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Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of war

late Old English wyrre, werre "large-scale military conflict"

from Proto-Germanic *werz-a-
source also of Old Saxon werran, Old High German werran, German verwirren "to confuse, perplex"

from PIE *wers- "to confuse, mix up"

French guerre, and Spanish, Portuguese and Italian guerra are all of Germanic origin.
The Latin word for war was bellum, belli which was very close to Latin bellus, bella "fine, beautiful, pretty"

Modern German still has wirr, of the same Germanic origin, meaning "confused, crazed, tangled, scatterbrained"

war noun
  • War is a tactic, and a narrative of confusion and chaos. Large-scale confusion allows for underhand large-scale changes; changes which can only pass while the focus of attention is artificially shifted to the narrative of confusion and chaos, to war.
  • open armed conflict between countries or between factions within the same country
  • any active hostility, contention, or struggle; conflict
  • obsolete: a battle
  • military operations as a profession or science

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Specific examples and quotes of war

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

by Voltaire


War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”

"1984"
by George Orwell

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~☉~lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
classic definition
artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense
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