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30 Mar 07

Evolving Thoughts

  • Eschatology is the theological subdiscipline that studies the "last days" (eschaton), and if you have last days, and a beginning, then you have an arrow of history
  • arge things are just like small things, and so history is itself a kind of organism-lineage, with societies as the organisms.
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LiveScience.com Blogs »Blog Archive » When Does the Present Become History?

  • When some major world event happens - a natural disaster, terrorist attack,
    political maneuvering - I always wonder how long it will take before that moment
    becomes “history”. Not in the strict timeline sense, but in the way that the
    event, at some intangible tipping point, ceases being fresh and newsworthy and
    drifts into the sterile zone of TV retrospectives
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