Post by jack hamilton on Feb 26, 2011 12:46:36 GMT -5
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What makes you feel the need to be a warrior?
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In response to Humpty
There is an old saying about how, to die all we need to do is sit still and wait. But living takes effort sometimes extreme effort, so preparing to preserve your life or anyone elses ensures that you have the best chance of living. If the govt stopped spending on armed forces tommorow, it would not take long until what we have would be taken by strangers. On a personal level it is the same way. Give up your defence and just see how long it takes to lose your freedom, life, loved ones, on and on. Yeah of course we all die sometime, but why rush it. Hell you need to be a warrior these days just crossing the street, it never stops.
thats my bit, I am not sure if you agree, but I appreciate your question.
Cheers
In response to kpicco
For me,it was an abusive parent.I started to fight back when I was big enough,and just kept learning so that neither I,nor any body else had to tolerate his crap anymore.When I went into the Marine Corps at 17,I learned more about protecting myself and my family,and it has been an ongoing process.My girlfriend doesn't like confrontation,nor do I,but if confronted with danger,I won't back down or away.I have found that many situations can be settled with out the use of force,but I am also ready for the ones that can't be settled any other way.
Hey Arkay
It sounds like you got your head screwed on right, and it sounds like the bullnuts you went through stops with you. I�d say the marines are lucky to have ya.
JacktheKnife
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12-23-04 16:09.50 - Post#543971
In response to ArKay
'Love...'
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kpicco
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kpicco
12-23-04 22:32.51 - Post#544070
In response to JacktheKnife
Are you going to love the guy off you as he tries to beat your brains out. I am not sure if you deserve this reply. I may not have understand what you meant by "love". If you believe love will do the trick you may need to explain the "how and why" of this mode of thinking
In response to Humpty
Numerous Events That Influenced My Decision:
1. home invasion at a neighbor's home (at that time, bought my first pistol)
2. death of a friend being robbed at a phone booth
3. another friend being carjacked by 2 assailants armed with pistols
4. classmates getting jumped at school as a result of the decision of the rodney king case
5. going through some bullying in the 3rd and 4th grade (all stopped after lifting weights)
6. inception of the UFC/NHB (influenced what kind of martial arts i wanted to take/stayed non-traditional and eclectic)
7. a girlfriend and brother, which both had to put up with stalkers
8. shipmates getting assaulted/robbed when on liberty (don't want to be a statistic like them)
In response to Humpty
For me it was a terrible abusive childhood. One day i fought a man (i was a young boy, 13)And at the instant before i went for this guy i decided i would die before taking anymore. Of course i got beat up pretty bad but everything changed for me, i wasnt scared. Later Martial Arts helped me to control the rage i walked around with.Reading about the Samurai culture and other warrior classes helped me to understand that accepting death in a fight, in life . made every moment of life more intense( as well as throwing your whole being into your attack). I hope this makes sense as this has been my life.
JacktheKnife
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12-26-04 14:08.32 - Post#545531
In response to kpicco
Kippco, In answer to your inquiry: All my hounds and me too, were poisoned, gut shot, hurt pretty bad, and left to die. If you know anybody who has hounds then you know that after this, these three brothers, white trash, were walking dead men. Three of my neck vertabre were broken and my right shoulder was crushed. I was in a coma for 5 weeks and the hospital including rehab, for 5 months.
My hounds didn't make it but then neither did our murderers.
I bided my time and waited, 15 years later as I write this, the three Hall boys are rotten corpses buried in a hole in the ground. I never had a chance, never saw it coming, there was nothing I could have done, at the time.
I would do anything to have my hounds back, but my heart is broken and will never heal. But in answer to your wondering about the connection between 'love' and the skill, strength, and ability to kill a man, without a second thought, my love for my hounds gave me the strength to volunteer to be a target so that the sheriff could watch me for 12 years, the Lt. knew where the Hall boys would strike, they just did not know when.
12 years after my hounds were all killed, in their pen on my property, for no reason other than to hurt me.
A Sheriffs deputy stood in my den and said:
"Jack, those people down in Huntsville {Texas prison} are the scum of the earth, the lowest of the low, you have no idea how evil they are. They have their own society! But they won't put up with those Hall boys, raping children, burning their neighbors houses, and poisoning coon dogs,"
The deputy looked down a long time and shuddered, "They'll kill them."
"They won't last a year."
That was a couple of years ago. I didn't want any reward, just to be left alone.
{I loved my hounds, love is a powerful emotion.}
Was it hate?
J. Knife
Fast Bob
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12-26-04 14:36.39 - Post#545550
In response to JacktheKnife
JacktheKnife. I understand about the dogs.Sorry, Im glad those scum are dead.
JacktheKnife
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12-26-04 16:26.21 - Post#545626
In response to Fast Bob
Thanks man,
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