RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 12, 2012 at 12:53 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2012 at 12:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
While none of the molecules of water have the properties of wetness or liquidity or iciness or vapor, those are the properties of those molecules when in the configuration that we call water. Similarly, we are matter and energy in space and time governed by physical laws, but that doesn't mean what some people seem to think it means. It is an adequate summary in and of itself. We are more than that, of course, but only if you want to talk about some other specific, and again, those other things that we are all boil down to properties of that summary when arranged into something we call a human being. We could postulate other things, all day long, but at some point, somebody is going to ask for evidence (or at least I hope somebody would ask for evidence).
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
