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Teaching History
Rather than learning from “History”, which is the realities of men and women, i.e. Mankind, in time and place, most solutions are trying to teach how men and women should be in History.
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God knows
The God of a moral relation to life.
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Religious Sleep
Whether or not the unreflective life is given worth by material possessions and pleasures, the church-Sunday part is just the religious aspect of the general state of sleepy being.
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Trumped intelligence

February 20, 2024 Which is the most stupid: Trump or his supporters?
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Do you believe…?
People ask sometimes if an other “believes in God”, as if it were a question of whether one belongs to a pleasant club or not. Or as if one’s carriage or car had an agreeable and warming light inside. Or as if one had help or not in dealing with life.
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The Trump Revelation
How much Trump reveals of the demos in the American polity.
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1949 < > 2024
Butterfield words in 1949 are like a mirror to the world and life in which I was raised, but which I could not quite see.
Amongst which: Morality as the Meaning in Time, and the distanced inhumane Tragedies of most History.
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Opinionated
Many people are so swamped by their opinions that they cannot recognize there are facts and truths.
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Knowledgements
Self knowledge
Social-cultural knowledge
National-political knowledge
Place knowledge
Time knowledge
Moment-in-history knowledge
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The Little Man Theory of History

Mike Johnson
“Speaker of the House”