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Assessing if what-you-are-learning works for self-defense — and why you need to do it. “Everyone knows what something means until there’s a problem” Paul Spiegal Contract Attorney There’s a dangerous problem about both learning and teaching ‘self-defense.’ Mostly it’s about what you don’t know you don’t know. It’s not hyperbole to say this lack … [Read more…]
A young man asked me if there are any sports fighting systems that are street effective. Here’s my response… The answer is 48 Now as long as the questions are What’s 6 x 8? What’s 24 + 24? What’s 50 – 2? Then 48 is the answer. Here’s the problem. Using the same variables but … [Read more…]
Mythology / fable / beliefs that gives life order and comprehension Tribalism Identity creating narrative Beliefs shaping world view Moral, ethics and conduct arising from the above Repudiation of other belief systems and/or facts to preserve belief “Saints,” prophets, icons Preachers Group think / dogma / heresy Internal standards of behavior and expectations Proselytizing … [Read more…]
Congratulations, you smeared distinctions to create a bigger political block, raising an inclusive banner to seem to present a unified whole for your cause. Good idea right? After all, your PR to create and identify a large, unified group to the outside world worked. Except now everyone else can’t tell the difference between you and … [Read more…]
Let me throw something onto the table. Something about ideological rage I’ve noticed but haven’t been able to sum up quickly Three lefts, two rights and another left takes you to a very specific place (conclusion). A place where the conclusion seems self-evident and IF — atsa big if — all the turns are correct, … [Read more…]
I was not happy when I found out that there had been a 3 hour delay when the shooting started at Pulse Night Club in Orlando and SWAT storming the building — especially in light of the 911 call that started caroling, ‘ISL Daesh is coming to town”) (New info, it now appears that the … [Read more…]
I want everyone reading this to hold up their hand. Repeatedly curl your index finger. If you can do this, you have the physical ability to end a human life. That completely removes any contention of what you ‘can’t do.’ Everything from that point on boils down to what you are comfortable in doing and … [Read more…]
Oh the wailing and gnashing of teeth of police brutality — and I quote — “all of this over a noise complaint.” While I normally tell people to watch the video with the sound off for the first time, on this go ahead with the sound. I want you to get the full effect. … [Read more…]
Please watch the video first. My first response is I think it’s staged. While it’s possible it’s not, women have different filters on life than men. This creates different actions and reactions to circumstances. First, while it’s not quite out of the question that she’d position herself like that upon walking into the elevator, … [Read more…]
…many years ago I read Warren Farrell’s “Myth of Male Power” he had a simple model that REALLY made sense about both gender roles as well as how second wave feminists were skewing their focus. Now while it was specific to the issue of the direction feminism was taking, it’s a VERY useful tool for … [Read more…]