everything wrote:this does sound awesome and fun. and fits the "weapons at hand" self-defense scenario kind of thinking.
the psychology maybe starts in childhood with movies. and you can pick up something soft to "spar" with like foam pool noodles, which makes you feel like you won't really hurt each other or get hurt.
Trick wrote:"Mongol General: What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women." .......https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0SO8xJ ... WecqBelFc-
Cool, thanksRobP3 wrote:Trick wrote:"Mongol General: What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women." .......https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0SO8xJ ... WecqBelFc-
To be nerdish / pedantic both of those quote are more from Milius, RE Howard's Conan never said them. The second quote, also, was taken by Milius from something Genghis Khan said, I believe.
The original Conan is more along the lines of:
“I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.”
― Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast
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