Dying For Honour

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  1. Comrade Temuzu Well-Known Member

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    Well, lets say that if I had the power to choose how I die, it would die in the most honorable way, or if it fits the occasion, sacrificing myself. But Im afraid that I wont have the luxury of choice.
  2. Imperial1917 City-States God of War

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    It is. In a way. The statement holds that the recognized ones are not the only heros.
  3. MayorEmanuel Do not weep, for salvation is coming.

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    I follow the line of thought of Falstaff

    If you don't want to watch the video:
    Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before
    his day. What need I be so forward with him that
    calls not on me? Well, ’tis no matter; honour pricks
    me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I
    come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or
    an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no.
    Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is
    honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what
    is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it?
    he that died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no.
    Doth he hear it? no. ‘Tis insensible, then. Yea,
    to the dead. But will it not live with the living?
    no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore
    I’ll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so
    ends my catechism.
  4. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    I never contradicted that point though. You just randomly said it.
  5. Imperial1917 City-States God of War

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    Umm... I believe that my intent was to concur with you on the matter.

    Or just to throw out a random quote that had relivance to the thread.

    I'm not sure right now. It is late and it was late when I posted it I think.

    @ MayorEmanuel
    So... thats a "no" on honour from your end?
  6. MayorEmanuel Do not weep, for salvation is coming.

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    You got it.
  7. Karakoran Well-Known Member

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    Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

    Yes, if the situation warranted it. For instance, in defense of the Vatican, yes. But in defense of say Capitalism, no.
  8. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    I agree with Julius Caesar.
  9. UnitRico Well-Known Member

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    Why in defence of the Vatican? I mean, it's a nice building and all, but I'd rather protect the Forum Romanum from those ridiculous modern sculptures they put in. I'd die getting rid of those atrocities.
  10. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    they put what in the what now!!!! KILL THE BASTARDS NOW.
  11. Byzantium's Revenge Well-Known Member

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    I'm not overly enthusiastic about dying with honour, as I wouldn't be around to milk the plaudits.
  12. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    What people don't realize is that there is a difference between not dying with honor and dying cowardly.

    I am not particularly out to die with honor, as I would much rather live with honor.
  13. UnitRico Well-Known Member

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    Still, I couldn't care how I die, as long as it's as painless as possible. When I die, my consciousness will most likely disappear with it, so why should I care about what people think of me after I die?
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    i would deffinatly die with honour in the feild of battle its is easily the best way to die
  15. Toast Well-Known Member

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    I'd like to commit suicide or pull enough shit to get me executed. Then I'll give some sort of hilarious last words for everybody to remember me by. Like Caligula's "Vivo!".
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    I would die with honor for something honorable. I don't want to live a long life in cowardice.
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    We're different people it seems.
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    Speaking of Prince, its been too long since I watched him
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    He's pretty boring these days. Now that I think about, he always was.

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