Category: Terms of War
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Terms of War: Colonist
Make sure you know the rules of engagement before reading on… Anecdote from the Colonist: “They… have brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawk’s bells. They willingly traded everything they owned…. They do not bear arms and do not know them, for…
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Terms of War: Crusader / Jihadist
Make sure you know the rules of engagement before reading on… Anecdote from instigators of Holy War: “Our Prophet ordered us to Fight you till you worship Allah alone or pay us the Jizyah tribute tax in submission. Our Prophet has informed us that our Lord says: ‘Whoever amongst us is killed as a syahid shall go…
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Terms of War: Just War
Make sure you know the rules of engagement before reading on… Anecdote or from adherents to Just War: “There has never been a just [war], never an honorable one–on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen…
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Terms of War: Pacifist
Make sure you know the rules of engagement before reading on… Anecdote from a Pacifist: “First, it must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent…. A second…
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Terms of War: Neutral Party / Passive Observer
Make sure you know the rules of engagement before reading on… Anecdote(s) from a Neutral party: “You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.” ― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One (on Amazon) “First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they…
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Terms of War: Victim of Holy War
Make sure you know the rules of engagement before reading on… Anecdote or from those killed in Holy War: “One of history’s most dangerous games begins with dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys and ends with using any means necessary to take the villains out.” ― Stephen R. Prothero Etymology of “victim:”…
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Terms of War: Victim of Colonialism
Make sure you know the rules of engagement before reading on… Anecdote from the Colonized: “The height, sometimes, between decks, was only eighteen inches; so that the unfortunate human beings could not turn around, or even on their sides, the elevation being less that the breadth of their shoulders; and here they are usually chained…
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Terms of War: The Rules of Our Upcoming Engagement
As an amateur linguist, etymologist, and philologist, I care about the origins and meanings of words. Some say, “every word was once a poem,” and that’s a piece of how I feel, but mostly I care about words because I believe them to be living things, organisms tethered to the very life of humanity. No…