On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 08:04:37 -0500, Eisboch wrote:

Doug Kanter wrote:
Now, this is interesting, jps. This is something I don't have a problem
with. If you're going into battle, you have to go in crazy, if possible.
Hopefully crazier than the people you're going to be fighting. However you
reach that state of mind doesn't matter. I think it was a year or so ago
that Time Magazine ran an article on the fear felt by soldiers going into
battle. I've never been there, but I'd imagine that if you have a way of
reducing that fear, or channeling the adrenaline in some other way, you just
do it. If nothing else, it makes you a more valuable member of a team if
you're able to think a little more clearly.

When you realize those mortars and bullets whizzing around your head
were meant for you, a lot of academic philosophy goes right out the window.

What really gets to you is that some of those aren't meant for you,
but you are in the line of fire.

That puts a whole different perspective on the subject. :)

Later,

Tom