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honey, please come home!
never! bonzai!
never! bonzai!
It is amazing the standards that people hold others to and exonerate themselves from , especially in this sloth like day in age when we could all benefit from a little objective self scrutiny.
Ask yourself, what if you were a young man, raised in a culture of loyalty, Bushido and honor in Imperial Japan? When would you leave Japan and if so, what age? 2? 12? 22? How would you get out? How would you go about obtaining your passport, where would you go and would you be willing to severe every relationship you had with everyone, including your family and friends for the rest of your life and be branded a coward, or, possibly even face a firing squad for cowardice?
It seems like many of you watch too many Hollywood movies and don't engage in thought from the other side of the fence. And those that are mentioning Nanking, HA, what is worse: The killing of another countries people in war OR the killing of your own countries people in times of peace as the communists so artfully did? How about the US and the extinction of the native Americans, or, the Japanese interment camps?? No group of people, no country, no person is perfect. Most of human history is a diaper stain with moments, with acts that make humanity as a whole worth saving. This man's loyalty, dedication and self preservation is one such act. Not the country he fought for, not what the nation stood for but the fact he was able to stand alone for such a long time with no help.
What this man was able to achieve is mind blowing and I thank TS for sharing. I doubt any cyber saturated modern man could last more than a month in such conditions. All that I am saying is every time you point the finger at someone else, you have three fingers pointing right back at you. Try putting yourself in someone else's shoes, judge yourself as you judge others and you may walk a little further than you think.
It is amazing the standards that people hold others to and exonerate themselves from , especially in this sloth like day in age when we could all benefit from a little objective self scrutiny.
Ask yourself, what if you were a young man, raised in a culture of loyalty, Bushido and honor in Imperial Japan? When would you leave Japan and if so, what age? 2? 12? 22? How would you get out? How would you go about obtaining your passport, where would you go and would you be willing to severe every relationship you had with everyone, including your family and friends for the rest of your life and be branded a coward, or, possibly even face a firing squad for cowardice?
It seems like many of you watch too many Hollywood movies and don't engage in thought from the other side of the fence. And those that are mentioning Nanking, HA, what is worse: The killing of another countries people in war OR the killing of your own countries people in times of peace as the communists so artfully did? How about the US and the extinction of the native Americans, or, the Japanese interment camps?? No group of people, no country, no person is perfect. Most of human history is a diaper stain with moments, with acts that make humanity as a whole worth saving. This man's loyalty, dedication and self preservation is one such act. Not the country he fought for, not what the nation stood for but the fact he was able to stand alone for such a long time with no help.
What this man was able to achieve is mind blowing and I thank TS for sharing. I doubt any cyber saturated modern man could last more than a month in such conditions. All that I am saying is every time you point the finger at someone else, you have three fingers pointing right back at you. Try putting yourself in someone else's shoes, judge yourself as you judge others and you may walk a little further than you think.
Brutal training and massive indoctrination. These were draftees fighting to the death. That says a lot in how effective the indoctrination was.
It is amazing the standards that people hold others to and exonerate themselves from , especially in this sloth like day in age when we could all benefit from a little objective self scrutiny.
Ask yourself, what if you were a young man, raised in a culture of loyalty, Bushido and honor in Imperial Japan? When would you leave Japan and if so, what age? 2? 12? 22? How would you get out? How would you go about obtaining your passport, where would you go and would you be willing to severe every relationship you had with everyone, including your family and friends for the rest of your life and be branded a coward, or, possibly even face a firing squad for cowardice?
It seems like many of you watch too many Hollywood movies and don't engage in thought from the other side of the fence. And those that are mentioning Nanking, HA, what is worse: The killing of another countries people in war OR the killing of your own countries people in times of peace as the communists so artfully did? How about the US and the extinction of the native Americans, or, the Japanese interment camps?? No group of people, no country, no person is perfect. Most of human history is a diaper stain with moments, with acts that make humanity as a whole worth saving. This man's loyalty, dedication and self preservation is one such act. Not the country he fought for, not what the nation stood for but the fact he was able to stand alone for such a long time with no help.
What this man was able to achieve is mind blowing and I thank TS for sharing. I doubt any cyber saturated modern man could last more than a month in such conditions. All that I am saying is every time you point the finger at someone else, you have three fingers pointing right back at you. Try putting yourself in someone else's shoes, judge yourself as you judge others and you may walk a little further than you think.
The only loyalty in Imperial Japan was to the state, the only honour in Imperial Japan was in serving the state, and bushido is two thirds bullshit at the best of time.Ask yourself, what if you were a young man, raised in a culture of loyalty, Bushido and honor in Imperial Japan?
I know, ignorance. ^^
yeah, your ignorance unfortunately.
fuck this stupid asshole. what a dumb story.
"derp"
now if this was about him being tried and convicted of his war crimes that he, no doubt, took part in ... that'd be cool.
Source? Or are you just talking shit as usual?
im sure his hands are clean.
I'm of German decent my Great grandfather fought for Germany in WW2, He was not fighting for the Nazis but rather for Germany and its people. Not every German was a Nazi.....
The only loyalty in Imperial Japan was to the state, the only honour in Imperial Japan was in serving the state, and bushido is two thirds bullshit at the best of time.
If there was a man that believed the chivalric code to have been real, claimed descent from the knights who allegedly practiced it, and tried to use it a basis of a way of life (and government) in the 21st century he'd be laughed at. Those people doing the laughing will treat with utmost seriousness and respect the Japanese man doing the same, despite the fact that bushido has far more harm than the chivalric code ever did.Truth. A lot of people are still unaware of how the fake and creepy "Bushido" ideology was formed, when, and why -- what purposes it served, and why it emerged and evolved as it did.
That's because you are a weeaboo. You are letting your love for Japan, bushido and anime could your judgment.
The Japanese soldiers were soulless animals. Inhuman scum. Monsters governed by animal instinct. Savage beasts. Fuck that soldier.