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Anyways what i'd used to do is if i heard a song i'd figgure out how to play it on the piano. I'd probally do something like that now, but i dont got the room to set up a keyboard.
That's fun. When you try to figure out a tune, time flies and you don't even realize it.
Tom Yum: John Keehan (Count Raphael Dante) was mucho loco and a great fighter. That's what I really liked about him. He was never the same after he got one of his friends killed in the "Chicago dojo wars" and his death appears to be drug related. The hollowness of what his values were probably became very apparent to him before his death, and it became very apparent to me. This is in no way a criticism, because I wanted to be just like him at one time. It's the old story of but for the grace of God there go I. There was a very intelligent and wonderful guy underneath all that anger and craziness. At any rate, I wish things wouldn't have turned out that way for him. Many people don't really know what a great fighter he was because they can't see beyond the crazed werewolf appearance and comic book adds.
Tom Yum: John Keehan (Count Raphael Dante) was mucho loco and a great fighter. That's what I really liked about him. He was never the same after he got one of his friends killed in the "Chicago dojo wars" and his death appears to be drug related. The hollowness of what his values were probably became very apparent to him before his death, and it became very apparent to me. This is in no way a criticism, because I wanted to be just like him at one time. It's the old story of but for the grace of God there go I. There was a very intelligent and wonderful guy underneath all that anger and craziness. At any rate, I wish things wouldn't have turned out that way for him. Many people don't really know what a great fighter he was because they can't see beyond the crazed werewolf appearance and comic book adds.
After a while then you get better at it and you know the sounds of each key, and can hit the key right key without trial and error on a few keys next to it. Of course you slip up a few time, but its like anything the more you do the better you get.
Damn i guess its that time of night, i'm getting all mystical.
Tom Yum: John Keehan (Count Raphael Dante) was mucho loco and a great fighter. That's what I really liked about him. He was never the same after he got one of his friends killed in the "Chicago dojo wars" and his death appears to be drug related. The hollowness of what his values were probably became very apparent to him before his death, and it became very apparent to me. This is in no way a criticism, because I wanted to be just like him at one time. It's the old story of but for the grace of God there go I. There was a very intelligent and wonderful guy underneath all that anger and craziness. At any rate, I wish things wouldn't have turned out that way for him. Many people don't really know what a great fighter he was because they can't see beyond the crazed werewolf appearance and comic book adds.
Why so quiet all of the sudden? Explain how this crazed werewolf comic book guy died in a drug related death.
Anyways social skills can be a double edged sword because sometimes very bright people are poor at socialising but dont focus their intelligence toward developing those skills (I choose to develop skills).
hehe one of my teacher during the teacherscourse of Karate told us a story about the most intelligent peron at the university but this guy alway jumped the que at the cantine because he didn't see that was socially NOT done
( it was during psychology that he told us this)
Yeah, some guys who are extremely intelligent have strange social behaviours. Did you read the book about the Nobel Laureate winner John Nash? He was a strange fellow indeed.
If I were a woman married to some martial arts guy that I wanted to get rid of and have clean forensic hands, I would encourage him to go to the Philippines to challenge a kung fu practitioner. With the no rules format on his turf, the chance of the traveling challenger never being heard from again are very good. Walking into the Gracie's lair may not be too smart either. I'm old enough to remember Count Dante's friend with a spear stuck through his neck. Better to dialogue on the issue and leave the violence for true self defense situations.
That is wacky man. What style of Kung fu do you practice?
Tom Yum: Counte Dante had a very interesting history. Some considered him the best while he was alive. Without writing a dissertation (the info is readily available). Here are a few highlights.
1) He legally changed his name and declared himself to be descended from European royalty.
2) He established the Black Dragon Fighting Society.
3) His book, Worlds Deadliest Fighting Secrets kind of showed he went off the deep end. He was really into ripping things like cheeks and ears off.
4) He was a well rounded artist including karate, and jiu jitsu, but he is more known for a particularly violent style of Dragon Kung Fu.
5) He was arrested for planting a bomb in a Chicago dojo, and would go to dojos looking for fights.
6) He challenged Muhammad Ali to a fight, which Ali declined.
7) He would train his students in particularly violent fighting methods.
8) Dante had adds in magazines in comic books and magazines where he really did look like a demented werewolf. He also was heavy into Dim Mak, and I wouldn't put anything past him as far as using it. I am currently studying the positive uses of Dim Mak because I would much rather use it for healing than destroying. It really is a two way street.
I do not claim to be an expert, but the people who really knew him have been very closed mouth about him, perhaps out of loyalty. I don't know. I am not aware of any biography on him, but if it exists, I would sure like to read it. A web search will reveal even more about him.
I am a student of Five Animal and Tiger Claw Kung Fu, and have black belts in two different kenpo systems.
If I don't respond right away its because I'm living my non-keyboard life or, as is the case right now, hitting the sack.
Anyways social skills can be a double edged sword because sometimes very bright people are poor at socialising but dont focus their intelligence toward developing those skills (I choose to develop skills). But as far as telling which catagory that they fall in usually if you talk with them and attempt to have a high level conversation it goes over their head. But i do tend to agree that those who memorise usually tend to lack deductive problem solving skills and if they have them they didnt come naturally. Although things not coming naturally doesnt necessarly mean lack of intelligence it can be maturation also.
Anyways as far a the theory of multipul intelligences i think its well intended, but at times i deferr just because of word usage. It seams as though everybody wants to be called intelligent no matter what the skill is. Now you can be intelligent at exploiting that skill but to call that skill an intellagence if it isnt is pointless (personally). To me if you're athletic you're athletic, now you can play intellegently or exploint your athleticism intellegently but athleticism is not intellegence. But hey if it makes people feal better and doesnt hurt anybody who cares, unlike deaming illegial alians "undocumented workers"
Anyways we've got to accept our limitations also, just as a blind person will never become a prison guard, a nuclear physist will never become a football player.
Wow, you really are in love with yourself...jj How are your highschool science and math grades? How about college grades? With an IQ of 129, I can only assume that you're an A student.
Intelligence boils down to the ability to learn and use deductive reasoning. If someone can accquire a skill set quickly and functionally, then they are intelligent. The more abstract, the greater the intelligence level.
It doesn't matter if the guy is an auto mechanic or a nuclear physicist, if he can accquire the skill set and use it well, he's intelligent. You'll find that the auto mechanic will have better spatial awareness than the physicist (even though physicists design electronic devices), but the physics guy will have exponentially greater math skills. An IQ test will pick up on that.
Well i am passing, but as you correctly deduced i'm anything but an A student. Anyways i didnt mean to offend hear which is why i carefully worded my post, although it does appear as though i have.
Well if ones is able to learn how to use a wood router quickly,or kick a soccer ball does that qualify as intellegence or a tellent? To me you can play soccer intellegently but the ability to kick the ball alone is not intellegence. Regardless as I mentioned earlier, it really doesnt matter, now does it?
Once again i tend to follow the school of thought that intellegence relates to various elements of the though process or the mind. If one uses his technal skills intellegently and thinks things through, than i would call it intellegence, if he's just got spacial awarness it isnt.
I rarly bother discussing this because it ends up in a discussion of semantics, which is pointless and goes no where, and often leads to hurt fealings some of which has just what happened.
LOL, no thanks with the kissing part. As far as hurting my fealings i've been told to commit suscide and that i'm a failure enough times so that it really didnt affect me. But i do try to be nice to people i like though, and could previeve when people are uspet... Anyways peace man.
Cool.
I'll throw you a beer from my bucket cooler full of ice.
LOL, no thanks with the kissing part. As far as hurting my fealings i've been told to commit suscide and that i'm a failure enough times so that it really didnt affect me. But i do try to be nice to people i like though, and could previeve when people are uspet... Anyways peace man.
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