09-11-2002, 09:00 AM
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Originally posted by The Hierophant:
Very nice, but it's all been done before.
See Herodotus, History of the Pelopponesian War. Written ca. 400 BC. Practically the exact two contrasting stances taken between Athens and Sparta concerning conflicting spheres of influence. Also see the Mytilinean debate, again, two stances: militant pre-emptive strikes against Mytilinea or light-handed diplomacy.
Bottom line, despite all their constant wrangling, criticisms and chest-banging both Athens and Sparta were wiped out as super-powers 70 years later, never to rise to power again.
To hell with this obsession with war, dominance and 'allegiance'. I'm just getting sick and f**king tired of all this war-talk. Hurry up and bring on the apocolypse you f**king madmen! Get it over with!
Flame away all you want, I don't give a shit.
---a one-hour later afterthought--- I apologize for my language and any blanket-denunciations and unfair generalizations I made in this post. It wasn't incredibly well-thought out and was fueled mainly by the emotions of a particularly rough day [img]smile.gif[/img] Rather than edit out what I originally typed and create confusion and discontinuity (it's what i genuinely felt at the time of posting anyway so I might as well leave it there) I'll merely add this apology at the end. Thank you.
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I hope you never have to be involved in a war. There are good reasons to go to war though.
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