(03-09-2022, 07:59 PM)Kenzo Wrote: First time i hear name Miyamoto Musashi
Ironically it seems like Putin itself helped Ukrainians to unite , after what happens about 8 years ago and now people fight better as united against Russia .
Musashi was perhaps the greatest samurai swordsman who ever lived. Killed his first opponent at the age of 13 with a training bokken. He went on to become a samurai, and then later a ronin, traveling around the country fighting duels. After a few years of that, when it was apparent that he just wasn't losing, ever, it lost the thrill so he retired. Spent his last years living alone in a cave, and used that time to distill his knowledge into a small book called "A Book of Five Rings". The book is a classic, and if properly applied will yield victory in any situation. Musashi himself said in that book "from one thing, know 10,000 things", meaning that if the broad principles he set down were properly interpreted, understood, and applied to any given situation, they would yield favorable results whether in war, business, or international or even interpersonal relationships.
Putin not only pulled Ukraine together, but he also seems to have reinvigorated NATO, the one thing he DIDN'T want to do! NATO was pretty much on it's death bed, but in comes Putin and it roars back to life with a vengeance. I just can't figure out why he didn't see that coming... so I'm pretty confident he's never read nor pondered either of those two books.
If you threaten a man, or a nation, beyond his limits, he will almost always react in ways inimical to the threat. So if Putin loves his children, he needs to stop threatening ours with things like nuclear annihilation. That will, in the end, no go so well for Russian children, either. We may have different ideologies, but we all have the same biology, and a Russian kid will glow just as brightly as an American kid after a sufficient amount of nuclear irradiation. It would behoove Putin to keep that fact in mind while tossing threats of annihilation around.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’