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Arnelos
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of the Free World
Sep 2002
time: 00:31
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My fellow Apolytonians,
Many have said that a civilization born of a jungle could not hope to flourish amidst civilizations born of more fertile and productive lands. It was even said that while some nations have enjoyed highly prized lands and would succeed due to them, other nations such as Apolyton with harsh and unforgiving lands would be doomed to ruin. There were legends of an Apolytonian nation which had once conquered a harsh jungle to rule its world, but these men had either not heard such legends or simply discounted them.
Despite this, when great founders BetaHound and donegeal called upon the people of Apolyton to join them in the noble cause of helping our people to conquer the jungles of our birth, many of us rallied to their call. Though the odds seemed to be against us, more brave souls have answered that call over time, swelling the ranks of those who have served the jungle nation. Over time they have poured the greatest of their talents and their time into the building of a great nation, a nation which, like the jungle nation of Apolyton in legend, is destined to become a world power the match of any other power in either history or legend.
Throughout your history, my countrymen, you have been doubted and mocked. It has been said that you were without hope, that you were weak, that you were small, that you were untalented. You have been repeatedly mocked by those who look too much at current conditions and not enough at potential. It has begun to dawn upon the leaders of the world that they may have been wrong to mock you, to scorn you, and to believe you were weak. You are already the strongest nation in the world, but still many deny you. Soon, they will all know the error of their judgements against you.
Where other nations have grown complacent and weak on the pleasures of easy living and easily achieved power in world affairs, our people have suffered though disease, through famine, and provided their back-breaking labor to build our civilization in these harsh environs. While others have relied upon good fortune to carry them and have had little incentive to evolve into something greater, our people have been forced by their harsh surroundings to rely rather upon hard work, sacrifice, mind, spirit, and metle. Where others will be at a loss when their good fortune abandons them, you have grown stronger. Through all of the hard work and suffering, you have become something greater, something nobler.
The Great Banana knew this would be. For in this process, we have also been guided by the light which we found in our jungle home, that of the Great Banana and his representative within the corporeal realm, Emperor Markos. Generations of our people have put forth their sweat, their toil, and their tears on behalf of the destiny promised to them by the Great Banana, a destiny on the verge of being realized. For, as the Great Banana promised us, though our people would have to suffer for thousands of years in back-breaking labor to tame our jungle home and to build a civilization, this very struggle would devleop our people into one that would one day be rewarded with domination over man and land alike and would be afforded the opportunity to spread the light of the Great Banana to all the lands of the world.
Over time, our people have grown and evolved from being seen by the rest of the world as merely jungle savages to becoming the world leaders in scientific research, religious study, commerce, and production. While most of the rest of the world still suffers under the heavy yoke of despotism, our enlightened people know the benefits of republican rule. They know such enlightenment, it must be remembered, not because they have known easy lives, but because they have dedicated the whole of their lives to hard work in pusuit of this destiny... we owe everything we have not to fortune, but to each other and the talent and work that has been expent by all of us on each others' behalf.
So it is that after generations of the best that our mind and metle could build, we have finally embarked upon the manifest destiny we were promised. As we begin this righteous war to fulfill our destiny, it must be remembered that we hold no malice toward the enemies we fight, but rather love. We seek not to conquer and enslave them, but rather to liberate and enlighten them. They have long suffered under the rule of complacent and unenlightened despots who know neither the value of hard work nor the enlightenment of the Great Banana. We will bring them the liberties of republicanism, the joy and meaning brought by lives of good work, and the all sustaining enlightenment of the Great Banana. What greater calling could possibly exist for a nation?
So remember, my countrymen, that while you have been underestimated, doubted, and mocked for millennia, you will be so no longer. The experience has made you stronger and today begins the march toward your destiny, a destiny in which you will bring the enlightenment of Apolytonian civilization to the world! Together, you will show them, once and for all, the metle of a people who can conquer the jungle and, from it, ascend to legend!
Arise, Apolyton, and show the world your strength, your talent, your determination, your metle! They no longer have the strength or the resolve to deny you!
Last edited by Arnelos on 29-09-2003 at 23:08
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Master Zen
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of naughty
Jan 2003
time: 23:31
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To add a little humor, I'll plagiarize Shakespeare's Henry V for a bit 
This day is call'd the feast of Banana.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Banana.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Banana.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Banana's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
nye the Consul, E_T and Trip,
Togas and BigFree, MrWIA and Zen-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Banana shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in Apolyton now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Banana's day.
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