Quislings world war z
FFAF: I Love the World War “Z” Audiobook
I finally read a book. Well, I listened to a book, but that counts as reading, right? I do a lot of reading in the nonfiction world, but I finally just sat down and listened to a fictional book I really enjoyed, and I thought I would share that with you all today.
Welcome to the Council of Trent podcast. I’m your host, Catholic Answers apologist, Trent Horn. Monday, Wednesday, we talk apologetics and theology, but on Free for All Friday. It’s a free for all. We talk about whatever I want to talk about. Now, most of the reading I do, I’ve been reading books nonstop throughout my whole academic career, my adult life. But typically what I read is nonfiction. I’ve got to read history, science, philosophy, theology, biblical studies. I could spend a whole lifetime and never read all of the books and studies I wish I could read to be knowledgeable on different subjects. I just couldn’t.
So I can get consumed in it and a lot of times I felt like reading fiction wouldn’t be that great of a use of my time because there’s so many of the things I just have to learn about, which is sad because
Q is for Quisling: In the world of Gossamer Steel, the people of The Country (Scandinavia) are betrayed by people they once called friends, but now call Quislings.
A quisling is a person who collaborates with an enemy occupying force. The word originates from the Norwegian war-time leader Vidkun Quisling who was the leader of a collaborationist regime in Norway during the Second Planet War.
The term quisling was coined by the British newspaper The Times in an editorial published on 19 April 1940, entitled “Quislings everywhere”, after the Norwegian Vidkun Quisling, who assisted Nazi Germany as it conquered his own country so that he could rule the collaborationist Norwegian government himself. The Daily Mail picked up the term, and the BBC then brought it into common use internationally. The Times’ editorial asserted: “To writers, the word Quisling is a gift from the gods. If they had been ordered to invent a new word for traitor… they could hardly own hit upon a more brilliant combination of letters. Aurally it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous.”
[Photo: Quisling [centre] visits the
Quislings
| | Quisling group |
| This survivor group has lost their minds and has become Quislings. There may be helping these poor souls, but for now this survivor group acts completely as zombies.
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| | Player Killer Group |
| "One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god." This Group is a PKer Group and supports the act of Player Killing. |
Rules of the group
1. No using weapons
2. no buying skills that zombies cannot use after joining
3. must help zombies.
4. must kill Humans, as the zombies do.
5. If you really want to go to town with this thing, use kizombie, otherwise, make zombie sounds.
6. If you get zombified, well that's fine. you poor sod. revives and such are allowed, but not essential.
News
Quislings have started emerging in Malton --Disc10 17:01, 12 May 2008 (BST)
Reference
The idea came from the book World War Z, by Max Brooks. in one of the accounts, a survivor of the zombie war talks about quislings, and how this started making other survivors think that zombies could starve to death, and that zombies killed and ate each other. Thes
World War Z Chapter 6 Summary
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How It All Goes Down
Home Front USA
Part 1
Taos, New Mexico
- Next on the Interviewer's hit list is Arthur Sinclair Junior. He was the head of America's DeStRes (Department of Strategic Resources) program during the war.
- Sinclair doesn't know who came up with the acronym DeStRes, but he knows that pronouncing it "distress" was more than appropriate.
- They called everything west of the Rookies a safe zone, but there wasn't much safe about it. The American people suffered "starvation, disease, [and] homelessness in the millions" and their "[i]ndustry was in shambles, transportation and trade had evaporate" (6.1.2). Did we mention zombies? Because, yeah, zombies.
- Sinclair's job was simple: get the American back on its feet. But doing it was a little more difficult.
- He decided to return to the lessons his father taught him, lessons "almost Marxist in nature." He called it "tools and talent" (6.1.3).
- Talent meant the skills of the workforce … and their talent pool was a tad shallow. No headfirst diving into this talent pool.
- The problem was America's pre-war culture. Everyone was an executive this or analyzed that o
Characters
The Crisis Unfolds Globally
Global outbreak sparks worldwide chaos
The world is thrust into turmoil as a mysterious infection, initially dismissed as "African rabies," spreads uncontrollably. Originating in China, the outbreak is shrouded in secrecy, leading to a global pandemic. Governments worldwide struggle to respond, with South Africa and Israel taking drastic measures to protect their citizens. As the undead rise, humanity faces an existential threat, teetering on the brink of collapse. The initial denial and confusion set the stage for a worldwide crisis, highlighting the fragility of societal structures in the face of unprecedented danger.
Humanity's Desperate Struggle
Nations grapple with survival strategies
As the outbreak intensifies, countries adopt varied strategies to combat the undead menace. South Africa implements the controversial Redeker Plan, sacrificing parts of the population to save others, while Israel enacts a voluntary quarantine, offering asylum to Jews and Palestinians alike. The United States, meanwhile, is engulfed in chaos, struggling to maintain order. The global response is fragmented, with each nation fighting for su