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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

I use my gut instinct a great deal. Believe it has a lot to do with what kind of life experiences you have had. I then try to think things out though basd on whatever evidence I have gathered with my sense, through the Internet, as well as talking to other people.

It also seems to play a huge part in military history. An Officer and a Movie: Gut Instincts in Battle : Video : Military Channel

Thanks. Very interesting. Read below about Gen. George Patton....

SCENE:

Three men in W.W. II uniforms (two Generals) traveling down a North African road in a jeep.

DIALOGUE:

General George S. Patton (George C. Scott): "Hold it! Turn right here."

Driver: "But sir, the battlefield is straight ahead."

Patton: "Please don't argue with me Sergeant. I can smell a battlefield."

General Omar Bradley (Karl Malden): " He was out here just yesterday George."

Patton: (points with his riding crop) "It's over there, turn right, damn it!"

SCENE:

The jeep goes off road, passing some turbaned North Africans on donkeys and then comes upon some Romanesque ruins. Patton gets out, followed by Bradley. A haunting echo of horns plays in the background as if replaying some ancient charge of a long forgotten battle.

DIALOGUE:

Patton: "It was here. The battlefield was here. The Carthaginians defending the city were attacked by three Roman Legions. Carthaginians were proud and brave but they couldn't hold. They were massacred. Arab women stripped them of their tunics and their swords and lances. The soldiers lay naked in the sun, two thousand years ago; and I was here."

SCENE:

Patton, on bended knee, pauses, smiles knowingly, turns to a sometimes bemused Bradley and says:

DIALOGUE:

Patton: "You don't believe me, do you Brad? You know what the poet said,

'Through the travail of ages,
midst the pomp and toils of war,
have I fought and strove and perished,
countless times among the stars.
As if through a glass and darkly,
the age old strife I see,
when I fought in many guises and many names,
but always me.'" *

Patton: "Do you know who the poet was?"

Bradley [Smiles slightly and shakes his head, no.]

Patton: "Me."



A particularly evocative scene from the movie Patton, is it not? You get the sense that he actually remembers the terrible scene of his fallen comrades. But what of his modern day army, those men he led in World War II. Tens of thousands of them willingly trusted his judgement in battle. Would they also follow him in matters of the Spirit. Would those who believe he was brilliant in battle also believe that that insightfulness can be brought to bear in other areas of life. George Patton believed in reincarnation. He remembered fighting the Romans as a Carthaginian. Patton also believed he was with Napoleon (I believe he was the flamboyant and daring Marshal Ney* but that theory is best left for another day).