BillyBob

Aikido is Japanese paganism disguised as a martial art. No True Christian would practice such a thing.

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Gladiator

Dear Billy Bob,

There are more than one branch of Aikido. I do not claim to be an expert on all branches of Aikido. I believe it is a logical extension of Christ's teaching to turn the other cheek, to allow a person who was angry at us, to express his anger, while minimizing the interrupting of the flow of his anger.

The teaching of Jesus, I believe, was to trust in the goodness inside the angry person to come through, as the angry person expresses his anger, and hurts us by hitting us.

There are branches of Aikido that teach the application of Aikido techniques to apply sufficient pressure to avoid hurting our opponent, yet protecting ourselves, yet allowing the other person to express his anger by his attempt to strike, kick or hit us. The idea is to set the opponent gently on the ground, so that he will need to use the effort and mental perspective, of standing, from a reclining position.

Stephen Segal, in movies, uses Aikido techniques, often with force more excessive than needed to set the opponent gently on the ground. There are some instances in movies, where an opponent is set gently on the ground by Stephen Segal. But generally, the Stephen Segal movies follow the usual catharsis intent of bad guys being punished, often with maiming and unpleasant death or injury.

Stephen Segal does not generally use Aikido techniques to bring harmony between mimself and his opponent, in his movies.

One story I have heard about the origin of one branch of Aikido was that a black belt martial arts instructor had a disagreement of honor with another martial arts black belt. The two decided to use their martial arts to hurt each other, as an extension of their argument. The instructor won the match, and severely injured the black belt opponent. The instructor regretted seriously injuring his opponent, who was an honorable man.

The martial arts instructor set out on a project of developing strategies to avoid injuries from kicks and blows from an opponent, yet to allow the opponent to express his anger. Further he discovered that when the opponent was placed in a reclining position, that in regaining his standing position, the opponent gained perspective on his anger.

I have also received training from Scientology on how to verbally assist an individual to work through his anger. So as I have applied gentle Aikido, in some few instances, I have also used verbal strategies for helping the opponent express, manage and diffuse his anger.

I am not sure what you mean by a "True Chrisitian". I attempt to follow the examples of Christ. One example Christ gave was in managing anger from others. I use teachings from all religions, philosophies and psychology, etc. to better follow the examples of Christ.

What does "True Christianity" mean to you? To many who claim to follow Christ, it means to turn a blind eye to all all aspects of other philosophies or religions, that in some way, depart from a strict interpretation of any of Christ's teachings. To me, just because some parts of a philosophy or religion do not match my interpretation of Christianity, does not warrant the out-of-hand rejection of all aspects of all the teachings of that branch. I look for wisdom to extrapolate, magnify and expand the teachings of Christ.


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BillyBob

Scientology? So, you admit you're a cultist and idol worshipper. I really do feel sorry for you. You may claim that you love Christ, but you can't serve two masters. A science fiction writer cannot save you from your sins.

Gladiator

Dear Billy Bob,

In what way is Scientology Idol Worship?

Are all cults totally worthless and devoid of any valure?

Scientology has many diverse aspects, so to dismiss all aspects of Scientology out-of-hand seems prejudiced.

What would happen to you if you don't give 10% to your church? Curches are not cults?

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paulmarkj

There are many people claiming free energy. It is out there and is just supressed. I understand the motivation for supression in oil rech countries, but what about Italy, France, Spain, and 100 other countries who buy expensive oil.

Don't they have any engineers and inventors to produce these free energy machines?

Edify_Always_In_All_Ways

Turn the other cheek lately, Billy?

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2) Thou shalt not suffer the fool
3) Thou shalt not pity the fool

BillyBob

The answer to you questions is easy, you're worshiping something other than God. And tithing is an action, we are saved by our acceptence of Jesus Christ as our one and only savior. Nothing else matters. God is the authority, not a church, that's the problem the Catholics have.

dirtpoorchris

Jesus said "Any man can do what I do and more"

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Leave it to US. To make the sun rise in the West. And fall on the East.

dirtpoorchris

Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG)

dirtpoorchris

Intresting point of view. Plz debunk this as I am getting chills down my spine. Maybe if they would just show us a video of a big ass plane slamming into the Pentagon id feel more secure about it.



I dunno.. This kinda sounds like bombs going off.




But its ok. Lets just continue to rally under Bush and be divided by a point and blame game... Red or Blue... Ass or Elephant.. Its always half the countries fault not the whole countries like the news tells us. Except a few liberal loons like the news tells us.



So who on this long ass list would you say is an evil person.
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