This very much reminds me of a quote I remember hearing. Not sure who said it first, but "You cannot truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of great violence. If you aren’t capable of violence, you aren’t peaceful. You’re harmless."
@@quinnhasse9170 No, it was not, its a saying attributed to a Jocko Willink, a retired US Navy SEAL who went on to become a Podcaster and motivational speaker among other things. He is quite well known amongst certain circles. Any HFY author claiming to have come up with it is lying, unless they are Willink themselves, which is doubtful
Japan start to remember of it lately. And stop to wait for the help of USA for protection, understanding they NEED to be able to protect themself if they want to remain peaceful (tough US people really need to remember this was them, who have forced Japan to add that to their Constitution 🙄 And ask them if revise and change their own as worked lately 😂)
@@atanaciogarza7176 Peterson derives a variant that expresses the same idea from a Bible verse, Matthew 5:5, "the meek shall inherit the Earth" more properly (at least according to him, anyway, it's dubious, and I personally believe the common "meek" is more correct) translated as something like "those who carry swords but choose not to use them shall inherit the Earth". It's a universal idea you can see reflected across cultures, time and space, only variation in the wording all expressing the same idea. Like "As above, so below", an ancient Egyptian precursor to alchemy, mirroring the Chinese concept or Yin and Yang, and having some similarities to the Christian "As it is in Heaven, so it shall be on Earth". Universal ideas, invented in cultures worlds apart.
We can predict the future, but it's all Trance-like states, predictive algorithms, and pattern recognitions. Heck, we predicted "Facetime" in the 80s, and look were we are now.
A king asked the Oracle how the war would turn out if he attacked his enemy. She said there would be a great victory. And there was. For the other side.
@janet6421 I always wondered if when she said *Great* Kingdom if she put the "Great" in air quotes? Of course, the King would have *no idea* what air quotes would mean, so he just assumed it was some Oracle thing.
Someone needs to tell the Xibellian's that on a class 14 death world you don't plan for things to go right, you plan for everything to go wrong and after that, everything takes care of itself.
I know we are primitive, but calling us imbeciles is a bit harsh. Here is a like and comment for the story, for entertaining me, to help your channel grow, and get you the recognition you deserve.
I mean...when a species sees being able to predict the future as a form of higher intellect, of course a species completely devoid of this ability would be seen as imbeciles.
@@akmon3490 Really though...if you could look, let's say, up to 10 years into the future. Why would you need to learn from the past? You can just look into the future and see if what you're planning on doing will have a bad outcome or not. Us humans HAVE to learn from the past, because we have no way to see what the future will hold.
Murphy's More General Law: "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way." Humanity lives and dies by the understanding that Murphy's Law is as absolute as the Laws of Thermodynamics. We are prepared for war at all times because the worst way anything can go wrong is for it to spiral into a war that you aren't prepared for.
@@GabrielArchon It can't be, because proving Murphy's Law Wrong falls under the paradigm of anything that can go wrong eventually will. So it's either a paradox or a recursion.
For The Narrator, For the Algorithm! Wonderful story of an alien race of prophets and seers mistaking our over-the-top thorough-ness for future sight. Don't need to see the future if you know about everything that can lead to it!
There was a tribe in the Arabian peninsula back at the time of the Islamic expansion named "Bani Hellal"( Bani= sons of / Hellal= Crescent Moon and is also the name of a person) wich I'm a decent of . They were nomadic in nature going form oasis to oasis raising their camels and sheep during most of the year and selling wool and milk in the winter and summer caravans . Their way of live blessed them with excellent physics that helped them fight well because the desert if full of dangerous predators and they made excellent soldiers. As when an new campaign would come they would always participate and win decisive victory's in important battles
How did you know to send such a large fleet? Oh. Shrug... *everyone* wanted target practice. Well then, how did you know you're planet would be safe? Oh, well you see, the *larger* fleet stayed home. However, they did call *dibs* for the next one.
The walking nightmare that is humanity proving once again why it is a walking nightmare. A millennia of killing each other would be bound to create some predictable patterns to follow.
The past can often give predictors of the future. Those that do not learn from past mistakes are doomed to repeat those mistakes again. Also, there is no such thing as "over-kill", just preparedness or defeat.
Humans are not seers (in general) we're planners. Now I personally have had dreams that came true, but they're rare, erratic, random, about nothing useful, and generally not something I remember until it happens and as such is useless.
I call them 'Snapshot visions'. They only last about 60 seconds, and it's NEVER anything useful. Half a conversation I'm going to have, a page or two from a book I'm going to read, a frustrating puzzle from a video game I haven't played yet, how many envelopes will be in the mailbox the next time I check it, what the first song that plays on the radio I'll hear the next day....but though it's mildly entertaining, it's not helpful. Once in a blue moon I'll see something dramatic such as a BAD car accident or someone getting assaulted in one way or another....but so far those turn out a few years later to be scenes from movies or TV shows even if the people involved have familiar faces at the time.
Not so. I am a gardener. I can effectively use just about any weapon you can feed a bullet into. I achieved #1 contender at state level mma. I’m trained to knife fight. Also hatchet, sword, staff/spear, and lethal hand to hand technique. In the garden. The gardener IS the warrior
It's not future sight. It's just foresight and hindsight meeting. That's all. We've basically pulled every imaginable trick on each other, and had every imaginable oversight happen, and every time a new trick got pulled or an inexpected thing happened, it got noted and a way to counter or prepare for it was thought up and put in readiness to prevent it from happening again.
Anyone can write anything, but I assert the following is true. Both my wife and I are immortal seers. The irritating thing being everyone I know that claims this is either mistaken ir lying other than us. When you state to within 15 min when someone will die 2 weeksvin advance, and have never, ever, been wrong about a prediction, come talk to me. However, it's not something we control. It happens, often years go by before one of us sees or speaks the future. Being immortal is not required for this, but it is comforting.
Humans don't know ahead of time if things go wrong, or when things go wrong, but we have a pretty good idea of how things go wrong, and we make the effort to not do those things. Though, it wouldn't surprise me if, in a universe with divination, our luck was more than just random chance. We simply never realized how lucky we were, because we were always pitted against people just as lucky as us, so we had to put in the leg work to prepare better. We might have the same level of intuition as any other species, but that doesn't matter if both sides in a conflict have the same level of intuition, and are actively working to subvert the other side.
My favorite quote. I was raised with a similar one and raised my children by it. Which is probably why I went into the military. That's what drives me as I do my kata.
This might kinda apply to my younger brother. For like 8 years he was addicted to StarCraft 2. He got to the point where pros would sometimes practice against him to test out new strategies. But not because he was that good. He was really good, no doubt. (won some "amateur" tournaments) But the reason they wanted to practice against him was because of his unpredictable but effective tactics. :P
I love that so many of us live this quote.. "It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war" .. Xeno's beware
Samwise Gamgee: "Am I a joke to you?"
everyone fighting in the ruined gardens of the imperial palace during the final days of the horus heresy: "YOU THINK?!????!?!"
Based unfathomably zased.
"How did you know where to send your fleets, what maneuvers to execute?"
"Experience."
"Against each other?"
"Pretty much."
He should have answered; "Pretty much and war games/exercises."
Pretty much, and a lot of simulations against a very large variety of imaginary opponents.
Fleet commander - Actually Hans flipped a coin.
Hans - I CALLED HEADS!!!!!!
Fleet commander - God damnit he's going to be riding that for awhile.
They should've told her about the past wars namely WW1, WW2, Vietnam War, Cold War, Vietnam War, Ukraine-Russian War, and the Israel-Palestinian wars
"Why do you have so many soldiers and guns?"
Humans stare uncomprehendingly.
"Wait, do you not?"
This very much reminds me of a quote I remember hearing. Not sure who said it first, but "You cannot truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of great violence. If you aren’t capable of violence, you aren’t peaceful. You’re harmless."
i think it was another hfy story from this channel
don't ask for the name, i don't remember either
@@quinnhasse9170 No, it was not, its a saying attributed to a Jocko Willink, a retired US Navy SEAL who went on to become a Podcaster and motivational speaker among other things. He is quite well known amongst certain circles. Any HFY author claiming to have come up with it is lying, unless they are Willink themselves, which is doubtful
Japan start to remember of it lately. And stop to wait for the help of USA for protection, understanding they NEED to be able to protect themself if they want to remain peaceful (tough US people really need to remember this was them, who have forced Japan to add that to their Constitution 🙄 And ask them if revise and change their own as worked lately 😂)
Wasn't it Dr. Jordan Peterson?
@@atanaciogarza7176
Peterson derives a variant that expresses the same idea from a Bible verse, Matthew 5:5, "the meek shall inherit the Earth" more properly (at least according to him, anyway, it's dubious, and I personally believe the common "meek" is more correct) translated as something like "those who carry swords but choose not to use them shall inherit the Earth".
It's a universal idea you can see reflected across cultures, time and space, only variation in the wording all expressing the same idea. Like "As above, so below", an ancient Egyptian precursor to alchemy, mirroring the Chinese concept or Yin and Yang, and having some similarities to the Christian "As it is in Heaven, so it shall be on Earth". Universal ideas, invented in cultures worlds apart.
We can't see the future, so we just plan for all possibilities we can conceive of, then throw in some additional countermeasures as a "just in case".
and watch some scifi series and read a few book series
And have half a dozen competing systems working against each other, ready to fill the vacuum when another system slips up.
We can predict the future, but it's all Trance-like states, predictive algorithms, and pattern recognitions.
Heck, we predicted "Facetime" in the 80s, and look were we are now.
"What if...?"
A king asked the Oracle how the war would turn out if he attacked his enemy. She said there would be a great victory. And there was. For the other side.
I thought she told him a great kingdom would fall. It was his.
@janet6421
I always wondered if when she said *Great* Kingdom if she put the "Great" in air quotes?
Of course, the King would have *no idea* what air quotes would mean, so he just assumed it was some Oracle thing.
Someone needs to tell the Xibellian's that on a class 14 death world you don't plan for things to go right, you plan for everything to go wrong and after that, everything takes care of itself.
I do love that quote, as well as "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum", (If you want peace, prepare for war).
"It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war"... unless your name is Sam Gamgee, then you become the true hero of LOTR.
I FUCKING LOVE THE "HUMANS ARE JUST TECHNO BARBARIAN APES IN SPACE" PLOT POINTS
I know we are primitive, but calling us imbeciles is a bit harsh. Here is a like and comment for the story, for entertaining me, to help your channel grow, and get you the recognition you deserve.
I mean...when a species sees being able to predict the future as a form of higher intellect, of course a species completely devoid of this ability would be seen as imbeciles.
A truth hurts.
A human is smart. But as a race we are imbeciles...
Yet they can't learn from the past and rely only on future sight😅
@@akmon3490 Really though...if you could look, let's say, up to 10 years into the future. Why would you need to learn from the past? You can just look into the future and see if what you're planning on doing will have a bad outcome or not.
Us humans HAVE to learn from the past, because we have no way to see what the future will hold.
@@Sanquinity problem is, it's pretty obvious if you think about it a little.
But doing what you should isn't often what you wish to do...
How did you know to prepare for war?
Murphy's Law of Engineering. "Anything that can go wrong eventually will. Prepare accordingly."
Murphy's More General Law: "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way." Humanity lives and dies by the understanding that Murphy's Law is as absolute as the Laws of Thermodynamics. We are prepared for war at all times because the worst way anything can go wrong is for it to spiral into a war that you aren't prepared for.
@@monicaclark8453 Mostly because it has not been proven wrong... So far.
@@GabrielArchon It can't be, because proving Murphy's Law Wrong falls under the paradigm of anything that can go wrong eventually will.
So it's either a paradox or a recursion.
For The Narrator, For the Algorithm!
Wonderful story of an alien race of prophets and seers mistaking our over-the-top thorough-ness for future sight. Don't need to see the future if you know about everything that can lead to it!
I love the Delphi and Delhi misunderstanding.
Predicted where the speech would take palce. Hilarious
And with humans the warrior can be a gardener
There was a tribe in the Arabian peninsula back at the time of the Islamic expansion named "Bani Hellal"( Bani= sons of / Hellal= Crescent Moon and is also the name of a person) wich I'm a decent of . They were nomadic in nature going form oasis to oasis raising their camels and sheep during most of the year and selling wool and milk in the winter and summer caravans . Their way of live blessed them with excellent physics that helped them fight well because the desert if full of dangerous predators and they made excellent soldiers. As when an new campaign would come they would always participate and win decisive victory's in important battles
I feel like I've heard this one before. But then again Agro has done so many stories he could get away with a re-deux every so often.
Wow, lots of yall waiting an hour and a half early. Agro you got some dedicated fans
The city is on day 3 of shut down because of ice storms. I can't do much.
Fair enough
How did you know to send such a large fleet?
Oh. Shrug... *everyone* wanted target practice.
Well then, how did you know you're planet would be safe?
Oh, well you see, the *larger* fleet stayed home.
However, they did call *dibs* for the next one.
That was the only thing missing from this story 😂😂
The walking nightmare that is humanity proving once again why it is a walking nightmare. A millennia of killing each other would be bound to create some predictable patterns to follow.
Yay time for squirrels
oh i loved the story. for a minute i thought she was a grey when she said we've met before
thanks for the narration
For the writer, for the narrator, for the algorithm!😁
The past can often give predictors of the future. Those that do not learn from past mistakes are doomed to repeat those mistakes again. Also, there is no such thing as "over-kill", just preparedness or defeat.
Humans are not seers (in general) we're planners.
Now I personally have had dreams that came true, but they're rare, erratic, random, about nothing useful, and generally not something I remember until it happens and as such is useless.
If it was not for all those dreams that dont come true, and the uncertain timeframe for those that do. It would be very usefull ;)
Yes, they predict it perfectly, but it's just you talking to friends. They're not actually useful.
@@peterbonucci9661 Or something I read, or just a short snippet of normal life...
Desja Fo
I call them 'Snapshot visions'. They only last about 60 seconds, and it's NEVER anything useful. Half a conversation I'm going to have, a page or two from a book I'm going to read, a frustrating puzzle from a video game I haven't played yet, how many envelopes will be in the mailbox the next time I check it, what the first song that plays on the radio I'll hear the next day....but though it's mildly entertaining, it's not helpful.
Once in a blue moon I'll see something dramatic such as a BAD car accident or someone getting assaulted in one way or another....but so far those turn out a few years later to be scenes from movies or TV shows even if the people involved have familiar faces at the time.
Thank you for the reading
Not being able to predict the future means you learn to make plans for every possible outcome you can think of. :P
Great story! Thanks for giving it a voice!
For the algorithm, for the squirrel, for the disembodied voice.
Being the warrior in a garden means you're better prepared for what may come.
Awesome narration! I enjoyed that.Ty
Not so. I am a gardener. I can effectively use just about any weapon you can feed a bullet into. I achieved #1 contender at state level mma. I’m trained to knife fight. Also hatchet, sword, staff/spear, and lethal hand to hand technique. In the garden. The gardener IS the warrior
I really liked this one.
Thank you.
It's not future sight.
It's just foresight and hindsight meeting. That's all.
We've basically pulled every imaginable trick on each other, and had every imaginable oversight happen, and every time a new trick got pulled or an inexpected thing happened, it got noted and a way to counter or prepare for it was thought up and put in readiness to prevent it from happening again.
Ad Nauseaum
Thank you for the video.
I like to think somewhere out in the universe an alien translator is listening to your stories and is scared shitless of humans. lol
Great entertainment. Thanks to the creative author and double thanks to the talented voice actor. All praise to the algorithm that controls all.
For the Skald and his family
Anyone can write anything, but I assert the following is true. Both my wife and I are immortal seers. The irritating thing being everyone I know that claims this is either mistaken ir lying other than us. When you state to within 15 min when someone will die 2 weeksvin advance, and have never, ever, been wrong about a prediction, come talk to me. However, it's not something we control. It happens, often years go by before one of us sees or speaks the future.
Being immortal is not required for this, but it is comforting.
Humans don't know ahead of time if things go wrong, or when things go wrong, but we have a pretty good idea of how things go wrong, and we make the effort to not do those things.
Though, it wouldn't surprise me if, in a universe with divination, our luck was more than just random chance. We simply never realized how lucky we were, because we were always pitted against people just as lucky as us, so we had to put in the leg work to prepare better. We might have the same level of intuition as any other species, but that doesn't matter if both sides in a conflict have the same level of intuition, and are actively working to subvert the other side.
Greetings, Mentlegent!
For the Rhyhtm that is Algo
It's called "prepare for the worst". Props for the alien POV, though!
yea the saying at the end is so true
My favorite quote. I was raised with a similar one and raised my children by it. Which is probably why I went into the military. That's what drives me as I do my kata.
manifest destiny to the stars, the true future for humanity. american, and human, jingoism knows no bounds
There's a saying that the best never fears the second-best.
The best fears the worst, because there's no way to know what those idiots will do!
This might kinda apply to my younger brother. For like 8 years he was addicted to StarCraft 2. He got to the point where pros would sometimes practice against him to test out new strategies. But not because he was that good. He was really good, no doubt. (won some "amateur" tournaments) But the reason they wanted to practice against him was because of his unpredictable but effective tactics. :P
I enjoyed this one. For the algorithm.
that was a good one
Seers learn from the future. Those possessing wisdom learn from the past.
For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), for the Holographic Voice!
Good story. I'm struck that she was so completely, blindly clueless about what she was seeking. Hilarious and painful.
Cool
I don't know how many people will pick up on this but the author made a hard jab at China lol.
For the algorithm 👽👾🤖🌌🛰🚀🛸🌠
Unless Delphi Station is a verb, I think you forgot a preposition.
I'm not even a good gardener.... so i concentrated on the other skill
A like and comment for the nest and algo
The most unbelievable part if this story is that India is the leader of the most important space station humanity has. 😂
cool
"AleGindro MigWhale"?!?! 😂😂😂😂😂
Oh Squirrel... Don't ever stop being you, good sir..😂😂😂
"Alejandro Miguel" is pronounced "Ale Handro Mig ale"
It's Spanish, my dear Narrator.
How about you put up a credit for your art work?
Credit to what, midjourneyAI?
I don't know which AI was used to generate it, but it saves a lot of time making spacey thumnails.
Sure credit where credit is due. I'd like to know where he get's his art.
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Not best story. Alien incredibly mentally hobbled. Also, final reveal was meh.
Alright, 9/10 these storied are better with your voice OFF. 10/10 they are pretty boring.