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Philip Burgess wrote:
Why can't you respect that, why are you against giving it a rest?
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I guess people with knowledge and experience just hate to hear someone pushing unfounded and silly ideas as legitimate forms of the thing they know. For one, it's insulting to them to spout such ludicrous bilge. For another, we're well aware that lots of total newbies to aikido may read your stuff and think it's legitimate and no one with sincere teaching background wants to see people inundated with such useless thinking.
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Philip Burgess wrote:
There are other people out there, like myself, who could benefit from an Aikido class or hearing you talk as a military person on true internal strength.
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Buck: that's what he
is talking about. Why aren't you listening.
It's like saying to a mathematician, "But I want to hear you talk about
true pi, which can be either exactly 3, somewhere between 2.8 and 3, or sometimes maybe 4."
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Philip Burgess wrote:
Like making it through a tough situation. Why expend all your time on this game you want to play? I think you have a lot of valuable knowledge to share in terms of building confidence, and character, over coming difficulties reaching deep down in side and getting internal strength, and how the relates to Aikido, since you are an Aikidoka. Be the the bridge, not the troll - you know that old story "Bill Goat Gruff", faciliate the positive. Don't prove me wrong.
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Buck....take a deep breath, buddy. And tell yourself, "The first foundation of
character is unswerving devotion to the truth." Then start building character in yourself by giving up the need to redefine a globally-understood term to your own peculiar and idiosyncratic meaning.
There's where you start.
Hoping for you.
David