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<blockquote data-quote="August" data-source="post: 18301" data-attributes="member: 138"><p><strong>Ask away</strong></p><p></p><p>Michael,</p><p></p><p>Thank you for answering my question. I hope you are getting what you need from this community. </p><p></p><p>(Before we continue this exchange, I want to tell you something in the form of an aside. A few months ago two members started a hoax--the Perry Nelson hoax--and they were dismantled within a few weeks by members of this community. If you read that hoax, you will see that it suffers under the weight of its own ignorance. The perpetrators of that hoax are not only ignorant fellows but far worse: they are cowards. I am a student. When confronted by my own ignorance, I admit it. I do not run away from it. That would be the simplest and basest form of cowardice. So, Michael, if you are a time traveler, then it is a thrill to meet you. If you are a hoaxer, then I certainly hope you are not a coward. For it is possible that I have travelled far more than you. And if that is the case, you will spend your nights reading your own ignorance in this very forum. If dismantled, face it. Or I will put you in the bucket marked "timid souls" and it is quite likely you will never enjoy true studentship.)</p><p></p><p>Now you said,</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And I find this interesting. That a historian should stand on the shoulders of Herodotus and Churchill, perhaps 4000 years of written history, but sweep them aside for a fancy piece of electronic conduit truly confounds me. </p><p></p><p>There are many young people on this forum and you just told them they cannot study history "truly". Is that responsible? Should we wait for technology or pick up that Lyndon B. Johnson biography tomorrow?</p><p></p><p>Please explain the difference between seeing first hand Samuel Johnson perspire while he eats and reading the accounts of him perspiring while he eats. Can we even get close enough?</p><p></p><p>You and I are, as historians, more similar than dissimilar. President Bush signed no fewer than twenty documents last week. Both of us could not be there to witness it. We did not overhear the conversations had during the signings. So as you and I are experiencing the same history, how did your electronics give you an advantage over me? Future historians have the advantage--they will at least have the documents!</p><p></p><p>I have other points/questions but I want you to address the ones above first. I thank you in advance.</p><p></p><p>August</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="August, post: 18301, member: 138"] [b]Ask away[/b] Michael, Thank you for answering my question. I hope you are getting what you need from this community. (Before we continue this exchange, I want to tell you something in the form of an aside. A few months ago two members started a hoax--the Perry Nelson hoax--and they were dismantled within a few weeks by members of this community. If you read that hoax, you will see that it suffers under the weight of its own ignorance. The perpetrators of that hoax are not only ignorant fellows but far worse: they are cowards. I am a student. When confronted by my own ignorance, I admit it. I do not run away from it. That would be the simplest and basest form of cowardice. So, Michael, if you are a time traveler, then it is a thrill to meet you. If you are a hoaxer, then I certainly hope you are not a coward. For it is possible that I have travelled far more than you. And if that is the case, you will spend your nights reading your own ignorance in this very forum. If dismantled, face it. Or I will put you in the bucket marked "timid souls" and it is quite likely you will never enjoy true studentship.) Now you said, And I find this interesting. That a historian should stand on the shoulders of Herodotus and Churchill, perhaps 4000 years of written history, but sweep them aside for a fancy piece of electronic conduit truly confounds me. There are many young people on this forum and you just told them they cannot study history "truly". Is that responsible? Should we wait for technology or pick up that Lyndon B. Johnson biography tomorrow? Please explain the difference between seeing first hand Samuel Johnson perspire while he eats and reading the accounts of him perspiring while he eats. Can we even get close enough? You and I are, as historians, more similar than dissimilar. President Bush signed no fewer than twenty documents last week. Both of us could not be there to witness it. We did not overhear the conversations had during the signings. So as you and I are experiencing the same history, how did your electronics give you an advantage over me? Future historians have the advantage--they will at least have the documents! I have other points/questions but I want you to address the ones above first. I thank you in advance. August [/QUOTE]
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