Poll: Would you rather be feared or loved?
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Die in a cool fiery explosion, or accept your love, hmmmm... I think I'd rather go with the explosion.Higurashi said:
Aw dude. It might be worth learning how to return love. While it doesn't cure lifes vicious stings, it sure does take a lot of the venom out of it. Joys shared doubles, troubles shared half. I couldn't get through the day without my wonderful lady propping me up.MaxTheReaper said:
"Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."-Niccolò Machiavelli
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return." ~Quoted from song: Nature Boy
You do that. I see you don't know how to handle that thing anyway. 190 grams of compressed trinitrotoluene is not for everyone, dear. Now hand it over before you cut yourself on the pin. *takes the grenade and embraces the butter*rottenbutter said:
There there... you're not rotten at all.
Pretty bad pessimism if it just consists of spouting things that are not very likely to happen. A nice thing about the world is that a lot of good stuff happens in it, despite what one person might experience and lead him to believe. This I know very well.MaxTheReaper said:
Must...reach...cyanide pills.Higurashi said:
On-topic:I just realized what I should have said in my previous post.
I would prefer to be loved by females and feared my males. Now Higurashi, let go of me before I detonate the C4 on my back.
Napolean lost because he wanted power over affection, in other words, fear over love. The people of Spain welcomed French troops when they first marched through Spain to fight the Portugese (allied with the British) but then Napolean felt comfortable and thought he would dethrone the king, and then the Spanish revolted and kicked the French out of Spain. Another silly thing he did was make a treaty with Russia which was far more in favour of France than Russia, and when the Russians broke the treaty, Napolean gathered a huge, slow moving force together to try to invade Russia, without even scouting ahead to see if there were disease carrying cockroaches, nothing to eat, and a capital city that didn't have supplies because it had been lit on fire. If he loved the Russian people more, and tried to make them actually like him, and not just have an alliance with them, he might have actually succeeded in his invasion of Great Britain. On the subject of Napolean and Great Britain, let's get into the dumbest thing he did. He cancelled a land invasion in favour of trying to beat the British at what they exceeded at, Naval strength. He tried to humiliate them by beating them at what they were best at, and in turn humiliated himself. At the Battle of Trafalgar the combined French and Spanish fleet of 33 ships lost 27 of their original number. The British, with 27, lost none. If he respected his enemy more, he might not have failed epically at trying to humiliate them. So the moral of this story, for any young warlords out there, is that having people like you is an instrumental part of military conquest.
