John Toland Puns

The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 is a masterful tour de force by historian John Toland that won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize. Told from the perspective of the Japanese leadership, the author makes the reader understand what drove the Empire in its doomed quest for glory. No doubt this tome is a worthy homage to Gibbon’s famous The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Britain and America both voted against racial equality for the new League of Nations during the Treaty of Versailles negotiations in 1919.

Also, Japan was forced to sign a treaty limiting the size of its navy to make sure America and Britain always have larger navies at a 5:5:3 ratio.

America and the British Empire placed an oil embargo on Japan in July 1941, and by that time they had already put an embargo on many other important resources. Lifting the embargo would require Japan giving up all its pre-1937 territorial gains in China. Without the oil imports, Japan would not be able to continue the War in China. Japan devised a plan to attack and cripple the American Pacific Fleet and at the same time seize British, American, Dutch, and French colonies in the pacific to gain resources (including oil), territory, and strategic locations. Japan knew Britain, France, and the Netherlands were weak from fighting Germany, and believed America would take time to recover from the loss of their Pacific Fleet, during which Japan’s Navy would be able to consolidate its power.

Pearl Harbor Attack Fleet = 6 carriers (2 big old, 2 small new, 2 big new), 2 fast battleships, 2 heavy cruisers, 8 light cruisers, 8 destroyers, 360 planes (81 fighters, 135 dive bombers, 104 heavy bombers, 40 torpedo bombers)

In addition to the main Japanese force, there were 5 Japanese midget submarines that were trying to sneak into Pearl Harbor before the air attack

As the Japanese fleet approached Pearl Harbor, it was a moonlit night, with the moonlight expected to help the pilots see their targets. Actually, the moonlight almost ruined the surprise as a Japanese midget submarine was spotted at 3:42am, 4 hours before the air attack began at 7:48am. An American destroyer found and sunk one of the midget submarines at 6:37am, but the Americans did not suspect the submarine was part of an attack force.

The crazy thing about the Pac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7kUrwWkNBo Skip to 19:20. If you want to find a comparison of why Toland was exiled from the tower, then listen to the earlier part of the video. He obviously didn't use the same terminology as Destiny (The Darkness for Toland, the Shattered is equivalent to John Toland's 'God'). It's obviously a huge influence on the destiny universe, and his namesake. FWIW, I believe Toland is the translator of the book of sorrows, if he is indeed based on the philosopher. Since John Toland was gaelic speaking, and who else in the Destiny universe would be able to call upon the gaelic mythology of 'geas'. Furthermore, John Toland claimed he could speak up to 10 languages, while Toland, the Shattered seems to be able to learn hive rituals as well as the deathsong of Ir Yut.

Btw, I am a philosopher myself. If any of this shit interests you, i'll start making posts on how philosophy influences destiny's lore.
I recently heard Seth Dickinson on the Destiny ghost stories podcast saying that Oryx and the taken work in a very ontologically transcendental way, which is very Kantian (though slightly misses the point of Immanuel Kant's transcendental noumena), it would be interesting to discuss it, particularly with other philosophical minded people.

TL:DR - If you don't want to watch it and work out the analogy. Here's a quick summary.

John Toland was the first to use the term 'pantheist'. He believed the universe = god. They are one and the same. The only necessary thing in the universe is motion. Things perpeptually moving from one thing to another, and this is done by one thing more powerful destroying another thing until the thing that has died becomes other bodies (since all matter is part of the whole (the universe)) and the dead matter may become part of new forms, and eventually destroy things less powerful.

Sword logic is essentially exactly that, and is how the darkness 'consumes' things. The darkness is not an entity. The darkness is merely the necessary state of the universe, it cannot be destroyed, it is the 'destiny' of the universe to move in the direction of necessity.

Edit: the above is not my theory, so if you say there is a flaw because the darkness is an entity, it's not because I believe the darkness is not a physical entity. I am talking from tolands perspective. Not mine.

My personal opinion is that the darkness may possibly be a supremely intelligent superorganism, in the form of a gaseous cloud. Similar to that f

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Why was the war in the Pacific so brutal ?

Because of the distance between the war theatres, warfare in the Far East and the Pacific region was of different manner in relation to Europe. The main burden was loaded on the back of the poor infantryman. But nothing was going on without amphibious operations, a daily event, nothing went on, in contrary to the European theatre.

Every war is brutal, but especially the war in the Pacific, because here ancient hostilities between yellow and other races focused together in unnecessary killing of civilians and prisoners.

Perhaps this was one of the reasons for the Americans for the fast and easy decision to bombard Japanese cities with a hail of napalm bombs, which didn't happen even to German cities like Hamburg or Dresden, followed additionally by atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For an American soldier his Japanese opponent was inferior, yellow, some wild animal worth to be killed. For the Japanese soldiers a white man was something of a mystic monster against which his emperor led a holy war.

A lot of the Japanese soldiers inborn brutality which came in effect in their treatment of prisoners is to be explained by the words of the well known publicist John Toland: "Brutality was a daily event for the Japanese soldier. He had to admit brutality against himself by his officers. This treatment he simply gave further to his subordinates or the prisoners, the last because they were inferior to him after their surrender. Surrender simply was not existing to him, because he fought to the last drop of blood. When he was captured after all because of wound or weakness, then this was dishonour until his lives end. Captured Japanese were dead for their families. His name was cancelled from the register of birth. A remark in his soldiers book: " Take this advice, will you be captured by the enemy, you will not only dishonour the army, but also your parents and family until they will not be able any more to get upright. Therefore, always preserve the last bullet for yourself ".

If they were so brutal against themselves there can be no doubt about their behaviour against the enemy. On 24 April 1942, Tokyos newspaper The Japan & Advertiser, which was edited even in English, wrote in its introduction: " They (Allied) surrender only when they have sacrifice all lives in their power excluding their owns. When they finally surrender themselves, then only to save their own lives ... They have shown in all previous ba

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

And boy are my arms legs.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

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but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.