Posted by Squareinthecircle
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Ever hire a lawyer? Do you want a kind, benevolent sweetheart or a vicous pitbull of a lawyer? Granted you wouldn’t want to go to a picnic with him, but wouldn’t we want the pitbull? So we have established that there is a use for this variety.
I would be your pitbull, but you have to be able to stomach the truths that come of it.
If victory came from posting about emotions on Facebook we would have won already. It will take something different. If we want something we don't have we have to do something we aren't doing.
War. It's a bloody, gory thing. Few that have seen it up close have complimentary things to say abut it. Do we believe that it should be easy? Do we think that our emotions are more important? Do we feel our opinions should keep us from saving ourselves?
Examine your reactions, your actions.
People aren't born with what it takes for war. It has to be effected. Armies do this. Humans desire immediate comfort, are hard-pressed to be separated from it. Our animal-like programming tells us to not do the things involved in war. The threat the army provides brings the power of separation. The brig is always waiting, and they aren't gentle about it either. Fight, or face the consequences.
TIs don't have this to keep us on track. Add to that we have the targeting program telling us we don't need to stay on track, we don't need to fight, and harming us when we ignore them.
There is no happy ending here for us. Will we fight or just be ritually diminished daily until we die?
I am not thought of well by many TIs. I'm too gruff, too rough, arrogant. The arrogance is a misread of confidence plus urgency, the others are correct. It's because I am in a war. I don't have a flower for their rifle barrel. I have another rifle barrel.
I ask that more join me, and instead of giving in to the directives of the targeting and despising me try to see how a pitbull could benefit you in the role I am in. God bless the TIs
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