#but it's kind of cryptic and it usually gets translated as a parable about breastfeeding children on the love of Jesus

[dukeofriven]

I've seen the post go around and around now and I finally got mad enough about it to respond, because it is the usual Tumblr made-up-crap-masqerading-as-fact that I so hate. Sun-Tzu never said any of this shit. Like I get it, I get it - none of you dummies know shit about classical Chinese literature, and you'll just parrot anything that sounds vaguely portentous with a 'ancient philosopher' name slapped on it, but you know that even through the haze of modern english translation this is total nonsense, right? It's idiotic? Sun-Tzu only ever mentions dual-wielding once and he does so only in the context of clarifying how having a gun with a sword on it is "sick biznasty as hell" [in the original it's '이것은 일본어입니다' Line 13 Verse 4 in Book Six of the Art of War], and that if you have two of them your enemy is uniquely ill-prepared to get 'shot-sliced up the shizzle like a motherfucker.'

"dual wielding is too dangerous and impractical to be effective in real life combat" dual wielding is cool and sexy and sick as fuck and he who makes his enemy look like a lame little punk ass loser has already won half the battle before he even starts fighting the war. sun tzu said that.