Samurai

[jubaji]

We use Frontline. Same idea. Kinda expensive, cause we have to get the kind for the biggest breed, but seems to work.

[kingoftheforest]

The owner holds the Advantage right before he puts it on the back of the dogs neck to ward off fleas and ticks.

[jubaji]

The dog or the tick, who holds the advantage? Good question.

[Tant01]

I hate yappy little lap dogs, they're always so pissed off over their uselessness to anyone but their masters.

I think of ju as more of a tick. The parasitic insect that gets under your skin...

Lets see if I can light a fire under his ass...

[TTEscrima]

A very emotional response. Try to hold back your tears.

I hate yappy little lap dogs, they're always so pissed off over their uselessness to anyone but their masters.

[jubaji]

It's interesting when you start looking at "contributions" it seems some people have a rather shampooed vision of what's helpful and whats a waste of headband and the hair dressers time, makes you wonder what kind of life they have when they have so much time to waste making thousands upon thousands of inane posts when there is so much hair to braid. Oh well, hope your conditioning is going well, take care.

A very emotional response. Try to hold back your tears.

[TTEscrima]

TTE's contribution was a good peek into the book.


Good night!

Glad to be of assistance TY. When you finish Living the Martial way, get Thunder in the Sky, it's Sun the Demon's book on the Art of War that started the whole series.

It's interesting when you start looking at "contributions" it seems some people have a rather skewed vision of what's helpful and whats a waste of bandwidth and the readers time, makes you wonder what kind of life they have when they have so much time to waste making thousands upon thousands of inane posts. Oh well, hope your training is going well, take care.

[jubaji]

Well, that was a helpful contribution...

[kingoftheforest]

TTE's contribution was a good peek into the book. Speaking of gay samurai, where's Samurai guy...jk. I guess he's probably in his 2nd or 3rd year of college, gotten some stead play and is busy with his homework.

And after a full day of running, classroom work, some considerable work on the O-course and demopit run I'm out...zzzzzz


Good night!

When you get some free time...lol never mind.

(I's a good book bro')

Good luck and stay positive.

[jubaji]

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[Tom Yum]

TTE's contribution was a good peek into the book. Speaking of gay samurai, where's Samurai guy...jk. I guess he's probably in his 2nd or 3rd year of college, gotten some stead play and is busy with his homework.

And after a full day of running, classroom work, some considerable work on the O-course and demopit run I'm out...zzzzzz


Good night!

[GQchris]

Gay Samurai? say it ain't so..

[jubaji]

It seems the idea of the Samurai has been taken up again and again through history as a reflection or despository of whatever values one wants to glorify or villify at a given moment. Given the long history and radically varied circumstances of different groups and individual Samurai over time a wide range of values and characteristics can, and are, attributed to them.

A Samurai living in the relative peace and high culture of the Tokugawa era would pursue a very different lifestyle, and likely have a very different outlook, than one living in the near-constant violence of the Warring States era. Expectations on each would be very different as well. Learning and scholarship and a spiritual aspect would have been valued in the abstract during earlier eras, but circumstances would not have allowed their cultivation during times of war and want the way they did during times of peace when the near-obsolescence of the Samurai as a fighting force allowed (and perhaps necessitated) a more refined way of life. Then too, in any era the life of a lowly ashigaru would have been unrecognizable from that of an important commander, and the conditions for a Samurai serving a wealthy lord vs. that of a small or rural fief would be very different in any time. There were so many different conditions, circumstances, and expectations for Samurai living in different times and places that a wide variety of values and characteristics can, and are, attributed to them. All of which says more, of course, about the person(s) making such determinations than about the Samurai themselves.

[jubaji]

Nothing to contribute on topic

Was the topic copying and pasting tables of contents? Nicely done.

[jubaji]

Try to relax. Sheesh, your kind is so emotional.