Did he have a point?
>>25252465It's better not to die but if you're willing to put death or any consequence on the line you can accomplish things you wouldn't otherwise. The guy who can't commit to anything won't accomplish anything.
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>>25252485That attitude is called being sociopathic but consistently so
>>25252465No, just conquered.
>>25252473There's a difference between being committed to something thats verifiable and then there's putting your life at risk for something thats temporal. Thats foolish.
>>25252486more of a tragic lucidity.
>>25252485This sounds like he was surprised that Bertie didn't act like boomers do these days - old and pro war. And was flabbergasted about it.
>>25252499think you misread something there. but yes he did include a small quip about most too-old-for-service people being pro-war (and most pacifists being draft age).
>>25252465>And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. (Revelation 12:11)
>>25252505I dunno I was in a bit of a rush and was talking to someone anyways when I typed it.
>>25252499Yes.Because that's a really rare attitude and was even back then.REE YOU NEED TO GO TO WAR TO MAN UP is a brainworm that settles in the moment most people torn 27-37.
14 Sept 1915Dear Russell,I’m going to quarrel with you again. You simply don’t speak the truth, you simply are not sincere. The article you send me is a plausible lie, and I hate it. If it says some true things, that is not the point. The fact is that you, in the Essay, are all the time a lie.Your basic desire is the maximum of desire of war, you are really the super-war-spirit. What you want is to jab and strike, like the soldier with the bayonet, only you are sublimated into words. And you are like a soldier who might jab man after man with his bayonet, saying “this is for ultimate peace.” The soldier would be a liar. And it isn’t in the least true that you, your basic self, want ultimate peace. You are satisfying in an indirect, false way your lust to jab and strike. Either satisfy it in a direct and honorable way, saying “I hate you all, liars and swine, and am out to set upon you,” or stick to mathematics, where you can be true—But to come as the angel of peace—no, I prefer Tirpitz a thousand times in that role.You are simply full of repressed desires, which have become savage and anti-social. And they come out in this sheep’s clothing of peace propaganda. As a woman said to me, who had been to one of your meetings: “It seemed so strange, with his face looking so evil, to be talking about peace and love. He can’t have meant what he said.”I believe in your inherent power for realising the truth. But I don’t believe in your will, not for a second. Your will is false and cruel. You are too full of devilish repressions to be anything but lustful and cruel. I would rather have the German soldiers with rapine and cruelty, than you with your words of goodness. It is the falsity I can’t bear. I wouldn’t care if you were six times a murderer, so long as you said to yourself, “I am this.” The enemy of all mankind, you are, full of the lust of enmity. It is not the hatred of falsehood which inspires you. It is the hatred of people, of flesh and blood. It is a perverted, mental blood-lust. Why don’t you own it.Let us become strangers again, I think it is better.D. H. Lawrence
>>25253200I'm 43. I guess it never happened to me. But I wasn't allowed to enlist anyways.
>>25253204What a whiny BPD bitch Lawrence was
>>25252465Stalin exposed Russell as a blubbering ideological retard without even acknowledging his existence.
