User:Walt0042
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“If you didn't make the time available to take part in the planning, you sure as heck don't deserve the time to complain about what those that did... decided.”
During more than a few years of gaming, I’ve adopted a set of ‘rules.’
First A Thought or Two:
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. - Anon.
(While) we cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring (our) own future if we remember who our friends are. - Henry Kissinger '
As such, I have previously published My Three Laws of Alliance (with apologies to the late, great Isaac Asimov).
A Foundation To Live By: My Three Laws of Alliance are:
1 - My Comrades - first and foremost!
2 - Myself - a damn close second.
3 - All Others - can go scratch...
Oh yes - there is a 'zeroeths' law (apologies again to Mr. Asimov) that precedes and encompasses the other three:
0 - Death To All Traitors - Shai Dorsai!
And, there is even a maxim I follow:
If I was so busy that I didn’t make the time available to take part in a plan’s creation, you’ll never hear me second-guessing what my comrades decided.
After all:
If I haven’t made it a point to help - then I sure as hell don’t deserve the time to bitch! - Shai Dorsai !
p.s. - so what the hell is Shai Dorsai?
Science Fiction writer Gordon R. Dickson has created a future history of humanity's physical and spiritual development formally known as "The Childe Cycle," and informally known as the Dorsai series. Set centuries in the future, we see the development of the three Splinter Cultures, and the Others:
The Dorsai - incomparable professional solders (ah-ha).
The Friendlies - men and woman of enduring faith.
The Exotics - philosophers and scientists who seek to know all there is to know.
The Others - Dahno and Bleys Ahrens interstellar organization.
p.p.s - so???
"Shai Dorsai!" is a battle cry that encompasses: "Never Forget - Never Again - Ourselves Alone - Brothers to the End - Death before Defeat - Death before Dishonor"
--Walt 11:58, 20 March 2008 (PDT)
