Wing Woo Gar
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Sure, why not? You got a certain abomination you like?
The esoteric heritage in …..
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Wing Woo Gar
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Haughty eyes and feet that run fast to mischief being my two favorites.
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I guess I was thinking more on the lines of a certain snowman, or perhaps a giraffe with an elephant’s trunk…
Wing Woo Gar
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Oooh Asian Chimera? I have one covering most of my right thigh.
Wing Woo Gar
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Baku to be precise, he is chasing away Bakeneko and Makura Gaeshi on my shin/knee/calf.
When I’ve spoken to Japanese people including high-graded martial artists and even a swordsmith they invariably say that although they perform the various spiritual rites associated with their culture/art, they don’t actually believe in kami or or that their rituals will actually do anything. This was particularly incongruous when chatting to a swordsmith, dressed in the white garb of a Shinto priest (for purity), with a Shinto kamidana on the wall at the back of his smithy replete with fresh sakaki leaves, a fresh pile of salt and rice in place!
Is this the evolution of spiritual and religious practises in a far more lucid world?
Is this the evolution of spiritual and religious practises in a far more lucid world?
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It could be that even though they do not believe in the supernatural aspects of the spiritual, going through the rituals provides a comforting routine and helps put them in the proper frame of mind for their art or life in general.
Yes I think it’s exactly that: a little ritual, a procedure that allows you to collect your thoughts, centre yourself and prepare for what is to come. It’s like tennis players bouncing the ball a specific number of times before they serve. It’s a mental process and given humanity’s penchant for superstition, it became filled with spiritual woo woo.
Wing Woo Gar
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My Specialty….
Wing Woo Gar
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…it’s like turning the light on and off exactly 7 times when you leave the room, and then starting over if you lose count…
Wing Woo Gar
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For the sake of the light switch Kami of course.
Only 7 times?
Wing Woo Gar
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Yes, SEVEN EXACTLY!Only 7 times?
I had a good friend at University who, to salve his OCD, would knock on his door when he left his room to remind himself, later, that he’dlocked his door. I suggested that he might later be remembering a knock from the previous day so needed to have an extra movement for each day- perhaps hopping on one leg and knocking for a Monday, spinning on the spot and knocking for Tuesdays etc. His OCD made him comply and then I added he needed to add something for each month to ensure he was remembering the correct event. It drove him insane as the ritual became more and more elaborate
He’s dead now…
That's just mean.I had a good friend at University who, to salve his OCD, would knock on his door when he left his room to remind himself, later, that he’dlocked his door. I suggested that he might later be remembering a knock from the previous day so needed to have an extra movement for each day- perhaps hopping on one leg and knocking for a Monday, spinning on the spot and knocking for Tuesdays etc. His OCD made him comply and then I added he needed to add something for each month to ensure he was remembering the correct event. It drove him insane as the ritual became more and more elaborate
He’s dead now…
Back in the paper charts days, I worked with an ER Dr would would compulsively line up the charts in the rack. Whenever I walked past, I would move one, just a little, or reverse it in the rack.
I told him I was doing it as "therapy" to help hi overcome his compulsion to line them up.
Wing Woo Gar
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Well that’s an evil story to be sure. Jeez.I had a good friend at University who, to salve his OCD, would knock on his door when he left his room to remind himself, later, that he’dlocked his door. I suggested that he might later be remembering a knock from the previous day so needed to have an extra movement for each day- perhaps hopping on one leg and knocking for a Monday, spinning on the spot and knocking for Tuesdays etc. His OCD made him comply and then I added he needed to add something for each month to ensure he was remembering the correct event. It drove him insane as the ritual became more and more elaborate
He’s dead now…
Wing Woo Gar
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Another evil story, but alas, I have no empathy for doctors. In regard to their feelings, I have simply run fresh out of care.
He was a good guy. He was a Wiccan who made really nice pens. So I now have some really nice hand made pens, and he had some fairly nice handmade knives.
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Although I'm a kyokushin guy, I prefer to do sanchin kata with open hands rather than fists because........reasons.
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