Well, Qwerty,
I need to make it obvious to you. The fallacy of argument,
ad-baculum, appeal by force of argument. I have use the consequence
of being successful to not adopting it. If u still don't see it,
let's forget and stop here. Check out some websites to what appeal
to authority means, and it would do u more good than harm.
I am trying to illustrate that life is not a simple thing, yet
there are some conceived notions to how things can be made to be
asthethically pleasing. The context of my discussion and I don't
think that we are arguing, is that there is something which is more
abstract and beautiful in form, and yet some of us condemn it by
making it realistic. Nope, u totally missed the point. We have
different mechanisms in pursuing perfection in something we liked,
our passion. And the common agreement that we need to adopt a
perfectionist attitude. Kung-fu is merely a mechanism or analogy to
illustrate how one should continuously train and upgrade himself to
be better in the area. It is not the mechanism but the form. We are
seeking the form and not the mechanism. Your comment about it being
silly is that u don't see the meaning behind why it is
useful.
I have not implied that I am right and u are wrong in all cases.
The students whom I can teach, have proven me wrong before, and I
gladly learned from them, after a long discussion and thinking
about the issue. I don't mind being wrong at times, because I can
grow with it. One thing I learned about people in Singapore, is
that when they are proven wrong, they have hard feelings, thinking
that it was out to get them. There are some things which u must
learn and that is how the training goes and u refuse to. That is
wrong, because I have advised and warned u against it.. If u choose
not to take it, it does not mean that I am a bad teacher, it just
means that u did not want to listen. If I have ever believed that I
am right, I would not have sent u to elsewhere to learn from other
people who I feel that they could be more suitable to teach u. Like
I said in the previous post, I am afraid that I am a poor
supervisor because I cannot teach u properly. I am willing to say
it in the earlier post that I am a bad supervisor because I cannot
teach u, but I doubt you could ever lower your ego and pride and
said that u did not listen.
I don't see the point of saying anything more on this issue, if u
are carrying on a course of arguing for the sake of arguing. That
is not the point if the discourse has been used this far. If u
don't know latin, spend some time learning. No harm learning
something new. That is advice.
Do take care.
yours,
Prodigal
"Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger
leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering."
- Yoda
