Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

On 6/1/2014 10:42 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Richard, you got caught using someone else's words without attribution... > Thanks for pointing this out, Judy - I don't know what I would do without all your research and correcting! Correction: /According to a reviewer ///on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : On 6/1/2014 10:04 PM, awoelflebater@... mailto:awoelflebater@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:punditster@... wrote : On 6/1/2014 9:26 PM, emilymaenot@... m

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

Richard, you got caught using someone else's words without attribution, pretending they were your own. Maybe you do it frequently; I don't know. I don't read most of your posts, and I have no interest in Bassett's book. Share called attention to this paragraph as well written, and I noticed that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

On 6/1/2014 10:04 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : On 6/1/2014 9:26 PM, emilymaenot@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Now Share knows who to attribute to her opinion that it was "succinctly and beau

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

On 6/1/2014 8:44 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Hate to say it, but a lot of what he wrote was cribbed from an Amazon reader review of a book on karate: > Just for the record, I've probably posted reviews of Bassett's book at least six times since 2000 and Judy failed to po

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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : On 6/1/2014 9:26 PM, emilymaenot@... mailto:emilymaenot@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Now Share knows who to attribute to her opinion that it was "succinctly and beautifully written". > Oh my Gawd!!! Richard quoted a review on Amazon by a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

On 6/1/2014 9:26 PM, emilymae...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Now Share knows who to attribute to her opinion that it was "succinctly and beautifully written". > Oh my Gawd!!! Richard quoted a review on Amazon by a fellow that quoted Randall Bassett almost verbatim from the book. Let's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

> > our ability to control the content of our mind under stress; > > and our ability to remove ourselves as a "target" by our > > behavior and mindset. > > On 6/1/2014 9:07 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Sad. > You are supposed to read the messages BEFORE you post your comment

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

On 6/1/2014 8:44 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Hate to say it, but a lot of what he wrote was cribbed from an Amazon reader review of a book on karate: http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Karate-Randall-Bassett/dp/0446781649 Check out the review by H. Asbury. > Check out this revie

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Now Share knows who to attribute to her opinion that it was "succinctly and beautifully written". ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Sad. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I thought it might be cribbed too, but couldn't find it. "Richard! Be honest! " --

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Sad. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I thought it might be cribbed too, but couldn't find it. "Richard! Be honest! " ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Hate to say it, but a lot of what he wrote was cribbed from an Amazon reader review of a book on karate:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

I thought it might be cribbed too, but couldn't find it. "Richard! Be honest! " ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Hate to say it, but a lot of what he wrote was cribbed from an Amazon reader review of a book on karate: http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Karate-Randall-Bassett/dp/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

On 6/1/2014 8:09 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Succinctly and beautifully written, Richard, thank you. > If you are going to achieve consistent, meaningful results in your quest for defensive self-culture, you are going to have to cultivate a series of specialized

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

Hate to say it, but a lot of what he wrote was cribbed from an Amazon reader review of a book on karate: http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Karate-Randall-Bassett/dp/0446781649 http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Karate-Randall-Bassett/dp/0446781649 Check out the review by H. Asbury. ---In FairfieldLife@

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

Succinctly and beautifully written, Richard, thank you. On Sunday, June 1, 2014 12:52 PM, "'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]" wrote:   On 6/1/2014 9:49 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: For those of you who never studied martial arts, a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

On 6/1/2014 9:49 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I'd prefer to hang with the white belts any day, because they're willing to learn more, and *build upon* the things they've already learned. The lady I had drinks with in New York -- who had two black belts to her c

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

On 6/1/2014 9:49 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: For those of you who never studied martial arts, a white belt is the rank you are given as a beginner. > A white belt is the belt you get when you buy a karate uniform. The first class I attended was when my parents w

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

On 6/1/2014 9:49 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I think that's sad, "achieving" a state in which one believes that one really doesn't have anything more to learn. I'd prefer to hang with the white belts any day, because they're willing to learn more, and *build upo

[FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

For those of you who never studied martial arts, a white belt is the rank you are given as a beginner. The rankings then progress after six months or so through a variety of gaudy colors to give the newbies a sense of progress, and then to the first real ranking, brown belt. That qualifies you a