The Idea of Minmatar wrapped in Raw Bacon is Disturbing on at least 2 levels, including on a Microbiological Level.
One might notice there are similiarities between traditional martial arts and gymnastics of Achura and Jin-Mei. A guy I know from the gym once remarked quite precisely as of how theyâre different in callisthenics and the same idea runs through their entire philosophy. The general idea of Jin-Mei movements is âLive healthy for as long as possibleâ. And Achuran movements are all about âDie honorably as soon as possibleâ
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For the record, my Clan hasnât lived there for a long, long time. I was born in space, just like my parents, grandparents, great-grandparentsâŚ
My only complaint about this post is that I can only give it one like.
One might notice that there are similarities between most whole-body physical disciplines that emphasize flexibility, coordination, and precision. Itâs almost like the biomechanics of the human body remain consistent from one planet and pursuit to the next.
Not all of them are that much intertwined with philosophy and spirituality thou. Some people just do pushups, punch bags and count callories ( thatâs a figure of speach, for the record). Others make a whole worldview out of it, almost a religion.
Most of the full-body ones tend to be, even if itâs not so⌠overt. The âpushups, punch bags, and count caloriesâ thing⌠thatâs generally not any kind of whole-body approach, and definitely doesnât really focus on flexibility or precision. Boxers and the like⌠thereâve been a fair few who ladle on the upper-body muscle while neglecting leg development (which is dumb, since power comes from the hips, but they do it!).
Even the disciplines that appear to distance themselves from overt philosophy and spirituality, though⌠youâll find that to excel at that kind of training regimen and discipline really requires making it a lifestyle approach. It becomes an integral part of what you do, how you approach the world⌠and once that happens, is there really any difference between that, and philosophy? Philosophy as a purely intellectual exercise, after all, is empty, hollowâfor a philosophy to really live, its adherents have to live by it.
I have Only heard of the Jin-Mei Martial Art of Dimac, which I Understand to mean âThe Hand Of Deathâ.
This does not Quite seem to Fit with the Idea of Living Healthy ?
When someoneâs trying to kill you, killing them first is kind of integral to healthy living.
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You left out the âif necessary,â Elsebeth. Obviously you donât want your bodyguards throwing their lives away, but it is a bodyguardâs role to step between the client and a blaster or an angry mob if it comes to that.
Itâs a role I often perform for Directrix Phonaga, especially if the two of us are traveling alone, and yes, I would consider it my duty to die for her-- if need be.
Dying unnecessarily would naturally make it tricky to continue performing my duties, after.
Itâs the securityâs job to see it does not come to that. Sure, if they fail at it, itâs honorable for them to be who dies, or in any case dies first, but that does not make it their job to die.
It might seem like Iâm splitting hairs, but at least a long-term, multi-generational arrangement of principal and security the distinction matters.
EDITs: â â â â translators.
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And all I wanted to do, was have a little fun wrasslin match. Not even to win, just for the slippery fun of safety mud.
But somehow it turned into bacon wrapped Minmatars.
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I trust if that is your expectation that you also never ignore your security teamâs advice by, for example, prioritizing symbolism over safety or blowing off a potential threat.
A bodyguardâs job is what it says on the tin, Elsebeth: to safeguard the client. THAT is the job. Itâs a grim truism of the business that nobody is truly safe. Someone getting a shot is obviously undesirable, but that doesnât at all mean the bodyguard has failed.
Rather, itâs the last chance to succeed.
If you regard even a close call as a failure by definition then I am glad Iâm not the poor soul responsible for your security.
I donât always take every piece of advice, of course, but if I choose not to, and Sarinde cannot convince me to, and they die as a consequence, both them and me have failed, not done our respective jobs.
Close calls donât count, though. 
And it is not always shameful to fail.
I am adding âBacon-wrapped Minmatarsâ to the S tier of my list of Ways to End a Conversation on the IGS.
For context, âWhy donât you just mud wrestle?â is an A tier and Amarians Call Each Other Heretics is C tier.
That seems like a cultural difference, then, Elsebeth.
For me, if I need to take a fatal blow in the directrixâs place, if the only way I can protect her is as ablative meat armor, then the last thing I need to feel in that moment is that I have failed her already (distracting), or that she has failed me (distracting and irrelevant).
Failure is when harm comes to those I must protect. If I must surrender my life to avoid that failure, I must. But I donât fail by so-doing.
(Of course, also, another âmeâ will normally wake up pretty quick, but of course I can never be completely sure of that and also the âmeâ thatâs making the decisions in the moment really does die.)
If I did fail, Iâd be taking responsibility for failure with my life, anyway, so. Yeah. (Itâs my own culture, not the directrixâs, that demands this, but thatâs the point exactly. Our traditions have a particular way of encouraging dedication.)
Better to die unashamed.
Okay, I see âFigure of speachâ note wasnât quite clear to you, Iâll clarify. By âpushupsâ I meant body conditioning as a whole - full-body warmup before training, daily routine and so on. By âpunching bagsâ, including breathing meatbags, I meant movement practice, if you think it doesnât involve coordination or precision - your coach is likely not watching you. By âcounting calloriesâ I meant planning nutrition in accordance to training routine. All of the above combines into what is usually meant by âwhole-body approachâ. But from a materialistic perspective, usually employed by pragmatic result-driven inhabitants of modern urbanistic cultures.
Is it amateur boxers weâre talking about? Any competent boxing coach starts from footwork.
What requires you to make it a lifestyle approach is fact that your results get rapidly undone if you stop training or neglect your routine
To combat that, the intentionally exxagerated materialistic approach I described two paragraphs above relies on galnet motivation quotes, your coach messaging you âdude, itâs been a whole week, wtf?â and your own conclusions after finding yourself in situations like âwhere dafuq did my abs go?â and âwhy am I moving like a snail again?â.
In contrast, traditional schools I was mentioning earlier rely on embedding spiritual practices in the training routine, sacralizing the âmentor - studentâ relationship in order to ensure discipline and proper succession of the teachings and actually developing a certain worldview - which the practitioner is expected to employ in other, not so obviously relevant, parts of their daily life. In this sense, some traditions bear similarities between them and sometimes get confused or intentionally mixed when depicted in foreign media or superficially practiced by foreign students.
Pretty sure you got what I meant from the start, but you just had to have me write a wall of text, didnât ya?)
This seems more like a way to start a conversation than end one though?
Yes, but they usually kill any other conversations by going on massive, long, rambling tangents about how their God told them that the other Amarrians they donât agree with are stinky.
Thatâs why itâs only a C tier. Killing a conversation by having a longer, varbose, proselytising speech-off is a bit dull in my opinion. Iâd rather watch Doctor Spice.
See, thatâs why I mentioned it in the first place, @Arrendis. To remind Else of this Achuran thing - theyâve got a bit of a death worship as keynote in their teachings.
Hm. I guess I usually find that kind of thing usefully clarifying-- at least if you have a clear sense on who you should listen to for what and why.
(Like: âImperial Rite follower in good standingâ is a good starting spot for somebody you can assume isnât sort of joining in holographically from the theological hinterlands.)
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Haha-- ah. Well, if you say it like that it doesnât sound positive, does it? I do tend to weigh my life lightly (I donât think of myself as having a separate existence to begin with, really-- Iâm kind of like a dream the universe is having), but I love being alive.
But, there are things more important than our lives. Failing in one of these (and it can be in a general way over time as well as a specific, important failing) is usually expected to result in the individualâs death.
Itâs a quality we share with the Civire and Deteis. They favor tea, usually. We have our own methods.