Who here want to die in glorious battle?
I've been giving it a lot of thought lately. I think I've reached a point in me life, where I wouldn't give a flying fuck if I were to die tomorrow.
Label it an instinct or pure insanity, but if you are ready to kick the bucket, might as well do it for a cause, a purpose of sorts. That's why the concept of dying in battle is so appealing to me.
>>27074847
yeah
I came quite close to a very severe accident today on a construction site and I still don't feel anything about it; I think it's more about dying with a death that terminates your life in a moment where you are doing something important, or gratifying, or something. I think what people want is something like that, a life that justifies death
>>27075085
>I think what people want is something like that, a life that justifies death
I mean I can't be the only person who thinks something like this; who always was indecisive as a kid because he just didn't care about the consequences of inaction
or rather made it a point not to get involved to see how things would play out, even if it was dangerous. like pyromaniacs, or playing with potentially dangerous bugs or just letting go of your cars wheel
I know its weird to just stand and stare at dangerous things but how much more often would it occur if other people didn't ostracize them for being so weird
to see where i was needed, to see where i needed to need myself, to really see how much the world doesn't want me instead of being supported by the social lie that society wants me to have a life
>tfw no WW3 to get drafted into and fight in.
If by glorious battle you mean a bullet from gun, then yeah.
>>27075312
>>27074910
I've finally found people who understand.
It feels amazing
>>27074847
ME. FIGHT ME IRL
>I will never die defending Constantinople from the filthy Saracen hordes
just spqr my shit up
>>27074847
Honestly, it's been my dream since I was a little kid. I'm hoping to enlist as soon as possible.
>>27074847
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ2SWWDt8Wg
helmet cam footage, you sure about that one m8?
>>27074847
>wanting to die
You people are completely insane.
>>27074847
You've been brainwashed by war propaganda. Of course your government would love to turn you into hamburger, but you can't let them do that. Fight Big Brother.
>>27076206
Yes.
In fact, I'm even more sure now.
Yes, but I don't think it would be glorious. I'd just be gunned down like millions of other young men for some probably retarded cause and spend my last moments on earth dying in some muddy ditch thousands of kilometers from home.
Hopefuly gonna join the french foreign legion this year.
>>27074847
Strap a bomb to my chest pham and drop me off in an ISIS camp. I ruined my life anyways
Give em a taste of their own medicine
Jesus is Lord
>>27075312
this is the only feel that matters
>>27075828
Historic feels?
>you will never be a Hoplite under Alexander
>you will never fight under Caesar at Alesia
>you will never serve on the HMS Victory at Trafalgar
>you will never jump with the 101st at Normandy
>you will never go on a raping spree with your red army comrades in Berlin
>>27076250
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0yY4DCShog
The guy wouldn't have even know he died
>having your friend's face and brain splattered over your face
>>27074847
I cry when I hurt people (physically)
Only reason I didn't do OCS in addition to getting a 99 on my ASVAB
>>27076365
fact of the matter is, I deserve to die, or at least see some bad shit, so I'm going to go
>>27076223
>wanting to live
do you understand the concept of insanity
>"Theo, Heinrich here. Have just shot down two bombers. No more ammunition. I'm going to ram. Auf Wiedersehen, see you in Valhalla!"
Maj. Heinrich Ehrler, just before flying his Me-262 into an American bomber during the Defense of the Reich.
In the medieval ages, PTSD existed just as it does now. Men were often so scarred from the experience the mere sound of clanking metal would send them into a severe mental breakdown.
Nothing glorious about battle OP.
OP is clearly violating age rule and/or autistic
>>27076534
Yes anon always wanting to be consious is completely sane behavior.
>>27074847
I want to die destroying the things which have caused pain and evil in the world. Nothing would make me happier than the power to die doing this
>>27075312
>ww3
>glorious battle
man not that i wouldnt like to see it happening but if thing doesnt have swords, long hair dragons or princesses then it isnt a glorious battle
>>27076561
I got picked on in elementary school for idolizing the Luftwaffetfw you will never die in air combat against the allied forces
>>27076579
>implying sleep isn't the best part of being alive
again i question your understanding
>>27076576
>OP is clearly violating age rule and/or autistic
OR he's not autistic and he just hates himself. I want to see myself in as much pain as possible and I've been loving it since I was like, 10, familia.
Fuck off autists, WWIII will leave a hole where your fucking dumb idealistic thoughts used to reside.
>>27076576
back then war was much more hardcore. we have guns and explosions now and that's terrifying, but I don't think it's anywhere near as fucked up as having to literally stab your enemies to death with a pointy stick. that's just on a whole different level.
>>27076776
>guns
>not hardcore
the very sound of a gunshot makes humans feel a primal level of fear.
>>27076576
>be French knight at Agincourt
>battlefield is muddy as fuck, literally waist high in some spots
>mount a disorganized frontal assault on the English
>go straight for the Men-at-Arms/Knights because those peasant archers can't be ransomed for anything
>can't fight because I'm physically exhausted from slogging across the field
>arrows dropping everyone around me
>men drowning in the mud, getting trampled
>stench of death permeates the air
>men are screaming, trying to get out of this quagmire of mud, blood, and corpses
>get my throat slit by some longbowman after the battle
That's one of the worst examples, but medieval combat in general was pretty shit.
>>27076776
Yeah. Being stabbed seems like the worst pain. At least a bullet has a high chance of immediately killing you whereas if you got stabbed in the gut (apparently the most excruciating get stabbed) you would slowly bleed to death whilst in agony.
>>27076776
But back then, you didn't have to go out on patrol and worry about kicking an IED, or being shot at by locals who just yesterday cooperated with you. There's a constant paranoia in modern war that just didn't exist before. That's what makes it so intense.
Back then, when pitched battles were the staple of warfare, the only time the enemy put you in danger was during the battle. You marched, you camped, then you fought. That was it for the most part.
>>27076805
just imagine yourself as a roman
you have a shield and a 3 foot long sword. you have to stab people to death that are an arms length away. you can't run anywhere and you can't really back up, the only thing between you and your enemy is a shield, and he's trying his best to stab you too. yea, that's pretty hardcore.
guns are scary, hand to hand combat is shit your pants terrifying
>>27077027
But you have adrenaline to deal with it.
The fear comes later.
>>27077027
Not to mention you're forgetting how loud those kind of battles were. Thousands of men shouting and screaming and loudly clanging metal around. It's loud as fuck and disorientating
>>27077112
the most fucked up ancient battle I've read about is cannae
something like 60,000 romans were encircled by Hannibal and it took the ENTIRE day for Hannibals army to kill them all. the guys in the center had to wait all day just to be killed.
i will die if i have to. but for my own reasons. for my own morals. deus vult.
>>27077212
Read about the of battle Aurasio too, during the Cimbrian war a century or so after Cannae
>>27077104
You not only have adrenaline, but you have insane levels of discipline. Roman legionnaires knew what they were getting into. When they made contact, adrenaline and discipline kicked in. Romans, especially units at the height of the empire, operated like machines. That doesn't mean they weren't afraid, they just knew they had a job to do, and they knew how to do it.
>>27077253
anything involving gaius Marius it's interesting as fuck to me
I don't know why he isn't as well known as Caesar in pop culture
>>27077342
I'm guessing because he never really seized power in the same way. Certainly his successive Consulships were a culmination of the increasing corruption of the Roman political system, but usually in the context of what influenced Caesar the most Sulla is brought up instead.
