To Boldly Go...

One of the most difficult things for recruits to remember is that you can never triumph, much less get slashed and stronger in wisdom, if you do not engage in combat.  You can plan, dream, and thrash about in the bushes until the bartenders come home, but you will remain undecorated, and will never see any new sights, gain any new ground, or acquire meaningful scars.

Riches without power, is at best only a third of real wealth.

Proverb Updates:

Original Version, “When Nature made him, she broke the mold.”

Improved Rendition, “When Nature made him, she broke the bounds of good taste.”

Why, why, and then some more, “why,” I ask you, has reason always been declared the enemy of faith; intelligence, the foe of feeling?  Why does the son so mistrust his father?

The Revolutionist knows that as far as the People are concerned, if nothing else, it can at least truly be said, “They will boldly go where everyone else has gone before.”

J.