#contradictory

All those who've show you less, who offered you less, who took took took. I spit at their patheticness.

Oh love, you love them sure, maybe still, but you love me more don't you? No one compares to my love. My bruising love. I'd make them all bleed for you. Fill you on their panic and regret.

See you never doubt me until it's too late. Until we're too deep. Until I make you suffer for my love. I want to choke you with it. Suffocate you and smother you so you cannot breathe without thinking of me.

I want your mind and body to recoil from and yearn for me.

An eternal contradiction. You cannot live with, nor without me.

Wellington (Iron Duke)

Arthur Wellington, a military man skilled in defense, finally won the Napoleonic Wars and ushered in a century of peace (Pax Britannica) with Britain. He had a gentle and modest personality and praised Napoleon's strengths. (Napoleon underestimated Wellington.) While Napoleon was all about the offensive, Wellington was familiar with what we now call logistics, and cornered Napoleon and defeated him, "as if strangling him with a silk scarf." It was inevitable that Wellington would win against Napoleon.

Wellington's favorite words were "In for a penny, In for a pound." The literal translation is "Don't be satisfied with a penny, aim for a pound," but it is usually taken to mean "Finish what you start." By the way, Lao Tzu, a kind of Chinese war philosopher, has a saying: "It is better not to hold a vessel in your hand and leave it full" (Chapter 9). These two words are contradictory but have different ways of saying the same thing. If you are in a position to win a battle, it is important to accumulate supplies, so if you are in a position to avoid a battle, you will avoid accumulating supplies.

Wellington and Lao Tzu look at things the same way despite being in different positions. This is the identity theorem that shows the identity of the two men.

Rei Morishita

2024.12.14

アイデンティティ定理（ウェリントンと老子の同一性）（エッセイ）

ウェリントン（鋼鉄の公爵）

ナポレオン戦争に最終的に勝利し、イギリスによる１００年の平和（パックス・ブリタニカ）を招来したアーサー・ウェリントンは、防御に長けた軍人だった。性格は穏やか・控え目で、ナポレオンの長所も褒める人だった。（ナポレオンは、ウェリントンを過小評価していた。）攻撃一辺倒のナポレオンに対し、ウェリントンは今でいうロジスティックスを心得ていて、「真綿で首を絞めるように」ナポレオンを追い詰め、打ち破った。ウェリントンがナポレオンに勝ったのは、必然だった。

そのウェリントンがよく口にしていた言葉に「In for a penny, In for a pound」がある。直訳すれば「ペニーに飽き足らず、ポンドを目指せ」だが、普通「始めたことは最後までやり遂げよう」と取る。ところで、中国の一種の戦争哲学者：老子には「器を手に持って、いっぱいにしたままで置くのは、止めたほうが良い」（第９章）という言葉がある。この２人の言葉は相反しているが、これは同じことの別表現であろう。戦いに勝とうとする立場なら、物資をどう集積するかが大事であり、だから戦いを避ける立場なら、物資の集積を避けるだろう。

Jack and his contradictions...

🤯

"you're busted"!

Remember when Savannah caught him in a lie. Lol

"Jack, you're busted because, well, first of all your mom's, we lost your mom's shot, but I heard you teasing her because she had so many books in her shot. And then I noticed that you changed your shot at the last minute."