holdingoutforjacob wrote:DK, I wonder why you assume you know how they think better than all of us.... if there's any source of information that you're getting all this from, I'd love to be privy to it. If it's just speculation, we should remember that.
holdingoutforjacob wrote:DK, I wonder why you assume you know how they think better than all of us.... if there's any source of information that you're getting all this from, I'd love to be privy to it. If it's just speculation, we should remember that.
Actually, I don’t know that I think I know better, maybe that’s your assumption. What I do know is some of the posts are off base. Here's why I think that way. To understand the Volturi one needs to know from where they came, the culture, the mind set and attitudes. Further, one should profile them by their actions as best as we can.
So here's my back ground on the above criteria, you tell me if you have a better understanding from your knowledge base?
As the Volturi are most like Roman Citizens one can learn a lot from the people of that time frame from books like, Caesars treaties, Herodotus writings, the writing of Marcus Aurelius and my current study Emperor Trajan. If you have read these, I comment you, they are fairly dry readings that most do not take the time to read. These and the three top books on politics and war, The Prince, Art of War and Five Rings will give anyone the footing to have a fairly complete grasp of the Volturi world view.
Studying Aro, Caius and Marcus their actions are like the game of Go. I have mentioned this a few times but have not had anyone reply to it with any semblance of understanding. It is a very different game than Chess which gives one the ability to understand how they are likely think and a limited understanding of their motives.
These are some of my reasons for my view point. Do you find any fault in them? Does this give me a fairly good ability to analyze the Volturi?