Diary of a College Samurai

[polishillusion]

leave poor Seph alone already

Your horrible to this kid.

Now his karma must be white with a black leather jacket and coffee stains, and the stench of cigarettes ive been telling him to stop smoking forever fyi.

[Lorhax]

Color of his karma...

Great.

Emo-Goth Buddhists.

Lol...Emo-Goth Buddhist

[DerAuslander]

Color of his karma...

Great.

Emo-Goth Buddhists.

[plasma]

OK...I just read his last entry...

Now he's LARPing Buddhism.

Pl4zm4, I need his 20. I'm going to find him, and introduce him to Buddha, personally.

Oh the first thing he said to me was he wore all black becuase that is the color of his karma.

[plasma]

He lives in Binghamton, NY, He used to have his address on his facebook but he took it down,when I was using his photos for humor purposes.

Pete, does he still live on Court St.? or was is Oak St.?

[DerAuslander]

I saw very little there that made any sense. He's been asked to leave his Sangha because the Sangha members cannot handle his enlightenment?!?

[polishillusion]

Seph is a good kid,but hes been LARPING Buddism for a long time, because if a religion is totally different then the pathetic Christ based ones around you, it will obviously lead you to enlightenment even though it has failed to enlighten its own target audience.

To be honest, i think he really is a Buddist, but his whole "color schema" thing is not what i see as accurate to the ideas that Buddist hold. Correlating colors with moods, emotional states, or life experiences is too steeped in moralistic judgement to be useful in finding inner peace. (im being a hippy today)

Plus, he has worn black everytime ive seen him lately, which means he has not finished accending to the higher plain of thought and understanding by his own word. oh well :P

[DerAuslander]

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...c7b58c95aa80ML

What the hell? This can't be for real, surely...

OK...I just read his last entry...

Now he's LARPing Buddhism.

Pl4zm4, I need his 20. I'm going to find him, and introduce him to Buddha, personally.

[Shadowstalker]

Irony: I never said fuck all about chi or any of the things you accused me off.
Double irony: I agree with you. I recognize the importance of a solid ground game, as much as that phrase annoys me. Thus why I am learning some BJJ.
Triple Irony: I already said that.

[Lorhax]

Better to be a BJJ fanboy than a delusional teen.

Look when I first started in MA at the age of 18 I was all wide eyed, fresh and easily duped into believing any number of myths about MA. Chi, fajing organ busting, body resistance to things like fire and the like. Yeah I ate that shit up, but then I crossed hands with a kung fu kickboxer, and got my ass handed to me. That's what really opened my eyes. I started to question everything I had ever been fed about the mystical powers of some MAs and quickly I discovered it was all BULLSHIT! All the little tricks that they did, all of their super secret chi powers, it was all total BS. It had more to do with body mechanics, physics and hard work than it had to do with focusing chi and fajing. The concepts of chi and fajing is the crap that they feed to us westerners to make it appear that what they are doing is extraordinary.

I have lived in China, I have lived in Korea, I have been to Thailand. In none of those places did I ever see anything that could not be accomplished through simple hard work and practice. In all my time of training overseas not once did I hear an instructor refer to chi as being anything more than breathing, not once did anyone ever expound the greatness of fajing. You worked hard to get good, to have power it, was that simple.

If you want to continue to believe in these things be my guest, but I was where your at now and fortunately I found out very early on in a controlled setting how much BS all of that shit is, I can only hope the same happens for you.

Oh and FYI I am not a BJJ fanboy, I prefer standing arts but fully recognize the importance of a solid ground game.

I'll answer to this one in a diffrerent manner I was not insulting being a BJJ Fanboy, I personally like BJJ and I am looking into taking some of it (if i ever can work it out between my other martial arts) cause I think it very effective and very to the point.
What I was insulting is all those people believeing in the ultimate martial art, and that thigns that they don't know about are bullshit.
Everything does take hard work, but things like fajing are all body machanics and physics nothing mistical about it.

[Ronin.74]

Better to be a BJJ fanboy than a delusional teen.

Look when I first started in MA at the age of 18 I was all wide eyed, fresh and easily duped into believing any number of myths about MA. Chi, fajing organ busting, body resistance to things like fire and the like. Yeah I ate that shit up, but then I crossed hands with a kung fu kickboxer, and got my ass handed to me. That's what really opened my eyes. I started to question everything I had ever been fed about the mystical powers of some MAs and quickly I discovered it was all BULLSHIT! All the little tricks that they did, all of their super secret chi powers, it was all total BS. It had more to do with body mechanics, physics and hard work than it had to do with focusing chi and fajing. The concepts of chi and fajing is the crap that they feed to us westerners to make it appear that what they are doing is extraordinary.

I have lived in China, I have lived in Korea, I have been to Thailand. In none of those places did I ever see anything that could not be accomplished through simple hard work and practice. In all my time of training overseas not once did I hear an instructor refer to chi as being anything more than breathing, not once did anyone ever expound the greatness of fajing. You worked hard to get good, to have power it, was that simple.

If you want to continue to believe in these things be my guest, but I was where your at now and fortunately I found out very early on in a controlled setting how much BS all of that shit is, I can only hope the same happens for you.

Oh and FYI I am not a BJJ fanboy, I prefer standing arts but fully recognize the importance of a solid ground game.

[Lorhax]

* they're closedminded bjj fanboys. There's a difference.

I second the motion.

[Shadowstalker]

Don't know you specifically. It just...seems that way. I'm learning some BJJ myself. It's a very useful set of skills and grappling is a must. But people here....*Shrug* they're closedminded bjj fanboys. There's a difference.

[plasma]

You're all closed minded brazillian buttboy gracie-family catamites. Get over BJJ..

So I guess that applies to me too, and the vast majority of the site that does do BJJ?

[Shadowstalker]

I would like to apologize to everyone, I have dropped the ball rather soundly. I have more or less given up on this for the following reasons
1) I had/have SAT's to study for
2) I have two high level english courses (One of which is called Writer's Craft....I think you see where this is going)
3) I have a math course that I was grossly unprepared for
4) I'm in a long distance relationship which takes it's toll
5) I Have martial arts training that I do
6) I intended the writing to be a release but instead it was a hassle, which was the last thing I needed
7) The above wasn't worth it in light of the fact that people wanted me to go away and have the old writer back. It just didn't seem worth the hassle if I wasn't getting what I wanted out of it, and neither was anyone else.

Oh, and, I sincerely hate this forum. And pretty much everybody on it. I mean that. Sorry. You're all closed minded brazillian buttboy gracie-family catamites. Get over BJJ. Grappling is a part of martial arts, not the end of it. There are even, gasp, other forms of grappling. Whatever. Not my battle. Bye. Sorry, I may despise you, but I shouldn't have done this anyway.