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You're misreading the situation Steve. Just because you're feeling those emotions yourself, it certainly doesn't signify that I'm feeling them myself (or projecting them - whatever that actually means).

Hopefully, it will stamp-out rule infraction entirely.

Gr8! In future, I can take it that when you use "we", you'll be referring to yourself as representing the entire membership of this forum in general. Thanks for clarifying.

I'm understanding this to mean that you'll be enforcing the rules (and the Founding Principles) strictly, after having given the above fair warning. Am I mistaken?

Your habitual lack of clarity about the use of the word "we".

Perhaps, providing that you continue to make appororiate use of your catflap(s).

Nice1!

PPS: happy to discuss your misunderstanding with all three of you at the same time and place (in the interests of efficiency and effectiveness...). Drop me a joint PM lads and we'll sort it in-person.

I'll give this a final attempt Steve, in the hope that it's possible to resolve our misunderstanding and because I actually like your online persona (despite its incessant virtue signalling...) and because we share a similar training...: Do you really hold that your perspective of the collective is necessarily mine?

PS boys... https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/all+mouth+and+no+trousers TM

Sweet..! PM me for a personal appointment and we'll all see if you have any more bottle than either Earl Grey or dwaI, because I'll put serious money on my assessment that, like them, you're all mouth and trousers.

I see. (You appear to have conflated "democrat" with "Democrat" in the sense of a North American political Party.) I used term "democrat" in its definitive sense (as is derived from δῆμος and κράτος), which has no relevance whatsoever to contemporary North American politics). Thanks for the clarification ralis.

WTF prompts you to ask that question..?

Oh! You imagine that I'm a democrat?

I doubt it but perhaps I'm mistaken.

Perhaps you refer to your collective?

Who are the "we" to whom you're referring?

It's still (technically) "a very radical cult".

Good choice! Good Luck Trunk! Be Well!

“I consider myself a technician. I'm not a guru. I'm not a leader. I have no followers. I want none. I'm a technician. I'm like a mechanic. I wish you would see me as not a spiritual leader, but rather as a transmission specialist of a sort. I'm working on the transmission of ki, of intention. I'm heir to a legacy that comes down from many generations of Japanese warriors regarding point, or presence, about being centered under fire. I'm not the repository for the entire sum of knowledge on the subject, but I have been close to some good teachers and I do know something about it. - Terry Dobson -

I was informed that it was Ueshiba himself (but I didn't hear that from Terry himself). As an aside, here's a before: and an after: Interestingly (perhaps), Terry was quite open that he had serious difficulties dealing with his youthful aggression and also that that dojo-time alone wasn't enough to help him to resolve those issues. My understanding is that witnessing Ueshiba deploying virtual atemi in an street-situation to to freeze an attacker then entering and resolving this incident was the nexus of his own Path to Peace. However, perhaps I was misinformed and perhaps the old man was some other sensei.

Thanks for sharing your various opinions and experiences. I'm almost always happy to provide fairly detailed explanations but as for "caring to explain myself", almost invariably I don't give a flying fuck. Hope that clears-up any residual misunderstanding?

And here's the true history of an event, which circulated between aikido cognoscenti by word-of-mouth. Unfortunately, it seems to have been plagiarised by some Chinese Whisperers who don't actually grasp the significance of even their own versions and who are certainly unable to teach the core of this basic lesson to their students: This history also appeared on Terry's website but the website disappeared some time after after his untimely death at the age of 55. Wondering if you (or anyone else perhaps) can guess the identity of the old man and who taught the core lesson of aikido to Dobson Sensei?