GM Rex My first initial feeling impression was expansion, joy and triumph. It is as if the central figure is an anthropomorphic rock-giant huddling his friends while watching the sun turn into a phoenix.
I was sharing another's post. It didn't happen to me.--thanks for caring.
I looked it up and there are a lot of factors. Sometimes it just cracks open. This is my first time hearing about it.
"Most people are convinced that as long as they are not overtly forced to do something by an outside power, their decisions are theirs, and that if they want something, it is they who want it. But this is one of the great illusions we have about ourselves. A great number of our decisions are not really our own but are suggested to us from the outside; we have succeeded in persuading ourselves that it is we who have made the decision, whereas we have actually conformed with expectations of others, driven by the fear of isolation and by more direct threats to our life, freedom, and comfort." ~Erich Fromm #conformity
Art: Portrait of Korney Chukovsky by Ilya Yefimovich Repin
Credit: The Homeschool Historian (Facebook)
"Five Things You Should Know About History
(If you’re new here)
1. “The past” and “history” are NOT the same thing. The past is what actually happened and can be confirmed by historical fact (records, archeological evidence, etc.) In my classes I mention the example of a receipt from a grocery store: the receipt proves what the person buys, what time, from which store, and for how much.
“History” is the story that a historian writes using historical fact as his/her source: history is someone else’s interpretation of historical fact. It’s HOW we tell the story (because we weren’t there when it happened and we aren’t omniscient, we have to piece together historical facts to come up with a theory of things we can’t prove). Using the receipt example, history is how we try to answer:
-Who went to the store
-Why the price of X might have been inflated that year compared with other receipts found in earlier and later periods
-What historical events were happening around the time of the purchase which would help identify the use of the items on the list
-The ways in which spending habits that particular year might have changed based on economical conditions brought on by famine, war, political policies, etc.
History is our attempt to explain the past: it’s the story we tell in order to make sense of historical fact. Historical fact doesn’t change (unless new facts are found): historical interpretation changes ALL THE TIME.
2. There’s no such thing as “real history” or “true history” (see 1). If history is how we tell the story, then the story (narrative) WILL CHANGE depending upon who is telling the story. Sometimes whole groups of historians for a certain period of time will always (or generally) interpret historical events the same (ish) way—and that’s why there are generations of Americans who have one version of the past, and the next generation has a different one. The word for this is “historiography”—the history of how historians have interpreted historical facts. That leads me to:
3. When a group of historians generally agree upon a certain form of “story telling” (historical interpretation), this is called a “historiographical school”. There have been several major historiographical schools in the past century:
Progressive School
Consensus School
New Left School
Neo-Consensus School
(And now currently? We’re not sure because more time has to pass. Time will tell.)
If you’re a Millennial or GenX, you probably were taught from a mixture of New Left and Neo-Consensus. If you’re a Boomer (which obviously covers a huge time frame), the older of you probably learned from the Consensus school while the younger Boomers learned from the New Left school. This is exactly why you hear (and probably have said) “They don’t teach history like they used to!”…..because yeah. They don’t.
4. You will never, ever find a historian who will interpret the exact way you want them to: as a result, you will never find a curriculum which meets all of your personal beliefs (religious, social, political, etc.). What I have found as a homeschool parent for ten years with two history degrees is that most people refuse to look at ANY interpretations which differ from their personal beliefs. Guess what that leaves? Propaganda. Propaganda is the opposite of good scholarship, and a large number of the homeschool curriculum flagship companies sell a Christianized version of Consensus historiography. Furthermore, several well-known Christian companies produce history material written by people with zero history education (how do I know? I’ve contracted for them before).
In short, we CANNOT be spoon fed someone else’s interpretation. Americans have some of the lowest and most abysmal historical literacy scores in the developed world, thanks to decades of social studies (shudder), top-down one-sided interpretations, and poor research education. The answer to this? Read it here: https://thehomeschoolhistorian.com/howithappened/ (or just read my posts over the past year!)
5. Historical literacy is built by learning about the past in context, chronologically, and with historical empathy. I wrote Chronos with this exact goal in mind. But whatever you do, whatever you read, PLEASE study it in context.
What happened before?
What happened as a result?
What consequences did it have? How did they produce other consequences?
What did people believe about X during this point in history?
How did their beliefs influence their actions? How might their actions have been interpreted at that point in the past versus by our own perspective?
Lastly: pursue the truth even if it’s uncomfortable.
It usually is." #homeschool #history
Credit: Grow, Cook, Survive: Homesteading, Off-Grid Living & Old Recipes (Facebook)
"We brought our Costco watermelon home and set it on the kitchen counter when it started foaming. Barbara googled it and it said to remove it from the house immediately, it’s likely to explode due to fermenting. We put it in a plastic garbage bag and carefully lowered it into our garbage can outside. Just noticed this morning that the watermelon exploded and blew a hole in the bottom of the garbage can. Maggots everywhere." #Food #warning #watermelon #gardening #homesteading
#comfortzones #adventure
Credit: History of Music (Facebook)
"One of the most famous anecdotes about Beethoven involves his interactions with royalty. While he was often in the company of nobility, Beethoven did not always show the deference that was expected.
On one occasion, Beethoven was at the home of Prince Lichnowsky, a patron and admirer. During his visit, the prince had some French officers over, and he asked Beethoven to play for them. Beethoven refused, as he did not appreciate being treated like a mere servant. The next morning, he left the prince's house, leaving a note behind that read: "Prince, what you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am through my own efforts. There have been and will be thousands of princes; there is only one Beethoven."
This anecdote illustrates Beethoven's fierce independence and his belief in the dignity of the artist, a sentiment that was rather revolutionary at the time." #Beethoven #independence
Kathy Watson Johnson (Facebook)-
"Please - If you find a bird, NEVER put water in it's mouth. The little hole you can see at the back of this birds tongue is their airway. One wrong drop in there, and the bird aspirates, meaning it drowns. They can't cough the water back up, and it's a horrible death.
Baby birds get all their moisture from the food the parents feed them.
If you find an adult bird that is dehydrated, offer it some water to drink by itself, or you can dip a cotton bud in water and wipe the tiniest bit down the side of their beak, making sure you avoid the nostrils.
People message me saying they've syringed water in to a birds mouth. This is usually a death sentence and the bird goes downhill over the next few hours.
If you find a baby bird, keep it warm. If they don't have full feathers, they need a gentle heat source. They can't make their own body heat. NEVER feed a cold bird. Their digestive system stops when cold and this also results more often than not, in the bird dying slowly.
Warmth is key." #nature #birds
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#quote #RichardFeynman
#Pillpushers #BigPharma #health #detox
#quote #Aristotle #philosophy
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“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life...”
Herman Hesse #HermanHesse #art #nature #trees
Artist: Ulla Thynell - The Night Garden
GM Rex At first glance I saw a mutant eel/frog splayed out --as if going to be dissected in biology class. Upon further study--I see a creepy face dead center and a standing moth figure-top center and two wolf/snakes -- nefarious shadowy thoughtforms--moving in opposite directions
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