Keep up the good work!
I do my best… for the state I’m in!
Someone has to put me in my place, might as well be you
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Don’t be that way. You love us. Find a way.
I know I’m argumentative but only on topics I have educated myself on. I try to be quick to concede when new facts are presented. I’ve never been all that good at toeing party lines either.
No:
Zen emerged later but Buddhism has been at the core of the Japanese state since you could call it a state.
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I’m not big on team sports either. I try to focus on what I see as Significant Points. This causes conflict, because in an informal arena I’m often Not All That and find myself addressing Very Serious Defenders.
I have my little points of value to add but often misstate things or have to backtrack. This is a social realm, not hard career-making last stands. I draw lines in the sand, but I see the metaphor more literally. A line in the sand is an ephemeral thing, taken seriously only by those who intend the line to be a provocation, or by those who take the line as that provocation.
It’s the provocateur who makes the first choice to value the sand, in my opinion. It’s up to the observers to chime in, when the wind kicks up.
Yes, I know I was being careless but it was in the context of how the mechanism worked, not an academic history, and in fact…
…my source was a professor of engineering at Tokyo University who was on the same conference as me back in the 1990s; we were on the same table for meals and we spent quite a lot of time talking about the relationships between engineering and Zen. I’m afraid he’s dead now. Any errors therefore are due to my misunderstanding of what he told me.
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Ok clear, same understanding [quote=“Enkita, post:137, topic:95879”]
Any errors therefore are due to my misunderstanding of what he told me.
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All good thanks
To the best of my knowledge, they are. The ones I’ve read are really more obsessed with what, precisely, a Roman soldier’s patella (a cross between a plate and frying pan) was made of and what was cooked in one that conflict as such, but either way, I wasn’t trying to convert you or anything, merely point out that you can car about military history far more on account of the latter than the former.
Okay. I don’t think I ever said I like all history.
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