“! He steals threads from places and comments on them”
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Dammmmmm!!, I never thought of that!!! Now I know what I’m doing wrong with my forum!!! I should be stealing topics off of other forums, instead of starting topics on my forum and posting links to them on everyone elses forums.
For me, I can’t quit…I am kung fu. Its in my blood, in my breath. I cut back, but not to the detriment of my skills. I’m always moving forward.
And you still can’t get a date.
No offense Stacey but put a few more years on your training and yourself, add a job, kids, a wife and a mortgage and then tell me that …you are kung fu!
rogue is correct
hey a fish stick can taste just as good as salmon depending on how fresh, how they are cooked and what kind of food u like… i like both
man KF forums are a crazy place :eek:
thinking of my stomach again…
dawood
I quit training 3 months ago, then started again a month ago once I’d established what I wanted to achieve
I don’t believe training a different style would make any difference - burnt out is burnt out.
I strongly recommend a complete break including this forum - I’ve come back a lot fresher mentally and discovered a whole bunch of stuff to work on.
‘once I was blind but now I can see’ as it were
good luck anyway
no offense, but sweat buckets and do it for years thanklessly laquering yourself with pain and bitterness and it will be impossible. Fact is, when my problems add up, I know its time to increase my MA so the rest of my life becomes crisp and efficient.
quit if you want, anyone can hide behind their responsibilities, but if there is one thing kung fu has taught me its that time is relative and that time is made, not found.
I can get a date, and I’m not the kind of person that does things half assed or tries to justify thier failures.
My whole life in the martial arts, I have seen people flounder and quit. I’ve seen then fall away to this and that for a pletheura of reasons. And the one think that has kept me is perserverence and for that I have recieved tenfold what I have put into it.
if this isn’t your experience, maybe its time you invested your energy into something better.
www.8step.com
Originally posted by Stacey
[B]no offense, but sweat buckets and do it for years thanklessly laquering yourself with pain and bitterness and it will be impossible. Fact is, when my problems add up, I know its time to increase my MA so the rest of my life becomes crisp and efficient.
quit if you want, anyone can hide behind their responsibilities, but if there is one thing kung fu has taught me its that time is relative and that time is made, not found.
I can get a date, and I’m not the kind of person that does things half assed or tries to justify thier failures.
My whole life in the martial arts, I have seen people flounder and quit. I’ve seen then fall away to this and that for a pletheura of reasons. And the one think that has kept me is perserverence and for that I have recieved tenfold what I have put into it.
if this isn’t your experience, maybe its time you invested your energy into something better.
www.8step.com [/B]
“laquering yourself with pain and bitterness”?!
that’s beautiful.
stuart b. (who still remembers what it felt like to believe that your pain and struggle were more real than anybody else’s)
Stacey,
I applaud your passion for the martial arts, but everything you gain from martial arts besides some fighting skill can be gained with other activities. Just because what is important with him doesn’t jive with your opinions doesn’t mean he’s a quitter or you’re the better man.
quit if you want, anyone can hide behind their responsibilities, but if there is one thing kung fu has taught me its that time is relative and that time is made, not found.
That’s pretty easy to say when your responsibilities consist of returning Hitman 2 to the video store on time. Rogue mentioned wanting to spend more time with his family. That in and of itself is enough reason to quit martial arts all together. There are many things in life that are far more important than martial arts. Especially if your family is struggling to stay together…as mine is right now. The arts will always be there. Your family may not.
You should really “Time-Capsule” some of your posts Stacey. Print them out, bury them, and open them back up in ten years.
Stacey,
You like to meditate?
Meditate on this: you have almost no idea who rogue is or what is happening in his life. You can’t even see a tincture of his relationship with his family from where you are sitting. What meals are like for them, what their converstaions are like, if it’s all good or there’s some unnameable, unmentioned tension slowly building. You don’t even know what it’s like to have a family of your own much less be able to conjecture the steady, subtle intrusion of concerns about whether or not you are doing everything you can for them.
Or maybe they resent your leaving them to study MAs. Or, maybe they won’t be able to resent you because you are their father. So they’ll start sublimating. Or maybe it’s all in your head but you don’t care; you’re just going to fu(king be there.
That, my friend, is just a few of myriad possiblities of what rogue is worried about.
We don’t know.
YOU DON"T KNOW.
I want you to get Plato’s Republic and spend the night with it. See what Socrates has to say about wisdom. If you claim to understand something you can’t possibly understand, you are an IDIOT. If you pass judgement based on this false understanding, you are a CHILD.
The truly wise man understands that what he knows compared to what he doesnt’, it’s like grain of sand compared to a beach.
But you ignore that. With no idea of what rogue is going through, with the distinct possibility that it’s something you can’t even imagine, you are going to use what little he’s said to you as a reason to pat yourself on the back and spout some purple prose about your own stick-to-iti-veness.
Don’t you think that’s a little bit opportunistic?
“stuart b. (who still remembers what it felt like to believe that your pain and struggle were more real than anybody else’s)”
But MY pain and struggle IS more real than anybody else’s! 
It is I tell you! It is!
Daffy Duck said it best: “I’m different from everyone else. Pain hurts me!”
Stacey is about at a Daffy Duck level of understanding the world right now. Considering he’s apparently a none-too-bright teenager, that’s not too surprising.
But MY pain and struggle IS more real than anybody else’s! It is I tell you! It is!
please!
let me tell you a little something about pain and struggle, pal:
where i grew up, on the mean streets of annapolis, some random guy–say, a tennis instructor during the off season–would just walk up and pop two caps in you just for your docksiders.
you could get killed for wearing the wrong-coloured sweater around your neck. (and by ‘killed’, obviously i mean ‘ridiculed’, but really badly!)
i watched so many guys… try to sneak into the country club… and not make it. you have no idea what that’s like. [stare off meaningfully]
anyway, i’ve been premium aluminum sided by my experiences. have you?
stuart b.
That’s pretty easy to say when your responsibilities consist of returning Hitman 2 to the video store on time.
ROTFL!
Thanks for the support all but don’t beat down on Stacey too much. Once upon a time I was a teenager who took life very seriously. Life being playing in a band, girls (specially those experienced ones in their 20’s), karate and wondering why my parents just didn’t “get these things being important”. Now that life is raising my sons, my wife, work and asking my dad why I just didn’t “get these things being important” back then, I take a things with more of a grain of salt. The great part about life is that it happens to us all and Stacy will get his share before he knows it.
To paraphrase Stacey,
For me, I can’t quit…I am DAD!
For me, I can’t quit…I am DAD!
well, i think that’s just about the greatest thing i’ve ever read on these forums.
Originally posted by rogue
[B] ROTFL!
Thanks for the support all but don’t beat down on Stacey too much. Once upon a time I was a teenager who took life very seriously. [/B]
Me too. But I had a bevvy of adults around saying, “PLEASE!! Get over yourself, ya little tyke. You are behaving like a moron.”
where i grew up, on the mean streets of annapolis…
Originally posted by Suntzu
see? suntzu knows what i’m talking about. don’t mess with me. i’m crazy banana republic guy!
let me tell you a little something about pain and struggle, pal:
Ap, thanks for giving me the experience of a sip of Starbuck exiting through my nose and not the usual way.
Tonight I’m going to take the child safety seats out of the Dodge Caravan see if my homies wives will let them come out, and raise a little he11 at Hooters. Maybe we’ll even cruise up to Mary Land and take on Ap and some of his crew.
If my wife let’s me that is.
Originally posted by rogue
[B] Ap, thanks for giving me the experience of a sip of Starbuck exiting through my nose and not the usual way.
Tonight I’m going to take the child safety seats out of the Dodge Caravan see if my homies wives will let them come out, and raise a little he11 at Hooters. Maybe we’ll even cruise up to Mary Land and take on Ap and some of his crew.
If my wife let’s me that is. [/B]
this is just for you.