The quoted email alleges that a commander urged troops not to be afraid about Iran operations, which Jiang reads as evidence that the war is going badly.
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Fear
The Roman military secret is not numbers but the enemy’s fear that every Roman youth can become a self-sacrificing assassin.
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Key Notes
Jiang distinguishes loving freedom from reckless abandonment: protect against real danger without imposing anxiety as law.
The Roman military secret is not numbers but the enemy’s fear that every Roman youth can become a self-sacrificing assassin.
Ego and fear keep people from Asha because society trains them to care about approval, teacher recommendations, money, status, and political correctness.
Enkidu's death makes Gilgamesh confront his own mortality: despite kingship, achievements, and Uruk's walls, death is waiting for him.
In Turnbull's passage, the Pygmies' fearlessness comes from feeling themselves part of the forest and fearing only what is not of the forest.
Timestamped Evidence
"I am a NCO rank withheld in our unit. This morning, our commander opened up the combat readiness status briefing by urging us to..."
"Stop, okay, afraid. That's what it tells us. They're losing the war, okay? Right? Keep on going."
"No, no, no, no, no. You have to let your child do what your child wants to do. Your child wants to go play..."
"But still doing, but still letting him to do what they want."
"Yeah, okay, look, when you're actually a parent, you know what is safe and what is not safe, okay? Sending your child to the..."
"I am one of hundreds of young Roman men who have sworn to come and kill you. One of us will succeed. I fail..."
"...against you. You have no seried ranks, no pitched battle to fear. The matter will be settled between you alone and each one of..."
"Look, Musius cried, and learned how lightly those regard their bodies who have some great glory in view. Then he plunged his rod with..."
"hundred of us, the foremost amongst the Roman youth, have sworn to attack you in this way. The lot fell to me first. The..."
"...keeps us from asha are two things our ego and our fear we want to be liked by everyone our ego okay and our..."
"and i get shut out all the time on youtube and i know that okay but if i want to achieve asha i need..."
"...he must die, and he does not want to die. He fears death."
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