Quoted By: >>69018281 >>69018289
>>69018031
>It makes no difference what men think of war
>War endures
>As well ask men what they think of stone
>War was always here
>Before man was, war waited for him
>The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner
>That is the way it was and will be
>That way and not some other way
>This is why war endures
>It endures because young men love it
>And old men love it in them
>Those that fought
>Those that did not
>Men are born for games
>Nothing else
>Every child knows that play is nobler than work
>He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard
>Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all
>Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them
>But trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all
>War is the truest form of divination
>It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select
>War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence
>War is god
>It makes no difference what men think of war
>War endures
>As well ask men what they think of stone
>War was always here
>Before man was, war waited for him
>The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner
>That is the way it was and will be
>That way and not some other way
>This is why war endures
>It endures because young men love it
>And old men love it in them
>Those that fought
>Those that did not
>Men are born for games
>Nothing else
>Every child knows that play is nobler than work
>He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard
>Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all
>Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them
>But trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all
>War is the truest form of divination
>It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select
>War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence
>War is god