@RexRed,
RexRed" My question is, what is it that makes a person remembered? Who are the people who you remember and who would you rather forget and why?
Why are people with negative lives remembered? Bandits, train and bank robbers, dictators, philosophers, philanthropists...
What accomplishments in someone's life allows them to enter though the giant door and what makes a person fall out of favor and be expelled from historical remembrance?
The giant door is where giants enter. What makes a person a giant among their peers?
Some people have been sought during their lives and nearly wiped from the pages of time only to later become saints after they are gone.
Some enter, some exit this giant door of posterity.... "
I think that people who exist outside of societies rules and expectations are the ones who are remembered. Good or bad, not being of the norm makes you exceptional and worth mentioning. So anyone entering the door and exiting is someone who is revolutionary, exceptional, a person of great action or thought, independant of government, society, or the common and someone who brings change to the world good or bad. Most of all this person rejects the rules of the world for better or worse.
I would not want to forget Hitler or Jesus as any revolutionary brings a lesson to be learned.
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How do I do a proper quote like other forums????
