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- From: Stovall@f88.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Stovall)
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- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: religion vs. philosophy
- Message-ID: <725810221.AA08776@urchin.fidonet.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 08:42:04 -0500
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- SCX> IMNSHO, the spiritual aspects of _some_ MA are not necessarily related
- SCX>to religion. But other MA have (as far as I can tell) the same
- SCX>characteristics as religions & cults, except that they call
- SCX>themselves philosophies and "ways", which have considerably less
- SCX>semantic baggage than God and religion.
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- I believe you are correct: pragmatic semantics.
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- Down here in the East Texas Bible Belt, a martial art which touted
- itself as a religion would be a hard sell. Occasionally, we have a
- hard time explaining to parents that all we teach is a martial art, not
- a religion (...No'mam, we just bow to the flags outa respect, they ain't
- no idols hid out in this here dojang...).
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- Peace in our time,
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- Tom
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- X SLMR 2.1a X Katy, Texas: rice, cattle and humongus mosquitos.
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