The Spirit of the Blade .

Check out the average automatic dishwashing machine. What do you see in there on the racks, which dishes are dirty? Bowls, spoons and bowls.

People have their favorite cups, chairs, pillows, and stuffed bears, but no one has a favorite spoon.


munk
 
I had a special, blessed, mystic round of ammo, but I already shot it at something. I was going to make a shrine to the casing, but I couldn't find it. :foot:

Japanese pilots sometimes carried samurai swords in their cockpits. It didn't help, and personally, I'm glad.

Imaging spinning down in flames, your A6M2 Zero shredded by a Hellcat's righteous, Pearl-Harbor-avenging .50 cal. gunfire, and that 1,500-yr. old Hatori Hatamoto family heirloom sword isn't helping... not one bit.



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Carter found a crushed silver spoon in the gravel road behind the school. Miners, and miners families for many years, all kinds of stuff is in the tailings piled around. Anyway, it's real silver. We we looking at it last night and I suggested melting it down and making a few bullets out of it. For that perfect Deer hunt.

You know, both Carter and I laughed, but you could tell we were half serious too.




munk
 
Ad Astra said:
Japanese pilots sometimes carried samurai swords in their cockpits. It didn't help, and personally, I'm glad.

Imaging spinning down in flames, your A6M2 Zero shredded by a Hellcat's righteous, Pearl-Harbor-avenging .50 cal. gunfire, and that 1,500-yr. old Hatori Hatamoto family heirloom sword isn't helping... not one bit.
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Thank you for posting this Mike. My grandad and 4 of his brothers fought on that side. Actually the war ended while my grandad (the youngest to go to WWII) was on his way so technically he didn't fight in the war at all. The four brothers saw a lot of action. Ray fought Germany. Ray was OK with the Germans after the war. The others all tensed up if you ever mentioned the Japanese. I can't claim to understand why, but you seem to have expressed the same bitterness above, and I appreciate it.

Munk, that sounds cool. I used to dig around on gravel roads for bits of old metal trash to collect. Neato. Sounds like a fun project too. Do silver bullets work on Zombies?????????:D
 
You're probably right. But would silver make any more of an impact on a zombie than lead? If not, save it for werewolves.LOL.
 
I don't know offhand, but lead may be denser than silver, and you'd be right, Andy. I just like the idea of hunting with a silver bullet. (Oregon Trail has a small amount of natural silver in its alloy and calls itself the silver bullet company)


munk
 
Yea you're right. Theres a romance to the silver bullet. Remember the Lone Ranger!
 
aproy1101 said:
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Andy, I recently read Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking. I recommend it.

'Nuff said, as Sgt. Fury (of the Howling Commandos) used to say.

I don't <beart, line through it> anybody. I'm just a military historian who reads a lot.



Mike
 
Bill Marsh said:
Sometimes my keris-keris argue in the night.
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I hope they don,t get jealous .

I have heard from a couple of different schools of thought . From both the scientific community and people of a more spiritual nature . There is usually something lacking in the scientific approach in that what is not proven does not exist . The same could be said to be true of people who take things on blind faith .

It has been said that when the feces hits the ventilator even disbelievers grasp at spiritual straws .

I do not know if the spiritual who believe in what is not evident to them would lose this faith when put to the test .

No matter what . If its your favourite golf club or the garrot of your thugee anscestors we all have our own way of looking at things .
 
my keris do not talk, they sing. they have just been re-oiled with proper keris oil and are happy.

p.s.- magic may just be advanced science we apes do not yet understand, don't mean it doesn't exist, don't mean it do. i keep an open mind justincase. even scientists, like heisenburg, are uncertain. the ones who aren't are probably not very good. i always question & do not take stuff for granted or at face value.
 
kronckew said:
my keris do not talk, they sing. they have just been re-oiled with proper keris oil and are happy.

p.s.- magic may just be advanced science we apes do not yet understand, don't mean it doesn't exist, don't mean it do. i keep an open mind justincase. even scientists, like heisenburg, are uncertain. the ones who aren't are probably not very good. i always question & do not take stuff for granted or at face value.
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To me some of science is magic that we now think we have compartmentised . It is certain that some magic is scientific principals that were misunderstood .

To me there is no such thing as magic or the Supernatural .There is only nature .

Science on the other hand does exist . It is a representation of the will of many people . If the will is what magic is about where does that leave us ?
 
munk said:
Check out the average automatic dishwashing machine. What do you see in there on the racks, which dishes are dirty? Bowls, spoons and bowls.

People have their favorite cups, chairs, pillows, and stuffed bears, but no one has a favorite spoon.


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Would that apply to dope fiends ?
 
"Any advanced science appears magical."

Rituals and sacrifices.

There seem some parallels in how we, as "civilized beings" also have rituals and sacrifices. A keris is very, very carefully made. ---- but let's talk about a cell phone. There is a really magic device.

Carefully made. Certaiin rituals are followed. Ingredients gathered. Painstakingly assembled. You make a sacrifice to buy it. Then you have a ritual with an unseen person over it to have it initialized. An ongoiing sacrifice is demanded by the "Service Providor." You are awarded a specific number and anyone who wants to call you must know that specific number / ritual.

They made sacrifices to get their phone and to keep it "active" and "working." Just like you did.

You must also follow a certain ritual to "contact" them. You must also follow rituals to keep your phone operational. Scarifce electricity to the battery.

A magic device to a "savage." Incomprehensible. Would they belive it is a working tool? With a spirit in it?

Sure.

Is a keris that an Indonesian uses as a conduit to his ancestors all that different? Is that "belief" by an Indonesian incomprehensible to us? Is it less real to him.

I have a good friend, married to a Chinese Indonesian woman. She invites deceased ancestors to Christmas dinner, for instance. She gets mad if they do not RSVP and even madder if they do not show up. These are sophisticated people. He is a CPA.

Irealize I am babbling. Just took an "I-don't-give-a damn" pill, getting ready for the surgery tomorrow. Guess I should make a new "smoke thread."
 
munk said:
Check out the average automatic dishwashing machine. What do you see in there on the racks, which dishes are dirty? Bowls, spoons and bowls.

People have their favorite cups, chairs, pillows, and stuffed bears, but no one has a favorite spoon.


munk
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I have a favorite glass, does that count?
 
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