(09-01-2017, 01:09 AM)wrong_box Wrote:

(08-31-2017, 01:31 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Memories are the farthest thing on Earth from fact. They are colored by circumstances, nostalgia, and the unknown.

Tell that to the Jewish people who survived the Nazi death camps and the people who survived the great depression, WW2, Vietnam, Korean war, Desert Storm surviors...How about Kent State? That's not nostalgia, ATTICA ATTICA ATTICA wasn't a battle cry for a fictional event...MLK's "I Have A Dream" speech is certainly none of what you described memories as...Jim Jones committed a huge massacre getting his religious followers to drink poison...What was that guy name in Waco David Koresh sure brainwashed hundreds of followers and let them get killed...Memories are certainly FACT...

You're confusing memories with objective facts. History, my dear boy, was written by the winners. What you've done is demonstrate the nostalgic folly of the OP, the things you list there are the BAD things that happened (sans MLK, though many remember that as bad too), while he was feting the GOOD things which he merely perceived to be true in his narrow sphere of personal knowledge. It's ok to be nostalgic, we all have our own triggers that cause us to want the simpler times of our youth, but adults realize that those good things we remember aren't always as wonderful as we remember them. And you also can't go home again.

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