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A sword may be a thing of beauty, but it has a grim task- to rend flesh and spill blood. War is savage, the paradox is that to defend humanity a warrior must become something beastly.
Still Odo fights, performing great and grisly feats of arms, and still they come...
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"Make of me a mighty machine of annihilitaion...." Szandor Lavey
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Knighty Boy either needs to die, or he needs to live. PICK ONE! Grr... I hate having to wait.
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It's my intent to save this one, but my computers having problems with that function just now, so I'll have to do it later.
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...take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. "He that will lose his life, the same shall save it," is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors or mountaineers. It might be printed in an Alpine guide or a drill book. This paradox is the whole principle of courage; even of quite earthly or quite brutal courage. A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice.
He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine. No philosopher, I fancy, has ever expressed this romantic riddle with adequate lucidity, and I certainly have not done so. But Christianity has done more: it has marked the limits of it in the awful graves of the suicide and the hero, showing the distance between him who dies for the sake of living and him who dies for the sake of dying. And it has held up ever since above the European lances the banner of the mystery of chivalry: the Christian courage, which is a disdain of death; not the Chinese courage, which is a disdain of life.
from Orthodoxy, Chapter 6, by You Know Who
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...and SUPPORTING freedom of religion...
(Damn, somethingβs wrong with my emoticons; anyway, I am really embarrassed at this imbecilic slip!)
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Do you know any old folk that might have been acquainted with him in life? I think all possible testimony on him remaining should be recorded for posterity.
I recently saw a documentary on the Blitzkrieg and I realized that the Fleet St. area was among the hardest hit. That was where a lot of his first submissions ended up! I wonder if that contributed to this disgusting obscurity over the past 60 years that has only now taken an American (Dale Alquist) to do justice for.
Does it not boil your blood that Wells and Shaw are known the world over, but Chesterton is not even taught in the schools in his hometown (at least last I heard)? Mr. Alquist told me that some ass wrote a biography of GB Shaw that never mentioned Chesterton ONCE! That's like writing a biography about the Odd Couple's Felix without ever mentioning Oscar! It reminds me of an account of the Puritans that Chesterton mentioned that never speaks of John Calvin, which he goes on to say is like writing of the Hebrews without mentioning Moses!
This insanity has to stop, and, if I may be so bold, I think a huge part would be to fight the ridiculous KATHOCOS PHOBIA that still plagues the general English population, be they Protestants or Pagans. If you doubt this, then why is that bigoted 1701 law forbidding Catholics in the Royal family still in force?
In my admittedly Jacobean opinion, the Windsors are a glaring reminder of the anti-Catholicism that had underlain British lawmaking since 1690 without exception until Hilaire Belloc was elected to Parliament in 1906. But even in the past one hundred years the cause for Catholic equality has been slow and full of endless loopholes. I have been reading The Catholic Church And Conversion, and G.K. lists these problems in painful detail.
The whole ugly point of the 1701 law, as you very well know, is to keep the Stuarts off the throne, and the Hanoverian claim intact. That is why they will fight overturning it tooth and nail; without it, what is to keep Her Highness, The Princess of Liechtenstein or her son Prince Wenzel form suing for the throne in the British courts? If the British legal system were truly fair to Catholics, they would overturn all bigoted laws, and give the Stuart claimants a fair hearing on these matters. But they have not. Why?
I am sure that the Tudor tradition of regarding "papists" as unpatriotic is still a part of the English Collective Subconscious, even if the English are no longer collectively faithful Anglicans. Without the majority belief in an official Anglican State, these laws become a cruel farce; the whole point, to enable and protect an independent Anglo-Catholic Sate, has been lost amidst modernist nonsense; the means meant to protect it, while failing in that primary purpose, have largely been retained: the false notion that you cannot be a patriotic and loyal Englishman and a faithful Roman Catholic at the same time.
I am sure you know that this not true on a conscious level, but can you be sure that you do not still feel this prejudice in your heart of hearts, as your fathers have felt since Elizabeth? Are you SURE that your heart is free of all bias? Are you SURE that your ancestors were right in not taking a stand as St. Thomas Moor did?
I admit that I might be evangelizing a tad, but you certainly do not need to be Roman or even Christian to Enjoy and learn from GKC. I am primarily trying to figure out what in blazes has kept him out of schools, and if it IS anti-Catholicism, what in turn made THAT popular, and how do we get rid of it on all levels?
Another thing, if you are truly committed to stopping anti-Catholicism and freedom of religion, are you prepared for the consequences?
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Great chap, old GKC.
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the suspense is killing me!!! Kill him! or save him! do something!!! AHHH!
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