Spiritual

At the very beginning of my aikido studies I read a book that contained a quote about two techniques. I think it was a quote from O-Sensei and it said something like the following: "[to master] iriminage - [it takes] 15 years; ikkyo - your whole life". I didn't really understand this statement at that time because iriminage seemed to be one of the hardest techniques and ikkyo seemed pretty straightforward, even easy with the beginner partners I trained with. Although I'm still far from mastering any technique, I'm starting to understand the background behind the above quote.

Objectification is something that people have investigated recently in a scientific way, and Zolley has also written a post about it in connection with a recent scientific study. The following paragrapsh contain my own personal thoughts about the issue of objectification.

The following post doesn't start like a usual Christmas post, but believe me I will get there, too.

We have watched a couple of films recently that were about some conspiracy theories. I call them conspiracy theories because the 'proofs' the Zeitgeist movies come up with are hard to verify, or others have 'proved' the opposite of the statements in the movie (especially about Christianity). It's not really the alleged non-existence of Jesus Christ or the inside-job theory of 911 that I want to write about but there is one particular idea in both films (said clearly in the second) that I think is important to mention, even (and particularly) in an aikido blog, and particularly at Christmas.

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