Quote Originally Posted by bawang View Post
its ok to train made up martial arts. its ok to feel loyalty and attachment. the key here is, sin the lied to you, and you guys either dont care, or are ok with that. you guys know fully now shaolin do has nothing to do with shaolin.

my point is

1. man should not allow others to fuk him. you let sin the fuk you so you are less than a man.

2. anyone that is content with being deceived and lied to is a subhuman animal.


i am not attacking you. this is the truth.
I am less than a man because somone lied to me? Really? I am "subhuman" because I found worth in training that was based on representations that were a lie? When the origins were secondary to me and the training was primary? I do not condone or defend the lie. I do not rationalize why he lied. But I was still trained well by my teachers. I can apply what I was taught and got hours of sweat and sore muscles from it. There is value there.

And you would not call me less than a man to my face even with my phony lineage training. We would probably have a beer and get along nicely. And if we sparred you would respect me afterwards. I've never sparred anyone that did not.