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  • "Mine is a most peaceful disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my doo; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before their death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-but not before they are hanged." -Heine, Gedanken und Einfaulle.

    Also....

    HOMO HOMINI LUPUS.

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    • He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.

      What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

      Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

      The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

      To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

      I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rings. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But I can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.

      We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

      Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

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      • Originally posted by bdipab
        He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.

        What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

        Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

        The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

        To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

        I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rings. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But I can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.

        We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

        Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

        "Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."
        Antisthenes (c. 444-365 BC), the founder of the Cynic school of philosophy and student of Socrates


        So,bDi... are we supposed to guess who you're "Quoting"

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        • The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -Unknown

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          • The object of war IS ACTUALLY about making rich old men richer, and probably dying in the process, or being maimed..and coming home, and finding out you can't even get veteran's benefits..because the rich old men you just made richer aren't sharing the riches you just increased..

            But you won't see that in the movies, junior.

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            • Originally posted by bodhisattva
              The object of war IS ACTUALLY about making rich old men richer, and probably dying in the process, or being maimed..and coming home,.......



              The object of war is not to get home, or we would not have gone to war in the first place. The object of war is victory, and the sooner you win the sooner you get home.

              Jeff Cooper (Col. USMC Ret.)

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              • Originally posted by Tant01
                "Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."
                Antisthenes (c. 444-365 BC), the founder of the Cynic school of philosophy and student of Socrates


                So,bDi... are we supposed to guess who you're "Quoting"
                I forgot a lot of who said what, but I'm sure these are online as well. I cut the list short, but those are the ones I could think of about fighting.

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                • Originally posted by bdipab

                  The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. - muhammed ali


                  I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rings. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But I can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.
                  Duran I believe
                  plus it's not important who said it, but what they said.

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                  • "The object of war is not to get home, or we would not have gone to war in the first place. The object of war is victory, and the sooner you win the sooner you get home."

                    Unless you are smart enough to not go at all. Then you win at the start of it.

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                    • Perhaps you are nice and comfortable in your happy little world... I don't care to hijack this thread for a political debate with you...

                      Here's another quote by Col. Cooper

                      "If there is a war on, and there often is, it behooves a young, unattached man to go get in it. Until he has been in a battle a man always wonders about whether he would measure up to really serious stress. A man who has never been in a major battle can never be really sure of himself."

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                      • Originally posted by Mike Brewer
                        I'll do it, Tant.

                        Bodhi, you know I get along well with you, and I don't mean this as an insult - but I do take serious issue with the "Never fight a war for any reason" outlook. I love this country of mine, and I'd give any and everything for it. Thankfully, I'm not the only one, or we wouldn't have it. You'd be Colonial British, or Nazi, or any of a dozen other oppressive governments that invaded neighbors with the intention of dominating the globe. It's a misleading statement that violence never solves anything. True enough, violence rarely solves anything, but when it's needed, it's the only thing that will work.

                        Be content if you will to sit and watch predators run over you, trample your way of life, disallow you your basic human freedoms, and rape those closest to you. Not this kid. There are in fact things worth fighting for in this world. There are things worth dying for, things worth killing for, and things worth living for. Not to know them, not to be willing to stand and fight and die for them if need be, is to be less than a man. It is either to live in denial, or to have such a limited and closed view of this world as to never know real wonder or beauty or love. If it means I'll fight so that my kids and grandkids and great grandkids can know that beauty and love and wonder free of oppression, I will do so gladly. I'll accept all that negative karma and lay waste to those who would harm my family, my home, and my freedoms. I'll live a thousand more tortured lives if I must, but I will defend that which is worth defending; and I will do it by any means necessary, by any means available, and in any measure required. In my opinion, you should thank whatever it is that you pray to that there are so many who would bear that burden in your place, so that you can enjoy the freedom to choose your own way.

                        You should write a book.

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                        • Those...

                          who pay attention do not die.

                          ?!Tao te Ching?!

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                          • "In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart. Be the inferior of no man, nor of any man be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil. These, understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle, but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret. In the time of your life, live-so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

                            — William Saroyan c. 1939

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                            • Nicely done Deltron; we now return to our regularly sceduled program...

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                              • Originally posted by Mike Brewer
                                Bodhi, you know I get along well with you, and I don't mean this as an insult -
                                No insult seen, no offense taken, Mike.

                                Originally posted by Mike Brewer
                                Be content if you will to sit and watch predators run over you, trample your way of life, disallow you your basic human freedoms, and rape those closest to you. Not this kid.
                                Absolutely. That is the exact reason why I won't fight in a war that is created by my government. Because I will not allow those predators to run over me, trample my way of life, and disallow me my basic human freedoms.

                                That is what happens to every soldier in war.

                                You are fighting on my side of the argument.


                                Originally posted by Mike Brewer
                                There are in fact things worth fighting for in this world. There are things worth dying for, things worth killing for, and things worth living for. Not to know them, not to be willing to stand and fight and die for them if need be, is to be less than a man.
                                This is your own limited (judgemental) viewpoint. There is little point in life in telling people "you are being less than a man". It mostly exposes things about ourselves when we speak like that.

                                Just for the record mike, I am a man. A man is a person who lives by his own code, and disregards people who say things to him like "You are now less than a man."

                                I don't live by any other man's code, Mike. I am a Man. Self-defined, self-elected. It's the only way.

                                Originally posted by Mike Brewer
                                It is either to live in denial, or to have such a limited and closed view of this world as to never know real wonder or beauty or love. If it means I'll fight so that my kids and grandkids and great grandkids can know that beauty and love and wonder free of oppression, I will do so gladly. I'll accept all that negative karma and lay waste to those who would harm my family, my home, and my freedoms.
                                The people who know me would laugh that you are writing this to me. I certainly don't live in denial in any aspect of my life, much less the political side.

                                I already see real wonder, beauty and love, everywhere I go. It's inside of ME, Mike, just like it's inside of each of us. To see it, however, one must not FOLLOW any authority. That is the only way to find that which is true and real. Dig for your center.

                                Trying to teach your children about beauty and love by killing is a mistake. After you make that mistake, Darth will personally welcome to the dark side of the force.

                                Your kids and grandkids would benefit much more from a father or grandfather that is home teaching the necessity of peace and the ways of life..

                                But your willingness to die for greater amounts of death is fascinating.

                                How can we make the building stronger by burning it down again, please explain one more time?

                                Originally posted by Mike Brewer
                                I'll live a thousand more tortured lives if I must,
                                sounds like a good time. that's worth fighting for? Are you sure? A 1000 tortured lives is worth fighting for?

                                Originally posted by Mike Brewer
                                but I will defend that which is worth defending; and I will do it by any means necessary, by any means available, and in any measure required.
                                sounds macho. You're getting pretty pumped up typing this, aren't you?
                                Everyone will defend that which is worth defending. We all just have different definitions. That's the problem with government - it doesn't give a damn what we want to die for. it has it's own objectives..

                                Originally posted by Mike Brewer
                                In my opinion, you should thank whatever it is that you pray to that there are so many who would bear that burden in your place, so that you can enjoy the freedom to choose your own way.
                                You have said this before. It is quite repetitious. Propaganda always is repetitious.

                                I do not thank those people. They fought for rich old men who wanted more money. They should have refused to fight, and set the precedent, so that people would not have to die in iraq today. That shit should have been abolished centuries ago.

                                I too will fight for what I think is worth defending : my right to not go to battle in wars that have nothing to do with the self interest of the civilians of my country.
                                But if they try to make me go to war, then I will battle. I will battle the government trying to force me into war.

                                Appreciate your views, Mike. Still disagree with them. War does nothing for the civilian populace of the fighting countries - accept take away daddies and scar the rest that live through it.

                                History proves this, time and again.

                                Do not worry after my willingness to fight for what is right, Mike. I'm a fighter, through and through. The spine is steel, the claws are sharp, the brain is on - but so is the heart. That may confuse one from time to time - but to quote Larry Hartsel "Never mistake kindness for weakness".

                                I wish you the best Mike. Thanks for talking to me about your views. You're a very bright guy, obviously. Always willing to chat.

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