The Lessons we learn from Kung-Fu...
These are the lessons I learned last night and today during my Kung-Festival:
1) Sei-Fu (Teacher) ALWAYS finds out what you did wrong.
2) There is NO problem that can't be solved by fighting over it.
3) If you're going to change stances... you MUST let your opponent know this fact by telling him EXACTLY what new stance you'll be taking. (eg.: "Ugh! My Iron Fist is beaten by his Rapid Waves Stance... but... Dragon Stance commands water!")
4) Kung-Fu has multiple chance for humor in EVERY fight.
5) Never trust a Fat Guy who's laughing.
6) Just because you see someone getting beat up, doesn't mean that's it's YOUR fight too!
7) Cheaters never prosper because a good oponent will use it against you. (eg.: "Oh no! He's got metal spikes on his shoes! Well, I'll just break his knee!")
8) Being drunk isn't necessarily a BAD thing, but wasting the drunk's wine... IS.
9) Just pretending to be Sei-Fu, won't make you as good as he is.
10) Red Army Bayonets are tri-bladed to assist in rapid blood-loss.
11) When someone tells you to run... you should run. You shouldn't dilly dally around and try to help AT ALL in the fight... you will only make things worse.
12) If Jet Li points a gun at you... you are probably GOING to die.
13) If you kill someone's brother or son in a Kung-Fu battle, someone WILL come to get revenge for it.
14) A battle to the death WILL result in feelings getting hurt.
Wow...
Kung-Fu is filled with lessons to be learned.
I should watch more.
It's just sooo hard to find GOOD Kung-Fu movies.
Really,
anything directed by Yuen Woo-Ping is bound to be good.
He's just cool like that.
Oh, and on a side note:
vainsinner --> I never claimed that I deserved anything. Others seem to think they know what's best for others. But really what they should learn is to Butt-Out.
amyta80,vanjohnson --> We still on for Avant Garage? I'm game! We got a radio station to rush tonight. HEY EVERYONE: pay attention for the possible radio debut of TA80! 91.3FM
twztd_angel --> Ask and ye shall receive... however that does require an actual flesh & blood meeting :)
You wanna know what get's me more than just about anything else?
The fact that someone hears what a professor tells tham and suddenly they're supposed to be an expert on the subject.
It usually get's me most, because they really have NO actual understanding of what they've just been told, they're just regurgitating what they heard.
Has no one heard of original thought anymore?
And please don't start in with the whole, "No thought is original" debate.
It's getting old.
By original, I mean one that you thought for yourself, regardless of if you were the first person to think of it or not.
The idea is that you assimilate what you're taught into your own thoughts.
Process it.
Go over it with a fine tooth comb.
Most professors CAN be proven wrong.
I've been kicked out of some classes because I brought EVERY mistake and half-truth to a professor's attention.
The idea is to gain an understanding of the subject...
not one persons opinion of the subject or just their view-point.
If you can't find anything wrong with it, fine.
Not everything out of their mouths is wrong...
but you'd probably be suprised just how skewed and obtuse their views often are.
Question everything.
Nothing is above your scrutiny.
People tear apart the Bible looking for falsehoods and half-truths...
who's to say that your professor shouldn't be given the 3rd degree as well.
If nothing else,
you'll end up better educated on the subject...
or in my case:
You'll catch the professor in so many lies and falsehoods that he'll not to politely
"throw" you out the front door.
At least he had to ask me to leave in front of all the other students.
Better than quietly being asked not to return.
It's not MY fault you've been teaching the subject for years and really don't know shit about it. It's not MY fault that a novice in the subject can find loop holes in your lectures. It's not MY fault that you use the fact that you speak fast and skip over honest questions to disguise the fact that you've been caught. The idea that YOU can tell a student what is TRUTH is bullshit. You can offer it up, and TRUTH will be seen for what it is... but so will BULLSHIT.
There's a difference between fact and opinion.
If we'd wanted your opinion we'd have signed up for a course on it...
untill then,
just remember:
The Church of Reason serves it's own. If you stand up and regurgitate what your professor says, changing it just enough as to sound original... you pass. Original thought is unsafe there... in fact, the whole education system discourages it.
1) Sei-Fu (Teacher) ALWAYS finds out what you did wrong.
2) There is NO problem that can't be solved by fighting over it.
3) If you're going to change stances... you MUST let your opponent know this fact by telling him EXACTLY what new stance you'll be taking. (eg.: "Ugh! My Iron Fist is beaten by his Rapid Waves Stance... but... Dragon Stance commands water!")
4) Kung-Fu has multiple chance for humor in EVERY fight.
5) Never trust a Fat Guy who's laughing.
6) Just because you see someone getting beat up, doesn't mean that's it's YOUR fight too!
7) Cheaters never prosper because a good oponent will use it against you. (eg.: "Oh no! He's got metal spikes on his shoes! Well, I'll just break his knee!")
8) Being drunk isn't necessarily a BAD thing, but wasting the drunk's wine... IS.
9) Just pretending to be Sei-Fu, won't make you as good as he is.
10) Red Army Bayonets are tri-bladed to assist in rapid blood-loss.
11) When someone tells you to run... you should run. You shouldn't dilly dally around and try to help AT ALL in the fight... you will only make things worse.
12) If Jet Li points a gun at you... you are probably GOING to die.
13) If you kill someone's brother or son in a Kung-Fu battle, someone WILL come to get revenge for it.
14) A battle to the death WILL result in feelings getting hurt.
Wow...
Kung-Fu is filled with lessons to be learned.
I should watch more.
It's just sooo hard to find GOOD Kung-Fu movies.
Really,
anything directed by Yuen Woo-Ping is bound to be good.
He's just cool like that.
Oh, and on a side note:
vainsinner --> I never claimed that I deserved anything. Others seem to think they know what's best for others. But really what they should learn is to Butt-Out.
amyta80,vanjohnson --> We still on for Avant Garage? I'm game! We got a radio station to rush tonight. HEY EVERYONE: pay attention for the possible radio debut of TA80! 91.3FM
twztd_angel --> Ask and ye shall receive... however that does require an actual flesh & blood meeting :)
You wanna know what get's me more than just about anything else?
The fact that someone hears what a professor tells tham and suddenly they're supposed to be an expert on the subject.
It usually get's me most, because they really have NO actual understanding of what they've just been told, they're just regurgitating what they heard.
Has no one heard of original thought anymore?
And please don't start in with the whole, "No thought is original" debate.
It's getting old.
By original, I mean one that you thought for yourself, regardless of if you were the first person to think of it or not.
The idea is that you assimilate what you're taught into your own thoughts.
Process it.
Go over it with a fine tooth comb.
Most professors CAN be proven wrong.
I've been kicked out of some classes because I brought EVERY mistake and half-truth to a professor's attention.
The idea is to gain an understanding of the subject...
not one persons opinion of the subject or just their view-point.
If you can't find anything wrong with it, fine.
Not everything out of their mouths is wrong...
but you'd probably be suprised just how skewed and obtuse their views often are.
Question everything.
Nothing is above your scrutiny.
People tear apart the Bible looking for falsehoods and half-truths...
who's to say that your professor shouldn't be given the 3rd degree as well.
If nothing else,
you'll end up better educated on the subject...
or in my case:
You'll catch the professor in so many lies and falsehoods that he'll not to politely
"throw" you out the front door.
At least he had to ask me to leave in front of all the other students.
Better than quietly being asked not to return.
It's not MY fault you've been teaching the subject for years and really don't know shit about it. It's not MY fault that a novice in the subject can find loop holes in your lectures. It's not MY fault that you use the fact that you speak fast and skip over honest questions to disguise the fact that you've been caught. The idea that YOU can tell a student what is TRUTH is bullshit. You can offer it up, and TRUTH will be seen for what it is... but so will BULLSHIT.
There's a difference between fact and opinion.
If we'd wanted your opinion we'd have signed up for a course on it...
untill then,
just remember:
The Church of Reason serves it's own. If you stand up and regurgitate what your professor says, changing it just enough as to sound original... you pass. Original thought is unsafe there... in fact, the whole education system discourages it.