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Motivational statement

bunk22

Super *********
pilot
Super Moderator
Typically, yes. Good natured, that is.

You may call it whatever you like. Not easily offended. Obviously. :p

Believe me, the Bunk's being nice..........I've changed my ways, I'm not going to make our new resident NAG cry :)
 

A4sForever

BTDT OLD GUY
pilot
Contributor
Behold:

This letter comes to you in the hope that it will find the place in your mind where rationality resides and where decency and sanity, coupled with a healthy sense of anger, will trigger appropriate action. One of the first facts we should face is that for United States Navy's larcenous plans to succeed, it needs to "dumb down" our society. An uninformed populace is easier to control and manipulate than an educated populace. Within a short period of time, schoolchildren will stop being required to learn the meanings of words like "incomprehensibleness" and "ultramicrochemistry". They will be incapable of comprehending that United States Navy doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. It uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. The law is not just a moral stance. It is the consensus of society on our minimum standards of behavior. Even though United States Navy gives flattering titles to its natural distempers, if we are powerless to make United States Navy answer for its wrongdoings, it is because we have allowed United States Navy to provide snotty wimps with a milieu in which they can "solve" all our problems by talking them to death.
We must overcome the fears that beset us every day of our lives. We must overcome the fear that United States Navy will see to it that all patriotic endeavors are directed down blind alleys, where they end in frustration and discouragement. And to overcome these fears, we must set the stage so that my next letter will begin from a new and much higher level of influence. I don't need to tell you that it's shocking just how quasi-intolerant United States Navy can be. That should be self-evident. What is less evident is that I can easily see United States Navy performing the following lascivious, ghastly acts. First, it will create a new cottage industry around its condescending form of interdenominationalism. Then, it will control your bank account, your employment, your personal safety, and your mind. I do not profess to know how likely is the eventuality I have outlined, but it is a distinct possibility to be kept in mind.
Imagine, as it is not hard to do, that United States Navy's the type of organization who would tell everyone else what to do if it got the chance. It then follows that I frequently talk about how a large percentage of United States Navy's helpers can be termed possession-obsessed. I would drop the subject, except that the key to its soul is its longing for the effortless, irresponsible, automatic consciousness of an animal. United States Navy dreads the necessity, the risk, and the responsibility of rational cognition. As a result, it has a knack for convincing the worst classes of predaceous self-proclaimed arbiters of taste and standards there are that anyone who dares to fight tooth and nail against it can expect to suffer hair loss and tooth decay as a result. That's called marketing. The underlying trick is to use sesquipedalian terms like "undiscriminatingness" and "pseudointernationalistic" to keep its sales pitch from sounding deranged. That's why you really have to look hard to see that I've tried explaining to United States Navy's advocates that the costs of United States Navy's hijinks outweigh their benefits. Unfortunately, it is clear to me in talking to them that they have no comprehension of what I'm saying. I might as well be talking to creatures from Mars. In fact, I'd bet Martians would be more likely to discern that I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to prescribe a course of action. And just let it try and stop me. I, hardheaded cynic that I am, have a hard time trying to reason with people who remain calm when they see United States Navy gain a virtual stranglehold on many facets of our educational system. I am shocked and angered by United States Navy's uneducated improprieties. Such shameful conduct should never be repeated.
I have begged United States Navy's surrogates to step forth and challenge the present and enrich the future. To date, not a single soul has agreed to help in this fashion. Are they worried about how United States Navy might retaliate? We already have our answer; as a respected journalist put it, "Raising the volume, increasing the stridency, or stressing the emotionalism of an argument does not improve its validity". He probably could have added that I suppose it's predictable, though terribly sad, that juvenile layabouts with stronger voices than minds would revert to lackluster behavior. But I recommend paying close attention to the praxeological method developed by the economist Ludwig von Mises and using it as a technique to expose the connections between the wretched problems that face us and the key issues of Trotskyism and obscurantism. The praxeological method is useful in this context because it employs praxeology, the general science of human action, to explain why it's likely that sooner or later United States Navy will impose pudibund new restrictions on society just to satisfy some sort of patronizing drive for power if we don't stop it now. The facts are indisputable, the arguments are impeccable, and the consequences are undeniable. So why does it claim that it would sooner give up money, fame, power, and happiness than perform a heartless act? To answer that question, we need first to consider United States Navy's thought process, which generally takes the following form: (1) United States Navy is the one who will lead us to our great shining future, so (2) its mistakes are always someone else's fault. Therefore, (3) we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as it and thus, (4) going through the motions of working is the same as working. As you can see, United States Navy's reasoning makes no sense, which leads me to believe that the spectrum of views between ageism and onanism is not a line but a circle at which choleric hostes generis humani and malign, effrontive weirdos meet. To properly place United States Navy somewhere in that spectrum, one needs to realize that United States Navy's expedients are destructive. They're morally destructive, socially destructive -- even intellectually destructive. And, as if that weren't enough, some inarticulate slimeballs are actually considering helping United States Navy rip apart causes that others feel strongly about. How quickly such people forget that they were lied to, made fun of, and ridiculed by United States Navy on numerous occasions. You know what we'd have if everybody wanted to blacklist United States Navy's enemies as terrorist sympathizers or traitors? Total chaos.
On several occasions I have heard United States Navy state that it has its moral compass in tact. I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a comment. What I consider far more important, though, is that some of the facts I'm about to present may seem shocking. This they certainly are. However, someone just showed me a memo supposedly written by United States Navy. The memo spells out its plans to appropriate sacred symbols for truculent purposes. If this memo is authentic, it tells us that United States Navy occasionally shows what appears to be warmth, joy, love, or compassion. You should realize, however, that these positive expressions are more feigned than experienced and invariably serve an ulterior motive, such as to break down age-old institutions and customs. I am hurt, furious, and embarrassed. Why am I hurt? Because United States Navy keeps insisting that it has the trappings of deity. To me, there is something fundamentally wrong with that story. Maybe it's that I overheard one of United States Navy's chums say, "Divine ichor flows through United States Navy's veins." This quotation demonstrates the power of language, as it epitomizes the "us/them" dichotomy within hegemonic discourse. As for me, I prefer to use language to shine a light on United States Navy's efforts to rot our minds with the hallucinatory drug of scapegoatism. Why am I furious? Because almost every day, United States Navy outreaches itself in setting new records for arrogance, deceit, and greed. It's indeed breathtaking to watch it. And why am I embarrassed? Because there is no place in this country where we are safe from United States Navy's minions, no place where we are not targeted for hatred and attack. In closing, I consider this letter to be required reading for everyone who still cares that United States Navy has lost contact with reality. Unfortunately, with our nation's media being as controlled as it is, there's no way that this letter will be widely publicized. Therefore, I'm counting on you to pass on this letter to all of your e-mail contacts. Thank you.
Ummmm .... could you repeat that, please?? I missed sentence # 1,227. ..... and thank you.
 

Spekkio

He bowls overhand.
Good stuff I will use

Thanks for the advice.

I actually haven't turned it in. My recruiter was taking his month-long vacation in August, and upon his return could not set up an appointment for me to visit GA until the first week of Oct. (the tour for Sept is this week). I have knocked out MEPS and the ESPQ, though.

I scrapped my old essay, since I basically have to approach it with an entirely new theme. I've been thinking about it and jotting ideas down, but I haven't actually sat and wrote it since, well, my recuiter was on vacation and I felt no pressure to do so. I might actually hold off on finalizing it until after the tour just so I can be more specific. Maybe not though -- he said that even though I don't turn everything in until after the tour, they want my application as sort of a mini-guaruntee that I'm not looking for a free trip to GA as if I couldn't back out afterwards anyway.

Anyway, what I'm thinking of basing my new essay on is "Honor, Courage, and Committment," and what those words mean to me in terms of becoming an officer. Is this likewise too cheesy like the burger example, or would it actually be a good base for an essay?

Brett,

I don't think I'll be submitting that edit -- it's way over the 400 word limit :p.
 
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