want some new forum gossip? Thursday night I hooked up with a guy.

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...you're a faggot and should be beheaded asap.

we are all faggots my son



we do not attend our execution, we go into hiding in the forest, where those with Master Morality may govern themselves, and where you dare not venture for you'd surely die, lost inside a winding maze of prickling nightshade, where even the water would send you into a mad delerium; you would not be able to tell whether you had your eyes open or shut as you looked at your surroundings, and surely this would intensify as you began starving to death and attempted to eat nightshade berries. Your death would be a door bell, your screams of terror in the distance letting us know a city dweller tried to enter our domain

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In The Forest, each piece of information pertaining to everything you need and everything you need to be doing is not always, and rarely is, what could be considered 'common sense' or logical -- each piece of information is more than knowledge, it is a key unlocking the forest - but for most of those keys, death is required to obtain them - an ancient learning process - where they were given to the living by the dead and kept alight in time by word and tradition

Know that, although the genocide of the Native Americans by the Europeans was widespread, you can be confident that not a single European who lived in the mountains or the woods for any length of time before the 19th century had ever harmed a native - as their survival, the keys to the forest, had been given to them by the native americans; and even if a European had thought himself to be a master of the forest knowing all there is to know about it, any native would be able to tell that European something entirely new about the forest he would have never figured out in his lifetime, for the knowledge held by the natives was ancient and had been learned over many generations

It is a theory that when Sherman lead his march to the sea during the civil war where he set villages ablaze, he made such an aggressive march to the sea not as any offensive military tactic, but because he was terrified and was fleeing the woods and mountains of northwestern georgia, which along with Tennessee were a barrier between the north and south, and for all practical consideration could not truly be considered confederate territory OR union territory, as only those living for themselves resided there, belonging to no government as no government could govern a place which already entirely governs itself, and no one there to govern besides those who abided by no laws other than those of the forest itself

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Hollywood tries to depict the region as uneducated, dirty, and inbred - while the truth is that the residents of the mountains are indescribably their own and mysterious - they could not be unintelligent, as it takes a great deal of intelligence to be efficient enough in the mountain forests to establish a permanent residence there. If they were to leave an impression on someone travelling through, it would be that of an elf or a gnome, and not of a dumb uneducated mongoloid

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Imagine that, during Sherman's campaign while in the mountains going through Chattanooga and into Georgia, that for long periods of time his soldiers would be marching entirely up-hill, and thus having to try to fight uphill whenever there was Confederate skirmish
The presence of just a few confederate soldiers in an area as union platoons marched through would be a completely terrifying experience for the union soldiers - as confederate soldiers using guerilla tactics would send a lone bullet perhaps once every 5 minutes or so from an unknown direction, killing a soldier of the platoon, one at a time - with the platoon being helpless and without any means of fighting against it. After days of being in constant fear of sniper fire around every corner, with the dizzying and disorienting mountain terrain, you can imagine that everyone from the soldiers to the officers to the generals was completely gripped with fear, and were thinking of their entrance to the region as a terrible terrible mistake -- due to the terrain, no area felt as if it were cleared of enemy soldiers as they moved through them; they weren't pushing any line of occupation forward as they travelled. Strategically, they were deep in enemy territory surrounded on all sides.
When they eventually came out at the foothills of the mountains before Atlanta, they were so terrified of their enemy, and so deep behind enemy lines, that the idea of simply passing through towns when they came across them was viewed to be the strategic equivalent of ringing the doorbell to let the enemy army know you're there, walking right past them, and having a big sign on your back saying "shoot me". Not to say that the razing of towns in Georgia was justified, but a paranoid Union army that had been subjected to guerilla tactics throughout their journey through the mountains would be willing to do whatever they could to avoid any more skirmishes.
Hence, Sherman's march to the sea, although terrible, was likely not done out of any sort of lust for killing or anything of the sort, but rather done out of desperation.