#onkilling

[prusikknots]

This is easily one of the best books I’ve ever read. It talks in depth about the psychological effect that killing can do to all people involved and the different ways it impacts human beings as a whole. #nowreading On Killing: The Psychological Cost Of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. #onkilling #davegrossman #ltcoldavegrossman #psychology

[redbeerdactual]

In Search of the Warrior Spirit.

“This urgent calling of nature longs to be tested, seeks to be challenged beyond itself. The warrior within us beseeches Mars, the god of War, to deliver us to that crucial battlefield that will redeem us into the terrifying immediacy of the moment. We want to face our Goliath so we may be reminded that the warrior David is still alive, in us. We prey to the war gods to guide us to the walls of Jericho so we may dare the steadfastness and strength of our trumpet call. We aspire to be defeated in battles by powers so much greater than ourself, that the defeat itself will have made us larger than when we arrived. We long for the encounter that will ultimately empower us with dignity and honor....Be not mistaken: the longing is there and it’s loving and terrible and beautiful and tragic.” -Richard Heckler