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02-14-2011, 12:23 PM
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Dojo: Aikido Arts of Shin Budo Kai/ Bedford Hills, New York
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Demetrio Cereijo wrote:
Hi Marc,
It was Ledyard Sensei the one who I was talking about. Let me rephrase my post for further clarification:
No it (what Howie said about Ledyard Sensei) doesn't (make Ledyard Sensei right). But I believe he (Ledyard Sensei) is honest, which is a lot considering what there is around, and is honesty is what makes him (Ledyard Sensei) inspirational for those who know him.
Better now?
On Tenyu's honesty, integrity and japanesessness... my issue in this thread is people trying to juzgue his behaviour using two contradictory and non compatible standards at the same time: (a) modern western ethics & (b) (pseudo) feudal era bushi ethics.
As attempting to explain the difference between modern western and real feudal japanese bushi ethics, and how Tenyu's behaviour could have been considered appropiate and correct in other times and places, would be boring and probably fruitless here (especially considering my poor English skills) I'll let the issue go.
Maybe you'd like to reconsider your post. I think you've jumped into a pool without checking if there was water in it.
Regards.
PS. I hunt Tenyus for fun. Ask Howie
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Demetrio:
My apologies regarding the misunderstanding with Ledyard Sensei.
I do not agree with you regarding your assumption regarding Japanese feudal-time ethics and western ethics.
Regards,
Marc Abrams
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02-14-2011, 12:33 PM
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Katherine Derbyshire wrote:
So you wouldn't have a problem with a lawyer who continued to practice after being disbarred for misuse of client funds?
After all, his license was taken away for behavior, not because of his understanding of the law.
There's more to being an instructor than technical skill.
Katherine
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If there was nothing to keep that attorney from legally practicing law, he would need to have his license back, yes I would and I have, and am presently doing so because of their legal competence.
I believe in giving most people who make mistakes second chances.
You just have to keep an eye on them and your wallet.
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02-14-2011, 01:11 PM
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Marc Abrams wrote:
My apologies regarding the misunderstanding with Ledyard Sensei.
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Accepted, of course. Accept mine for giving you an answer a bit over the top.
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I do not agree with you regarding your assumption regarding Japanese feudal-time ethics and western ethics.
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Maybe you find this interesting as a starting point about japanese feudal ethics.
And don't forget the " Call the warrior a dog, call him a beast: winning is his business." Asakura Soteki, Hanawa, ed., Zoku zoku gunsho ruiju, vol. 10, pp. 1--9; PV. cited in Theodore de Bary et al (Ed), Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol 1, p 428.
Thread worthy in itself. Maybe in another ocassion.
Regards.
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02-14-2011, 01:42 PM
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#179
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Dojo: Aikido Arts of Shin Budo Kai/ Bedford Hills, New York
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Demetrio Cereijo wrote:
Accepted, of course. Accept mine for giving you an answer a bit over the top.
Maybe you find this interesting as a starting point about japanese feudal ethics.
And don't forget the " Call the warrior a dog, call him a beast: winning is his business." Asakura Soteki, Hanawa, ed., Zoku zoku gunsho ruiju, vol. 10, pp. 1--9; PV. cited in Theodore de Bary et al (Ed), Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol 1, p 428.
Thread worthy in itself. Maybe in another ocassion.
Regards.
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Demetrio:
I was referring to the aspect of that warrior violating the oath to the head of his family fighting system. I did not expand the subject matter beyond that. Certainly, people can say that he did not take a blood oath and that an oral agreement is not binding. An oath was broken. This man can only move forward from this point. I certainly would not want to be in his shoes....
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Marc Abrams
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02-14-2011, 01:51 PM
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Location: Kawasaki, Kanagawa
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Demetrio Cereijo wrote:
Maybe you find this interesting as a starting point about japanese feudal ethics.
And don't forget the " Call the warrior a dog, call him a beast: winning is his business." Asakura Soteki, Hanawa, ed., Zoku zoku gunsho ruiju, vol. 10, pp. 1--9; PV. cited in Theodore de Bary et al (Ed), Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol 1, p 428.
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I don't think Marc or anybody is claiming that the set of ethics that Tenyu has violated by breaking his oath to Read Sensei to not teach Aikibujitsu is that of a Samurai to his lord. Marc may have allowed you to frame the argument in that exchange.
Some of us are arguing that the ethics in play regarding the student-teacher relationship in koryu can be applied as a precedent here. Those of us who are talking about these ethics do not misunderstand them in the way that you raise.
You may argue that this is gendai budo and it is therefore erroneous to consider the agreement Tenyu entered into with Read Sensei as a kisshomon, but you may not argue that the people on this board who practice or read about koryu training don't know what a kisshomon is.
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02-14-2011, 04:42 PM
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Dojo: Aikibodo
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
Any atemi be it physical or verbal aimed at uke in the particular simultaneously resigns the thrower into becoming uke as well. One is not separate from the harm, however well concealed, one attempts to inflict on another! This is why Aikido is so important. It took a long time before I understood this on a practical level inside the dojo. After I began working directly with ever-shifting upstream asymptotic surfaces surrounding uke, I haven't had to resort to downstream atemis which by default are dissonant in nature.
Many people to no fault of their own have grown up without the right role models of nage. Luckily there are many Aikido masters in the world who have never heard the word Aikido. But when harmony is not yet understood, many people actually prefer disharmony because the lack of either, a much needed ‘silence', is considered a form of death which primal fear vehemently resists. This dysfunctional misalignment with the universe is one of the reasons the earth is literally being destroyed.
Many people question why I would put myself on here now. If you reread my OP, I have already stated this is not what I wanted. But if one takes the time to read and understand the link on peak oil and do their own thorough independent study on the invisible elephant in everyone's living room then one will understand that time is a luxury not to be wasted.
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02-14-2011, 04:51 PM
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Location: Left Coast
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Tenyu Hamaki wrote:
Many people question why I would put myself on here now. If you reread my OP, I have already stated this is not what I wanted. ....then one will understand that time is a luxury not to be wasted.
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Oh boy. I think my post about Jesus manquées, which I meant purely metaphorically at the time may actually now be read more literally than intended.
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Janet Rosen
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"peace will enter when hate is gone"--percy mayfield
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02-14-2011, 05:11 PM
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Dojo: golden center aikido-highgate
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Mary Malmros wrote:
Clearly it's an opinion, and clearly it's a Graham-flavored opinion, naturally You seem like a kind soul, in general, but I think you do have a tendency to over-mystify things -- to see all kinds of mysterious meanings and layers where they may not exist. The statement isn't Zen, isn't a Buddhist teaching of any flavor, and really is quite the opposite of a Zen koan. It is, if anything, anti-mystery, or at least anti-obfuscation. There is a difference between opinion and facts, and it's a big mistake to confuse the two.
In this thread, you've been advocating a fair and even-handed approach, and that's all good; however, just because your approach is fair and even-handed doesn't mean that the facts you discover will weigh equally on both sides. When that happens, honesty demands that you recognize that the facts favor one side. If you refuse to do so, you're no longer being even-handed, you're just creating false equivalences.
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Mary, Mary, Quite contrary.
Very funny. Opposite of a zen koan eh? What I am aware of, can demonstrate and show to be real are facts therefore. I own my own facts and your view on them would thus be your opinion.
My abilities are facts as are yours. You own them I hope.
Is this a layer you missed?
To weigh up facts on both sides eh? To discard the opinions and weigh up the facts. Mmmm. Maybe your a judge.
It all sounds very logical but there is more to wisdom than counting up facts like a balance sheet. There's degree of importance, there's relevence, there's all the facts that not been divulged.
So the facts presented on count may favor one side like a balance sheet so what? This means you have some knowledge. Ever heard the saying about a little knowledge?
Knowledge is a body or group of data. It has nothing to do with knowing.
It's o.k. for shooting the breeze on a discussion page though so have fun. It's all good.
Is that enough mystery for you,
Or like like a zenso, do I bore you,
Should I be serious, or ignore you?
Never! Your my sister, I adore you.
Peace. G.
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02-14-2011, 05:11 PM
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Janet Rosen wrote:
Oh boy. I think my post about Jesus manquées, which I meant purely metaphorically at the time may actually now be read more literally than intended.
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Alrighty then....
Janet & Mary.....Some people in here have entered the aikibunny time/space distortion field. If you want to hold hands so the dysfunctional misalignment of the universe caused by reasoning from planet Neptune doesn't cause us to fall into a singularity and go poof, just say the word, I'm right here with you guys...feet planted on terra firma.
Toby Threadgill / TSYR
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02-14-2011, 05:33 PM
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Dojo: Aikido Eastside
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Toby Threadgill wrote:
Alrighty then....
Janet & Mary.....Some people in here have entered the aikibunny time/space distortion field. If you want to hold hands so the dysfunctional misalignment of the universe caused by reasoning from planet Neptune doesn't cause us to fall into a singularity and go poof, just say the word, I'm right here with you guys...feet planted on terra firma.
Toby Threadgill / TSYR
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Toby,
You never fail to crack me up...
- George
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02-14-2011, 06:29 PM
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Dojo: Allegheny Aikido, Pitsburgh PA
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
Well I'm no senior but I am a woman so perhaps I can please Mr Ledyard a little. I have been following this thread for the past few days as I kinda wondered how the OP would be received. I have given a lot of thought to both sides of the argument not to mention enjoying all of the little side trips the tread has taken, especially in the realm of IT whihch I have recently had the pleasure to begin exploring.
Anyway here is my thoughts on the matter.
When I was looking for my aikido sensei I took the time to talk to the teachers and get to know their character. And indeed they were wonderful people to get to know. But I did not just take the fact that they were wonderful people with good intentions into account when choosing them to be my sensei. I looked at their teachers and their background and where they came from. I think if I found out that my teacher had done something like this in respect to his own teacher I just could no longer respect him. I could not choose someone to guide me in my own growth as a martial artist who had acted in such a manner. I would be embarrassed to call such a person my sensei.
It would take an awful lot to make me change my mind. And it would take the person being admitted back into grace by his own seniors at the very least.
I also note that this discussion contains the full real name of each member including the OP. Something we are all very aware of when we post our own contributions. I recall looking up my teachers past discussions here on aikiweb in order to get to know him when I first began training. The OP's future aspiring students may very well do the same. The words posted here will be available for many years to come to anyone who looks for information regarding this person.
I think enough has been said on the subject. Don't you?
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02-14-2011, 07:21 PM
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Dojo: Aikibodo
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
A very brief anthropological understanding:
http://www.violence.de/prescott/lett...cteristics.pdf
The phrase "religious activity" is used here in the general western sense indicating separation from God rather than the identification which occurs in healthy cultures.
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02-14-2011, 07:47 PM
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Graham Christian wrote:
Is that enough mystery for you,
Or like like a zenso, do I bore you,
Should I be serious, or ignore you?
Never! Your my sister, I adore you.
Peace. G.
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Graham
You crack me up……… Your style reminds me of friends I had back in the 60's and 70's……. At the time interesting discussions hazed in smoke or other eatables. Of course everyone had to go back to work on Monday.
Just go straight........
Gary
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02-14-2011, 08:11 PM
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#189
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Location: Massachusetts
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Graham Christian wrote:
Mary, Mary, Quite contrary.
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Wow, I never heard that one before. Do you remember the one about the little lamb? I can never quite remember how it goes, so obviously I haven't heard it enough.
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Graham Christian wrote:
Very funny. Opposite of a zen koan eh?
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Yes, it is. It is simple and straightforward, and there is no intuitive leap required.
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Graham Christian wrote:
What I am aware of, can demonstrate and show to be real are facts therefore. I own my own facts and your view on them would thus be your opinion.
My abilities are facts as are yours. You own them I hope.
Is this a layer you missed?
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No, I think it's you who have misunderstood here. Let me try by way of a simple and specific example. You cannot state "Two plus two equals five!" and then when challenged on the basis that your statement contains a factual error, say, "But it's just my opinion!" Not everything is based in fact, but facts do exist, and they are objective truth, not matters of opinion. You do not "own your own facts". No one does. You do not own your own universe where two plus two can equal five, or pi, or tiramisu.
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To weigh up facts on both sides eh? To discard the opinions and weigh up the facts. Mmmm. Maybe your a judge.
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And maybe you're someone who is invested in believing that there are no facts, and thus, no basis for judgment, ever. Why is that?
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Graham Christian wrote:
It all sounds very logical but there is more to wisdom than counting up facts like a balance sheet. There's degree of importance, there's relevence, there's all the facts that not been divulged.
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There is no wisdom in confusing fact with opinion.
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Graham Christian wrote:
So the facts presented on count may favor one side like a balance sheet so what? This means you have some knowledge. Ever heard the saying about a little knowledge?
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Indeed I do. A little knowledge encourages sophistry and obfuscation.
Consider another example that has two sides. On the one side, you have a Holocaust survivor. She tells about the atrocities that she has suffered and witnessed -- atrocities also amply documented by the accounts of others. Then, on the other side, you have a Holocaust denier, who says, "It never happened."
Two sides, one with the weight of evidence and witness...the other, a fabrication based on a desire to believe something contrary to reality. Do you think that "so what" is an adequate response to that? Saying "so what" is making a false equivalence, considering the two sides as having equal weight and merit. They do not. Approaching a question without prejudice, without pre-judging, is not the same as approaching it (as you seem to want to do) with a pre-judgment that both sides are of equal merit.
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Graham Christian wrote:
Knowledge is a body or group of data. It has nothing to do with knowing.
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How can it not? The words have the same root. Knowing, by definition, is to have knowledge.
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02-14-2011, 08:22 PM
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Dojo: AIA, Los Angeles, CA
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Gary Welborn wrote:
Graham
You crack me up……… Your style reminds me of friends I had back in the 60's and 70's…….
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Ah....
Pedro: Hey how am I driving, man?
Man Stoner: [looks around] : I think we're parked.
Yeah, kinda feels that way sometimes. Where are the doritos and fruit loops?
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02-14-2011, 08:34 PM
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
Mary,
I just figured it out. Given Graham Christian's creativity with fact and tendency towards unrestrained sophistry, his name must be a pseudonym. His real name must be..........Glenn Beck!
Toby Threadgill
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02-14-2011, 08:48 PM
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Dojo: golden center aikido-highgate
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Mary Malmros wrote:
Wow, I never heard that one before. Do you remember the one about the little lamb? I can never quite remember how it goes, so obviously I haven't heard it enough.
Yes, it is. It is simple and straightforward, and there is no intuitive leap required.
No, I think it's you who have misunderstood here. Let me try by way of a simple and specific example. You cannot state "Two plus two equals five!" and then when challenged on the basis that your statement contains a factual error, say, "But it's just my opinion!" Not everything is based in fact, but facts do exist, and they are objective truth, not matters of opinion. You do not "own your own facts". No one does. You do not own your own universe where two plus two can equal five, or pi, or tiramisu.
And maybe you're someone who is invested in believing that there are no facts, and thus, no basis for judgment, ever. Why is that?
There is no wisdom in confusing fact with opinion.
Indeed I do. A little knowledge encourages sophistry and obfuscation.
Consider another example that has two sides. On the one side, you have a Holocaust survivor. She tells about the atrocities that she has suffered and witnessed -- atrocities also amply documented by the accounts of others. Then, on the other side, you have a Holocaust denier, who says, "It never happened."
Two sides, one with the weight of evidence and witness...the other, a fabrication based on a desire to believe something contrary to reality. Do you think that "so what" is an adequate response to that? Saying "so what" is making a false equivalence, considering the two sides as having equal weight and merit. They do not. Approaching a question without prejudice, without pre-judging, is not the same as approaching it (as you seem to want to do) with a pre-judgment that both sides are of equal merit.
How can it not? The words have the same root. Knowing, by definition, is to have knowledge.
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Mary. Relax.
I pointed out facts didn't I? A Fact is something that can be perceived and demonstrated to be there. Simple.
Examples of two plus two and holocaust are not valid as they don't fall into the realm of opinion, they are lies or delusions.
As I said, degree of importance.
'So what' means I have a little knowledge. 'So what' means I have one MAJOR fact missing called personal experience with the person concerned. Hence in lfe you have investigations, undercover operations, going and seeing. For until then you don't know. 'So what' means add some perspective to the matter. 'So what' means stop being judge, jury and executioner.
On the other hand feel free to read my response and say 'so what.'
I did just the opposite of what you say with regards to pre-judgement or prejudice. As I said TWICE, my conclusion was with the limited knowledge I had that he should go visit his old teacher and try to come to an arrangement they are both happy with.
In your logic that makes me a minority of one. That makes me what? Frankly, do I care? That's my opinion and my conclusion. It hasn't happened as yet therefore it's not a fact. In fact as far as I'm concerned it's a gift.
Let me also put it simply, I have facts, KNOWLEDGE about you--- I don't KNOW you.
Regards. G.
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02-14-2011, 09:43 PM
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Dojo: golden center aikido-highgate
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
Hi to everyone.
Time for me to give my last words on this matter.( Hooray!)
In the spirit of Zen.
Once upon a time there was a student. He decided to study computers. HE started and read data and gained some knowledge. As he progressed the various data started clicking together and thus he built up understandings. He gathered more knowledge and understandings and applied them. He practiced. He put the knowledge and understandings to work, practicing and practicing with his computer until it all clicked together and he could DO.
The knowledge and understandings practiced resulted in ability.
Only now did he know how to use a computer.
He then used that ability to cause as much trouble as he could.
The moral of this story?
Even if you reach the dizzy heights of knowing and ability, 'so what?' What GOOD use are you putting it to?
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02-14-2011, 10:34 PM
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
Keith
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We've got to speed things up in this hotel.
Chef, if a guest orders a three-minute egg, give it to him in two minutes.
If he orders a two-minute egg, give it to him in one minute.
If he orders a one-minute egg, give him a chicken and let him work it out for himself.
Groucho (Marx) in A Night in Casablanca (movie)
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02-14-2011, 10:49 PM
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
Ha! Gary, I just made my 10-year-old daughter watch Duck Soup. She laughed a few times, but it just didn't register... Sad, I remember being infatuated with the Marx brothers when I was a kid. Maybe I'll have to make her watch night at the opera next...
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02-14-2011, 11:01 PM
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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'So what' means I have a little knowledge. 'So what' means I have one MAJOR fact missing called personal experience with the person concerned. Hence in lfe you have investigations, undercover operations, going and seeing. For until then you don't know. 'So what' means add some perspective to the matter. 'So what' means stop being judge, jury and executioner.
On the other hand feel free to read my response and say 'so what.'
I did just the opposite of what you say with regards to pre-judgement or prejudice. As I said TWICE, my conclusion was with the limited knowledge I had that he should go visit his old teacher and try to come to an arrangement they are both happy with.
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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"
- Graham Christian...channeling "Alice in Wonderland"
Keith,
She's too young for Duck Soup. A Night in Casablanca is better.
"What do you think you're doing, holding the building up?
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Keith,
She's too young for Duck Soup. A Night in Casablanca is better.
"What do you think you're doing, holding the building up?
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02-15-2011, 07:17 AM
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Mary. Relax.
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Why thanks, Graham! Your condescending and peremptory command to "relax" has put me in my place once and for all. Clearly you're the rational one in this exchange (how not, since you told me to "relax", so obviously I must be irrational). I'll go "relax" now and endeavor to be more like you.
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02-15-2011, 07:33 AM
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Mary Malmros wrote:
Why thanks, Graham! Your condescending and peremptory command to "relax" has put me in my place once and for all. Clearly you're the rational one in this exchange (how not, since you told me to "relax", so obviously I must be irrational). I'll go "relax" now and endeavor to be more like you.
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Hi Mary,
the sarcasm in your reply is poorly hidden. I'm not saying it's unwarranted or unprovoked. However this thread has drifted way off kilter. The OP's posts are going virtually ignored (maybe the best response) while others who should know better, trade poorly disguised insults with each other.
regards
Mark
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02-15-2011, 07:57 AM
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Re: New Internal Style of The Wooden Staff
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Mark Freeman wrote:
the sarcasm in your reply is poorly hidden.
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What on earth makes you think it was hidden at all, or that it should be? People who throw mud shouldn't complain if they get dirty, nor should others complain on their behalf.
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