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TUF is the soap opera for men.

I havent decided for sure yet. I went back and hung out and watched the dudes roll around on the ground with eacother all sweaty. I realize you think it is an overt act of gayness but once you start rolling and are focused on not getting choked out or arm barred you would probably stop thinking that. In any case I havent decided for sure I may take Max's advise and just start training internal MA. Or I may wait until the Aikido master comes down. I'll probably come to some sort of decision about MA next week. I might do BJJ and internal together. I started doing the royal court again. Is your shoulder still messed up?

Don't know how or if this is related. Here is an email I got. No finger pointing or the facts being good or bad just interesting. Dr Farrukh Saleem There are only 14 million Jews in the world; seven million in the Americas, five million in Asia, two million in Europe and 100,000 in Africa. For every single Jew in the world there are 100 Muslims. Yet, Jews are more than a hundred times more powerful than all the Muslims put together. Ever wondered why? Jesus of Nazareth was Jewish. Albert Einstein, the most influential scientist of all time and TIME magazine's 'Person of the Century', was a Jew. Sigmund Freud -- id, ego, superego -- the father of psychoanalysis was a Jew. So were Karl Marx, Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman. Here are a few other Jews whose intellectual output has enriched the whole humanity: Benjamin Rubin gave humanity the vaccinating needle. Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine. Alert Sabin developed the improved live polio vaccine. Gertrude Elion gave us a leukaemia fighting drug. Baruch Blumberg developed the vaccination for Hepatitis B. Paul Ehrlich discovered a treatment for syphilis (a sexually transmitted disease). Elie Metchnikoff won a Nobel Prize in infectious diseases. Bernard Katz won a Nobel Prize in neuromuscular transmission. Andrew Schally won a Nobel in endocrinology (disorders of the endocrine system; diabetes, hyperthyroidism). Aaron Beck founded Cognitive Therapy (psychotherapy to treat mental disorders, depression and phobias). Gregory Pincus developed the first oral contraceptive pill. George Wald won a Nobel for furthering our understanding of the human eye. Stanley Cohen won a Nobel in embryology (study of embryos and their development). Willem Kolff came up with the kidney dialysis machine. Over the past 105 years, 14 million Jews have won 15-dozen Nobel Prizes while only three Nobel Prizes have been won by 1.4 billion Muslims (other than Peace Prizes). Why are Jews so powerful? Stanley Mezor invented the first micro-processing chip. Leo Szilard developed the first nuclear chain reactor. Peter Schultz, optical fibre cable; Charles Adler, traffic lights; Benno Strauss, Stainless steel; Isador Kisee, sound movies; Emile Berliner, telephone microphone and Charles Ginsburg, videotape recorder. Famous financiers in the business world who belong to Jewish faith include Ralph Lauren (Polo), Levis Strauss (Levi's Jeans), Howard Schultz (Starbuck's), Sergey Brin (Google), Michael Dell (Dell Computers), Larry Ellison (Oracle), Donna Karan (DKNY), Irv Robbins (Baskins & Robbins) and Bill Rosenberg (Dunkin Donuts). Richard Levin, President of Yale University, is a Jew. So are Henry Kissinger (American secretary of state), Alan Greenspan (fed chairman under Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush), Joseph Lieberman, Madeleine Albright (American secretary of state), Casper Weinberger (American secretary of defence), Maxim Litvinov (USSR foreign Minister), David Marshal (Singapore's first chief minister), Issac Isaacs (governor-general of Australia), Benjamin Disraeli (British statesman and author), Yevgeny Primakov (Russian PM), Barry Goldwater, Jorge Sampaio (president of Portugal), John Deutsch (CIA director), Herb Gray (Canadian deputy PM), Pierre Mendes (French PM), Michael Howard (British home secretary), Bruno Kreisky (chancellor of Austria) and Robert Rubin (American secretary of treasury). In the media, famous Jews include Wolf Blitzer (CNN), Barbara Walters (ABC News), Eugene Meyer (Washington Post), Henry Grunwald (editor-in-chief Time), Katherine Graham (publisher of The Washington Post), Joseph Lelyyeld (Executive editor, The New York Times), and Max Frankel (New York Times). Can you name the most beneficent philanthropist in the history of the world? The name is George Soros, a Jew, who has so far donated a colossal $4 billion most of which has gone as aid to scientists and universities around the world. Second to George Soros is Walter Annenberg, another Jew, who has built a hundred libraries by donating an estimated $2 billion. At the Olympics, Mark Spitz set a record of sorts by wining seven gold medals. Lenny Krayzelburg is a three-time Olympic gold medalist. Spitz, Krayzelburg and Boris Becker are all Jewish. Did you know that Harrison Ford, George Burns, Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Sandra Bullock, Billy Crystal, Woody Allen, Paul Newman, Peter Sellers, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Douglas, Ben Kingsley, Kirk Douglas, Goldie Hawn, Cary Grant, William Shatner, Jerry Lewis and Peter Falk are all Jewish? As a matter of fact, Hollywood itself was founded by a Jew. Among directors and producers, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Oliver Stone, Aaron Spelling (Beverly Hills 90210), Neil Simon (The Odd Couple), Andrew Vaina (Rambo 1/2/3), Michael Man (Starsky and Hutch), Milos Forman (One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), Douglas Fairbanks (The thief of Baghdad) and Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters) are all Jewish. To be certain, Washington is the capital that matters and in Washington the lobby that matters is The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC. Washington knows that if PM Ehud Olmert were to discover that the earth is flat, AIPAC will make the 109th Congress pass a resolution congratulating Olmert on his discovery. William James Sidis, with an IQ of 250-300, is the brightest human who ever existed. Guess what faith did he belong to? So, why are Jews so powerful? Answer: Education. The writer is an Islamabad-based freelance columnist Email: [email protected]

A friend of mine recently sent an email with the following written by the late Jean Klein that I think is relavent to this discussion. Q: How can I best bring about peace in the world? A: So you're looking for peace? You'd like to see your surroundings in peace? Are you in peace? Because, before giving peace to your surroundings, you must be in peace yourself. First, face your lack of peace. See that you are constantly at war with yourself, you are violent and aggressive with yourself. As long as there is an ego, there is war. As long as you think you're an independent entity, there's war, and it's useless to try to end conflict on a social level. If you are not in harmony with yourself, you remain an accomplice to society. This question of war and peace is very important. When you come to the life experience of global being, there is real freedom and absolute security. As long as you have not integrated this freedom you cannot bring social or political freedom. Freedom can never come through a system. Q: But we need to influence institutions. How can we do that? A: Don't try to influence. The moment you breathe, the whole world is affected by your inhalation and exhalation. So when you live in peace you radiate it. If someone asks for help, help of course. ..."

Kazushi Sakuraba has so much heart. he gets beat down and then comes back to win via arm bar. Fight

I studied with Juba Nour Sensei in NYC Link he was uchi deshi for chiba sensei who was a personal student of O'sensei but is probably the more martial of the modern aikido people. I also like BJJ and yes aikido does generally have the more formal aspect than BJJ. Still kind of debating whther I want to do Aikido or BJJ or something else like Bagua or Shing Yi long term myself. I am more interested in healing at the present moment than fighting so no need to rush it I guess..

Maybe it's because I studied with more martial aikido group, but I have no doubt my aikido teachers(or myself) could use aikido as practical self defense. But as far as I can tell, the aikido would take on a more agressive nature than what probably the majority of aikido you see practices. Like one of my teachers wouldn't hesitate to punch you in the face or kick you in the balls as an atemi before slapping on a nikyo lock or whatever.... But if it hits the ground, yeah, Ime glad I also studied some BJJ..

I think Aikido works very well. I havent gotten into a streeet fight in my whole life so do MA for fun. My guess is if anyone ever wanted to fight me I would either try to talk them out of it or just kick them in the nutsack and walk away. Unless we are talking about Lozen of course who is supposedly deadly with knives. Cam

Don't let his internet persona scare you Kieth Plato is a cool guy in person and not rude at all. of course do what you like in any case...

Tourist I am just coming back after almost a year of little training from a knee injury. I think I'll be good now and fully recovered but take it slow for awhile. I am trying to be honest I know the no competition thing in aikido will start to bother me after awhile. And Bagua is cool I may supplement my BJJ with that so I can train something into old age.

returning to innocence, or returning to nature.

Interesting article on Satsang culture. Link

I really liked this movie alot. I hated his last one The Village but thought the acting and story was awesome in this one. The characters really drew me in and brought out feelings I don't remember having since maybe childhood or something. Cam

I say you just have fun with it man. Put up a dollar sign at the bottom that says "help me to help you" ala Jerry Mcguire. Or just do whatever. Cam

I have the yogas of Naropa book since Kieth always reccomended it but havent gotten into it yet.

Exactly! But how about if I supplement internal training and add pen jing to my BJJ or Aikido? Ken Cohen says Pen Jing is like a basketball that can bounce or rebound an oppononent off and also help prevent injuries. Or should the different arts be kept sepertate? I guess Ime implying if you or Kumar started training BJJ or something you would probably use internal MA principles like pen jing in your grappling or whatever, no? Cam

This is really an amazing movie. One of the best I have seen in years and deals directly with the intention/goal focused mentality vs the just enjoy the moment and journey. So many cool little teachings in there and Nick Noltes best performance I can remember.

Buddy, at a higher level, don't you think advanced martial artists are working with the same principles? It seems when I see high level aikido, BJJ or Bagua guys in action they are using similar principles like taking there oppnents center/base, using leverage to use least effort to do most damage or subdue the agressor/opponent. Of course BJJ and aikido for the most part lack the serious internal training of Chinese inner MA but you can always supplement. How was the Mass seminar? Cam

I vote yoda for manager of taobums marketing. Cam

I consider Sean a good friend so he asks for a measly $25 I give it. As far as the sponsor titel it's not something I particularly care for but it doesn't bother me.

The wisdom of Enlightenment is inherent in every one of us. It is because of the delusion under which our mind works that we fail to realize it ourselves, and that we have to seek the advice and the guidance of Enlightened ones before we can know our own Essence of Mind. You should know that so far as Buddha-nature is concerned there is no difference in an Enlightened person and an ingnorant one. What makes the difference is one realizes it, while the other is ignorant of it. Zen Master Hui Neng http://www.geocities.com/the_wanderling/canudoit.html

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