Why play to other people’s strengths?
It’s really good to be able to shoot a firearm, but thousands if not millions of people can do so better than I can.
it’s wonderful to be fit and toned and capable of using your body like a weapon, but that ship has long since sailed for me. I’m plenty strong, but I never was coordinated and I’m no longer fast.
You wouldn’t bring a knife to a gunfight, (If you’re not James Coburn)
and you wouldn’t go to a gunfight against a better trained or better practiced or better equipped opponent. If you think you would, I recommend you go play paintball against some experienced players and come back with your clothes soaked in humility.
No, you would poison a gunfighter. You would shoot a poisoner, probably. You would lay a trap for an expert swordsman or knifefighter. Anyone can become moderately adept at anything, given a bit of time, and the whole point is to let the opponent (Who is very good at their chosen discipline) be out of their element. No, there is no zen master who cannot be taken by surprise. The most cautious and suspicious people I know have taken things I have given them into their homes and thanked me, without truly knowing of the items I gave to them were safe; I have proven this to myself thousands of times.(Well, probably hundreds. But at least a thousand) This is how you win against superior skills, superior numbers, superior brains. No, you don’t even have to be that smart. Just pay attention.
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Words of wisdom, sir.
Excellent out-of-the-box thinking…
TBG
Here, I want to gift you with this digital clock, in a small attache’ case. I made it just for you!
Never mind all the stray wires and open leads for connection to *mbmbllf* stuff.
No need to thank me, it is my pleasure!
Achmed
Dallas area, TX
just got back from High Adventure with the scout troop. Yellowstone Park and we hiked back 5 miles into the high country. Had a good time.
Missed you all, and Og’s good wisdom.
Never take a knife to a gun fight and never start a fight if you don’t know how to finish it.
So many people have no grasp of basic strategy and tactics… They just want “a good clean fight”.
They don’t even realize that if you had to fight, you already lost.
This is why I carry a box of rabid racoons with me everywhere I go.
No one expects a box of rabid raccoons.
Try messing with me. Just try it.
No one expected the spanish inquisition, either, but the raccoons at least had fur coats.
Age and experience… Just sayin’
Everyone has to sleep sometime. Fighter pilots have to land sometime. Tank drivers have to stop for fuel sometime. Don’t assault the enemy base. Instead get a job in their cafeteria.
So, should I check those books for white phosphorus sealed between damp pages? Not that I would know anything about such booby traps. *whistles*
Eh you’re like a brother. But you grasped exactly what I mean. Because you are one of a very few who would.
Also, it’s important to remember that while other people can shoot better than you … it doesn’t help them if you’re the only one who knows it’s a gunfight.
(Or “you’re the one who realizes it’s turning into one first“.)
“Old age and treachery”, etc.
Made me think of this wise saying… “Beware an old man in a profession where they die young.”