Despite the good the activists are doing, and I am happy that they are doing this work, that doesn't count as 'warrior', at least to me. I am admittedly over simplifying it, but preparation and training for kicking ass (not as in the stupid dick waving type to justify acting like a thug, mind you) and self-defense is part of that path, and I've become tired of seeing the term misused.
There is supposed to be a great article called 'There Are No Peaceful Warriors!' out there, but sadly, it never appeared online. In the meantime, here's a link to a blog I've been reading recently about the warrior path and self defense (note, I'm not on a warrior path, so I'm not an expert here), who is more familiar with the contents of that article I mentioned than I am:
A more interesting critique of the current concept of the warrior path is here, I'll leave to readers to decide who is really right in this, because I still haven't. http://elf.dreamwidth.org/118071.html
Anyway, despite my nitpicks about the terminology, thank you for the link round up.
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I'm a bit uncomfortable with the term 'warrior' here...
Date: 2011-03-31 02:17 am (UTC)There is supposed to be a great article called 'There Are No Peaceful Warriors!' out there, but sadly, it never appeared online. In the meantime, here's a link to a blog I've been reading recently about the warrior path and self defense (note, I'm not on a warrior path, so I'm not an expert here), who is more familiar with the contents of that article I mentioned than I am:
Championing Ourselves
http://caithream.blogspot.com/
A more interesting critique of the current concept of the warrior path is here, I'll leave to readers to decide who is really right in this, because I still haven't.
http://elf.dreamwidth.org/118071.html
Anyway, despite my nitpicks about the terminology, thank you for the link round up.