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On 7/7/2020 at 12:12 AM, Gerard said:

The following quotes by Anaïs Nin come in handy:

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” 

"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”

 

"People living deeply have no fear of death.” 

 

To the OP: practice more and worry less!

 

"To the OP: practice more and worry less!"  ---- Yes

Often even a whole city (or country) suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. ---Hesiod  730 BC

Hesiod appropriated to himself the authority usually reserved to sacred kingship. The poet declared that it is he, upon whom the Muses had bestowed the two gifts of a scepter and an authoritative voice (Hesiod, Theogony 30–3), which are the visible signs of kingship.

It is not that this gesture is meant to make Hesiod a king. Rather, the point is that the authority of kingship now belongs to the poetic voice.

The roots of breakdancing in the----1930s:

I don't agree with it being his best but, Some people today, think this is over the top. Imagine what it was like in 1968!

On 3/13/2020 at 5:43 PM, Bindi said:

I once walked into a Scientology office when I was 17. I lasted 20 minutes 😁

That sounds about right

9 hours ago, Pramod said:

Hey, 

I'm a new comer here i am a fan of martial arts, i really wanted to practise a body refining techniques that can remove impurities , strengthen muscles bones and internal organs , wanted to cultivate qi.

 

I know i can't ask for any top techniques so please provide me with any basic body refining techniques and qi cultivating techniques.

 

I practised karate before it provided me no increase in strength or any other benefits so i stopped it, I am 21 year old now I wanted to atleast achieve something  .

 

I searched everywhere for techniques with no results so I turned to this page.

 

So seniors out here please provide me with your guidance and help me .

Do some research into all Wushu styles and then see which ones are near you. Visit all of them, safely or at least skype/zoom with the head guy if possible. Check back here with names and places, we can probably give you some idea as to roots, lineage, legitimatcy, etc.  Then after all of the conflicting (LOL) information, you will need to make choices.  Good luck!

On 7/5/2020 at 1:05 PM, steve said:

Viva Flamenca!

 

 

Impressive!  I have always been a fan of dance evolution rooted, in a solid Traditional foundation.

2 hours ago, Youthinkyouknow said:

potato

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Puzzlers'_League---- This may be a better place for you.

But, If you relax and just be, there is a lot of good stuff and people here. The thousands of past, new bums here, have run the gauntlet, from the extremely fantastical to the highly introverted. We tend to be very open and forgiving of human frailties and obnoxious strengths. Relax and be yourself here.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

                                        -Martin Luther King Jr

In 2008 a group of historians from the UK were commissioned to unearth the oldest joke ever written down.

The study was led by humor expert Dr Paul McDonald from the University of Wolverhampton.

Ancient Greece, 300-400 AD.

An ancient "your mom" joke, Ancient Rome, between 63 BC to 14 AD.

"The Emperor Augustus was touring the Empire, when he noticed a man in the crowd who bore a striking resemblance to himself."Intrigued he asked: 'Was your mother at one time in service at the Palace?'

"'No your Highness,' he replied, 'but my father was.

This one from Sumeria in 1200 BC, is a brainteaser.  --"Three ox drivers from Adab were thirsty: one owned the ox, the other owned the cow and the other owned the wagon's load.  "The owner of the ox refused to get water because he feared his ox would be eaten by a lion; the owner of the cow refused because he thought his cow might wander off into the desert; the owner of the wagon refused because he feared his load would be stolen."So they all went."In their absence the ox made love to the cow which gave birth to a calf which ate the wagon's load."Problem: Who owns the calf?"

Ancient Egypt, 1600 BC.This old joke was found in the Ancient Egyptian story book known as the Westcar Papyrus

It goes:         "How do you entertain a bored pharaoh?  "You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish."

On 6/30/2020 at 3:50 PM, Nungali said:

I remember 2 sword demos gone wrong .  Stupid karate people that thought they could use a sword ;

 

first was with a cheap 'wall sword' .  The guy goes to cut something , flings the sword up first and the blade fliers off  the handle, over his head and lands somewhere back in the audience .

 

The second was some guys in my Sikiran club  ( what makes them think they could use a katana ? ) . One says he can cut a watermelon on his brothers stomach and stop in time so he doesnt cut him .

 

(yeah , you can guess .....   )

 

The cut didnt  go through the last bit of skin and the melon was hanging there , it would look better if both halves fell off either side of the guy lying down, so he gave it a little slice at the end .   The other thought the same thing and flexed his stomach up thinking that would cause the last remaining bit to separate ... at the same time .

 

 

=   about 20 stitches across his stomach , fortunately  just through the skin .

 

I remember going  to do an aikido demo once , when we got there it was a gravel  car park and someone forgot to bring the mats . The demo didnt actually go wrong .... the wrong part was afterwards .

I thought the next two would be fun for you!

In Algonquin, “wendigo” translates roughly to “the evil spirit that devours mankind.” According to legend, these emaciated monsters with matted hair and decaying skin were made when a person cannibalized another. They became transformed into a wendigo with an insatiable appetite for human flesh.

The Cree developed a dance to help them deal with the nightmare of these cannibalistic creatures. The Wihtikokansimoowin involves satirical portrayals of the man-eating monster and valiant portrayals of wendigo hunters. Legend holds that the Cree’s “Wendigo-like Dance” was performed during periods of famine to reinforce the gravity of their cannibalism taboo.

Conceived in a dream, the dance was first performed by the Assiniboine tribe. The Cree eventually adopted it and incorporated it into their Sun Dance ritual. It is always performed on the last day of the celebration. The last known Wihtikokansimoowin in the United States occurred at Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Northern Minnesota.

Tarantella

First recorded in the 15th century, the tarantella gets its name from an Italian wolf spider referred to as a “tarantula.” Muscle spasms, delirium, and death were associated with its bite. Legend has it the sweaty, gyrating dance developed to flush the toxin out of the body. Musicians wandered fields expecting pay to play for the plagued. This upbeat tambourine grove soon became the iconic dance of Southern Italy.

This cure remained in place for 300 years until people began to investigate. British playwright Oliver Goldsmith forced his servant to be bitten by one of the spiders. He discovered that the bite only caused minor swelling around the wound. A 17th-century Italian doctor concluded that tarantism was a “feigned activity of malingerers.” The tarantula was not the culprit; people just needed to vent. Others theorize that the tarantella may have developed with a Dionysian cult that was forced underground.

21 hours ago, silent thunder said:

 

 

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

 

 

I cannot experience your experience.

You cannot experience my experience.

We are both invisible men.
 

 

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change

until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
 

 

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

~R. D. Laing

The trick of course is noticing more while stressing less.

Even at 117, Misao Okawa said life is short.

When asked about her long life, Okawa, who passed her title down to Weaver when she died at age 117, said, “It seemed rather short." Perhaps that's why she made sure to eat lots of cake at her last birthday.

1 hour ago, Daniel said:

You win.

 

no one lost

I had the pleasure of TY Pang's company in Seattle a long time ago.

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