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Old 07-22-2010, 06:50 AM   #22
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Re: Henry Wang sifu's no touch

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Don Magee wrote: View Post
Cult like followings are very easy to develop in martial arts. Many new students have confidence issues from the start (possibly the reason they are starting martial arts) and thus are easy to manipulate with promises of power and strength.

Once you get two or three of them, the rest fall in line by simply not wanting to be the odd man out in the group. You fall down because if you didn't you would get funny looks from your "friends" and kicked out of the group. Eventually you believe you are seriously getting knocked down and start to pass on the lie as truth. Next up comes making excuses when you start to try to show your skills to others and eventually the cycle restarts.

Just one more reason why being a skeptic is so important in life.
Don,
These are some excellent points. I'm currently looking into starting a cult; and am wondering if you had any other ideas along these lines.
Thanks,
Josh "Hodjie" P.

p.s. good post! .. just kidding around.
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