Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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I don't believe it is a total human thing it is a politician human thing....anything to stay in the limelight regardless of how vouch power you have or are perceived to have.

With people that have principles ingrained in them this decision does not come into play.
It is applicable to the large majority of humans. Hardship, social or economic, shatters most principled people. Exhibit 1, covid.
 
I'd argue it's the opposite. Hardship forges and tempers people. It is an essential element of forming a complete human being with strong principals who is rooted in reality. It is the lack of hardship that shatters people when it comes. Those who are accustomed to it shrug and carry on. Overprotecting kids is a primary cause, and whatever aspersions you want to cast on the Boomers, they did NOT overprotect us. If anything they made it clear how disinterested they were in raising us. I'll take that seven days a week and twice on Sunday over abusing children by being a helicopter parent and wanting to be your kid's friend. That is why we are devolving and every successive generation is weaker than the last.

We have to tell our children that the grill is hot, so don't touch it, and then let our children touch the hot grill and get burned. This is the way.
 
It is applicable to the large majority of humans. Hardship, social or economic, shatters most principled people. Exhibit 1, covid.
I'd argue it's the opposite. Hardship forges and tempers people. I
I would argue that it is both at the same time.

Hardship and struggle will filter people into 2 groups.

The West has been prosperous for so long that there is an overabundance of soft, unprincipled people.
True hardships will separate people quickly and with zero emotion.

Reality gives zero shits about what you want or need.
 
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

- Blade Runner, 1982


NORYANG, DECEMBER 16, 1598

The final climactic end to the Imjin War which saw almost the entire Japanese invasion fleet annihilated off the southern coast of Korea by a combined Ming Chinese and Joseon Korean fleet. Korean sharpshooters fired over 15,000 arrows with incendiary and explosive payloads during the fight. Some of the Korean fire ships had specialized launchers which discharged semi-liquid balls of nitrate infused paraffin soaked rags up to 300 yards away using a charge of special low-yield black powder, an early version of a sci-fi plasma torpedo. The result was a man made firestorm not seen until the 1944-1945 firebombings of Tokyo and Dresden. Over 300 Japanese warships and 800+ troop carriers were set ablaze and for the troop carriers centered in the middle of their formation for security, the firestorm held another lethal effect. As the warships around them burned, a vacuum vortex surrounded the middle. Tornado-like vortices comprised of violently rotating columns of +1300°F air shattered many ships that were not burned yet and thousands of soldiers aboard them suffocated to death as oxygen was sucked away. Japanese deaths by the end of the battle were over 20,000 total, most of them from suffocation and burning.

For decades afterwards, one can hear veteran Korean navy men retelling stories of the fight at taverns and seaside restaurants. Their words would be no different than those of an old starship crewman retelling the events of an epic interstellar battle hundreds of years into the future, sitting in a cafe in a high tech city...

NORYANG: DEADLY SEA (2023)

 
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