Onasander

Is the story of the ten sages verifiable?

Most modern theories of cognition divide the two hemispheres of the brain into four parts, using the Basal Ganglia, Supplementary Motor Area, and Thalamus as processing points for lateralization. The main obvious divide in the brain, in terms of cyto-architecture, is still very much the left and right hemisphere divide. The crainial nerves and parallel archirecture and cross dependency of the two hemispheres judge to a high degree how we process information. This is unlikely to change in any theory in the future, given we know for the most part the anatomy of the brain and can fMRI it. Most theories of how the mind works takes up these divisions. Im talking about the 3 (then nine) muses, then Alexandrian Hermetic thought, Caballah, etc, all preserve in their root this awareness that the various parts of thought parallel one another, and can be networked. Our modern awareness is nothing new, if anything is tiresome. I've studied over 40 different personality typologies.... most of these psych grads lack awareness of parallels in their theory and historical models. Just pay attention to the asymmetry in feedback loops in thinking, it's rule number one, learned from Colonel John Boyd's OODA Loop. If your ambitious, try a hand at learning the crainial and accessory nerves, and the functions of the parts of the brain the hook up to, and vascular blood flow through the Circle of Willis (I recommend drawing TCOW until you memorise it). Its fairly simple from there on out. Most theories of mind mindlessly nitpick nuisance arguments, trying to fix a earlier bad theory or professor. You can model the dialect matrix of Strategy-Operations-Tactics from such theories. I haven't come across a cognitive theory yet up to the task. If it exists, it's classified. My list: Chanakya George Washington Scipio Africanus Kruschev Attaturk I'm longterm results oriented. Belisarius and Zhuge Liang and Sun Tzu pulled off some impressive reversals, but what did it actually do in the end, what was the point looking back with hindsight?

Wait.... that article claims Cincinnati has a art museum with one similar on display.... I lived in Cincinnati for a year and never heard of a art museum. Gonna go track this place down now. It's hidden well, wherever it is.

The point I was making was a modern day parallel to Caldrail's post. The division of powers inherent in constitutions of common law states can be philosophically tricky if the police force or army predates the constitution that seemingly establishes its power. Delaware and India struggles with parallel issues: Recently, India suspended it's version of the FBI/CIA, the Central Intelligence Bureau. It has the unfortunate distinction of being the oldest intelligence collection agency in the world, much older than modern india. As such, its role, placement, and activities were barely touched upon constitutionally, and as a logical and bureaucratic necessity, was pinned to similar, newer sister organizations born from the constitution as a common sense after thought. This organization acts as the court system's right hand, undertaking court order tasks all the time. It was recently pointed out that though it functionally and crucially isa police force, it had its ability to make arrests and file police reports stripped from it, though friday it was temporarily replaced: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Supreme-Court-stays-Gauhati-high-courts-order-saves-CBI-for-now/articleshow/25528343.cms Similarly, Delaware has repeatedly in the last two years tried to pass laws to explicitly the state constitution's recognized office of the Sheriff as a position that lacks the powers of arrest and investigation, but unlike India, is oddly okay with the Sheriff filing papers. This has obviously pissed each and every sheriff off in the state, noting that they are the only elected police force in the state, and it's ill defined powers of arrest is still in force, given it possessed them since the colonial era, and was a functional office during the constitutional convention, and was grandfathered in. What is important to note here is a contradiction in Syllogism between Constitutional, Historical, and Actual police powers. A police force is rarely completely defined, and if it was in existence PRIOR to the laws or constitution that seemingly restricts or proclaims its powers, big asystemic rifts can suddenly erupt. The reason for this is the ideology of the seperation of powers give the principled matrix the supreme court selects from and interpretes, trying to maintain and extend the original philosophical intentions. What matters less in these crisis is less the laws determining who can do what, but how the threat matrix is stacked if these courts literally pushed the letter of the law, or protected common law precident or accepted legal-administrative procedure. In Delaware's case, its less of a issue than India if the county sheriff system just disappeared, it's a small, highly surburbanized state with municipal police forces available to quickly fill the void. Just you would still constitutionally have this office called Sheriff around, running for election. In India, there is no damn CIB to fall back on. It's increasingly clear, however noble and clearheaded this team player institution is, being a highly evolved team player institution isn't enough for a court system that is supposed to be oriented to constitution and laws first.... but the legal system in India won't quite function. The posse act is important, but is ever only ONE point in a syllogism, and a trained philosopher with experience in dialectic exchange, such as myself, can come up within a hour with a dozen good reasons as to why it doesnt apply, or constitutionally is insufficient. This however is unwise and disturbing to do, as lawyers will take my ideas and file suit. The biggest issue facing the Coast Guard is it predates the US, and was able to collect and consolidate it's various powers over time by taking a specific legal niche, it was neither a military designed for overseas deployment, nor homeland operations, except at sea, which unlike the articles of confederation (if I recall correctly), operated in state waters because states were prohibited from having navies. They kept to this basic formula since our constitution was formed, and was agreed to have the powers of arrest at sea (and much more, such as sinking yachts breaking the Cuban Embargo). As we stand, it is a 'police force' on land, legally entitled to engadge in combat, and has a ranking system paralleled and recognized by 4 branches of the military, and share many of the same military schools. Someone in the Coast Guard with a Commo MOS can support wilitary operations, or police. However, we observe the separation of military and police powers everywhere else in US States and Incoporated territories. A added issue is the high degree of centralized intergration the coast guard has with other federal agencies. I believe there are currently 54 armed federal police forces, the Coast Guard operates side by side in raids with. Though it gives them increased argument as to why they can't be abolished or removed, it increases the opportunity for judges to do so, given the judge knows sister agencies can in short time adjust and fill the void. Caldrail noted many military excesses legions would engage in. However, I doubt even Cicero wanted them outright abolished.... I'm reading The Dream of Scipio right now, he seems accepting of the idea of military, and like me, could do some fancy syllogistic assertions, demolishing arguments. I doubt even when he was killed, he wanted them abolished, just to return to the other side of the River into the Alps. In my case, I merely point out a similar constitutional excess, a branch of our military awarded special powers along our shores is now doing politically motivated raids on the homes of law abiding citizens, who's only crime is causing a president problems by reporting his excesses in authority, which is a protected right under the constitution. No one elects the coast guard. They still act like a military force, but also now claims police powers. I however doubt they will be seriously checked. Not for a few generations at least. This is how Praetorian guards realised one day they had political power. They controlled the Roman City itself, controlled palace security, new all the major power players in the state, and their secrets. Not as strong as a legion, but could discourage legions moving in on Rome by holding its walls. The very idea of a legion being in a position to steal and harrass Romans was ideologically incomprehensible for most of the Republican era. Modern states espousing both common law and a seperation of powers based on checks and balances have that expectation that this wouldn't happen. But it's starting go happen now, and slowly... and it is not the first time. Hoover and the FBI is precedent. Eventually, another Cicero will be killed. Only then will we realize we went beyond the point of no return. It starts with these seemingly simple excesses. Does anyone remember what book and chapter of Clausewitz On War that deals with the Four Ways of Supplying a Army? I want to include it here for his reply noting the mixed payment method the Romans used of Pay and Pillage.

This is exactly the reason why so many people, including me as a very recent convert, got nervous when the US pug the Coast Guard under the Department of Homeland Security. I noted it was constitutionally awkward having the military develop a branch for use ONLY within US territory, no longer geared at maritime patrols and life saving, but developing it's own infantry corps. It was originally meant for guarding nuclear powerplants from terrorists. So I mildly supported it. However, the reality is we have elderly activist catholic nuns breaking into these powerplants, overcomming multiple security screens..... the Coast Guard wasn't there to stop them..... only place this infantry corps pop up on is illegal raids on reporters, seizing materials, intimidating the fuck out of them, anf then dropping the baseless, trumped up charges after with a official apology. I seriously doubt they have a legal power of arrest or constitutional right to file charges, and only answer to the president. Obama has proved he can do anything he wants with them, and I am certain in time the historically savvy amongst them studying roman history, and of Hoover's FBI, will realize they are that one very special link in the administrative chain with hands in every pot that they can in time control the president and the congress. They can effectively do whatever they want, with very little counter or even reasonable recourse to protest.

Romans had wax tablets, with Stylus. We have Ipads or Android Tablets. At first glance, at least to the modern eye, a wax tablet is worthless for anything we want to do, and the very idea of Romans having 'apps' for their tablets sounds absurd. It just hit me, they did have apps, just they are so common, and done mentally today that it doesn't even occur to us this is the case. 1) Math Suite 4.0 Ever since the Babylonians came out with Math Suite 1.0 for the older, Clay Brand tablets, it has been a absolute must have app for every Tablet owner. The Egyptian 2.0 expanded out of the sexigesimal system, using new base numbers, and the Greek 3.0 built on the Geometry, making it much more systemmatic. In Roman 4.0, you can handle more complex logistical and engineering data Greek 3.5 'Alexander' first introduced in a expansion patch. Another benefit over Greek 3.5, you can now use Roman Numerals instead of Greek letters for speedier and more certain calculations. 2) Writing 4.0 The Writing 4.0 app, allows you to correlate Image and Sound to produce a meaningful identification with a concrete or abstract thing, or even a phenomena. Writing 4.0 comes with a wider vocabulary base, allowing for a wider range over Etruscan 3.0, and Writing 4.2 Latin keeps the direction of the text consistently moving left to right. Writing 2.0 Phoenician is still available is select markets on the East Coast, however, software support for Writing 1.0 for the Clay Model Tablet has recently been discontinued. Still working on punctuation and a spell check, expect it in a later..... much later, upgrade. 3) Slow Mail 4.0 The Roman Mail 4.0 is a complete merger, and revamping, of the earlier Greek 3.0 Mail by Ship and the Persian 2.0 Royal Road. Give the tablet to a messenger, and it will be delivered, anywhere in the Empire via the Roman Road network, pay per view. 4) Mimesis/Pornographic Editor 2.0 Ever wanted to see your neighbor's wife naked, without dueling her husband to the death or magistrate if caught? Well, now you can! Simply trace the outline of her figure on the tablet from afar, and scratch two boobs into the center of the chest, and you have yourself a naked woman you can spend hours starring at. 1.0 wasn't compatible with Tablets, being drawn from shadows on the wall. 5) Local Area Maps Your slave too stupid to find her way, and keeps returning empty handed? Draw her a map. 6) Factory Reset 2.0 Tired of the same image of your neighbor's wife on the tablet all the time, but don't want to have to smash the Tablet like the older clay models in Babylonia? Or the excessive rubbing off of polish off Papyri so you can erase the text, having to repolish it to work like new in Egyption 1.0? Now, at any given time, with ease, texts can be erased and recreated by wiping it clean and smooth. Im guessing the Romans had games like Tic Tac Toe, but dont know. Add apps you know of, make Cicero proud.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Senate This makes for a very, very awkward situation for many historians who insist the Roman state ended with the last Western Emperor, the Senate was still around in the 7th Century, and still had enough independence to overrule both the Eastern Emperor and the Italian King in choosing who was going to be Pope! It's another pain in that it was Emperor Justinian, of the eastern roman empire, who abolished most western senatorial offices. The last act of the Senate in Rome (The east had their own authentic Senate), was to recognize statues of Eastern Emperors. This will cause a considerable amount of troubled confusion for historians who include the Senate lead republic, then the emperor lead republic, as the absolute end of the Romans in the east, as well as Identifying the Roman East as something alien and unroman, marked by weak, questionable historic dividers. It appears such historians have been overruled by the Roman Senate itself! It's offical, the Roman Senate survived 'The Fall', and continued on till the 4th Crusade in the East, 603 in the West. Apparently the republic could survive loosing the backing of the extraconstitutional 'Savior of the Republic' Emperors, which Rome operated just fine for centuries without. The official lifespan of the Roman state in the west has been extended, as well as the 'Byzantines' being 100% authentic Romans, thanks to recognition by the bona fide Roman Senate, who definitely had the better authority to decide who was, and was not, Roman. Much more so than a few modern revisionist historians with a grudge against history. Don't like it, build a time machine. This marks the end of the Roman Fall/Anti Byzantine school, it has about as much historic support as the flat earth theory. The De Jure End (thank you Roman Senate), as well as the De Facto end. Enough said.

Nicholas Kanabos was elected as Emperor against his will by the Senate in Constantinople, which he rejected, fleeing to Hagia Sophia. He was strangled on the steps of the church by the next emperor for not agreeing to work for his administration, which is a solid loose-loose situation. Et tu Brutis? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaos_Kanabos

Or drop him in the well.

I just bought and finished the prequel to Spartacus, and watched Season 1 recently, will get season 2 soon. Im bothered by the fact that, though see was a good actor, being naked half the time, I didn't much care to see her naked...... but then I saw a special feature of her talking and dressed normal, and suddenly I wanted to go animal style on her, and I thought to myself, hmmmm..... I wonder what she looks like naked. Then I remembered, I saw her naked, and was turned off by it, even though there wasn't anything physically unattractive about her. Does this mean she is a bad actor, or a exceptionally good one, in confusing my sexual standards filters. Or does it mean I'm just gay or something, and Lucy Lawless is good looking playing a twisted evil bitch as well as normal person? Is my penis a moral agent, capable of ethical thought?

I expose him to it because he is afraid. I try to force my animals to the deepest of their wits. Half the cats I've owned can open closed doors, one can even turn the tub on. This cat in particular was the runt. I baby him so he feels entitlement, so he can assert himself. He even eats holding sausages holding it with his thumb claw, similar to a human. I encourage was is feral and elite in them, in response, the most intelligent aspects emerge. Greater depth of complexity and personality. You can't grow without the struggle against your instincts. The best of what you can is yoked to it. It must lead you, or you it. If I can only convince this little runt to shut up in the morning, he figured out the importance of tonal yelping to get what he wants. He mixes it with repeatedly leaping over my head.

To grasp the aftermath of Rome collasping, technologically, you only need to look at Liberia andSierraLeone. General Buttnaked running loose, killing tens of thousands, for his little piece of civilization, a awareness of technological and social backwardness, and a partial, at best, capacity of militants of any capacity to recreate it via their own will. High profit exports of oil or diamonds to sustain the system, and this threatening entity called Christianity confronting the chaos, overwhelming the system for better or worst. Now, General Butt naked is a Christian, layed down arms. Feudal capitalism, such as Arcelar Mittal andits rubber plantations dominate, the population has a pitiful small American Library to rely on, etc. Its a feudal state in transition to a modern one. I dont see however how generalbutt naked is necessary for creating a better light bulb. He sure the hell didn't design it, nor charles taylor They were hiccups on the road, who by incident added feudal aspects to their country that could of been acquired by other means.

Some nit picking, after reading the first 2 pages: 1) The Spartans did vote 2) The Persians Invented the Windmill 3) Emphasis on Luckas, a Hungarian intellectual leaning to Lenin, doesn't translate very well into English, given Polyani and Drucker headedfrom Hungary to the US and intellectually prepared us to confront European styled tyranny. If you keep pushing Lukacs, then discussing Obama and Hitler has everything to do with this. This is the inescapable historical dualism that advocates of Lukacs must face. Skipping over the Lukacs/Lenin vs. John Adams/Drucker loggerhead this thread unconsciously stumbled upon and aped out with unimpressive showing, I need to point out the technological evolution, and much less its philosophical inventiveness, hardly died out from its transmission from republic to empire, nor during the fall of the west. The dark ages and Manorism was indeed a stupid era in terms of comparing the most elite of the elites intellectually to more intergrated states before and after, but they still produced intellectuals, both in theory and invention. The biggest issue of the early dark ages wasnt the lack of intellectual curiosity, but a complete and frightening lackof understanding of epidemics, which killed intellectuals at frightening rates (see the comical pilgrames and monastics dying left and right in St. Bede's History). The second is, the mad success of civilization in the dark ages. They were not against it, they were completely for it. They simply were not in a position to pull it off under the same scope, as civilization was neither a top down nor bottom up imposition, but rather a acceptance by a middle class, warrior elite who could replicate the forms as far as they could maintain them on their individual manors. It took centuries to gain enough resistence to the plagues for feudalism and monasticism to evolve. If anything, it was the most agressive intellectual era in the western world until the US came around, the current modern attitudes and intellectual divergencies we now hold come from it. We are still very much a medieval society. What makes the various renaissances, especially the Italian one so special is the expansion of knowledge from other sources from older, imperial era sources. As inventive as the middle ages were, its hard to create grand ideas via a historic void, after all, just look at the eastern island big heads.... very smart people, but a people in isolation, that was the best they could do, no fault of their own. The major push of the medieval era was to intergrate, and they never quite got there via a imperial-feudal model. The ancient knowledge worked in the medieval era, but worked best for the nation state model of government. The great accident of the medieval model is, in its rush for trying to sustain civilization, the sinews of it fragmented far and wide, and became near impossible to eradicate. It made sense to even the most backwards of tribes, who adopted it. The emphasis on feudal loyalty, commodity and coin economies, and intellectual/military support and alliances, even when afar field from one's home territory, were roman ideas the feudal age spread very far, and very wide. There was great advantage with the Roman West collapsing. It caused the barbarians to give up any pretense to grudges against roman civilization. Rome sadly had to die for this to happen, but it is also the Romans greatest success, converting their enemies even in death. However, the idea Rome technologically stagnated and had to die is false, at least in terms of technological history. Losing the west was a major blow. The eastern empire maimtained technological and philosophical investigations, despite a short ban on some philosophical schools. They rested on controlling the silk road trade for money, and less on building a solid basis for sustaining civilization beyong ecunumical civilization, which to this day survives for the pagan enthusiasts in this thread biased against christian ascendency. It was a combination of both the Roman Ideas of a top down state, with middle of the road representation, and the near impossible to eradicate feudal, built from the dirt ingenuity of Feudal-Capitalism that makes the US the technological powerhouse that it is. It's capable of viroid replication, taking root in any state. Just once it takes root, it desires the fullness of a state system, and all its advantages. To grasp the aftermath of Rome, and its feudal-economic

If I rest on my laurels, I loose the best part of me. I am the man looking foreward, making do in present circumstances, unfolding potential and realization. If I had chunks of me blown off, or bullets lodged throughout, debilitating me, I would consider it. In many ways I felt like the Jew from Candide, tossed off the shitheap. I had delusions of grandure in my entitlements and rights, and my worth to society. It's a fantasy a lucky few get to fully experience, a easy life and a fulfilling death. I've seen too much evidence the end result is we all get thrown down that dunghill multiple times in our lives. I strive neither for utopia, socialism, a golden age, or to indulge in the impulse to poorly understood grudges, rights, or impulses. My desire is to assert the best in me, condition myself to the cruelty of human existence, and problem solve within it from direct experience, inventiveness, and bias to distrust and eliminate what causes the most pain and disabilities to the average man. Finding easy shelter in rights or unearned finance isn't going to solve it. Problem solving, by striking and uprooting the roots of the problem will, to borrow a analogy from Chanakya. If I was once willing to die for a cause before, why not suffer a little now to grow and realise my own now?

The Roman, Jewish, and Samaritan wars stretched over half a millennium, with a staggering death toll mutually indefensible atrocities inflicted upon one anothers communities. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midrash_Eleh_Ezkerah Just found this link, a Midrash claiming Hadrian executed the ten jewish sages. I dont have any background on this one.

I can understand sacrificing people, because there are alot of useless people, such as a ex wife or a in-law or two, but your own dog? There is something deeply disturbing about this.

Sometimes I hold my cat under the covers, he's afraid of small spaces..... Some things are more universal than others.

http://m.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/discovery-of-sacred-roman-well-amazes-archaeology-team-1-5516258 Roman well discovered.

Army is still pushing the Kiersey 4 type topology last I checked. It would be alot better if they focused on establishing a few primary feedback loops in the brain based on the crainial nerves, and focused on gow rewards and punishments are processed from the system. I know enough about how the wiring of the brain worked to avoid most issues. I never really got PTSD for that reason, knew how the feedback in the loops worked. I had insomnia and depression cycles before I deployed, were unconscious and based in the thalamus, so no amount of psychotherapy could help, just medication. Only reason I went. Im not interested in the money. I need money, but I will work for it. I was always very inventive, nature made me so with a design, I shouldnt let God down by taking the easy handout if figuring out how to make it work otherwise can make me independent, opening up solutions to solving ideas I never pondered before. Im accepting of the hardship on me as a civic duty. I just cant stand to see others suffer. My roommate right before I left the army swallowed 54 synthetic morphine pills. I saved him. Left not knowing how it ended. I tried real hard begging command to jail him to give him a chance to detox, snap out of it and live. I feel disgusted.... I may have just tormented him in his last days. I hate not having the solutions. I would give my freedom and every last scrap of dignity I have to reverse one of these cases. Nothing hits me harder. It feels like its a failure on my part for not knowing enough to figure it out, and have spent years studying each mistake. Im too weirded out by the idea of just googling his name. If he is dead. Or worst, alive and lived a worthless, or criminal existence. He was hopped up on some weird stuff. Hard to judge my convictions of the value of each life on him.

Wot? Your another Nietzschean, I'm guessing, with the elite warrior class mentality. Prussian empire is over. If you are interested in being in the military, in the US, its fairly easy to get in. You can stick it out, and do your twenty. If you want money, you can stay in the states, and become a high payed bodyguard (rare), become a private patrol operator (private security company), or if you have a Ranger Battalion/ Airborne with Ranger Tab, you can start off work in the Mexican Riviera working security. The latter pays very well. The ratio of soldiers to hollywood actors is too freaken high, it makes sense to have a few famous actors than attempt to make a million soldiers as famous. And the tattoos and gruff doesnt make you a better soldier. That's just a symbolic, cultural cue, one could be easily faked. Alot of special forces guys are little tiny guys with lame mustaches who spent a little too much time in kentucky and tennessee. They dont want to be famous, unless it involves them being a guest star on duck dynasty. Since I got out of the military, I've met dozens of guys, ex Rangers or Green Berets, or Force Recon. I only met one guy who was just Airborne. Never had someone admit they were a cook, or truckdriver, or regular jnfantry. Everyone has to be something special. Apparently everyone thinks pretending to be these super elite guys means something to everyone else, even though they arent shit worth considering. Its why I like promoting my flaws, my lame unglamorous feats. Yeah, some good impressive stories can be honestly told, but did I ever tell you about the time during the rainy season, in the Triangle of death just prior to the surge, I got jungle rot from my wet feet? Oh my god, give me celebrity status, and let me sleep with all your sisters for it. The vast majority of the activity in the military is pretty lame. If you spend your whole life in the military, we will say things like 'honor' and 'patriot'.... but its more or less because we really hope, if those words have meaning, the receiver of such titles would know via unspoken memories the reference points of those proud words, the terrible costs and toll. And the people speaking them, they really dont know themselves if its correct, its usually one way. Why not, hypothetically without actually doing it, imagine a soldier standing tall, instead of us saying 'honor, hero, guardian' we said 'chronic monkey butt, accidental discharge, lost a encrypted radio, nearly got mortared while on the toilet'...... not so damn heroic now. But people do that all the time. Hell, I've seen people promoted for friendly fire, or sent to teach at West Point for loosing Humvees on the books..... Unless I see a part of you missing, or you can prove to me you actually did something important, no amount of tattooed arms, name talking, whiskey drinking, or gruff talking is going to impress me. I don't care, a few million vets have claims to stories. As to why the Romans were not paid more, it's called pillaging. You gotta go on the offensive to pillage though, and the best places to pillage are well defended. If you want it that bad, go right ahead.

I was nominated for med boards three times, CSM stopped it and others because we didnt have enough to deploy legally. I was one week away from my medboard. Yes, Seattle has the best. Hawaii the worst, it should be criminally investigated for the heavy suicide rate at the US Vet facility they drop anyone with issues off in. They have barracks in Barbers Point, and they run it under very disturbing conditions. My main philosophical background is Cynicism, and spent alot of time bumbing it up in the mountains in Oahu, hiking, building my legs back. I kept finding guys clearly ex military, looking like infantry, sleeping homeless on the street when the woodline was only 1-2 miles away. But they would dissappear out of the blue after spending just a few weeks on the street. I found out the VA kept referring them to US Vets, US Vets got money from the VA, seemed legit. Then I heard of a death. Figured they happen sometimes. I took a job as security, then after that selling vaccuums door to door, quite content sleeping on a seawall, working 12 hour days. Was in a elderly couples apartment, and they found out I was from 4-25, their son was 3-25, but got out. Was at the barbers point for being unemployed. I saw them again later, son was dead. Looked into it, quite a few suicides. I signed up, easily qualifying as a homeless vet. I didn't have a drug issue, and was told I could just stay in the barracks and apply for jobs, for up to a year. I was okay with that. Nothing seemed off, your standard korean war barracks, everything brick or concrete. Anyway, I found out I wasnt permitted to apply for work, had to take a month of classes, that had to do with literally nothing. I kept pressing, neither I nor the supposed Samoan Ranger could figure out why we were waisting our time with the stuff, instead of just being allowed to put applications out. She finally admitted to this bell curve, where 20 percent were to troubled to work, 20 percent didn't neetneedthe program, and the remaining 60 percent could only get employment if they passed. So we had to wait, and found out it was really 6 weeks training to put out applications. I was about ready to skip out of that place then, as I couldn't find evidence of people dying, maltreatment, nor even job access. I left that class, and was getting to sneak off two blocks away to the store (illegal to do by the rules), when I came across the first suicide there. That 60 percent success rate, what happened to them? They get locked away in other barracks, paying a hundred bucks a month, under very heavy restrictions, including no visits by women in a apartment they pay rent for. Many got part time, min wage employment. They couldnt find a way out, and for many it seemed like a cursed punishment. Two more people committed suicide in two weeks, which was the max I could stand that place. The chance of being allowed off barracks to put in job applications was a month away, with only a promise of taking a head first dive off a three story building if I succeeded. I still had the honolulu philosophy group, which I founded 6 months earlier going as a bully pulpit, as well as some political contacts I gained from it, but the only thing the news was saying is the VA was underfunded, and how Obama was going to expand and fund it. I tried a few public opinion tests, people just assumed it was PSTD suicides. Problem is, only a very select minority were ever in combat, being random services, usually in peacetime. Secondly, others already tried. I didn't know then, and still don't know. I have no idea cracked their heads open taking the great leap foreward. I was pretty pissed with every aspect of Hawaii at that time. Was split between taking a pirate kayak from under the underpass (there is like, 7 pirates thrre, raiding docked ships for stuff) and paddling the islands, or just leaving, and try to build a ultraviolet camera back east, so I left. I saw more guys die in Hawaii than in Iraq. Its deeply disturbing. I never tried to get any of my injuries rated for disability. I know the seattle is indeed the best, but I simply put don't want anything to do with it. I hate how easily it is exploited, and how these parasitic mills can so cheaply toss mens lives away for profit.

I couldn't begin to care less about the the mirrored perspectives of moral relativity, Europe = Fail, they can believe what they want. We've been stuck nearly 100 years babying that place, be it allied or enemy. I'm quite frankly deeply tired of it. When the US needs help, we are increasingly on our own, and Europe trash talks us, perverting our intellectuals in their freshman years with moronic crap, then when Europe needs something, we suddenly need to drop everything and help them, because they never built their military up, blowing it all on socialism and early retirement. Im tired of it. Libya and this global warming hysteria was the last straw for me. We didn't even want to invade Libya, it's the first time since President Roosevelt that we embarked on a actual, real imperial war, attacking a country for a commodity, without a iota of strategic or national threat concerns, or even threats to our allies. Gasoline would of gone up for four months until Nigeria could meet export demand. We bombed the daylights out of a dynasty, for nothing but oil, and we didn't even get the oil in the end, and made the deeply idiotic mistake of not wipping the whole dynasty out, the family is in exile in Oman, and a Scion of Gaddafi's regiem is hiding out in the air mountains, with a finance minister still paying employees of the old government. We essentially are stagnant in this increasingly fail war. For what? We owed Europe something? For the aid we got in Iraq? And the global warming cult is getting old fast. Im on the verge of taking a flight to greenland and take a pickaxe to the precious glaciers. No amount of carbon control, even shutting down EVERY factory, powerplant, refinery, fireplace, and car on the planet will stop the damn icecaps from melting. It's because they were melting away back during the neolithic. Nothing we can do will change it in terms of pigovian taxes. It doesnt 'get the ball rolling in the right direction', nor does it get us to a solution. By the very faulted logic they present, our actions to fix it just get worst and worst. Like the European fetish with cutting down forests to burn in their renewable energy program. It drives me insane to no end. It bothers me Japan got nuked twice, and Europe got off scot free. It doesn't seem right, especially in the land of Marx and Nietzsche, Stalin and Hitler. Europe, 100 years of stupidity, pointless violence, and failed excuses. Don't care for the reasons, your feelings, or you retorts. Just collectively stop it. Just make it stop. Please stop. No more. No more bright ideas, just knock it off, and start doing the right thing.

Just because the Romans got it wrong in time doesn't make the genesis of the ideal wrong. It takes pressure and time. It was a early influence on me. I'm not blind to the ways of the world, am pragmatically grim and realistic to it from years of exposure on the bottom and working security for some outwardly decent people who proved to be disturbed. But at my core, this time of the year, walking through the appalachian plateau, seeing the changing leaves and rugged hills, the long meander of the ancient creeks and Ohio River, cities waking under the drift of fog, and rural houses alone in forgotten valleys, I'm left to remember our short and yet brutal history. Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson (Thomas the closest in expressing this Roman ideal), Samuel Brady and the too many wars here. The little bit of beauty we have came from this effort. Our town started wars, we built the largest steel mill in the world, and through it all even the richest, most brutal, most powerful held none the less to this humbling ideal. Im not a farmer, but as a American I'm obsessed with it in our own way. I really don't know if I know of another way to approach life except contribute by my best means, and relish the unfolding of time and society. It's something that has me randomly humming Simple Gifts from Appalachia Spring. I don't care about how life is in Europe, the march to destroy life, time, and embrace every new vogue of insanity, in the name of progress and reason, a mere shadow of a chimera of those supposed ideals. I would much rather just have the real thing.

I bought my slingshot in a hadji shop...... actually I bought every weapon they had. It surprised me one night I was fiddling with my battle axe, and a flame popped from the top, turns out it was a built in lighter I never knew was there. No, got out in 2008, I was way to injured to stay in. Being injured and not being able to get help because the Command Sargeant Major needed his injured roster to go down is going to piss you off alot. I was pissed, but didnt get the worst end of the stick, a buck sargeant hhad to wait till he went on leave to get his shrapnel in his chest removed, lost a lung and 80 percent of his heart lining, was declared AWOL for not being legally allowed to fly back to kuwait one week after open heart surgery. The poor guy was told by our PA is was just anxiety, even after he was diagnosed by the civilians. He was denied a purple heart, even when he brought his case before the best ranger CSM..... and last I saw him he was mopping floors..... I was in a similar position, but not as messed up physically. I just sat quiet till they let me out, and happily watched as my 8 year mark passed. Im over 28 too now, so it would be difficult to even draft me. Im not going back in for nothing. Took me 5 years just to walk normal again and run on the eliptical for a hour. Im more into philosophy now. Also, have a unsurprising grudge against socialized medicine.

Sorry about the maps? The region today is Nevsehir Province, Republic of Turkey. I feel like I should get paid for answering such a random reply.