Summarize world history in one sentence

[Amazing Rando]

Your assignment- to survey all of world history from every conceivable cultural and subjective vantage point and summarize it in one grammatically correct sentence. :read:

Can you do it?

[Piebald]

People took advantage of other people and vice versa.

[BlackOpal12]

"It happened - or perhaps, it didn't."

[Xavier]

Man is depraved.

[Mark_S]

Jesus wept.

[Minnesota]

Stuff happened.

[Rusty T]

Man, in an effort to prove his self-reliance, only proved that there is no such thing.

[Amazing Rando]

You guys are good! Keeping it coming! Pearls to tizzi and Hamster for excellent answers. :thumb:

And Minn- Where'd your tiger go?

[Sparko]

God made it but man screwed it up, then Jesus fixed it.

[spiritmech]

Man enslaved himself. Truth set him Free.

[Xavier]

Man enslaved himself. Truth set him Free.
That's two... :wink:

[tiffanyh]

The more things change, the more they seem the same.

[Amazing Rando]

The more things change, the more they seem the same.

:yes: What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

:wink:

[Minnesota]

And Minn- Where'd your tiger go?

People started egging me on to change it, and after thinking about it, I felt perhaps it was time--I was getting bored with it myself. I may bring it back later on, but for now it's kind of fun to experiment.

[NeilUnreal]

Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.

-Neil

[tiffanyh]

:yes: What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

:wink:
cool! But does that mean mine doesn't count, since it appearantly isn't original? :lol:

[Tfbandie]

some people wanted what they didn't have so they killed others to get it.

[Spinyn00bman]

Life is like a box of.....

:lol: Just kidding:lol:

[wfaber]

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

-Psalm 2:1

[learning]

'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth... Genesis 1:1
'I make all things new.' Revelations 22

Oh, I guess man's history is in between. :)

[kelco]

It was, It is, It will be.

[Sir-Think-A-Lot]

A lot of stuff happened.

I win?

[Bill the Cat]

Your assignment- to survey all of world history from every conceivable cultural and subjective vantage point and summarize it in one grammatically correct sentence. :read:

Can you do it?

No, but Mel Brooks did some of it in a movie :monkey2:

[bar Jonah]

All of human history can be summed up with these words, which the wicked and lost nature of the world, and God's response. All of history revolves around this:


But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

[Hail Mary]

First the earth cooled, and then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died, and they turned into oil, then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes, and Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes.

(Okay, so I added some commas)

[Spokoina]

How about one word?


RESTORATION.

[Bill the Cat]

First the earth cooled, and then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died, and they turned into oil, then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes, and Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes.

(Okay, so I added some commas)

:rofl:

Don't do that to a man with a Dr Pepper in his hand...

[Ryokan]

Ryokan was born, and he begot Ryokan Junior..


There. I hit everything important. I would have just said ryokan, but my son is on my lap, and 3 months is an insecure age.

[FirstSunday33ad]

The strong oppressed the weak. The weak fought back and became the strong. The strong oppressed the weak.....

[Sparko]

...and then there was theologyweb.com

[Amazing Rando]

First the earth cooled, and then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died, and they turned into oil, then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes, and Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes.

(Okay, so I added some commas)

:rofl:!!!

[Higon]

God created, we messed things up, God creates again.

[Jaltus]

It happed, it happened again, and eventually it will end.

[Hail Mary]

:rofl:

Don't do that to a man with a Dr Pepper in his hand...

Well, I wasn't creative enough to come up with that on my own, its from Airplane II. :teeth: (Actually I thought the thread was going to start off with this quote, but I'm probably showing my age here)

Steve McCroskey: Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that's happened up 'till now.

Jacobs: Well, let's see: First the earth cooled. And, then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died, and they turned into oil. And, then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And, Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it, he took her best summer dress out of the closet, and put it on, and went to town.

[serapha]

In the beginning God created,
Then after the flood, He reinstated,
Man still fails, but Christ prevails,
Held on the cross by love and nails.


~serapha~

[shunyadragon]

Your assignment- to survey all of world history from every conceivable cultural and subjective vantage point and summarize it in one grammatically correct sentence. :read:

Can you do it?Existence is a constantly, changing, evolving and cyclic progressive never-ending story.

[themuzicman]

Your assignment- to survey all of world history from every conceivable cultural and subjective vantage point and summarize it in one grammatically correct sentence. :read:

Can you do it?
Man's desire for greatness builds great things, and man's desire for power destroys them.