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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darius101" data-source="post: 695164" data-attributes="member: 9466">Did I ever say the mystical practices of the martial traditions were embraced by western science??  I do not believe I did. I also did not subtly suggest this either. I did however state that ideas of anatomy and the way the body works are being embraced as truth in a cultural exchange between the eastern and western sciences. I did use different wording and perhaps that is where you got confused. Lannon you continue to twist things to your own way of thiniing rather accept things for what they are. The story of Musashi did not create a violent reaction from the snake it created a reaction of fear and the snake ran away. Musashi did not invite the snake to fight. A snake is a snake not anything else in that story. In fact it was specific snake ...a cobra. Again you did not read carefully enough before making a conclusion about something of which you have no experience.  You also know little of snakes as I stated in the story that Musashi knew any movement would cause the snake to attack. A snake is a reactionary being. A snake is also a predator as I recall from Biology class. The very nature of a predator is to attack for survival, to attack when threatened, to attack when afraid. You have suggested that a Martial artist is a predator in your mind where as I would say a Martial Artist attacks only when there is no other choice. They do not go out of their way to fight, at least not the good ones. They do go out of their way to avoid a fight as has been demonstrated by the posters here. They also do not in any way invite violence into their lives....what sane being would? I also noticed that you still avoided my comments about your casual observations. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />  Informative ...yes. Enlightening ...NO. Statistics are geared towards a goal and/or a particular agenda. I do not find old numbers/data to be partiularly enlightening, as you may have noticed from my postings where I have tried to stay away from statistics. The data on that site you posted is #1 a little on the low side and #2 more than 5 years old. This is unimportant to this dicussion anyway. You have tried to steer this dicussion to things that do not pertain to the original topic at all in any way, shape or form. Shame on you....Keep your personal agenda to yourself. I am only answering your post for one reason...people e-mailed me asking to. If it was up to me I would ignore you completly thereby avoiding any conflict and further showing how deeply you can imerse yourself in falacy. I will admit that I have to some extent cotrolled what you were going to post by insiting particular comments from you...I aplogize for this but it was so easy to do I couldn't pass up the opertunity that you presented to me on a regular basis. Kinda of a chess match with words eh? Those who know all, know nothing as you have clearly shown the other posters here time and time again. Oh well, Later...Darius I am just a guy who like to have fun. My fun may not be the same as your fun but there is no need to attack people like you have and then cause yourself to defend and backpedal. This itself has been entertaining to me. Thanks for all the fun dude. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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