Lord Hemloc
07-21-2007, 11:22 AM
“MOST” Real Time Dominants in this Lifestyle are Warriors
And most likely to protect than harm.
In that spirit read on, and remember what you have learned here.
Lord Hemloc
Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart
of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about
defending those noble and worthy things that deserve
defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our
time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn,
hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself.
The question remains: What is worth defending? What is
worth dying for? What is worth living for?
"Most of the people in our society are sheep.
They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can
only hurt one another by accident." This is true.
Remember, the murder rate is six per 100,000 per year,
and the aggravated assault rate is four per 1,000 per
year. What this means is that the vast majority of
Americans are not inclined to hurt one another.
Some estimates say that two million Americans are victims
of violent crimes every year, a tragic, staggering number,
perhaps an all-time record rate of violent crime. But
there are almost 300 million Americans, which means that
the odds of being a victim of violent crime is considerably
less than one in a hundred on any given year.
Furthermore, since many violent crimes are committed
by repeat offenders, the actual number of violent
citizens is considerably less than two million.
Thus there is a paradox, and we must grasp both ends
of the situation: We may well be in the most violent
times in history, but violence is still remarkably rare.
This is because most citizens are kind, decent people who
are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident
or under extreme provocation. They are sheep.
I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me, it
is like the pretty, blue robin's egg. Inside it is soft
and gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful.
But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell.
Police officers, soldiers, and other Warriors are like
that shell, And someday the civilization they protect
will grow into something wonderful. For now, though,
they need Warriors to protect them from the predators.
"Then there are the wolves" and the wolves feed on the
sheep without mercy." Do you believe there are wolves
out there whom will feed on the
flock without mercy? You better believe it.
There are evil people in this world and they are capable of
evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is
not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.
"Then there are Warriors,"
I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf."
If you have no capacity for violence then you are
a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you
have a capacity for violence and no empathy for
your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf.
But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep
love for your fellow citizens? What do you have then?
A Warrior, someone who is walking the hero's
path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness,
into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed.
Let me expand on this excellent model of
the sheep, wolves, and Warriors. We know that the sheep
live in denial, that is what makes them sheep. They do
not want to believe that there is evil in the world.
They can accept the fact that fires can happen, which
children are thousands of times more likely to be killed
or seriously injured by school violence than fire, but
the sheep's only response to the possibility of violence
is denial.
The idea of someone coming to kill or harm their child
is just too hard, and so they chose the path of denial.
The sheep generally do not like the Warrior. He looks
a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for
violence. The difference, though, is that the Warrior
must not, can not, and will, not ever harm the sheep. Any
Warrior who intentionally harms the lowliest little
lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot
work any other way, at least not in a representative
democracy or a republic such as ours.
Still, the Warrior disturbs the sheep. He is a constant
reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would
prefer that he didn't tell them where to go, or give them
traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports,
in camouflage fatigues, holding an M-16. The sheep would
much rather have the Warrior cash in his fangs, spray
paint himself white, and go, "Baa." Until the wolf shows
up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind
one lonely Warrior.
The students, the victims, at Columbine High School were big,
tough high school students, and under ordinary circumstances
they would not have had the time of day for a police officer.
They were not bad kids; they just had nothing to say to a cop.
When the school was under attack, however, and SWAT
teams were clearing the rooms and hallways, the
officers had to physically peel those clinging,
sobbing kids off of them.
This is how the little lambs feel about their Warriors when
the wolf is at the door.
Look at what happened after September 11, 2001 when the
wolf pounded hard on the door. Remember how America,
more than ever before, felt differently about their
law enforcement officers and military personnel? Remember
how many times you heard the word hero?
Understand that there is nothing morally superior about
being a Warrior; it is just what you choose to be.
Also understand that a Warrior is a strange being: He
is always sniffing around out on the perimeter, checking
the breeze, barking at things that go bump in the night,
and yearning for a righteous battle. That is, the young
Warriors yearn for a righteous battle. The old Warriors
are a little older and wiser, but they move to the sound
of the guns when needed, right along with the young ones.
Here is how the sheep and the Warriors think differently.
The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the Warrior
lives for that day.
After the attacks on September 11, 2001, most of the sheep,
that is, most citizens in America said, "Thank God I wasn't
on one of those planes." The Warriors, said,
"Dear God, I wish I could have been on one of those planes.
Maybe I could have made a difference."
When you are truly transformed into a warrior and have truly
invested yourself into Warriorhood, you want to be there.
You want to be able to make a difference.
There is nothing morally superior about the Warrior,
but he does have one real advantage. Only one.
And that is that he is able to survive and thrive in an
environment that destroys 98 percent of the population.
There was research conducted a few years ago with
individuals convicted of violent crimes. These cons
were in prison for serious, predatory crimes of
violence: assaults, murders and killing law
enforcement officers. The vast majority said
that they specifically targeted victims by body language:
Slumped walk, passive behavior and lack of awareness.
They chose their victims like big cats do in Africa, when
they select one out of the herd that is least able to
protect itself.
Some people may be destined to be sheep and others might
be genetically primed to be wolves or Warriors. But
I believe that most people can choose which one they
want to be, and I'm proud to say that more and more
Americans are choosing to become Warriors.
”There is no safety for honest men except by believing
all possible evil of evil men”. - Edmund Burke-
In nature the sheep, real sheep, are born as sheep and so are wolves.
They didn't have a choice. But you are not a critter. As a human being,
you can be whatever you want to be. It is a conscious,
moral decision.
If you want to be a sheep, then you can be a sheep and
that is okay, but you must understand the price you pay.
When the wolf comes, you and your loved ones are going to
die if there is not a Warrior there to protect you. If
you want to be a wolf, you can be one, but the Warriors
are going to hunt you down and you will never have rest,
safety, trust or love. But if you want to be a Warrior
and walk the Warrior's path, then you must make a conscious
and moral decision every day to dedicate, equip and prepare
yourself to thrive in that toxic, corrosive moment when the
wolf comes knocking at the door.
For example, many officers carry their weapons in church.
They are well concealed in ankle holsters, shoulder holsters
or inside-the-belt holsters tucked into the small of their
backs. Anytime you go to some form of religious service,
there is a very good chance that a police officer
in your congregation is carrying. You will never
know if there is such an individual in your place
of worship, until the wolf appears to massacre
you and your loved ones.
It is denial that turns people into sheep. Sheep are
psychologically destroyed by combat because their only
defense is denial, which is counterproductive and
destructive, resulting in fear, helplessness and
horror when the wolf shows up. Denial kills you twice.
It kills you once, at your moment of truth when you
are not physically prepared: Hope is not a strategy.
Denial kills you a second time because even if you do
physically survive, you are psychologically shattered by
your fear, helplessness and horror at your moment of truth.
Denial is a save-now-pay-later scheme, a contract written
entirely in small print, for in the long run, the denying
person knows the truth on some level. And so the warrior
must strive to confront denial in all aspects of his life,
and prepare himself for the day when evil comes.
If you are warrior who is legally authorized to carry a
weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you
become a sheep, pretending that the bad man will not come
today.
This business of being a sheep or a Warrior is not a
yes-no dichotomy. It is not an all-or-nothing,
either-or choice. It is a matter of degrees, a
continuum. On one end is an
abject, head-in-the-sand-sheep and on the other end is the
ultimate warrior. Few people exist completely on one end or
the other. Most of us live somewhere in between. Since 9-11 almost
everyone in America took a step up that continuum, away
from denial. The sheep took a few steps toward accepting
and appreciating their warriors, and the warriors started
taking their job more seriously. The degree to which you
move up that continuum, away from sheephood and denial,
is the degree to which you and your loved ones
will survive, physically and psychologically at
your moment of truth.
Written by My Mentors – Mentor
Lord Hemloc
And most likely to protect than harm.
In that spirit read on, and remember what you have learned here.
Lord Hemloc
Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart
of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about
defending those noble and worthy things that deserve
defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our
time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn,
hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself.
The question remains: What is worth defending? What is
worth dying for? What is worth living for?
"Most of the people in our society are sheep.
They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can
only hurt one another by accident." This is true.
Remember, the murder rate is six per 100,000 per year,
and the aggravated assault rate is four per 1,000 per
year. What this means is that the vast majority of
Americans are not inclined to hurt one another.
Some estimates say that two million Americans are victims
of violent crimes every year, a tragic, staggering number,
perhaps an all-time record rate of violent crime. But
there are almost 300 million Americans, which means that
the odds of being a victim of violent crime is considerably
less than one in a hundred on any given year.
Furthermore, since many violent crimes are committed
by repeat offenders, the actual number of violent
citizens is considerably less than two million.
Thus there is a paradox, and we must grasp both ends
of the situation: We may well be in the most violent
times in history, but violence is still remarkably rare.
This is because most citizens are kind, decent people who
are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident
or under extreme provocation. They are sheep.
I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me, it
is like the pretty, blue robin's egg. Inside it is soft
and gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful.
But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell.
Police officers, soldiers, and other Warriors are like
that shell, And someday the civilization they protect
will grow into something wonderful. For now, though,
they need Warriors to protect them from the predators.
"Then there are the wolves" and the wolves feed on the
sheep without mercy." Do you believe there are wolves
out there whom will feed on the
flock without mercy? You better believe it.
There are evil people in this world and they are capable of
evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is
not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.
"Then there are Warriors,"
I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf."
If you have no capacity for violence then you are
a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you
have a capacity for violence and no empathy for
your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf.
But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep
love for your fellow citizens? What do you have then?
A Warrior, someone who is walking the hero's
path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness,
into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed.
Let me expand on this excellent model of
the sheep, wolves, and Warriors. We know that the sheep
live in denial, that is what makes them sheep. They do
not want to believe that there is evil in the world.
They can accept the fact that fires can happen, which
children are thousands of times more likely to be killed
or seriously injured by school violence than fire, but
the sheep's only response to the possibility of violence
is denial.
The idea of someone coming to kill or harm their child
is just too hard, and so they chose the path of denial.
The sheep generally do not like the Warrior. He looks
a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for
violence. The difference, though, is that the Warrior
must not, can not, and will, not ever harm the sheep. Any
Warrior who intentionally harms the lowliest little
lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot
work any other way, at least not in a representative
democracy or a republic such as ours.
Still, the Warrior disturbs the sheep. He is a constant
reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would
prefer that he didn't tell them where to go, or give them
traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports,
in camouflage fatigues, holding an M-16. The sheep would
much rather have the Warrior cash in his fangs, spray
paint himself white, and go, "Baa." Until the wolf shows
up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind
one lonely Warrior.
The students, the victims, at Columbine High School were big,
tough high school students, and under ordinary circumstances
they would not have had the time of day for a police officer.
They were not bad kids; they just had nothing to say to a cop.
When the school was under attack, however, and SWAT
teams were clearing the rooms and hallways, the
officers had to physically peel those clinging,
sobbing kids off of them.
This is how the little lambs feel about their Warriors when
the wolf is at the door.
Look at what happened after September 11, 2001 when the
wolf pounded hard on the door. Remember how America,
more than ever before, felt differently about their
law enforcement officers and military personnel? Remember
how many times you heard the word hero?
Understand that there is nothing morally superior about
being a Warrior; it is just what you choose to be.
Also understand that a Warrior is a strange being: He
is always sniffing around out on the perimeter, checking
the breeze, barking at things that go bump in the night,
and yearning for a righteous battle. That is, the young
Warriors yearn for a righteous battle. The old Warriors
are a little older and wiser, but they move to the sound
of the guns when needed, right along with the young ones.
Here is how the sheep and the Warriors think differently.
The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the Warrior
lives for that day.
After the attacks on September 11, 2001, most of the sheep,
that is, most citizens in America said, "Thank God I wasn't
on one of those planes." The Warriors, said,
"Dear God, I wish I could have been on one of those planes.
Maybe I could have made a difference."
When you are truly transformed into a warrior and have truly
invested yourself into Warriorhood, you want to be there.
You want to be able to make a difference.
There is nothing morally superior about the Warrior,
but he does have one real advantage. Only one.
And that is that he is able to survive and thrive in an
environment that destroys 98 percent of the population.
There was research conducted a few years ago with
individuals convicted of violent crimes. These cons
were in prison for serious, predatory crimes of
violence: assaults, murders and killing law
enforcement officers. The vast majority said
that they specifically targeted victims by body language:
Slumped walk, passive behavior and lack of awareness.
They chose their victims like big cats do in Africa, when
they select one out of the herd that is least able to
protect itself.
Some people may be destined to be sheep and others might
be genetically primed to be wolves or Warriors. But
I believe that most people can choose which one they
want to be, and I'm proud to say that more and more
Americans are choosing to become Warriors.
”There is no safety for honest men except by believing
all possible evil of evil men”. - Edmund Burke-
In nature the sheep, real sheep, are born as sheep and so are wolves.
They didn't have a choice. But you are not a critter. As a human being,
you can be whatever you want to be. It is a conscious,
moral decision.
If you want to be a sheep, then you can be a sheep and
that is okay, but you must understand the price you pay.
When the wolf comes, you and your loved ones are going to
die if there is not a Warrior there to protect you. If
you want to be a wolf, you can be one, but the Warriors
are going to hunt you down and you will never have rest,
safety, trust or love. But if you want to be a Warrior
and walk the Warrior's path, then you must make a conscious
and moral decision every day to dedicate, equip and prepare
yourself to thrive in that toxic, corrosive moment when the
wolf comes knocking at the door.
For example, many officers carry their weapons in church.
They are well concealed in ankle holsters, shoulder holsters
or inside-the-belt holsters tucked into the small of their
backs. Anytime you go to some form of religious service,
there is a very good chance that a police officer
in your congregation is carrying. You will never
know if there is such an individual in your place
of worship, until the wolf appears to massacre
you and your loved ones.
It is denial that turns people into sheep. Sheep are
psychologically destroyed by combat because their only
defense is denial, which is counterproductive and
destructive, resulting in fear, helplessness and
horror when the wolf shows up. Denial kills you twice.
It kills you once, at your moment of truth when you
are not physically prepared: Hope is not a strategy.
Denial kills you a second time because even if you do
physically survive, you are psychologically shattered by
your fear, helplessness and horror at your moment of truth.
Denial is a save-now-pay-later scheme, a contract written
entirely in small print, for in the long run, the denying
person knows the truth on some level. And so the warrior
must strive to confront denial in all aspects of his life,
and prepare himself for the day when evil comes.
If you are warrior who is legally authorized to carry a
weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you
become a sheep, pretending that the bad man will not come
today.
This business of being a sheep or a Warrior is not a
yes-no dichotomy. It is not an all-or-nothing,
either-or choice. It is a matter of degrees, a
continuum. On one end is an
abject, head-in-the-sand-sheep and on the other end is the
ultimate warrior. Few people exist completely on one end or
the other. Most of us live somewhere in between. Since 9-11 almost
everyone in America took a step up that continuum, away
from denial. The sheep took a few steps toward accepting
and appreciating their warriors, and the warriors started
taking their job more seriously. The degree to which you
move up that continuum, away from sheephood and denial,
is the degree to which you and your loved ones
will survive, physically and psychologically at
your moment of truth.
Written by My Mentors – Mentor
Lord Hemloc