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General Patton!

As the website states, I don't believe with the whole idea that only reason people work is to get lots of money and avoid starvation cause then there really isn't a point of living is there
 
FinnMacCool said:
BTW the USSR wasn't a socialist government. It was more like a totalitarian state masquerading as a socialist state

Yeah, the USSR wasn't really socialist, but it had a few socialist measures.

Though if you look at Lenin's government it actually had things that no country had, even now. Now Lenin's government would probably be considered some type of socialist.
 
I haven't read the rest of the posts in this thread (I'm on my dial-up laptop and I don't have the rest of the afternoon to wait - sorry) but I wondered if anyone mentioned G.S.P.'s unusual metaphysical beliefs. Most people know that Patton believed in reincarnation, and in fact he had "memories" of past lives stretching back into prehistory. He was also a very devout Christian. These two beliefs seem at odds until you view them through Patton's perspective. Patton did not believe that everyone was reincarnated. His beliefs about the afterlife for people other than himself was "standard Christian". Patton believed that it was only himself who was repeatedly reincarnated as the "eternal warrior". He believed that his soul was destined to be born into warriors from now until the end of time.

"And as through a glass and darkly,
the age old strife I see.
Where I fought in many guises, many names,
but always me."

"So forever in the future,
shall I battle as of yore.
Dying to be born a fighter,
but to die again once more"

- part of "Through a Glass and Darkly" by George S. Patton
(if I messed up a line or two - give me a break, I did it from memory!)

These "memories" often served him well in WWII as he made decisions based on what his previous "existences" had done.

Patton's greatest moment? At the opening of the Ardennes offensive (the Battle of the Bulge) when the Allied command was all in a tizzy - Patton strolls in and announces that not only did he predict the attack but that he has already planned for it and is now ready to counter-attack. All of this in front of men who had looked down their noses at him during his entire career.

To General George S. Patton Jr. - the greatest military man of the twentieth century (Chesty Puller notwithstanding!) - Happy Belated Birthday!
 
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