as this one where the members are clearly intelligent, from a variety of backgrounds, religions, philosophies, and countries, and all of whose opinions and thoughts should be given some due consideration.

Just because one person opinions are not in alignment with our own does not mean that they are wrong.


>I don't know how anyone in the future could ever actually 'know' the truth of what occured in the past let alone its causes. If you take just those on the UT today and ask their viewpoint of current events and their causes and the effect today you will receive as many different 'first hand accounts' as there are members!