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I periodically return to this essay. Still one of my favorite condensations of wisdom online.

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Mar 4Liked by Dave Greene

Lesson 34 is a perfect summation of my time as a pagan. There are things I have learned I cannot even speak of except with a few select folk due to the corrupting nature of what that information is. But through all of the Knowledge I have learned, I cannot say that even one iota of it truly helped me to improve my life on Earth.

Look not into the Warp. It laughs at you, like the wolf laughs at a lamb wandering into the thicket. For it does not know it does not belong there.

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this is like biblical stories for chuds

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This was beautiful.

You understand the setting's essence, and share my hatred of the "iT's JuSt SaTiRe, ChUdS!" crowd.

May 40k remain ever out-of-reach to woke entryists and sundry subversive elements. (I don't think my sanity could take the Emperor being declared gay with Malcador or bossgirl women spess marheens becoming canon or some such woke nonsense...)

The Emperor, he protecc.

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A year later...and here we are.

Girlboss Custodes.

I want to kill, maim and burn.

That is all. Stay strong, brothers.

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it’s “throes” dad gummit

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I've never gotten into 40k, what are its redeeming points?

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Some really cool flavor text:

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Warhammer Fantasy:

"This is a dark age, a bloody age, an age of daemons and of sorcery. It is an age of battle and death,

and of the world’s ending. Amidst all of the fire, flame and fury it is a time, too, of mighty heroes, of

bold deeds and great courage.

At the heart of the Old World sprawls the Empire, the largest and most powerful of the human

realms. Known for its engineers, sorcerers, traders and soldiers, it is a land of great mountains,

mighty rivers, dark forests and vast cities. And from his throne in Altdorf reigns the Emperor KarlFranz, sacred descendant of the founder of these lands. Sigmar, and wielder of his magical

warhammer.

But these are far from civilised times. Across the length and breadth of the Old World, from the

knightly palaces of Bretonnia to ice-bound Kislev in the far north, come rumblings of war. In the

towering World’s Edge Mountains, the orc tribes are gathering for another assault. Bandits and

renegades harry the wild southern lands of the Border Princes. There are rumours of rat-things, the

skaven, emerging from the sewers and swamps across the land. And from the northern wildernesses

there is the ever-present threat of Chaos, of daemons and beastmen corrupted by the foul powers of

the Dark Cods. As the time of battle draws ever near, the Empire needs heroes like never before."

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Warhammer 40k (science fiction):

"IT IS THE 41st millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden

Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by

the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark

Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed

every day, so that he may never truly die.

YET EVEN IN his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the

daemon-infested miasma of the warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the

Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperors will. Vast armies give battle in his name on

uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst His soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bioengineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless

planetary defence forces, the ever-vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to

name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat

from aliens, heretics, mutants – and worse.

TO BE A man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruellest and most

bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science,

for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding,

for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of

carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods."

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Whistle past the fantasies and take notice of how real warfare and geo-political shifts take place . . .

https://les7eb.substack.com/

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All shall rot!

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