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Forgive, but never forget.

Why?

A wise person is simply someone who is a fool with a good memory.

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@whodey said
Forgive, but never forget.

Why?

A wise person is simply someone who is a fool with a good memory.
I'll try to forget that I wasted the time to read that.

(Considering that you might be capable, I'd half-expected something more solemn and thoughtful. I was unwisely... half-wrong.)

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@whodey said
Forgive, but never forget.

Why?
Perhaps, deep down, deeper than the aspiration for immortality, humans know that the only kind of life after death that's real is the one where people we knew and loved live on in our memories and their lives continue to have an impact on us even though they are gone.

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@wolfe63 said
I'll try to forget that I wasted the time to read that.

(Considering that you might be capable, I'd half-expected something more solemn and thoughtful. I was unwisely... half-wrong.)
The beginning of wisdom is to shun evil.

Therefore, remembering the harm evil brings to our lives and those around us is crucial to obtaining wisdom.

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@whodey said
The beginning of wisdom is to shun evil.

Therefore, remembering the harm evil brings to our lives and those around us is crucial to obtaining wisdom.
Do you believe Memorial Day in the U.S. promotes or develops "wisdom"?

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@fmf said
Do you believe Memorial Day in the U.S. promotes or develops "wisdom"?
It's important to remember times of war, to remember the events or past "sins" that led to it in order to try and prevent another like it.

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@whodey said
It's important to remember times of war, to remember the events or past "sins" that led to it in order to try and prevent another like it.
"Sins"?

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@whodey said
It's important to remember times of war, to remember the events or past "sins" that led to it in order to try and prevent another like it.
Like the presidential lying that led us into the Iraq war?

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@suzianne said
Like the presidential lying that led us into the Iraq war?
What about Vietnam? LBJ made up a whole Vietnamese attack to justify it.

How about Libya? We were told the mission was not regime change, just to establish a no fly zone.

Somehow that all went awry, didn't it Suzy.

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@suzianne said
Like the presidential lying that led us into the Iraq war?
No. More like the global threat of terrorism. Or did you forget about that?

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@whodey said
The beginning of wisdom is to shun evil.

Therefore, remembering the harm evil brings to our lives and those around us is crucial to obtaining wisdom.
And yet, fear is the mind-killer.

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@whodey said
What about Vietnam? LBJ made up a whole Vietnamese attack to justify it.

How about Libya? We were told the mission was not regime change, just to establish a no fly zone.

Somehow that all went awry, didn't it Suzy.
Your "whataboutism" doesn't fly in this forum, just like it didn't fly in Debates.

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@secondson said
No. More like the global threat of terrorism. Or did you forget about that?
Iraq was no direct threat to the US, and had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.

W had to lie about WMDs to get us in there, all because he had a score to settle with Saddam.

This should have taught us about going to war unnecessarily.

If we make the same mistake with Iran, we may find our asses handed to us this time.