4. On War: The differentiating conditions of Banded fighting from Individual fighting

Why then did man and how then did man come to fight in bands from the initial state of one-on-one fighting? First, we need to explore the reasons why man need and want to engage in Banded fighting? There are two prime reasons. Firstly, it is the need to improve one's state of relative strength. Man in banded fighting are stronger than any individual. Co-operation accords a group of man greater strength which translates into many resultant benefits such as the increase in their chances for individual survivability and their success rates (just to name two). Secondly, man come together in fight in bands because of a commonality in interests which springs forth from social units. In tribes, ancient man may have been unrelated in blood but only in territory and they would still logically combine their efforts to achieve their common goal of fighting to repulse an invader for example. The other social unit of the family makes for easier explanation since all species of animals fight to protect and ensure the success of their genetic line.

Now we move onto the differentiating conditions which exist in Banded fighting as unique and distinct from Individual fighting. The first such condition is Leadership. As social psychologists rightfully observe and assert, even between two people, a system of social dominance is established. Leadership among man who unite to fight on the same side can take the form of formal or informal. As Webster provides, it would also be buttressed by the charismatic appeal of the leader or the legal-rational authority of the leader. Leadership is what transforms a mass of weapon-wielding men into a unit. Leadership also brings into the group of man functional organization and hierarchies.

A second differentiating condition would be ideology which operates as a tool for unification and offers direction and motivation to the men. This is highly important and effective since it is beyond the material and operates on the emotive and basal instincts of men. The banded fighting unit with ideology can be better counted on to "bear their swords in the cold".

Sometimes individuals do fight with the conviction of ideologies, you may argue. And I rightfully agree. However, only in a banded fighting unit can ideology truly flourish. This is largely due to the effects of the next differentiating condition which is group-think which reinforces self-right and in turn may blur judgment and increase risk-taking. Another effect of group-think is to heighten "Other-ing" which strengthens group culture. Group-culture is crucial to the banded fighting unit as it unites them mentally and develops exclusive kinship within the unit in the form of a symbolic code of arms and a unit name for example.

I shall move onto the next differentiating condition which is closely related. As man come together to fight in banded units, they come to recognize certain values such as valor, self-sacrifice, cowardice and camaraderie for example. This is the appearance of concepts which are specific to banded fighting.They praise positive values and mock negative ones. Symbolic acknowledgment of positive values displayed in the heat of battle heightens the social hierarchy within the group and also gives birth to the "Warrior's Vanity" where a warrior seeks to win the admiration of his fellow warriors by his display of positive values. There is then the motivation to outdo each other and in turn win their fellow warriors' admiration which actually serves to improve the overall fighting ability of the unit.

The last differentiating condition is the development of group tactics. The need for close-order fighting tactics develops out of a need to kill the enemy without killing your own. Tactics also arises out of man's ability to adapt and observe. Man is a creature of observation and is able to learn from mistakes. Defeat prompts tactical response. Group Tactics (or rather , developing Group tactics) then improve the success rate of a banded fighting unit.

1. Time and Space: We are Energy and Nonlinear time considered

Never mind the fact that energy cannot be destroyed, only changed in form. We are dealing here in non-precision in order to get a finite value for the initial attempts.

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I understand the idea that even when we die, decompose, we no longer exist as being. But as energy, we are simply converted into another form. So now I am wondering how is our being as energy created? I must apply myself more to this.


More exciting things- Objects whose X, Y, Z axis change (objects in motion) do not exist in time linearly. You cannot change your position in the X, Y, and Z axis without also changing your position in T in a nonlinear fashion.

A perceived fixed object does move as a consequence of movements through space (Earth orbital, geologic, etc.) and the force moving the object through time. So, even perceived fixed objects move within the space/time continuum - there are no true stationary objects.

However, the best analogy of an object's existence in space/time is as a ball of yarn gradually increasing in size. There is a beginning (the object's coming into existence). The object continues to exist nonlinearly - the windings of the yarn gradually making the ball larger. At any given moment in the object's existence, time is finite. Always in motion and always with infinite possibilities. And, even though the possibilities for that object are infinite, the object seldom strays from a certain mean - thus the ball of yarn analogy. For example, consider repetitive motions (routines, cycles). These motions repeat, but never precisely - just like adjacent strands in the ball of yarn.

Regardless, unless Tx, Ty, and Tz are entered into the coordinate system, X, Y, and Z are meaningless in the space/time continuum.

Unfortunately, Tx, Ty, Tz, X, Y, Z are a relative coordinate system. They may be minimally adequate to plot from point A to point B in space/time. But, for mapping of the dimension itself, absolute coordinates must be found. For our universe, the absolute coordinates might be derived from the instant of the initiation of the Big Bang, the moment of creation, or whatever other mechanism is discovered for the initiation of the current universe we occupy.



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