TST FRAMEWORK.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
1.
Voltaire’s journey reminds us that intellectual freedom often comes at a cost but also shows how the power of ideas can challenge authority, inspire change, and reshape the world.
2.
Quote:
- E. H. Carr.
- 1961.
From History:
Meaning:
Carr’s 1961 quote reminds us that facts do not become history by themselves. History emerges when evidence is selected, organized, interpreted, and placed into a meaningful story.
3.
From History: From about 1900 to 1500 BCE
Proto-Sinaitic transformed a small set of familiar pictures into symbols for individual consonant sounds, creating a simpler and more adaptable way to write language.
4.
A worldview is one’s interpretive lens, shaped by personal language, religion, and philosophy.
5.
Quote:
- Mark Twain.
- 1897.
From History:
Meaning:
Fiction lives within the possibilities of reality. Truth must answer to reality itself.
6.
From History: circa 5,260 BCE
About 7,260 Years Ago someone created the Dispilio Tablet. Discovered in 1993 in the Neolithic Settlement of Dispilio in Greece. It is an ancient wooden tablet, etched with intricate symbols, yet to be deciphered,
8.
Quote:
- David Hume.
- 1748.
From History:
Meaning:
Your confidence in an idea, whether scientific or spiritual, should rise with support, not desire.
9.
From History: Don't waste time on the unknowable.
Agnosticism is the honest pause between belief and denial. Used well, it helps you live with mystery, spend your attention wisely, and choose which unknowns are worth exploring.
10.
History is a disciplined extension of the journalism truth hammer. Using historical traces like a reporter, historians create stories of the past like a journalist.
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