"There is no greater love than to lay down your life for your brothers......

Has anyone been a part of something like this in their life? Sometimes I reminisce I wonder if given the real life choice of me or my brothers what would I do?
I feel certain I would take the path less traveled .....

Nancy Pelosi says George Floyd did.

I can’t recall ever dying for someone.

I dont ever recall wanting to

Dat's what Roy did.

Some people's purpose is to be an entertainer and some people's purpose is to sacrifice for the greater good......

how can we tell the difference?

That is between you and your higher power, Brother.

Roy is so far off center, it would not surprise me if Roy would make that sacrifice.

...and the obvious option beyond the 2 you mentioned.

(3) some people have no purpose in life

If you mean to risk one's life to save others, then yes I have. Probably a hundred times or so. Not always successful, but more times than not my brothers came out ahead. I am not alone in this. Many others here on the board have done the same.

Then your brothers in ARMS should pay you mucho respect until you check out.

I wish I could

Check out? You doing ok Bob?

Are you interested in the religious take on the subject?

Kind of what Rocky said. I tried, but the bad guys lost most times and I’m not dead.

I guess if you are here and can answer the question, then the answer is no or not yet.....

I have 'risked' my life for others, and COULD have died in the process, but I have not yet laid down my life for another!

Having now read back a little, what Rocky said............

Thank you.

Nancy Peoplosi hasn't sacrificed anything yet except us and our freedoms and our tax money. Be Well, RZ.

If you did, you probably wouldn’t remember it 😳

Bob yours is a good question. I doubt people that have done this even stop long enough to consider they might die. I saved a guy one time that had put himself in harms way, accidentally. It was an easy choice and it took a split second in timing so there was no thought, just doing. Had he been alone he'd be dead.

The ones that I think of are the people that full well know that every day they get up they may face this. Like fire fighters. Or the guys we read and hear about that sacrifice themselves so their fellow soldiers can live. But the men that I will forever hold in high regard and wish I could somehow repay are those 56 that signed the Declaration of Independence. That was 245 years ago. They knew many they risked everything for were people they'd never know.

Todd Corbin. 2005. Haditha. Even reserve, non-combat arms Marines can get into the Shït.

A good friend did that very thing.

His Name was Jesus. You may have heard of Him.

How do you mean, "been a part of"?

Stud Marine.

https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/3647


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John 15, KJV

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.



13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.



14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.

18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.


ya!

GWB

.................................................................or a woman and three kids you dont even know, or two of your four bullet holes are because your compadres were not where they were supposed to be at a certain time and you went back, or, because you weren't willing to attend funerals with their Mothers, Fathers, Brothers, Sisters, Kids and Cousins wondering why you were there carrying a box that holds a man you worked with, yet, here you are alive............

Joebob,

Wabigoon is right.
You just paraphrased what Jesus said.

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

Exact quote. It's the reason we Christians often catch flack from a few members here.
That doesn't matter.
What matters is that you and everyone who reads this is blessed by the all important links in my signature.
That is the good news.
God Himself calls it that, so you can rest assured that it's the gospel truth.

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I don’t totally subscribe to that often cited statement.

It should say,

“There is no greater love than to fight like a mean a$$ mother****er but you somehow get killed in the process, for your brothers”

In the movie Passion of the Christ is actually where I saw this

If we should boost, boost on The cross.

Well honestly, Todd Corbin survived which really isn't in context with this thread---but I have absolutely no doubt he would have if need be.

Several others did not, but I guess their aggressiveness never gave them the chance to prove that they would have fit into the premises of this thread. It is the way the world turns.

This!

While I was enlisted in the Navy I never dreamed of dying for ANYONE but I was going to do my job to the best of my ability no matter what was going on. And I suspect there are a literal TON of hero's that did what they were trained to do with nothing more than that on their minds when their time ended. That's what it's all about. And those that are hero's to this day will tell you the same thing. They were the lucky ones, their fallen friends were the unlucky.

I’m just wondering who’s logged into Bob Brown’s account in the last few days.
This multiple personality/multiple sockpuppet hand is different.

solunar tables are your friend, you can predict far more than when to go fish by them.