The Wordsmith: On Writing Implements and Swords

[GHOST68INVINCIBLE 152]

Whats the meaning of this topic? :mellow: (also what heated conversation kevred)

[golden5648 1,686]

 

 

The ability to write - to capture thoughts and lay them out the page - proves a far more resilient and durable thing than any iron bar. Because a sword, powerful as it is, will eventually weaken and rust. It will shatter. Its time to influence events is limited.

 

 

Another well written article... :) But I think I found a mistake in the above paragraph, actually it's not really a mistake!  :P

 

Of course, a sword would not be able to write, and will weaken and rust, but on the other hand the ink of various pens also get finished, so yeah... :)

[Night-Sisters 2,139]

The meaning of the topic is this:

 

I took a creative look at an old saying. That's it.  ^_^

[Night-Sisters 2,139]

Another well written article... :) But I think I found a mistake in the above paragraph, actually it's not really a mistake!  :P

 

Of course, a sword would not be able to write, and will weaken and rust, but on the other hand the ink of various pens also get finished, so yeah... :)

But the words you wrote with the pen could still be there...still affecting events, long after the pen itself is useless.  :huh: Good point though.

[golden5648 1,686]

^ Hmmmmm, yes, you do have a superior point...

[GHOST68INVINCIBLE 152]

But the words you wrote with the pen could still be there...still affecting events, long after the pen itself is useless.  :huh: Good point though.

What if the paper/or anything where the words are written on gets lost,burnt,torn or even washed away by water? :huh:

[Night-Sisters 2,139]

What if the paper/or anything where the words are written on gets lost,burnt,torn or even washed away by water? :huh:

Well, you could take a chip from the Viking's rocks and carve your words into stone :lol:. 

 

Even if a person's writing gets destroyed, as long as that person is still alive, the ideas are still there... it is only when a person dies and his\her work is forgotten that the ideas and words lose all power to influence. 

 

(Em...good answer? I had to think about that one for a bit  ^_^)

[dilsharox 2,395]

nice

[Quarks 2,255]

An example of a pen being mightier than the sword... for you Kev, who knew that someone would right a ton about this.

 

      I want you to think about Napoleon, the famous French dictator... Have you sufficiently thought enough... yes, alright then. What was the first thing to come to your mind? His crimes, what he did for France (Napoleonic code) or did you think of his stature. Yes, that is right, him being a short person with a desire for conquering? 

      If you thought about his stature, you are wrong. Napoleon was average size during his time period (people were shorter back then). Napoleon was deemed as a short man due to English propaganda (aka the pen :ph34r:). They found a portrait of him on a ¨horse¨ next to a ¨mountain¨. In reality, when historians found were the portrait was made, they realized that the mountain was just a big hill. And the the horse was probably a donkey, as it would have climbed better than any horse could have treked it. As I said, English propaganda made it seem that he was a small, angry person who should not rule anybody, as a way to recruit militia men and make the French seem like bad people. This thought is so ingrained in our culture that media always looks at him as being small, even in his movies.

     There is even the Napoleonic Complex, which states that small people feel like they need to control everything about anything. I am not saying this is not true (I know from personal experience), but that the person they named this complex after was not short, just based off propaga. This might be one of the single most effective uses of propaganda, besides the holocaust, but I do not want to go into that, at all. 

     Therefore, the pen can be mightier than the sword, so take that guys. 
 

 

 

Anybody with a sword can behead a writer, but with pen as a metaphoric example of people being able to write and express what they want, then the sword can not win.  :D