Tough Man in Tough China by AnthonyT

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Tough Man in Tough China

POSTED BY: ANTHONYT
UPDATED: Thursday, March 8, 2012 06:38
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Friday, March 2, 2012 1:28 PM

Freedom is Important because People are Important

http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/news12151.html

Hello,

I came across this article while doing research on people who were inexplicably tough. I don't mean tough as in 'macho man' but rather tough as in, 'resists an unusual amount of damage/fails to endure damage when he/she should.'

However, while this article tangentially touches on a tough guy, (a monk, apparently) it also discusses a number of brutal school killings in China. I often think of the U.S. as the mother of all school violence, and was surprised to read about such savage incidents in China. Generally I don't hear about such things happening in other countries.

--Anthony

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"In every war, the state enacts a tax of freedom upon the citizenry. The unspoken promise is that the tax shall be revoked at war's end. Endless war holds no such promise. Hence, Eternal War is Eternal Slavery." --Admiral Robert J. Henner

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Sunday, March 4, 2012 7:36 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

Those monks are pretty amazing.

I think shootings like that happen everywhere occasionally, the thing was that when the news reports such things it gives other kids ideas and inspires them to try it, that's what I attribute our high number of school shootings in the early 00s to, once it wasn't talked about as much it stopped happening as much, it sort of fell out of fashion. But of course it will always occasionally happen, crap always does.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Sunday, March 4, 2012 7:55 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

Those monks are almost superhuman sometimes.

Of course, in China the problem seems to be stabbings and such with knives, since firearms are less available. But same difference. I doubt anyone cares whether fifteen people were stabbed or shot. It's terrible all the same.

--Anthony

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Note to self: Mr. Raptor believes that women who want to control their reproductive processes are sluts.

Reference thread: http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=18&t=51196

Never forget what this man is. You keep forgiving him his trespasses and speak to him as though he is a reasonable human being. You keep forgetting the things he's advocated. If you respond to this man again, you are being foolish.

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Sunday, March 4, 2012 10:04 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Quote:
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
I doubt anyone cares whether fifteen people were stabbed or shot. It's terrible all the same.

Would that this were true, but all too often the focus winds up on firearms INSTEAD of why it happened - that's always bothered me, still does, cause it provides a handy excuse NOT TO ASK certain questions no one else seems to like, or even want, the answers to.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 9:53 AM

WISHIMAY

http://news.yahoo.com/polish-woman-saves-babies-75-days-labor-16260247
6.html

Tough man in China... Tougher woman in Poland!
Gives new meaning to the phrase "Big Damn Hero"

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 10:06 AM

BYTEMITE

What happens when people are powerless?

Some look to find a group they can exert power over.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:49 AM

M52NICKERSON

DALEK!

Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:
http://news.yahoo.com/polish-woman-saves-babies-75-days-labor-16260247
6.html

Tough man in China... Tougher woman in Poland!
Gives new meaning to the phrase "Big Damn Hero"

If we could create an army of Polish Women Monks...

I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 1:24 PM

WISHIMAY

I have been looking FOR DAYS for a thread I made a few years ago when you brought up another stabbing incident...It didn't even occur to me to look under my previous incarnation

http://beta.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=43221&p=2

There was a string of six or seven (I sure there were more that prolly never got reported) then...

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 3:02 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

Hi Wish, why did you change your name, did you get bored with the old one?

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 5:45 PM

WISHIMAY

Many reasons... We moved, so I was out of communicato for almost a year, and due to service providers kickin us around that messed with passwords, and also I just felt like a newish ident since I was startin out sorta new... Wishimay is more who I am than the Irish thing which, don't get me wrong, I still have green blood...It's just...I wish for so damn much some days it hurts. "Completely freakin powerless" is a little to long of a handle, anyhow

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 9:01 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:
Many reasons... We moved, so I was out of communicato for almost a year, and due to service providers kickin us around that messed with passwords, and also I just felt like a newish ident since I was startin out sorta new... Wishimay is more who I am than the Irish thing which, don't get me wrong, I still have green blood...It's just...I wish for so damn much some days it hurts. "Completely freakin powerless" is a little to long of a handle, anyhow

I do not believe in impossible.

Imagine a puny little latchkey tween declaring outright war on a multimillion dollar empire, ridiculous, right ?
Sometimes patience and devotion is all the power one needs.

Quote:
The Board of Governors: This seems a steep price for so small a service: to crush a powerless cripple.
Tan'elKoth: Doubly fools. He does have power. One power: the power to devote himself absolutely to a single goal, to be ruthless with himself and all else in its pursuit. It is the only power he needs - because, unlike the great mass of men, he is aware of this power, and he is willing, even happy, to use it.
- Blade Of Tyshalle

Besides, we're Browncoats, we've DONE the impossible, and are therefore mighty!

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 9:24 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

Ooooo what was the Irish thing?

Riona is getting ready for her favorite day of the year, 10 more days people!

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Thursday, March 8, 2012 5:14 AM

WISHIMAY

Did you get the link to the other thread I started waay back? I was Iremist, then Iremisst with two esses... I guess when we bought this house I gave up wanting to go to Ireland, what with the economy and 47 thousand other things we need to pay for now... I really got in over my head with this place- it's waaaaaaaay too big, and it's gonna take forever to finish. I just bought siding and I'm going to kill myself trying to put it up this summer...

It's green, btw

not yanno, emerald... more sage-y green, but....Erin Go Bragh!

We might find a nice parade ta go to for St. Paddys...I hear Indianapolis has some decent things ta do... We went to Lexington KY last year and I sprained my foot slipping offa wet curb at McDonalds

FUN!! I'm wearin BOOTS this year...

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Thursday, March 8, 2012 6:14 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Pre-emptively...

Heehehehehehehe...
ETA: The character is a getaway driver from the series Black Lagoon a perpetually stoned out of his mind irish wheelman, he's hi-larious.

-Frem

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Thursday, March 8, 2012 6:38 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

Those monks are almost superhuman sometimes.

One time, on Tosh.O, he showed a monk who had pierced his privates , connected the hook to a rope at one end, and supported a man hanging onto the rope, who was completely suspended in air. They blurred out the most privates, for t.v., but it was evident that the monk wasn't wearing any sort of harness. Just holding up a whole man by his ...

Well, you get the idea.

Note to self: I wonder how long Anthony will continue with his childish, moronic persecution of others whom he falsely accuses of things for which they're not guilty.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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