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Salutations Gents!
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jay Maxwell Jul 31, 2012. 3 Replies 0 Likes
I've been an ardent admirer of the email updates from A of M for quite some time. The more articles I read, the more I felt like people were discussing the way my grandfather lived and the legacy he…Continue
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Jay Maxwell replied to Hap's discussion Torture ethics"I think I've quoted Republicans on a handful of occasions in my life, but this one seem fitting to the question at hand.
Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane…"
Jay Maxwell posted a discussionSalutations Gents!
I've been an ardent admirer of the email updates from A of M for quite some time. The more articles I read, the more I felt like people were discussing the way my grandfather lived and the legacy he left. My father wasn't up to that challenge, so I was heroically (like so many gen x boys) raised by my mother.Without getting to emotional, it's great to have discovered a community of like minded men, who have seen there is a way to express masculinity, nay be proud of it, without being a boorish…See More
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"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice." Mahatma Gandhi
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. Giuseppe Garibaldi
"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing." Socrates
"Ka warea te ware. Ka area te Rangatira."
Ignorance is the oppressor. Vigilance is the liberator.
A profound duplicity, a discrepancy between words and deeds, between appearance and reality, a sort of moral dilettantism which makes us according to the hour sincere or hypocritical, brave or cowardly, honest or unscrupulous–this is the disease which consumes us. What moral force can germinate and grow under these conditions? We must again become men who have only one principle, one word, one work, one love; in a word, men with a sense of duty. This is the source of power. And without this there is only the phantom of a man, the unstable sand, and hollow reed which bends beneath every breath. Be faithful; this is the changeless northern star which will guide you through the vicissitudes of life, through doubts and discouragements, and even mistakes. Charles Wagner
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Joseph Dean Phillips posted a discussionNew Poems
A Poem by some one that I knowTake nothing lightlyBy Bjorn FaknamTake nothing lightly. No vain promise give. Hold your honor tightly, In the one life we live.Do not throw trust away, Whether in you or from you. Live up to it today, In everything you do.Look with respect. Follow honor to the letter. Use the courtesy you expect. Nay, treat them better.No matter what gifts you were given, You are never above yourself. By whatever cause you are driven, Put yourself on the back shelf.Those around…See More
Joseph Dean Phillips commented on Anas Kababo's group The Poetry Club"Here is a poem that I found a little while ago, very fitting for Father's day. It was written by someone that I know quite well.
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He wakes afresh each new morn,With body clean and hair short shorn.Then goes to…"
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