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Re: One with the Universe
Remember a couple of years ago when linguists publicized the fact that in Middle-Eastern cultures, "virgin" means "young woman", regardless of the the status of her hymen, and not "woman who hasn't yet had sex"? It provided an interesting problem to Christianity's myth of the immaculate conception.
Wary of what havoc mere verbal ticks can cause, I tend to "put off until more information is available" problems like this. The universe seems like a pretty big proposition to me. I'm sure I would be startled into a coma just becoming one with my zip code. In order to make any sense at all of such things, I recur to metaphorical interepretation. I wonder if, indeed, it wasn't metaphor intended. No one looks for a wound on someone stuck on the horns of a dilemma; need we seek nebulae and black holes considering "the universe"?
(Also, didn't the founder himself call aikido variously the art of peace and love?)
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