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Originally Posted by Danth
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Call me a simpleton if you like, but I don't give special credit for that man for being an ignorant, arrogant, greedy fool who was dead wrong about practically everything he claimed and simply ran into an unexpected landmass, and especially not when the man himself was too proud to ever readily admit it. He was no visionary, just a lucky idiot. The colonization of the Americas certainly happened as a result of him, but in spite of his own purpose. History is funny like that sometimes. Fools and accidents have their impacts just as surely as brilliant minds and deliberate acts. Highlighting such people as they really were is therefore an important aspect of appreciating the often random nature of history more generally.
Danth
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Danth, Im pretty sure this is a 50 year long fake history that our generation has made up because we're cynical and hate our parents.
This is who Columbus was:
A regular person of his stature, who completed an extrodiarny act.
That is all.
Edit: this is actually exactly why i thhink religion is better lol
check it out.
if Columbus was in the bible, we would only remember the good in what he did and we would acknowledge that he was a flawed individual,
LIKE ALL MAN that's why people the bible are flawed to teach us that WE are flawed.
So, in the religious sense, for 6 thousand years, Columbus's story would remain intact.
But in ONE GENERATION our trending society, has brainwashed us all into thinking Columbus was a bad guy, or even worse a monster.
So our history is now depressing and shitty. Just like
HUMANITY is.
Stay away from humanity it's passion rises and falls, or at least keep humanity away from you with a 10 foot stick.
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Man can re-write history with SOCIAL trends, but the bible and tora are the same as they were dating back 6 thousand years ago~