(May 17, 2012 at 5:22 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:(May 17, 2012 at 5:15 pm)Tobie Wrote: What's the point in reveling in the past when we could be creating a better future? Still waiting on your proof of superiority, by the way.
Well, any proof I'm going to provide for you here, you're going to brush aside as if I did not write anything down at all. Just know this. Starting as a basic steppe people, while taking the largest nations on earth of the time, Persia, Rome and China on our own, and managing to extend our living area from Siberia to the Balkans is simply enough. We're still there. Any attempts to thwart us from our cause, crusades, unjust conditionalities, politics and etc., all foiled and unsuccessful.
And as a final note. A man who knows not his past cannot create a future at all. For he will not really care if the future generations will look back on him, for he never knew his own past anyways. A man who knows his past, on the other hand tries to be worthy of it. This is the secret of creating a better future.
Besides, almost anything that we have today, would not be possible without the deeds of the past. You cannot brush aside the past so easily, friend.
Past military prowess does not make all turks better than everyone else. It is not you who has done these things, it is your ancestors. Sure, it may be impressive, but it is not grounds for your asserted superiority.
Your ancestors deeds have no bearing on what you may do today. For generations before me, my family were staunch catholics, yet I am an atheist.
