:-D It's one of the sword forms in Jordan's Wheel of Time series, and refers to
a ritual similar to seppuku.
Jordan based his sword forms on traditional Iaido, so you're practically
correct.
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Is that Samurai related?
peace & Love
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:56:37 -0400
Subject: [Mind's Eye] Re: The Fear of the Unknown, Stirred to a Frenzy
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It depends...are you familiar with the form 'Sheathing the Sword'?
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Tinker <[email protected]> wrote:
Do you think they might help? :-)
peace & Love
On Aug 9, 3:38 pm, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Aes Sedai are meeting now to discuss the situation...
>
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > It's what the Seanchan call the Lord of Chaos. I tell ya, one day
> > Robert Jordan and George Lucas are gonna chatch up to you Tink and God
> > help you. They'll sue your britches off.
>
> > dj
>
> > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:20 PM, deripsni<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > What does BLitTeR mean? The thought of being litter does not appeal to
> > > me ;-]
>
> > > On Aug 9, 3:25 pm, Tinker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> The most severely affected by the ‘fear of the unknown’ cannot see it.
> > >> They are so blinded to a simple idea that they cannot even make sense
> > >> of simple English about the idea.
> > >> The ‘fear’ is the enforcer of the ‘direction’ of Society. The belief
> > >> structure is the answer to the ‘unknown’, so that we can Live without
> > >> the ‘fear’ disturbing us.
> > >> When the belief structure gets questioned, challenged or indicated to
> > >> be false it is shaken and the ‘fear’ does become disturbing. The
> > >> ‘fear’ will drive, enforcing the ‘direction’ of Society, the
> > >> individual to negate that which has shaken the belief structure.
> > >> The funny thing about it is that it affects some of the closest to
> > >> true ‘open’-mindedness most dramatically. The closer one is to ‘open’,
> > >> the more flexible the belief structure. This allows for a more
> > >> vigorous shaking, greater arousal of the ‘fear’ and the dramatically
> > >> irrational reactions.
>
> > >> That is a metaphorical explanation (very close to reality) of a
> > >> simple, electricity like, force identified as “the ‘direction’ of
> > >> Society”.
> > >> ‘Direction’ is a simple yin/yang force.
> > >> ‘S’ociety is the containment of the force relative to Life on Earth.
> > >> It is the energetic sum total, of mankind’s actions and interactions
> > >> on and with the planet Earth.
> > >> Presently the ‘direction’ is grounded to the physical world to give
> > >> the ‘fear’ its power of enforcement.
>
> > >> The Feeling (of goodness, of Love, of beauty, of cosmic consciousness,
> > >> of the presence of God and/or whatever one chooses to call the
> > >> connection in the mind to ‘other than’ the physical world) is the
> > >> certifier or justifier of the belief structure. It has the power to
> > >> quiet the fear of the unknown, by releasing the ground and allowing
> > >> the force to flow to ‘other than’ the physical world.
> > >> If we can establish a common point of understanding, with a universal
> > >> symbol referring to the Feeling, the ground that supports the fear
> > >> will be broken.
>
> > >> We CAN, evolve to Live without the ‘fear’ that is responsible for all
> > >> of the negative actions of mankind if we “Teach the World a Word”.
> > >> BLitTeR – acknowledge the Feeling.
>
> > >> Can you think about it?
>
> > >> peace & Love
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