Flavius
Since Jan 4, 2003

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“The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its
warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by
fools.”

Pope Urban II banned the use of crossbow against Christians in 1097, and the Second Lateran Council did the same for arbalests in 1139. The crossbow was seen as unchivalrous and as a threat to social order, since a peasant could kill a noble anonymously;

nobles now have nano, where are the crossbows

http://www.soldiers-russia.com/kolobob/terms/crossbow.htm

"I decline to accept the end of man."

"...I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking..."

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/faulkner/faulkner.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/faulkner/faulkner.html&h=410&w=324&sz=11&hl=en&start=4&um=1&usg=__0YiOWWGWVL1eHIPvD3owYtf66GA=&tbnid=8XRZRZ8xWNtu2M:&tbnh=125&tbnw=99&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bend%2Bof%2Bman%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG Well here is the end of man.

well violence is not an answer