Am I a bad person because...

[everythingsxen]

I have a grim fascination with war? War in general, the specific, the past, the current, the future, and the abstract. In many ways I have a "love" of war. Obviously I feel horrible for the people who have to die and suffer; no one really deserves to die, at least over stupid things that wars are typically fought for. But still it remains, this love I have of war. Like watching fire.. I cannot take my eyes off it. I appreciate all it's nuances, from the strategic to the tactical. One part of me says that I am a sick and fucked up person to sit and read or watch with such awe and wonder, another part cries out that innocent people are dying and suffering, another part still says that I am simply being a human descended of warrior stock and that war is in our blood, and the last part simply says.. just watch.. consider the next move... see the tactics... see the plan... watch the war-machines as the grind across they landscape.

*sigh*

:nuke:

[Suich]

1. I have a friend who is the same...has all kinds of books on different wars

weapons, strategies, etc. As it happens, I just got done watching "The White Countess." Why in the world did Japan invade China in 1938? Did they not know how big China was or what? I understand Pearl Harbor from a military standpoint but China makes no sense to me. Help, please!

:hi:

[Broken_Hero]

2. same here

but its my dad...he served in vietnam, and really doesn't have a war fetish persay, but he does love war movies, seeing war monuments, and things like that, and loves to read up on those events...and of course, he always says "if you don't learn from the mistakes of the past, you are bound to repeat those mistakes"...good advice, no?

[AlienGirl]

3. You have more issues than the National Geographic

...but that's okay, I have more baggage than LaGuardia. :loveya:

Tucker

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. I have two DVDs from Netflix right now

"Great Blunders of World War II," volumes I and II.

So I'm not only obsessed with war, I'm obsessed with failure. :cry:

[AlienGirl]

5. ...Could be worse...

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. How?

:shrug:

[AlienGirl]

7. You coulda been on the losing side!

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. HA!

Not me. :patriot:

[AlienGirl]

9. So, see? It's not all that bad!

You've got it easy compared to other people I could name... :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Including some I mighta shot at

[Placebo]

11. Well SOMEBODY has to write all the war books...

and make all the war documentaries. :)

[AlienGirl]

12. I am fascinated by natural disasters, myself

Give me a book or movie about comet hitting Earth, or supervolcano blowing, or ice age setting in rapidly touching off a hemisphere-wide superstorm, or pretty much any other huge disaster, and I am happy.

It doesn't mean I really want a natural disaster to happen. I just like a sort of reverse escapism: stories about things so mind-blowingly universally destructive point out to me how good things are for me right now. Also it gives me a chance to think through what I'll do when The Big One (whether earthquake, flu, or whatever) does hit, because I have been certain it will since I was a kid. (Why am I so sure? Something in my baggage tells me...)

Tucker

[Jeroen]

13. Consider yourself lucky and pray your fascination will last a lifetime

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

14. Not at all.

Lots of people are fascinated by serial killers or the people on Jerry Springer, that doesn't make them sick. There are many, many extremely interesting facets to a war, no matter (and including) how gruesome it can be.

What WOULD make you sick is hoping for war (or in Bush's case, starting one) because of that fascination.

[taterguy]

15. This thread needs pics of killing machines

God I love the new Air and Space Museum