4:33 Woke up at 4 AM with smoke coming from the bulged areas of the frozen ground behind the apartment, with clean air wind blowing from that direction. They were steps in the snow around the bulged areas made by the moles. Smaller human steps and some small dog steps. Overall, the smoke nauseated me.
Martial Arts is a phrase that has a bit of GNotUnix, a bit of semantic redundancy in it don't you think. mArtial.
Martial is when our fight instinct gets channeled into a highly organized activity, maybe one at the apexes of human civilization. Cause most of us nowadays survive or do think so due to the highly organized, trained and endowed armies or all nations. Countries like US spend most of their (enormous) budget for defence of mostly other countries.
A balance of powers that brings prosperity.
But can it exist. As an unmediated link between our fight instinct (as in fight or flight) and fighting like a trained soldier. No i believe not. I think we delegate the power of our martial instincts to the politicians who control the armies. I think those who chose the path to let themselves be trained into soldiers, like in any trade, in the end are just applying their skills under the coordination of their generals.
During a war your unhinged fight instinct will get you killed immediately. Martial arts is above all discipline, but in the end war is an art governed maybe by the 36 stratagems of General Tsu.
Fighting by instinct is also an illusion that professional wrestlers, boxers, other entertainers are trying to maintain. The reason for its attractiveness. But everyone who ever looked into it knows it's all script and skills, more like acrobatics than fighting.
Did not really want to write the two paragraphs above until i saw the two words written together. Has little do to with what follows.
I've been wrestling with myself since this morning about writing this post. Literally. A persistent sharp middle back pain. Could not raise from bed to take the keyboard. Changed title in my mind several times (my mind, another little semantic trap, is our minds everything that's really us). Did some searches, only to get deeper in trouble.
Also an infinite feel of uselessness of an ant fighting the cosmic Godzilla. But i shall try cause you will see in the end, i have no choice. (This is definitely not one of those days when writing on the blog is fun).
There is a group in Bali, Indonesia that claim that can use no contact martial arts to knock an opponent unconscious. Yellow Bamboo. Others, all squeezed on a small Wikipedia page. From the category "self ridiculing". That sooner or later got debunked. The immediate question is, why and how to live a lifetime, like the "Kiai master" in the videos, ridiculing self? Could it be other things they are trying to cover?
Now i vaguely remember is not the first time i saw the last video. Was searching for the same thing, from time to time. If there was something on the web documented, no matter how little, about the possibility of psychic martial arts. Or should i call it psychophysiological. Cause me personally i am more than convinced it exists and i spent a great deal of my life in this environment. Being remotely manipulated by such techniques, that are far from lethal, however, toxic (sometimes literally), debilitating and effective in manipulating (influencing) me and through me, others who happen to watch.
Most martial arts as we know them from competitions come from Japan. All so called competitive, recognized as sports, sometimes olympic "disciplines" that happen on a tatami start with a bow... Sumo wrestling which happens on clay and sand, also start with a bow, though somewhat more... complex (the purpose of a sumo match is to make your opponent touch the ground with things other than soles and/or push him out of the circle).
So we shall start (and probably end) with the bow. But what is the bow and where does it come from in Japan? The bow is so important in Japan that every newcomer knows that he started to be assimilated into the culture when he involuntarily bows during a phone conversation.
To me it looks like an unparalleled type of body language that is unique to Japan and lost its traces in history though it is a very important element of the culture, one more layer of ...overhead that makes it so hard to understand for the rest of the world. And since i took the picture and already posted it i will start again with it because i just realized i should have never posted it cause i may contribute to spread of toxic subliminal ideas as i did not understand from the beginning all of its elements.
3:42 Yesterday was the worst day of smoke around here. Don't know what it is but it made me dizzy and turned my urine dark. Probably because of low temperature, the smoke is coming from the ground flowing linearly towards the warm building. This one, cause the other isn't heated. In the evening it got cleared, but after it snowed a couple of inches, it came back. Went outside and found a few little "volcanoes" and black patches where soil was also bulged which confirms smoke is coming from the ground. In the background a ninja was sounding like an owl (pretty poor imitation), just to make me nervous and give up investigating.
But now i'm worried about something else. About two years ago it snowed about the same amount and the day after, after the snow melted for the most part and there were no more problems, they came and spread gravel on the alleys. Trouble was they never swept the gravel after that and was getting constantly ground by cars and blown on walls and roof by blowers on Wednesdays and from there inside. So i had no choice and after about 4 months i went with a broom and dustpan and a mask and swept all the remaining gravel, in a couple of days. But there was enough left in between cars to be blown for the next few months without rain.
Now i'm terrified every time it snows, thinking they will do the same.
4:15 Went to check and i saw that one of the little volcanoes i stepped on popped back into a crack.
