So there was a slight sword practice mishap tonight. Nothing serious, although I expect I’ll feel it tomorrow.
I told a female friend the story and she was like, "There's a scary pandemic that will probably sicken you if you go to the hospital, and you're fighting with swords on wet ground?"
And I'm like, "Yeah, after riding motorcycles all day."
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This is why people need blunt steel swords for practice as well as sharp ones. If your condition is variable, then the worst thing that can happen with a blunt steel form is that it makes a bruise or smashes itself against rock, creating a problem on its no edge sheen.
THe worst thing that can happen to enemies is they get stabbed with a blunt tip, and it goes through them.
I also bought a simple 20 ish pound draw bow that is disassemble made by Sino. Makes it easier to store in a pack than the normal compound mess. I had the limbs on backwards and I was like "why does this thing feel like a 50 pound draw, have I gotten this weak I can't even draw a 20 pound bow". Well, it turned out if you invert the limbs, the top and bottom of the bow, it creates interesting effects.
Until the stellar conjunction on April 5, people should avoid doing death defying things, given Pluto is still in Capricorn with Saturn.
That means extra difficulties and challenges for those that face death of any sort.
It's the same method the 3 Magi knew something was up in Jerusalem, from Persia. They didn't have GPS or facebook or online communications back then. Even the line of sight stuff required towers.
Psalm 82, Psalm 88, Psalm 19.
God presides in the great assembly;
he renders judgment among the “gods”:
2 “How long will you[a] defend the unjust
and show partiality to the wicked?[b]
3 Defend the weak and the fatherless;
uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
4 Rescue the weak and the needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
5 “The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing.
They walk about in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6 “I said, ‘You are “gods”;
you are all sons of the Most High.’
7 But you will die like mere mortals;
you will fall like every other ruler.”
8 Rise up, O God, judge the earth,
for all the nations are your inheritance.
The explanation for the traditions and culture they had back then, is obtained from Dr Michael Heiser.
The ancient (primitives) had very different ideas of the Earth and the Heavens than modern humans do. It would be like trying to understand America, from a foreigner's point of view, when you think President Hussein knows the US Constitutions but they have never read the US Constitution nor heard of anything in it. It is way worse than just a mistranslation.
But generally speaking, this Earth is such a weird fail hard pit, because the Sons of God made a few mistakes in their mortal incarnations. They weren't the worst or only mistake to happen, but for current humanity, this would correlate to the ancient civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria. You can think of them as Pre Adamic Man. Adam and Eve were attempts to fix certain genetic problems in humanity. That is because DNA is a spiritual shadow cast by the Source.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6XQ4Hh8Fxc&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1xJ-L5oViq4wizJTBdi34e391zFbzQQIJzWwIiKty6voYVQvmAhlgEFpo
Trum hasn't even "quarantined" himself in there yet. So the operation is not active yet.
Strangely enough, the rumors going around online about 10 days of Darkness, directly correlates to the 10 days of emergency military deployment in the Stafford Act.
Space Force news.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31445/recently-retired-usaf-general-makes-eyebrow-raising-claims-about-advanced-space-technology?fbclid=IwAR0EJmSv8fG6ddPemdik_dtlLrfVCBznOON1RAeC0TiYyBtyj6y4ivTsRBI
No gory photos? From that "silent dog", I have to assume all body parts are still attached, and in a reasonable semblance of their original positions. :>)
No gory photos. The mishap involved slipping in the mud rather than any stabbing or hacking. I’m a little sore today but not so much that I haven’t been digging a garden bed.
Raven, the worst accident I saw was when a person tried to do a sharp sword draw and misjudged the layer of clothing and the length of the sword when sheathing it. Causing them to cut through part of their bicep.
This is why I use slow training methods. He had switched to a new "gi" for the youtube video, and was focused on something else for the video, and didn't realize that his normal sword draw movement was constrained. I don't remember the exact details, but some swords are so sharp you don't notice when the cut happens. You only notice when the blood starts coming out and you feel a tingle.
There were a few stories about executions in which the person's head rolling off, could be picked back up and turned towards their body, while they are still conscious. That would only theoretically be feasible if the cut was lightning smooth, which usually it was not, and if the blood volume loss could be slowed by cold.
The funniest depictions are when someone loses an arm, and they stand there looking at their arm wondering what happened.
The most dangerous ones are the "flying helicopters" that happen when swords break or when the user loses their hold.
I trust you took advantage of the sly distraction to successfully thrust home.
Eric Hines
One of the worst bruises I ever had was from fencing. My partner forgot that we were doing foil, not stage saber, and went full-bore against me. I couldn't parry the blow with the foil and had to block with my forearm. Even through the padding, she left a bruise that went clear to the bone.
Our instructor was not pleased, although he praised my reaction time. Ah, fencing follies!
LittleRed1
I’m proud to say, Mr. Hines, that my student did.
LR That's a hard block method, sounds like. If you trace the trajectory of the blow and dampen it by moving the forearm in the same direction as when you contact, most of the kinetic energy can be bled off or even delivered back through a counter.
This would be the same principle as rolling off a speeding car. If you just try to step off and immediately stop, the vectors will pull your limbs off. If you go with the vector direction and slowly bleed off the energy with rolls or or methods, a lot of the impact can be softed or redistributed. The issue with blades is the cutting and the road are the abrasions, but protective leather and cloth can absorb most of that. Half swording was a versatile technique with two handed long swords and armor crushing war swords, because it allowed a long weapon to be used at shorter range.
"I’m proud to say, Mr. Hines, that my student did."
Ah! Bravo- to both of you.
In war, nothing is more honorable than victory.
"In war, nothing is more honorable than victory. "
This could be debated.
There is a reason we revere the defenders of the Alamo.
Photo in NH of a man wearing a medical mask, riding helmetless. This seems a very NH thing.
There is a reason we revere the defenders of the Alamo.
True, though part of that reason is that the thirteen days of glory bought the thine needed for the victory that followed their deaths. If Texas hadn’t won few would today remember the Alamo. The Mexican government would not honor it.
"In war, nothing is more honorable than victory. "
This could be debated.
There is a reason we revere the defenders of the Alamo.
The Alamo Affair wasn't a war, it was a battle within the war. Besides, what might be argued is that the defenders won at the Alamo: they achieved their larger goal, which Grim described just above.
Eric Hines
I think it is a mistake to have a correlation between victory and honor.
Many honorable deeds are done by those who find themselves on the losing side. In no way was San Jacinto necessary to validate the sacrifice of Travis and his men.
What of the samurai who held the bridge against overwhelming forces , long enough for his leader to be able to commit seppuku instead of ignoble capture? Or the German fighter pilot, holding his fire against a shot to pieces B-17 and it's crew, in direct defiance of orders and at pain of death?
Also, honor is not a condition that needs validation by others, anymore than charity is. The acts are no less honorable for having vanished in the mists of history.
Grim, you've got to be one of the few people who would get autocorrected from "time" to "thine"!
Boy, Douglas, you've got to be right about that.
Raven,
You remind me of something that I worked out when writing about honor for philosophers, which is that you and I don't use the word the same way that most Americans use it (including philosophers). Americans tend to use the word as synonymous with "respect," which means that of course it depends on others: if they don't respect what you did, they're not honoring it, and therefore you're not honored.
I didn't really understand that was how the word had come to be understood.
But the right way of thinking about it goes back to at least Aristotle. Aristotle points out that some things are worthy of honor even if they don't actually receive honor. The best kind of man lives his life guided by doing what deserves honor, and yet completely ignores whether or not the community he lives in actually honors those things.
So, just as you say, what is worthy of honor does not depend on what happens to be honored. The virtuous know it, and do it if they can; and die doing it if they must, as Aristotle says, because they know there are conditions in which life is not worth having.
Aristotle's point is pointing back at Socrates. Where else could it point at, his student Alexander the Great? In that scenario, conquering the known world or even the unknown world, is then better than a life that is not worth having. It's such an interesting example of Service to Self polarity that it collapses in on itself and destroys itself. Whereas Socrates' example upholds the individual against the totalitarian state, whereas Aristotle's student was the totalitarian state on par with Ghenghis Khan at times to the people underneath. If Alexander had polarized even more to the negative service to self path, he would have succeeded more, similar to g Khan.
What the Greeks often did was to create strawmen or basically talking puppets, in their conversations, in order to make a rhetorical point. It's like they had a simulated virtual version of twitter and facebook flame war arguments, before we had the internet. As they couldn't easily exchange letters in a short time, they would write rhetorical arguments and stories using 2 or 3 characters talking to each other. This Dialogue then sets up thesis vs anti thesis components, although a lot of it was just picking up people's strawmen. For example, Xenophon used his mentor Socrates and put Socrates in a dialogue arguing Socratic points to Socrates' detractors. But THAT IS NOT SOCRATES. That is Xenophon's version of the point he wanted people to understand, from Socrates' pov. It's not even Xenophon's version of Socrates, just the limited argument he wanted people to pick up. Even if it was just Socrates ridiculing those ridiculing the now dead Socrates. It's similar to how people in politics use the quotes of their dead rivals and opponents, to make a point that is supportive of a political agenda their rivals hated or would not have easily agreed with if they were alive. These things often got warped around using human rhetoric and language. That is why it is called rhetoric and not substance of war/action.
What many people think came from Socrates was just what his students Plato and Plato's student Aristotle, thought of Socrates. But there are primary sources on what SOcrates actually said.
Such as his trial.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/socratesaccount.html
Has a good account of what various sources say about his trial and final execution. The hemlock suicide was just the normal grace given the prisoners, so that they aren't humiliated before death. And it saves on PTSD for executioners.
Plato and Xenophon's account of the trial are most likely mostly accurate, but biased in favor of Socrates and also because of their high opinions of their teacher and mentor. Socrates believed in the Divine, but this Divine was only a Muse or Daemon or voice of what we might call the Holy Spirit. What Jean De Arc reported and what other prophets and apostles reported when a "voice spoke to them from the heavens". So when they write "thus sayeth YHVH", they are channeling information from somewhere else, whether they heard it or just thought it.
This kind of spirituality based religion was completely foreign to most of Athenian rituals. Also, Socrates and Yeshua of Nazareth, were both trouble makers to the ruling status quo. Unlike what modern Westerners think of these figures, they are not "pleasant" to be around for most contemporary people back then. That's because even if they don't intend to make trouble, just their existence makes trouble.
For example, how would Americans feel about someone constantly questioning and digging up sacred cows to burn from the past? Would a Southerner of the Old Lineage, welcome talk about Lincoln as a Liberator and Sherman as a war hero?
I don't think so, humans. I really don't. And those that have seen the regular conversation on those topic here and at VoxDay, should not as well.
Everyone has their cultural templates and traditions they don't like to question. That's because you grew up in a culture or tradition. Even if that is a culture of fighting the traditions of everyone around you. People become what they fight over a long period of time.
In the same vein, Yeshua questioning the High Priest of the Jews, the Sanhedrine council, and Socrates' connection to Critias and the bloody political problems, became a thorn in the sight of the population back then. For the most part, people don't like trouble makers and threats to their safety and stability. Even if the trouble maker is virtuous, true, and neutral. A minority or even majority may have supported Socrates and Yeshua, if they used their logic instead of passion. But the oligarchs and the ruling powers, did not and in fact found popularity support as another threat and something to be afraid of.
In other words, humanity is influenced to kill their best and to put into power the worst (hi Clintons) because... that's just how it is. That's how mature human nature is. It's not a punishment by a higher power or the gods. It's the responsibility of humans. In the same fashion that a human can be instigated into killing and making war on others... but the responsibility is mostly still in the hands of the killer, not the instigator.
This is why humanity has the Deep State. And it is why humanity are livestock slaves in a Matrix.
I can read the counter point easily:
C: We are not livestock being harvested, we have jobs, a good economy, and improved living standards for future generations and the elderly.
Y: Don't you all mean you "had".... okay, that was a cheap point I admit.
C: How can slaves think they are free if they are slaves and still live so well?
Y: Well, how did Maoists think they were gonna free humanity from the evils of capitalism, while working as the slaves of Mao? Self delusion is not unique to a minority of humanity.
Counter: Slavery was ended by the Union and freedom is what we have.
Y: Is that what people are going to say when Civil War 2 blows up based on race wars and other post CW1 and civil rights era problems? But to the point I will address, freedom can only be based on true knowledge. If you only think your options are to work for 3 dollars an hour for 7 years vs 5 dollars an hour for 15 years.. your freedom is constrained by your idea of what your choices are. Is humanity free to fly in the air and to breathe under water? Only with tools did they become free to do so. Only with options, or to say, power. So who has the power? The entities with more knowledge. The entities that have existed in or over this realm for thousands of years, while humanity resets memories and civilizations ever few decades to hundreds of years.
As for the Union, it did not send sex trafficking. Hello Epstein! Get a grip people.
As for the Confederates, they did not fight for states' rights either. Not the leadership that knew what was going on or the slave aristos.
As a final mark on freedom, look up the ingredients in vaccines, such as formaldehyde and what it does to blood acidosis. Also, mandatory vaccination is a kind of freedom, yes? For livestock, yes.
What are people going to say when the Totalitarian Feds or State tells people they need mandatory vaccinations in order to make sure America's economy does not crash? Freedom... heh. You are free to kill the Cabal or be a slave of the Cabal. Not many options left, ecxept for Trum'ns space power.
Often his unpopular views, expressed disdainfully and with an air of condescension, provoked his listeners to anger. Laertius wrote that "men set upon him with their fists or tore his hair out," but that Socrates "bore all this ill-usage patiently."
Hrm.. the scales have fallen from eyes.
Growing to adulthood in this bastion of liberalism and democracy, Socrates somehow developed a set of values and beliefs that would put him at odds with most of his fellow Athenians. Socrates was not a democrat or an egalitarian. To him, the people should not be self-governing; they were like a herd of sheep that needed the direction of a wise shepherd. He denied that citizens had the basic virtue necessary to nurture a good society, instead equating virtue with a knowledge unattainable by ordinary people. Striking at the heart of Athenian democracy, he contemptuously criticized the right of every citizen to speak in the Athenian assembly.
Humans... ruling themselves? That is as comical as livestock thinking they own the farm...
Comic poet Eupolis has one of his characters say: "Yes, and I loathe that poverty-stricken windbag Socrates, who contemplates everything in the world but does not know where his next meal is coming from."
The Divine is what gives us our next meal.
Socrates--and his icy logic--came to be seen as a dangerous and corrupting influence, a breeder of tyrants and enemy of the common man.
Ymar is going to shoot up a bank! Conservatives are going to shoot up churches and start a race war! Trum is going Nazi on us!
What...
Yeshua ran into all kinds of Jewish customs and problems, such as allowing a Samaritan woman to touch a container filled with water that he would then drink. That's like an Untouchable breathing on the food of an Indian brahmin caste, or Demoncrat PillowC touching your food and then giving it to you.
Piety had, for Athenians, a broad meaning. It included not just respect for the gods, but also for the dead and ancestors. The impious individual was seen as a contaminant who, if not controlled or punished, might bring upon the city the wrath of the gods--Athena, Zeus, or Apollo--in the form of plague or sterility. The ritualistic religion of Athens included no scripture, church, or priesthood. Rather, it required--in addition to belief in the gods-- observance of rites, prayers, and the offering of sacrifices.
Organized religion, always with their stupid rituals and sacrifices.
Strangely enough, I still hear people belittle others online by saying "you live in your mom's basement".
WTF is wrong with these humans and their trash talk? This hasn't changed since even 2001, most likely. In a self quarantine, people are making fun of other people by using this line. That's how livestock act. And that's how livestock is. Evil is as evil does.
The general idea and concept is that some humans are useless and them talking online is an annoyance. If that is the case, welcome to being useless, humanity. Let's see how many "survive" to next year, why don't we.
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