Bruce Lee wasn't a God

[geezer]

What are you disagreeing with @Hot Lunch? Did I misspell it, or are you still trolling my posts?

I thought that on this forum the red "thumbs-down" imoge indicated disagreement with a statement. Not "I don't like anything you post". So I'm a little confused too.

Do you two have a history?

 

[gyoja]

I thought that on this forum the red "thumbs-down" imoge indicated disagreement with a statement. Not "I don't like anything you post". So I'm a little confused too.

Do you two have a history?

I disagreed with one of his posts, then he started trolling me. I have no problem with him, and I have told him as much. No worries, my self esteem isn’t tied up in what @Hot Lunch thinks of my posts.

 

[Steve]

I thought that on this forum the red "thumbs-down" imoge indicated disagreement with a statement. Not "I don't like anything you post". So I'm a little confused too.

Do you two have a history?

I was literally just wondering the same thing.

 

[marvin8]

Hey, I like Bruce LeRoy, but I like the Shogun of Harlem better 😂

Alex "Bruce Leeroy" Caceres is fighting this Saturday.

 

[Steve]

I disagreed with one of his posts, then he started trolling me. I have no problem with him, and I have told him as much. No worries, my self esteem isn’t tied up in what @Hot Lunch thinks of my posts.

We all have our admirers, I guess. 😅

 

[gyoja]

We all have our admirers, I guess. 😅

It’s good to have a stalker! Maybe? 🤔

 

[gyoja]

Alex "Bruce Leeroy" Caceres is fighting this Saturday.

But will he have the glow? 😂

 

[Fungus]

For me ha Bruce Lee has become symbol first of all. Just like master Yoda and Rocky Balboa. Representing some "ideals" of wisdom, fighting spirit or whatever etc. I distinguish the symbol and it¨s function with the real life inspiration. Yoda doesn't exist but I still quote hime at times. But as for my own style there are many more recent symbols/ideals. Could I choose I¨d rather throw spinning kicks as good as Legendary Andy Hug, instead of like Brue Lee. But the metaphot "be like water" still means something, even if it was Yoda or some other fictional character that said it.

So quoting the symbols to me is not "appeal to authority", it is more like "appeal to a commoni ideal", which presumably is something many MA can related to, The ideal that does not exists.

 

[Gyakuto]

Like Elvis Presley or Evel Knievel, I'm not really a fan,

Evel Knievel 😆😂🤣 I haven’t thought about him in decades! Elvis…Karaoke singer! 😑

but I recognize that they had an outsized impact on the zeitgeist.

I think we have to ask whether ‘adoration by the masses’ is actually a measure of credibility or being noteworthy. By that token we’d have Kim Kardashian above Neil Armstrong, Kylie Minogue above Led Zeppelin and Taylor Swift above Martin Luther King! Mass adoration itself is not credible.

But I am unusual (apparently) for a martial artist in that I don't watch martial arts movies (exception, Kuro Obi), and am not a fan of MMA/UFC/etc.

Kuro Obi was good!

I just hear a lot of "Be like water," which is true enough, although plenty of people said it (in variations) before Bruce Lee.

Musashi Miyamoto wrote, in the sixteenth century ‘With water as the basis, the spirit becomes like water. Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.’

As I said, Lee‘s ideas were derivative.

Respect for Bruce Lee, I get. Reverence and worship? Not so much.

I completely agree. Please read Matthew Prolly’s book. It’s so good. I’ll pay for your copy, Bill. I think the estate of Bruce Lee have been very shrewd in ‘reforming’ his image to maximise his legacy and ability to make money. Prolly’s book redresses that. I have to add that Prolly is a big fan of Lee.

 

[gyoja]

Yoda doesn't exist but I still quote hime at times.

Wise he was…😂

 

[mograph]

What are you disagreeing with @Hot Lunch? Did I misspell it, or are you still trolling my posts?

I was wondering about that. There seems to be a thing going on here.

 

[Gyakuto]

Wise he was…😂

What do you mean, ‘was’? 😳

 

[Gyakuto]

I was wondering about that. There seems to be a thing going on here.

Remember when you pulled the hair of the girl you fancied in the playground?😉

 

[mograph]

Remember when you pulled the hair of the girl you fancied in the playground?😉

Ah.
So cute.

 

[mograph]

Wise he was…😂

"Learn grammar you must! Save you it can!"

 

[gyoja]

Remember when you pulled the hair of the girl you fancied in the playground?😉

Doesn’t everyone still do that? 🤔

 

[Gyakuto]

Doesn’t everyone still do that? 🤔

Most of us avoid children’s playgrounds, gyoja. For the sake of your continued and longterm posting on here, I’d suggest you do the same!😳

 

[gyoja]

Most of us avoid children’s playgrounds, gyoja. For the sake of your continued and longterm posting on here, I’d suggest you do the same!😳

Maybe I still like chasing my wife around the playground. Is that why everyone keeps looking at me funny? 😁

 

[Gyakuto]

Maybe I still like chasing my wife around the playground. Is that why everyone keeps looking at me funny? 😁

If you do so in a Benny Hill-esque way, yes!

 

[Holmejr]

Kinda funny, but people & things become gods when one has not God. 😉