a message to the martial artists on this forum

[NuffSpeed]

be like water, adapt, develop cat like movements! draw and attack by counter,Intercept,, use no way as way. Bro, hit the gym, learn/use/realize, and then talk a whole bunch of shit like the rest of us.

[Tom Yum]

im discouraged and inspired at the same time,

good lord...make your mind up.

[Britt]

Ha ha ha ha ha...I don't have class again till Monday...and I just barely got my degree audit and formal major delcoration in...whoot. next year, man, BS in clinical psych. possible minors in sociology and anthropology, here I come!

Cool, I majored in anthro and minored in psych.

[eXcessiveForce]

Geez,

Yeah I guess I have no idea about martial arts,

I've only been training longer than you have been alive, and teaching for 11 years.

Come back when you get an education. Martial arts and otherwise. You think you've got it figured out, but you are coming off like you don't have a clue. You are in a JKD forum, it has lots of people who understand and practice JKD. I suggest if you want to be a martial artist you train with some. a few months of TKD isn't going to cut it. Hell 9 months in TKD won't even give you timing and the ability to read body language.

Martial arts is seperate from religion. Some may choose to combine the two but that is their problem.

You want to be a writer and a poet, fine, but you need to have an original thought not parrot back the words of others. That's what you are doing now. Certainly they have martial arts schools in texas. Perhaps a trip to Houston to Mr. Mousel's school will open your eyes a bit about what the words you are talking about are really about.

[jubaji]

well i am going to try to introduce myself , my name is brian and i am a free lance writer on poetry and philosophy of manykinds, im a body builder and a martial artist, and been studying religion for over 5 years.

Damn, you are a serious moron...

[mr goodcat]

Ha ha ha ha ha...I don't have class again till Monday...and I just barely got my degree audit and formal major delcoration in...whoot. next year, man, BS in clinical psych. possible minors in sociology and anthropology, here I come!

Yeah, dude...religion is religion, spirituality is subjective.

ah lol i never thought Ma would be a career for me, bruce lees real career was acting, i always had a fondness for guns and becoming an expert marksman sounds more appealing by the day, so does physics, but my math is horrible but physics just sounds so darn interesting, im discouraged and inspired at the same time, lol k now i have to leave, habe health class tomorrow. if you have aim u can reach me here sometimes ( i forget to check forum messages a lot so) christ16x

[Garland]

yes but im not so ''enlightened'' with religion as i am with martial arts lol. i mean i felt obliged to follow every rule in religion perfectly otherwise id have shamed myself and couldnt comfortably call myself a devout follower of that religion or a follower at all. martial arts to me is different because i believe strongly in self expression, in religion, well u just cant do that really. that is unless you create your own, and who would do that? '' all hail mighty toaster god, your chrome righteousness burns the bread slices of hell to a crisp and good for eatin' yum yum'' anyway i have college tomorrow so this is my last post for today of wednesday 10/12. have yourself a good night

Ha ha ha ha ha...I don't have class again till Monday...and I just barely got my degree audit and formal major delcoration in...whoot. next year, man, BS in clinical psych. possible minors in sociology and anthropology, here I come!

Yeah, dude...religion is religion, spirituality is subjective.

[mr goodcat]

This is where JKD concepts come in, man. "Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless." Spirituality, Ethics, and Morality are highly personal, subjective, and develop over the course of one's life, man...just pick shit up as you go, and leave the shit you decide is worthless along the road...you can always pick it back up later if you change your mind.

yes but im not so ''enlightened'' with religion as i am with martial arts lol. i mean i felt obliged to follow every rule in religion perfectly otherwise id have shamed myself and couldnt comfortably call myself a devout follower of that religion or a follower at all. martial arts to me is different because i believe strongly in self expression, in religion, well u just cant do that really. that is unless you create your own, and who would do that? '' all hail mighty toaster god, your chrome righteousness burns the bread slices of hell to a crisp and good for eatin' yum yum'' anyway i have college tomorrow so this is my last post for today of wednesday 10/12. have yourself a good night

[Garland]

i dont practice anymore due to belief differences, they believe in no killing what so ever under any circumstances, not even a bug, that to me in unreasonable. at the time i was trying to practice just hat i had a huge ant invasion in my house, my parents told me to kill the ants but i refused and got introuble so, it didnt work out much, besides i believe in necessary violence. always have, killing someone before they kill me is... acceptable.

This is where JKD concepts come in, man. "Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless." Spirituality, Ethics, and Morality are highly personal, subjective, and develop over the course of one's life, man...just pick shit up as you go, and leave the shit you decide is worthless along the road...you can always pick it back up later if you change your mind.

[mr goodcat]

Cool, I'm 20....take a Philosophy course when you get to college...and a good English course too, your diction, sentence fluency, and...well..basicly, all skills related to getting your thoughts into written format seem to be lacking.

Zen buddhism? Which sect? Zaizen?
And yes...it is based on some tenents of logic. Especially zen.
Unless the particular group you belong to is of the idea that an unanswerable question will help pull distraction from the rest of the mind to help acheive a state of nil (0) perception, or mushin.

(interesting side note...some eastern philosophies, namely those of from India (Hinduism and Buddhism) share similarities between depth psychology, the concepts of Karl Jung, primarily the collective unconsciousness, and to some degree...syncronisity.)

i dont practice anymore due to belief differences, they believe in no killing what so ever under any circumstances, not even a bug, that to me in unreasonable. at the time i was trying to practice just hat i had a huge ant invasion in my house, my parents told me to kill the ants but i refused and got introuble so, it didnt work out much, besides i believe in necessary violence. always have, killing someone before they kill me is... acceptable.

[Garland]

yes english is my first language, hmm shakespeare has always been a favorate of mine, he is considered the father of sonnets, freeform and sonnet, i am not familiar with those terms, but meter i know.

i have developed this unique set of fist and finger movements known to me as ''dragon art'' i was born in the year of the dragon after all

1) Shakespeare didn't write anything free-form, everything was set up in iambic pentameter...even his plays. That's what gives them their almost lyrical quality...personally...I think he's been overdone, and mildly overrated. There is too much emphasis on him, and not enough on contemporary writers, or classics from other cultures...look up Matsuo Basho, you'd like him alot. Walt Whitman, too. Read them carefully, and savor each fucking line...picture that shit, man. Try to realize how much beauty lies in the transcience of the thing...that's life hommie...that's ALL you need to know.

2) that is the most retarded thing I've ever heard. sorry. I really do mean that in the most respectful and caring possible way. Have fun breaking your fingers, dragon man. As I'm having this little chat with you, I'm beginning to feel more and more sorry for you. I think you'll grow out of this shit...I have hope for you...maybe it's because I think I might have been a bit like you when I started all of this stuff out...(never anything like a dragon fist and finger set...you poor, poor, poor misguided thing.)

[Garland]

18. western philosophy is based on logic, eastern isnt, i was a zen buddhist for longer than i could remember so my ''dence'' fashion of explaining things stuck with me

Cool, I'm 20....take a Philosophy course when you get to college...and a good English course too, your diction, sentence fluency, and...well..basicly, all skills related to getting your thoughts into written format seem to be lacking.

Zen buddhism? Which sect? Zaizen?
And yes...it is based on some tenents of logic. Especially zen.
Unless the particular group you belong to is of the idea that an unanswerable question will help pull distraction from the rest of the mind to help acheive a state of nil (0) perception, or mushin.

(interesting side note...some eastern philosophies, namely those of from India (Hinduism and Buddhism) share similarities between depth psychology, the concepts of Karl Jung, primarily the collective unconsciousness, and to some degree...syncronisity.)

[mr goodcat]

Is english your first language?

What type of poems? Haiku, Limrick, free form.....?
do you understand the terms like; cacophony, implicit meaning, anapestic foot, meter???


Who are you're favorite poets and why?

yes english is my first language, hmm shakespeare has always been a favorate of mine, he is considered the father of sonnets, freeform and sonnet, i am not familiar with those terms, but meter i know.

i have developed this unique set of fist and finger movements known to me as ''dragon art'' i was born in the year of the dragon after all

[Garland]

coming off as a sage? i dont know who deepak chopra is, i wrote over 60 poems and so i learned from all that that theres better ways to explain things, like what i said as MA is like a painting, i tend to make analygies that i see fit to have proper meaning to. i see things in a ..different light than you, not bad, its normal so this is now i have come to explain things

Is english your first language?

What type of poems? Haiku, Limrick, free form.....?
do you understand the terms like; cacophony, implicit meaning, anapestic foot, meter???


Who are you're favorite poets and why?

[mr goodcat]

People have a hard time figuring out what you say? Really?

Man...it ain't because you're deep...it's because you are dense and you are incoherent. Work on your logic. Philosophy is based in logic.

How old are you?...I'm just curious...I'm not going to judge you based on your age...

18. western philosophy is based on logic, eastern isnt, i was a zen buddhist for longer than i could remember so my ''dence'' fashion of explaining things stuck with me