tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6862548434607769576.post957332047767850827..comments2022-11-04T09:58:53.818-04:00Comments on Warfare and the Book of Mormon: The Troops of a Father and Son: Impact and ImplicationsMorgan Deanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09480320552458246756noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6862548434607769576.post-8521722549774972922009-07-03T16:26:50.697-04:002009-07-03T16:26:50.697-04:00Thanks for the questions.
I said "perscript...Thanks for the questions. <br /><br />I said "perscriptive" because the Wu-Tzu was written to instruct. "Descriptive" comes from noticing similar instructions within a historical narrative. So they are two different kinds of texts by nature. If we had a text called "The Military Theory of Mormon", this would be much easier. But as it stands I have to notice what Morgan Deanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09480320552458246756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6862548434607769576.post-81205265280371345612009-07-03T13:28:59.338-04:002009-07-03T13:28:59.338-04:00The SoH had a cultural fortification similar to th...<i> The SoH had a cultural fortification similar to the ancient Chinese and they stated it to their father general. I don't feel the statement about their mothers is a major aberration from the text of Wu-Tzu. The Chinese text is a prescriptive military tract. While the BoM contains a description of events. In the transfer from prescriptive theory to descriptive narrative we should expect SmallAxehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07018982302066366795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6862548434607769576.post-39680895945149756072009-07-01T21:42:59.719-04:002009-07-01T21:42:59.719-04:00Authoritarian is a tough word because it has such ...Authoritarian is a tough word because it has such negative connotations. The Chinese were very much so, and the Nephites much more than most members think. Nephite society was less influenced by legalism than Chinese society but they were not a democracy. So there is a similarity between the two but there are many differences as well. There is little indication that the Nephite government wasMorgan Deanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09480320552458246756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6862548434607769576.post-6949952196976393292009-07-01T20:01:12.301-04:002009-07-01T20:01:12.301-04:00Wow, thanks Morgan for engaging my earlier comment...Wow, thanks Morgan for engaging my earlier comments. I'll be brief here, but I have more I hope to say later.<br /><br />One of the constant critiques about the Chinese tradition is that it is authoritarian, or perhaps paternalistic in the example under discussion. Sons should unquestionably obey their fathers. Of course, this is an over simplification; but I do believe this is an accurate SmallAxehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07018982302066366795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6862548434607769576.post-75162600701102778772009-07-01T18:33:44.372-04:002009-07-01T18:33:44.372-04:00Thanks for the comment David. I am teaching a cou...Thanks for the comment David. I am teaching a course on Japanese history this fall so I should have some good Samurai quotes in a few months. I will look up the book you mention as well.Morgan Deanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09480320552458246756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6862548434607769576.post-89793322075573502972009-07-01T18:06:39.266-04:002009-07-01T18:06:39.266-04:00Have you read Col. Dave Grossman's book 'O...Have you read Col. Dave Grossman's book 'On Killing"?<br />It has some of the most fascinating things I have ever read in relation to killing and obeying an authority figure/doing what is right.<br /><br />And when it comes to poetry, keep it coming. We need to be in balance like a samurai. To not study out all things would have us become stiff-necked.<br /><br />When it comes to nephite blood spartan hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17092519999184585295noreply@blogger.com