rent the movie "Taegukki" which is about the Korean War- it'll give you a cursory idea of what it was like back then, that is if you don't feel...
I think Sensei is more recognizable and its pronunciation is easier for most Westerners. Being Korean, I can tell you a lot of Korean is...
I think blocks were invented with the philosophy that, if you fight, you will get hit, so better to be hit on a part that won't stop you from...
Sambut 1! So destructive... I take it, he skips the elbow smash and the neck break? :D I'm learning under Guru Ray, who just received his...
I thinl it's because he's who's president now. Rogin
A fun thing to do is to force yourself to write for 10 minutes without stopping. you get a snapshot of the chaos your mind goes through when you...
:confused: are we closer or farther from god nowadays versus five hundred years ago? I guess I'm wondering if you're talking about...
So all it takes is an assertion of an absolute truth to establish it? That seems problematic when considering something like state sponsored...
Actually, it says "We hold these truths to be self-evident.." The first one is "all men are created equal" and even then that wasn't true at...
Heheh remind me of the thread I started in the Philosophy forum. Thanks for that.. I just like hearing different viewpoints, especially from...
I think we're getting right to that :) What's an example of an absolute truth? Rogin
Thanks, Mike! I've just begun in serak as a student of a student of Victor De Thouars. I find it to be really challenging, but it got me curious...
How so? I'm curious, when you say it's "rooted" in Serak, do you mean applying techniques from other arts into a Serak framework? BTW saw the...
Ah, epistemology.. So you believe that reality is a priori... There is a reality out there, and with or without us, it's still there. I feel like...
I disagree... The converse to your example would be if you chopped off my arm through hypnosis. I would be unable to do anything with my arm even...
we experience our reality through perception, thus a change in our perception is a change in our reality. Is reality just a shared set of common...
Just curious, how many of you silat players have come across, trained in, etc. silat serak? Just wondering what your opinions are on the...
I checked out their site. Much props to you, sir. There's no way I'm ready for that I'd get ground into soup base. From what I read it looks like...
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That's a good point. Tournaments are the only way to really test your skills unless you use them in the real world. Which one shouldn't do unless...
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