For me it is the “fall of the Berlin wall” and the celebrations after the border openings.

  • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I guess I might say King John signing the Magna Carta at Runnymede, because it was the foundation for the rule of law in the West. But it was just a bunch of smelly dudes in a marsh. A lot of historical events are important, but not that spectacular to see.

    So if I’m honest, it’d be Queen at Live Aid.

  • Ogedei@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I don’t know how much of an"historical event" it is now, but if I showed up to Steven Hawking’s “Time Traveller party” I imagine it would become one.

  • morphballganon@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Jesus throwing the conmen out of the church.

    I don’t care for the religion, but if this actually happened, it would be so satisfying to see. So-called “christians” act more like the ones he kicked out than their supposed “lord” himself.

    • Azal@pawb.social
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      7 months ago

      Matthew 23 is Jesus absolutely bitching out the religious leaders “Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.”

      As you say, the so-called ‘Christians’ really act like the Pharisees in the Bible that is called out against. If the bible they claim to believe in is true, then a loooooooooooooooooot are probably going to be in for a rude awakening because they were warned in the same book, Chapter 7 verse 23 when the person they claim to follow says “I never knew you.”

      There’s a quote attributed to Ghandi but it’s not verified to actually be by him. But is a very appropriate one in my day to day “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

        • Jarix@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          Its not impossible that woodstock contributed to the wall coming down

          Was a huge cultural event that wildly exceeded expectations and became a phenomenon

          Then the wall came down about 4 years later

          Edit: i have been fact checked and found wanting. 73 is not 83

    • cogman@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      English got fucked… hard… because so many of the spellings came from people that had weird goals.

      Consider phial. Why do we spell it that way? Because some jackass decided that english needed to be more latiny and ph is more latiny than v. (or maybe it was greek? I don’t remember the exact etymology)