Has history ever happened?

[Casimir]

thus there is nothing to discus other than the very weak abstract you present.

[Rantrex]

Well, it may require some heavy thinking to understand some points about if past had plays or not, but it's nothing abstract. I know some people would have a problem with this, but there are also a lot of other things and facts you have to accept no matter what you think about it. But some lies repeated milions of times may look like truth, if everybody around accept it. It's called peer preasure.

What's the year you've been born (and are you pretty sure you've been born)? What's the first thing you remember?

[Laufknoten]

Sure history happened, what kind of question is that? Instead we should discuss if history really happened the way it's written in history books.
And no, I do not deny that the holocaust happened, I just think that not everything the government and historians tell us about it is 100% true.

[Torost]

phantom time hypothesis

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-phantom-time-hypothesis/

The Phantom Time Hypothesis suggests that the early Middle Ages (614-911 A.D.) never happened, but were added to the calendar long ago either by accident, by misinterpretation of documents, or by deliberate falsification by calendar conspirators.

Not saying this is a fact, just an interresting theory.

The site has a large collection of damn interresting articles ... it is not a conspiracysite..

[Osiris]

Well, it may require some heavy thinking to understand some points about if past had plays or not, but it's nothing abstract. I know some people would have a problem with this, but there are also a lot of other things and facts you have to accept no matter what you think about it. But some lies repeated milions of times may look like truth, if everybody around accept it. It's called peer preasure.

What's the year you've been born (and are you pretty sure you've been born)? What's the first thing you remember?

so basically what your saying is that nothing is real unless it happens around/to you? did you erm watch the matrix while incredibly high/drunk?

[Overdriven]

Basically the whole if a tree falls in the woods and there's no one to hear it does it make a sound thing. Still bollocks though.

[Grumpy_Nic]

I've always wondered what would have happened if I never stopped smoking and drinking.

Another mystery solved. Thank you very much.

[Zlisch_The_Butcher]

People dont realize this yet, but once the computer power gets strong enough to simulate a reality close to our own one would begin to question do we live in some similar virtual simulation run by an advanced civilization for their research/amusement

Would it really matter? I wouldn't give two fucks about being in some virtual simulation as long as it changed nothing whatsoever from my current life.

[highglandeur]

If you want to see the past look up at night when theres no clouds

[Oberyn]

Who gives a shit about the movements of blazing balls of gas on fire thousands and millions of lightyears away though? History is only given meaning by human experience. In a galactic context it's just an eternal ballet of spheres and materials on a scale so beyond what the regular person deals with on an everyday basis that it loses all sense. Time itself means nothing unless you relate it to human experience.

[Kafein]

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[Torben]

Would it really matter? I wouldn't give two fucks about being in some virtual simulation as long as it changed nothing whatsoever from my current life.

you wouldnt know about the difference and couldnt give a fuck.

[Tears of Destiny]

Who gives a shit about the movements of blazing balls of gas on fire thousands and millions of lightyears away though?

Entire professions and organizations, oddly enough.

[Zox_Fury]

Sure history happened, what kind of question is that? Instead we should discuss if history really happened the way it's written in history books.
And no, I do not deny that the holocaust happened, I just think that not everything the government and historians tell us about it is 100% true.

I m really agree with you .  History is write by winners and conquerors. So they can change what they want and legitimate the power in place.
   I think in each century , history was only here to legitimize governement,king  and other members of power.
Don't forget that losers are not here to contradict and give their vision of facts.

[Tagora]

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/04/photos-king-richard-iiis-skeleton-dug-up-from-british-parking-lot-identified/

1. History is a record of the past.
2.  Richard III died long ago, leaving his body as a record of his existence.
3. Thus Richard III, namely the skeleton in the present, is history.

Ta-Da!  History is real.  You don't need a skeleton to prove that either, and the question of historical accuracy is altogether different.