Steve
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I thought I did. Huh. If not, I should have.It’s very odd that not a single person has stuck up for Lee
Bruce Lee wasn't a God
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Xue Sheng
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Check post #19It’s very odd that not a single person has stuck up for Lee
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As we are comparing Bruce Lee with God, this reflection appears...
People says Bruce Lee didn't have any "real fights"?
Well doe we know for sure God or Jesus (replaced with equivalents of other religions) ever solved "real problems"? (I then mean, as opposed to in the "movies"
But the fiction still has a symbolic and perhaps guiding value, in life or in our MA journey. In that functional perspective, the "truth" about the presumed symbols, really does not matter as much.
What false impressions does people get from "religious books" which are in principile similarly fictious as movies.
People says Bruce Lee didn't have any "real fights"?
Well doe we know for sure God or Jesus (replaced with equivalents of other religions) ever solved "real problems"? (I then mean, as opposed to in the "movies"
But the fiction still has a symbolic and perhaps guiding value, in life or in our MA journey. In that functional perspective, the "truth" about the presumed symbols, really does not matter as much.
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Fungus
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It's like a holy grail, that is not supposed to ever be found, it's function is just to motivate the neverending search for it. So if the journey is more important than the goal, then the true nature of this holy grail possible doesn't matter.
It's like when you writethe symbol for inifty
this really just symbolises the "limite" of a sequence, it's the increasing sequence that is important - not the singularity! Ignoring this has caused alot of confusion in many fields, because people think the limit is "real", but it's not.
It's like when you writethe symbol for inifty
The squares are for holding that yummy syrup!!!
Xue Sheng
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Which is another reason it makes a horrible weapon. They get your hands all sticky
Prince_Alarming
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If we're talking about unconventional weapons, when I was a kid my mum stabbed me with a pencil. The mark is still there!
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My take on it is: he was good, the grand father of martial arts, made a hell of lot more money then I will ever see or think about, took care of his family very well, but in the end he sat on the toilet just like me, God don’t sit on no toilet!!!!
At what?
Hardly!
Not that much. Most of his earnings were post mortem.
Is philandering is being respectful to one’s spouse?
You’re thinking of Elvis
The gods do sit on toilets?
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Your mum was John Wick???
Prince_Alarming
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Why, yes
I’m pretty sure some defended him.
Steve
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It cracks me up. In a thread about Bruce Lee, literally 50 years after his death, people feel so strongly about it that it’s generated over 100 posts and a lot of strong feelings. A testament to his lasting influence.
So, if he wasn’t a great martial artist, but he inspired a generation of kids and young adults to train, some (many?) of whom became excellent martial artists. Does it really matter how good he was? Is that even relevant to a discussion about his impact on martial arts at large?
So, if he wasn’t a great martial artist, but he inspired a generation of kids and young adults to train, some (many?) of whom became excellent martial artists. Does it really matter how good he was? Is that even relevant to a discussion about his impact on martial arts at large?
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He was brash and a prima Donna!! People don’t like that.I thought I did. Huh. If not, I should have.
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Steve
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He’s super dead. Pretty much everyone who knew him is also dead. All we have now are the stories.
Xue Sheng
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He’s super dead. Pretty much everyone who knew him is also dead. All we have now are the stories.
Wait one minute there….Chuck Norris knew him and he’s still alive.
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Steve
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haha. Touché. Some old dudes out there.
Are there ppl claiming he was a god?
My $.02 - he was phenomenal, and way ahead of his time. I wish I practiced straight off The Tao of JKD when I started out as opposed to the traditional Karate I did all those years. Now I can make some of that traditional stuff work, but would have been way ahead of the curve with JKD.
My $.02 - he was phenomenal, and way ahead of his time. I wish I practiced straight off The Tao of JKD when I started out as opposed to the traditional Karate I did all those years. Now I can make some of that traditional stuff work, but would have been way ahead of the curve with JKD.
It’s a turn of expression, not that he was an actual deity.
I think you need to qualify that. By what are you measuring this?
Well that’s pure speculation since it sounds like you didn’t practise JKD.
I think the issue many have is that-
1) His art went untested and there are still no notable practitioners.
2) His art/philosophy was derivative at best.
3) From reading well referenced biographies, he was conceited, he was unfaithful to his wife so didn’t put his moral/philosophical ideas into practise (he was a hypocrit) and he was a terrible actor!
