"Someone somewhere is training to kill you"

Someone somewhere is training to kill you:. "Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimum food or water, in austere conditions, day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon. He doesn't worry about what workout to do---his rucksack weighs what it weighs, and he runs until the enemy stops chasing him. The True Believer doesn't care 'how hard it is'; he knows he either wins or he dies. He doesn't go home at 1700; he is home. He knows only the 'Cause.' Now, who wants to quit?"

From the website "The American Warrior"
http://www.talkingproud.us/Culture120707.html

Shift in the blog

Ok, so I've been considering how to do this, and how to record everything accurately.

Thus far I've presented the blog as a sort of exploration into the nature of a warrior. I have been wanting to explore different takes on the warrior: culturally, spiritually, physically, etc.

But I also want to put my own take on things. Due to shortage of time I'll have to finish writing this later, and explain it more fully



- possible tags: "posts relative to this blog", "important posts relative to the nature of this blog", etc


---continuing where I left off: July 28 ---

What has seeped into this blog are some of my own thoughts. Those are good things, but this blog will just be about understanding and interpreting other warrior ideas/ideology. My own personal take on things will be elsewhere.

Remember the Titans

Said by the coach, after the first locker room spat of training camp, and before assigning team mates to get to know people of the other race.

The Bunch of tough guys, huh? You look like a bunch of fifth-grade sissies after a cat fight. You got anger. That's good. You're gonna need it, son. You got aggression. That's even better. You're gonna need that, too, but any 2-year-old child can throw a fit. Football is about controlling that anger. Harnessing that aggression into a team effort to achieve perfection!

The Gettysburg speech:

Coming Soon

• The New Batman Movie: The Dark Knight
• Your internal state, and being wary how others (events, people) influence it
• A discussion of "silly quarrels" - fighting and bickering that is not productive
• Intelligence and expansion of awareness to take in more information
  

Saw Khee, 12 y.o., is a soldier with the Karen National Union (KNU)

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Saw Khee, 12 y.o., is a soldier with the Karen National Union (KNU) at their sixth brigade base camp in Wah Lay Khee, Burma, near the Thailand border. 6-7 years ago, both his parents and younger brother were killed in their village in the Pa-an District o, originally uploaded by photongo.

Understanding involves looking from many perspectives.

"The ultimate goal of every warrior"

The final message of the movie HERO was "The ultimate goal of every warrior is to lay down his sword".

The Dao De Ching

31

Weapons are the tools of violence;
all decent men detest them.

Weapons are the tools of fear;
a decent man will avoid them
except in the direst necessity
and, if compelled, will use them
only with the utmost restraint.
Peace is his highest value.
If the peace has been shattered,
how can he be content?
His enemies are not demons,
but human beings like himself.
He doesn't wish them personal harm.
Nor does he rejoice in victory.
How could he rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?

He enters a battle gravely,
with sorrow and with great compassion,
as if he were attending a funeral.

"...the things that will actually destroy us."

From Wild at Heart

Jesus warned us that "whoever wants to save his life will lose it". Christ is not using the word bios here. He's not talking about our physical life. The passage is not about trying to save your skin by ducking martyrdom or something like that. The word Christ uses for life is the word psyche, the word for our soul, our inner self, our heart. He says that the things we do to save our psyche, our self - those plans to save and protect our inner life - those are the things that will actually destroy us.

(This is also a direct connection to A New Earth)

"Open war is upon you, whether you would risk it or not"