I give up!!!

What have you given up?.

Unless I am misunderstanding you, it sounds like you are fully engaging in the present. The gift of living in the moment. History is important to me. As Malcolm X put it: "You can't know where you are going, without knowing where you have been".

I wish you what you would wish for yourself. Enjoy the ride.

V

I hear you Haven.........I clicked on that link and pretty much had the same reaction as you.   !      

I look at it this way........certain histories are important, for instance, one's family history.  That's pretty important I think to know who one's ancestors are, where they came from, what their lives were like, etc.   I think immediate history is imporant, and obviously provable....but even modern history has been distorted!   Events from only 150 - 200 years ago have already been tweaked and "readjusted."   It's ridiculous.   

Whether or not that book "History: Fact or Fiction?" is true, it does bring up an important question..................how much of what we believe and take on faith is   a)  Actually true and b) Actually worth believing and taking on faith??!   

So with that question in mind it's probably not a bad idea to comb through what one has been taught and selectively pick and choose what they're going to invest their energy in believing and taking on faith.  One may even decide to throw all of it out the window.  I believe much of what we're taught, even certain histories, is of actual little value to us, and not something that we ever pull out of our brains when surviving day to day life and trying to evolve spiritually.  We'll never know whether Jesus was real, and if so, when and where he lived and what he was really like.  We'll never know the true history of ancient Egypt, how old the pyramids really are, and whether aliens were actually involved.  We'll never know what exactly was made up and altered by the clergy and secret societies when writing and transcribing "historical" texts.    Very few people were put in charge of a whole lot of information and with funnnels like that....anything can happen.  We''ll never know.  So we need to pick and choose what we're going to invest our energy in.   I think most of "history" and even the exciting and intriguing "alternative history" is a time waste and energy distractor.   It's not relevent to what we need to do right here, right now.  I came to this conclusion after getting involved in the alternative history myself over the past few years...then realizing....what is the point???   It's all unprovable, and really no different from a really good TV show or movie when you think about it! 

Here's a thought for everybody:   Various ancient cultures and relatively recent indiginous cultures probably only were focused on their own history, and didn't / couldn't ever know the history of the rest of mankind around the world.  But it didn't matter...they still did fine.  I'd be willing to bet they had happier more fulfilling lives than the majority of modern people, despite their "lack" of knowledge of all of mankind's history and prior ancient civilizations. Modern man has access to all these books and knowledge and college classes which purport to inform us about history and anthrapology and mankind's role in the universe but most of it is inaccurate.  So are we any better off, living in our illusions and false beliefs, feeling smug, like we know something?   Are we better off then those indiginous cultures and various ancient civilizations who were cut off from others and really only knew their own history?    I'd say not!

Just a thought....!

Haven
Thanks for that great link, it really made me think about a lot of things. I wouldn't go so far as living just for the moment and putting aside my/worlds past. I am a creation of those events in the past, and if right now they don't make any sense anymore, I'm going to look for an answer whether I like it or not just like Fomenko. All this created history, has its roots in real events, once those found everything will make sense.
  There is one question that comes to my mind after reading that link:
  If the whole modern look of the history was created in the Middle Ages. What was the purpose of this "cover up"? Was it made in ignorance or with an intent purpose? If we answer this we might find an answer to why we have been "laid" so far if all of this was done with intent!!!!!!
  Fomenko's book takes me back to a thought I had in the past: If indeed the whole ancient history we where thought in schools, is no older than 2000 years it would be consequent with the history of the pre-Columbian civilizations in the Central and South America. All of their buildings and civilizations started to appear in the beginning of the 5th century AD. Still we are thought that the first humans arrived in the Americas some 10.000 to 12.000 years ago. I was always wondering what they did all those years. Did they just take a sight seeing tour of the continents???? Now What if they just came 1.500 -2.000 Years a go and did what they did in the old world start building it sounds more logical.
   Has anyone else asked this about the pre-Columbian civilizations?

Lyra I have one thing to say to your forth paragraph. Some wise guy said a long time ago: "The truth shall set you free" (Jesus). Whether he lived 2.000 or 1000 years ago or whether he lived at all he had a point in saying this. I think we are connected to the past and if we understand it we can grow and not make the same mistakes that where done in the past. It is not a waste of time and energy. Other wise we act like spoiled children that only care about themselves. If the alternative history was created intentionally we need to know why? Other wise it can happen all over again, it can happen to us and to our children.

  PS: If all of this is true it means that about 1.500 years ago there was a boom in science and technology. How was this possible? Anyone can answer this?