This is Dave Young's Forum.
Can you really bridge the gap between reality and training? Between traditional karate and real world encounters? Absolutely, we will address in this forum why this transition is necessary and critical for survival, and provide suggestions on how to do this correctly. So come in and feel welcomed, but leave your egos at the door!
Who declared the USA police men of the earth and why are they the only ones who are allowed weapons of mass destruction…last time I checked your the only nation to ever use them.
We've only used them once.. well the nukes at least, and that was to defeat a culture that would rather commit harri karri than surrender. If the Germans had developed it in time they would have surely nuked Brittian and held the world hostage. Lucky for us we got their smartest Jewish scientists to help develop a super weapon. WMD's were used by all sides starting in WW1 . I think even Canada used mustard gas against then enemy.
See you later on Ricks forum Laird where we can all talk about kata
Thanks... Your explanation (and understanding) might make more of an impression on folks and let them understand why some folks can be proud of their Southern Heritage and defensive against the stereotype. It does seem that it is OK to make jokes and play on the stereotypes of "Southern rednecks" but completely against the "PC" rules to do the same with other groups... Oh well...
Ian,
I understand... and I think you know my point.
(not directed at Ian, directed to the thread...)
It has a lot to do with the whole "democracy" problem... We do NOT live in a democracy. Democracies always slide into socialism when the majority find out they can vote themselves the possessions of others. That's why we live in a Constitutional Republic... A democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner... a Constitutional Republic is the two wolves voting to have the sheep for dinner and finding a well-armed sheep knowledgable about it's Constitutional Rights granted by the Creator!
Now about these "Interim Rules"...
I do NOT think it is right to deny the people their arms...
I do NOT think it is right to create any "official religion"...
I do NOT think the US should be the world's police force...
And, to refresh memories... we did go into Mogadishu and Rwanda... and there are still troops in some of those places... (I disagree but... ) they're under UN control.
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My God-given Rights are NOT "void where prohibited by law!"
I agree I think what they allowed in sets a dangerous tone for their future, and it is already happening.
IJ -- My point was more subtle in regards to this country, our freedom of religion as protected by the 1st Amendment as turned from 'protection of religion from government' to 'protection of government from religion', the mere mention of faith(whatever faith) and you are imediately attacked as if your voice has no place in the public square.
... small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Mttw 7:14
S, how can that possible be when it seems obligatory to reference one's faith in every political speech made by the president, when faith is a major theme at both major party's conventions, and when both candidates have very public faiths that are examined in national magazines and on the news regularly without derision? I happen to agre with most Americans that religion must be protected from government (or in the worst case scenario you get government sponsored discrimination or even extermination) AND that government must be protected from religion (or in the worst case scenario you get the Taliban). We call this separation of church and state nowadays.
Trust me, I'm sensitive to government intrusions on religion--I've got friends who belong to a church that would marry them and can't because of government regulations (something that would spark an outright revolution if it happened to mainstream christians but is thought to be irrelevant or a minor inconvenience to the same sex couples it affects). But while I've got no problem with those of faith holding office the same as everyone else I think it'd be swell if government decisions weren't made on the basis of supernatural beliefs I don't share. (Would YOU want state matters that affect you settled by fundamentalist islamic beliefs?).
These are all just two sides of the same coin... "protecting government from religion" according to one person who's mad his or her beliefs aren't enshrined in law is "protecting religion from government" to another, who is pleased to see his or her beliefs not challenged by the edicts of his neighbor's religion.
