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Old 10-29-2012, 04:18 PM   #16
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Re: Ueshiba the monomaniac?

How much are people simply just qualifying unusual skills to otherwise strange personality disorders?

Takeda had a terrible time as a child and without budo would have been most likely just as mean or weird (as most like to characterize him post mortem).
Ueshiba, without his DR training would have been yet another quasi religious guy with no power (no one else we know of go any power from his practices)
Sagawa was more than likely just a spoiled rich kid who would have worked out his foibles in some other fashion.
What about the fact that they did grow up in a more challenging culture and time?

What about the loooveelly Aikido shihan we were delivered who were womenizers, drunks, cocaine addicts, and rather awful people...with mediocre skills?

What about the sweet hearts and deeply caring shihans that came over

What about thousands of ICMA Master class guys who were fine individuals?
I think this is all convenient quibbling and just might smack of qualifying NOT putting in the work. I'm not saying that...I am wandering though.
Dan
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