History As Fact

I know this is going to be controversial at best but Im going to put this out there. History is full of crap. For that matter science is too. Okay some things are good to know in these subjects if you have to pass a test in college. For the most part its all crap.

Follow me if you will. History is told by people who either learned it from other historians, or experienced it first hand. Unless the person who tells the story lived both sides of an incident there is no way it can be accurate. Then there are those who see it one way, then try to see it another way and make logical assumptions. These are the peopleI can admire for their trying to understand, at least they try and not base everything on what a book or what someone else told them.

World war 2 is a good example. I grew up an American learning American ways and listening to American history. Our involvement in the war started when we got bombed at Pearl Harbor. I was taught that the reason we got involved with Germany was because Hitler was such a horrible man. I then learned that the reason we invaded Germany was not because Hitler was killing innocent people, but because they struck a deal with Japan.
Then I met Eleanor. A lady who grew up in Nazi Germany as a non Jewish German. Her history was something I never heard of. Her history taught her that the Jewish people had most of the control of the finances in Germany and it put panic and fear into the government. America stood for such chaos and capitalism and so America was to be feared because we had military power. We were the threat to their downfall. And thats why Germany struck a deal with Japan. Germany couldnt handle everything on their own.

Seeing this small section of history from two different perspectives made me understand that it is never correctly told "after the fact" (its the old addage, history is told by the survivors) And to teach or learn something as fact when it is only one sided is never all the facts. Even when we can draw a logical assumption to things doesn't mean its fact, they are only opinions...

...and we all know that means, everyones got one.

On to science....

A major pet peave of mine are these shows on television recreating days of the dinosaur, or how the earth was made and such nonsense. These programs drive me insane. Alright Im not a schollar, I am a simple minded person with the belief that there is no way anyone can know that this dino ate that dino and that dino feared this dino and they all died when this happened. Im sorry I just dont buy it. Sure we can make logical deductions by looking at teeth and structure but its a LOGICAL DEDUCTION....nothing more than an educated guess.
The earth is said to be _______ years old by this scientist and _______ by that scientist. The fact is NOBODY knows how old the earth is or how it was made or developed. We have limited minds and only a small understanding of how it all works. Science is a study of trying to understand something that our minds have limited access to. Just because science says something is fact, doesnt make it so. How many times have you known the logic of science to change?

Pluto is a prime example. We all grew up with "knowing" there were nine planets. Now because of science we dont have nine planets. And yet they are still stating information as fact. We only have 8 planets in our galaxy, well 3 years ago we had nine....whos to say more planets dont develop and we have twelve tomorrow? Impossible? Not if you think the big bang theory is fact, and whos to say its not? How can we know?

When someone comes at me with a lot of book knowledge and nothing else I have to roll my eyes and hold my breath. These people who I know are very well learned in mans voices never heard a tree talk, never felt the magic of energy effectivly flowing to make a change, They dont believe in spell work as anything other than mental games and trickery. The wonder and life has been taken out of their sails. They LIVE for the next scientific discovery or story coming from some old person or book instead of living life for themselves.

infact ...the fact of the matter is "fact" shouldnt even be a word, it is to literal and close minded. There should be a word that means "as we know it to be" meaning it could change with more knowledge.