Dont you just love history

[Antari]

History always shows me a path ... the one not to take. Its been helpful, on a number of occasions.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Thats me all the way, even the part about loving the warfare in history. Everything about it, the equipment, the motive, the strategy, and especially the leaders. I also love looking at the Religion of ancient societies and the culture also interests me.

 

[smithy_2045]

I liked history before I took a history class at high school. I no longer like history.

 

[KeyMaster45]

I like all history, specifically the myths created by various cultures and how they've evolved and been integrated into various religions over the years and how they affect people's daily lives.

General history is like one giant story (not exactly an edgy concept but meh, I'm a man of simple pleasures) and I love me a good story. I guess that's why I've always been drawn to history classes; I've always been fortunate to have teachers and professors very animated about the subject who really relish in telling kids the really whacked out historical facts.

I think if I ever had to pick the person I enjoyed researching the most it would be Ivan The Terrible because that guy was bat-shit insane. In my digging I came across a story from his day that said on certain days he would rant and rave in one of his towers whilst throwing cats out the window. Suffice it be said regardless of truth that instantly made me love him as a person.

 

[kebab4you]

I am a history nerd, i love the wars (not ''yay a lot of people died love, more like yay! boom boom, big battles love)

There is just something that keeps me instrested in history from the discoveries to the wars to the modren era. PLz let me know that i am not the only one that is the familys history geek

Nope you´re not alone have had A+ in every history class I have ever taken.

 

[FortheLegion]

I love European History. I love learning about it. Unfortunately all school ever taught about history was American History. I AM SO SICK OF HEARING ABOUT IT.

 

[Antari]

History, by and large, bores me like no other subject. I really don't give a shit how people in 1643 lived.

My sum total of interest in history amounts to: Moon landings, NASA, internal combustion engines, electronics, nuclear energy, explosives, and anything that combines any of those ingredients.



Basically anything from ~1850 on to today.

Ask China when they started messing with Gunpowder as an elixir of life. They shortly discovered it had the opposite effect. Ignore history, and doom yourself to front line hard lessons from life.

 

[Koroviev]

I love learning about Eastern European history. At the moment, I am reading Young Stalin, a very thorough look at Stalin's early years. It's very interesting.

 

[Dwarfman]

favorite topic in history, the napoleonic era, the roman empire and WWII. All with there own great leaders and discoveries

Ahhh..I did a history assignment on Napoleon once. Got the highest mark and apparently the Teacher enjoyed reading it.

Yes I am a history nerd too. I love all kinds of history and learning from past triumphs and errors. You know what they say afterall 'Those who don't know their history are forever doomed to repeat it!'

 

[emeraldrafael]

No. you're not. I like history too. Particularly I like Civil War through Reconstruction through founding the west history. You know, where the country was lawless, new and there was still those wild lands.

Of course I like American history as much as NATIVE American history (yes, its separate since they conflicted) since I'm of Native descent, so it gets kinda... sticky. I guess would be the best way to say it.

As for world history? um... Well, I like the Pacific theatre of WW2, but thats about it. Its not the rest of the world isnt interesting or stupid, I just dont like to focus on it as much since there's not as much lawlessness and exploration of precolumbian times and everyone then compared to now seems profoundly STUPID though I cant blame them since they werent as advanced (I mean really. I get that Europe had huge rolling fields and rifling a barrel was unheard of us, but standing in lines and shooting at each other? the entire idea sounds so retarded its amazing anyone even went to war for fear of looking dumb).

I also like Pirate history. More 1700s then 2000s. I like my Pirates to be in the Caribbean and constantly have broadside battles. Not shooting RPGs and attacking cruise liners.

 

[Frotality]

i used to love history; beginning of soviet russia, napoleon, britian's time in africa and india, and WWI were among my favorite periods in time (to learn about, of course)...but now, it just depresses me seeing how often humans rehash the same damn issues with the same damn shitty resolutions, learning nothing and doing it all over a century later. frankly i preferred being ignorant of human history like everyone else, so that when shit inevitably fucked up, i could still retain some degree of surprise, and hope that maybe some issues could get resolved in non-stupid ways. all throughout history however, humanity never fails to disappoint.

 

[Falseprophet]

I love history, even got a degree in it. I think I got my fill of military history in undergrad, though. Spending hours every day for a month reading the minutes of the meetings of the Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff on microfilm will do that to you.

I find social history, history of science and technology and religious history very interesting these days. It's kind of amazing to see how far we've come on the one hand, and how often we repeat the same mistakes with the other.

 

[Jackpot524]

Needless to say, I loved Guns, Germs, and Steel. One of my favorite books.

A friend of mine told me that book was some wierd reimagining of history, on par with '1421'... I'll have to check it out now, because I'm starting to think that he didn't know what he was talking about because you seem to know your stuff.

I have this book. To summarize it crudely: culture and race mean little or nothing, Europe was destined to come out on top regardless of who inhabited it, and our circumstances define us.

Whoa there! What?

Your statement about the book has confused the hell out of me... Regardless of who inhabited Europe? Like who? The Neanderthals? Or the other group of Homo Sapiens that was almost indistinguishable from the next at the time Europe was fist inhabited? Because whichever group of Homo Sapiens that occupied Europe would have likely have became modern white people. Difference in skin colour, in it's simplest terms, has more to do with it's ability to absorb vitamin D than anything else. Or maybe that's what the author is getting at... Especially since Jared Diamond (the author) has wrote a couple books on human evolution. Hmm...

Man, now I really have to read the book...

 

[Antari]

Ignore history, and doom yourself to front line hard lessons from life.

Words cannot express how tired I am of hearing this trite old adage, nor can they express the violent urges I get every time I hear someone spew it.

Do kindly note where I never said I ignored history. I said it bored me to tears, and that I wasn't interested in it. But I never said I ignored it.

Wanna know what else bores me as much as history? Traffic. But I don't ignore that, either. That'd be suicide.

Next time you pull the most annoying saying in the history of sayings out of your pocket, at least make sure you're throwing it at someone who might actually need to hear it for the 9,594,439,493,694,874,549,695,485,678,695,472,220,109,575th time. Okay? Good.

I simply made the comment, yes I'm by no means the first to say it. Probably somewhere in the millions. But that doesn't make it less important. Some people's destiny is to serve as a warning to others. I may not agree with it, but thats the way things are.

*Edit* Stigs included.

 

[rokkolpo]

i've always loved history, and i've always wanted to punch the faces of people who say it's a useless subject :/ i'd argue that it's about 20x more useful than calculus...

Care to explain.
Because I find it quite useless.

well, aside from the old cliche "those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it", there's simply the fact that it's easier to understand someone or something if you understand its past. e.g. outdated constructs like labor unions; modern annoyances like the EPA or the FDA; etc. understanding why things came to be, is, in my opinion, incredibly useful.

*edit* also, i like how the person above me put it: "You have to know who you were to know who you are."

If only they taught me that at school instead of the useless crap I'm fed.
The book noted that and i quote ''Mao sedong never washed and liked to give young girls STD's''

Seriously what am I to do with that information?
There are just tons of these useless facts in almost every history book I've read.

Outside of school I think history is fascinating (parts of it).
But at school I learn nothing, I just pump useless info in my head which I'm bound to forget 2 days after the test.

 

[Ldude893]

I like history. Learning about the mistakes of the past prevent me from ever repeating it. Of course, human history isn't all full of mistakes, I'm quite fascinated by humanity's progress over various centuries.