Posts by William Castillo19

Ugh, honestly? I am just totally over Coldplay...😁

Indira..." 👍 "

What’s the absolute, most epic, most legendary, aaaaaaa!

Well, for me, it's gotta be Pink Floyd....

Btw—this is totally random, but I don't want to start a whole new thread just for this... was there some guitarist named Dujo in Medina back in the day? What did he look like...

Yesterday at the Rock Club in Indianapolis, some band playing his style was on stage and man, they were just pathetic. Honestly, some band from Des Moines that was opening for them totally crushed it—those guys absolutely wiped the floor with them!
Not even big-name musicians, but they played so incredibly well....

I'm totally obsessed with it too... honestly, she has the most incredible curves in the entire world—seriously, talk about dangerous chemistry!

boldeagle3 said:😕
Come on, this isn't exactly the Ladies' corner 😁

Hey, I know! That's exactly why I'm begging you guys to just move this whole thread over there.

Michael Mitchell said:So, this is one of those girl-centric threads, huh?

Man, who’s the cutest, who’s the sweetest, who would you just devour... blah, blah, blah... honestly, you just gotta get used to stuff like this! It's like, instead of actually getting things done—you know, cleaning up or whipping up a decent meal—they just sit around talking about this stuff...

Tom Jones! Seriously, the guy is a total sex bomb!😂 😂 😂

Tempion said:Yeah, so what? I mean, I'm bringing him up... all three works included...

Oh, come on... no way... it's just incredible... honestly, the movie is absolutely divine and stunningly beautiful. It’s so original, and there's even this subtle touch of irony in there, too. That Jackson guy is a straight-up genius.... he really showed us something totally fresh in the world of cinema.

feralhawk10 said:Look, I get why someone would argue about Honor, but honestly? That whole concept is just pure fanaticism.
You can see almost the exact same thing happening today with those suicide bombers. The only real difference back then was that they were mostly targeting military forces. But if you really sit down and draw the parallel, you'll see it's all just indoctrination from childhood and blind faith in a deity instead of actually using your own brain.

Wait, I didn't even say... I mean, my whole point—if I'm drawing a conclusion here—is that they are fanatics! And yeah, that mindset has carried on right up to the present day, even if there are some tiny differences between them and what we see now...

Even for the Japanese people early on, the idea of suicide missions wasn't exactly easy to swallow... oh man, imagine how you'd handle watching a movie like that... aaaaaah!

feralhawk10, I’ll get that tape sent over to you...😁

I actually wrote this a while back for my high school graduation project based on that documentary... it was kind of a rough draft, you know? :

"By May, almost all the original volunteers were gone, which meant they desperately needed new pilots and new officers to keep that samurai spirit alive. Not everyone could be a Kamikaze pilot, though. Those with a lot of experience had to step up and look after the others—they basically ended up in the Kamikaze administration wing.
Toward the end of the war, they even started forming new Kamikaze units out of students who had maybe only 30 hours of flight training under their belts. And get this—even these new recruits stuck to that whole code of voluntary self-sacrifice. All those stories about pilots being drugged or tied down? Total fiction. They went willingly.
Every single day, volunteers would step forward to fly. Some guys would constantly try to put their names
on the list, but they’d always be crossed off because the brass needed them to train the next batch of pilots.
As they headed into battle, the Kamikaze had this song they’d sing right before takeoff:

“Farewell to the little green island.
Goodbye to my hometown.
Goodbye to the hands waving white handkerchiefs.
Our golden flower on our pilot caps shines just like our spirit.
Oh blue sky, great big sky, you are receiving us, brave pilots.”

Some of them would sing that song not just once, but four times in a row! Which means, hey, not every Kamikaze was "lucky" enough to die instantly; plenty of them actually survived.
The only way to stop a Kamikaze was total destruction. They were moving so fast that you had to wipe them out within 20 seconds of them getting close.
The data shows that among Allied anti-aircraft gunners, cases of PTSD more than doubled.
At one point in May, the Allied commanders were actually seriously considering pulling back from Okinawa because of the Kamikaze.
Americans took the biggest hit. Four British carriers had steel decks, but the American ones were much more vulnerable since they used wooden decks.
A Kamikaze plane could dive straight into the hangars and torch hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel.
Eventually, even among the Kamikaze ranks, things started sliding into neglect and disobedience.
Officers were ordered to crack down and enforce discipline.

Okinawa fell on June 23, 1945. It was the first time in 12 weeks that the Allies could finally sit down and assess the damage.

Okinawa, April 1 – June 23:
-Number of Kamikaze planes launched - 1915
-Allied ships sunk - 36
-Allied ships damaged - 368
-Allied soldiers wounded - 4800
-Allied soldiers killed - 5000

I've lost it... I don't know where the rest of it is...😕

And listen, Mr. Miller... it's obvious you don't really get it...
Unlike Westerners, who can be a bit soft, people in the East—especially the Japanese people—valued Honor above everything else.

Look, I don't know where you grew up, probably just some neighborhood with your buddies and whatever, blah, blah, blah... but Japanese people were simply raised differently. Dying for the Emperor and for something sacred? That was considered an Honor!

You can't just brush that off! That's a completely different culture! It's why Japanese companies are leaders in business today—every single worker is incredibly loyal to their company... unlike our strikers back home... which seems crazy to us, but you have to look at all the factors involved.

How am I supposed to explain the Revolutionary War to you if we look at it through our own lens? Like, if soldiers just stood in line waiting for someone to fire, then they fire, then they wait again... it doesn't work like that.
These are historical events that shouldn't be judged solely by our perspective, otherwise, they'll make absolutely no sense at all.

Ugh, you’re really making me go all the way down to the basement for this, aren't you? I am seriously the laziest person alive... but alright, fine! Let me go dig around and check for you.

George Cruz65 said:Sleepy Hollow. And just Tim Burton movies in general.

Not exactly deep thoughts here... but yeah, I'm totally with you!👍

Man, I’m just sitting here tapping my fingers, waiting for someone—anyone!—to finally bring up LOTR or ROTK...🙄

brightorca19 said:Kamikaze or suicide pilots would voluntarily crash planes loaded with explosives straight into American ships to sink them. These suicide pilots also operated flying bombs, which were mostly launched from bomber aircraft. The Kamikaze sank a massive number of American vessels.

This was how the orders went for the Japanese Kamikaze:
"Returning alive is not an option. Your mission demands both steadfastness and your death. Your bodies will perish, but your spirit will live on. The death of one among you will lead to the birth of millions more. Do not neglect anything that might harm your boots or your health. You must leave behind no cause for regret to haunt you for eternity. And finally, do not rush toward your end. If you cannot find your target, return. Perhaps next time you will have a better opportunity. Choose the death that will achieve the greatest impact."

Here’s what American Vice Admiral Brown thought about the Kamikaze:
"I doubt there is anyone among us who was there, on the Philippines or on Okinawa, who could fully describe our mixed emotions while watching a man perish—a man who decided to die just to destroy us in that very act. There was something in that sight, so foreign to our Western philosophy, that felt extraordinary. We watched every Kamikaze pilot plunge downward with more detached horror than the usual dread of people witnessing a terrible event. For a moment, we would forget ourselves, desperately trying to grasp the thoughts of that man up there..."

What do you guys think? Were the Kamikaze fanatics chasing something they could only achieve this way—basically fools following their leaders' ideals—or were they heroes who died with Honor fighting for their homeland?

I actually did my senior history project on the Kamikaze! And if I remember right, you pulled this stuff from that documentary that was on American TV ages ago... it was such a great doc! I actually have it recorded, and honestly, I think it does the best job explaining what the Kamikaze really were...

That kind of devotion and Honor! Seriously, if you haven't seen the documentary, it covers absolutely everything. If anyone's interested... shoot me a PM.

Being a Kamikaze was considered the ultimate Honor back then. My favorite part is this one true story at the end of the show—basically, not just anyone could become a Kamikaze. It could only be someone who had no one left, you know? Like, no family to mourn them. There was this one story about a Kamikaze, his wife, and three daughters (if I recall correctly) who took their own lives so he could fulfill that role.

It's wild how much that meant to them.

Btw, isn't this supposed to be a history thread?

Doesn't matter, it's a good one.

Seriously, this is one of my absolute favorite movies ever!

That whole vibe... honestly, only Polanski could pull that off. And yeah, it’s based on what happened to his wife—that whole Helter Skelter madness...

It is a REAL vampire movie!
I mean, I don't have a single complaint, except maybe that music... oh man, it gets to me!

I just love it!👍

Man, I just had this sudden, heavy wave of nostalgia hit me... kind of a bummer, honestly.

Thinking about "C'est la Vie" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer... though, wait, I'm pretty sure it was just Lake.

🙂

Cripple said:I'm not crying... I just have Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb on repeat right now.

There is no pain, you are receding....

Radiohead-High and Dry
Leonard Cohen-In My Secret Life
Ugh... I just can't even right now!

Bee said:So, you're in Germany, right? And you're on one of those two-seater seats—you know, like a loveseat or whatever—and you sit down, and then suddenly, either you've hit the jackpot or you're stuck next to some Chinese person who smells like they just ate an entire clove of garlic. Good luck with that!

Honestly, I'd take the garlic breath any day over sitting next to some Canadian person, man, what a nightmare...