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Missunderstood with knives

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How many of you are missunderstood about your obsession eith knives? Most people I know dont care much about knives and think its strange when you do. There is also the people who think you are creepy because of it like you wish to use them to kill someone. Do any of you have to come here to be excited aboit your knew knives in an environment that accepts your obsession?
 
If they are, I don't hear about it or pick up on it.

Then again I don't go flipping my knives around in my office. If I have to use one, I discretely open it, use it, and put it away. I'm not flailing around with it to draw attention to myself.

I have a good friend that is into archery, I have a good friend that is into ice fishing, and my wife is into gardening. I don't really get into any of those but I don't think they're creepy by any means. To each their own. :)
 
I think I could be even more misunderstood if I collected beer cans, or shoes, or tin soldiers and were into people face about it: like bringing my toy soldiers to the office and toying with them... You know what I mean.
 
I've always been a little different in what I'm drawn to, so if my affinity for knives is puzzling to some.... tough toenails. I couldn't care less.
 
I suppose over 100 knives constitutes an obsession, but I don't think of it that way. Most people know I carry a knife or two, as do most of the men who work in my office. It's Wyoming. People expect a person to have a knife. I haven't told anyone the extent of my collection and no one has asked. I don't have many expensive knives. I carry a Syderco Endura, a Leatherman Juice and a SAK Classic.
 
Don't know where you live, but in the South it's not really a big deal to people unless you're in a major urban area with limousine liberal transplants. If you pull out a 4" folder in the office, no one really thinks about it. However, I was told by one woman that I must be a "doomsday prepper" because I had a knife and a light on me although they live in a somewhat rural area and her husband is one of the biggest hunters I know.
 
Funny thing, all these "sheeple," and people who hate knives, and think knife guys are stab happy psychos? Never met any of them. And I use my knives all the time, even in the office.

Maybe if I acted like a obnoxious stab happy ninja I would. Waving my Cold Steel Spec Ops Urban Camo XXXXXL Stabinator Tanto around at Applebees and stuff. :D

If I'm not bugging anybody (and I don't seem to be), and they don't get/like that I use/collect/enjoy knives...then whatever. I probably wouldn't get the stuff they like (and aren't bugging me about) either.

Like anything, when you start cramming your stuff down other's people throats is when they get upset, and rightly so.
 
marcinek said:
Like anything, when you start cramming your stuff down other's people throats is when they get upset, and rightly so.
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This is true; however, some people in some parts of the country automatically assume, without you ever saying anything about it, because you own a gun, then you're a criminal. Or that if you're a Christian, then you automatically hate everyone different than you. I'm of the mindset live and let live, stay out of others' business if it's not hurting you. Wish more did the same.
 
uofaengr said:
This is true; however, some people in some parts of the country automatically assume, without you ever saying anything about it, because you own a gun, then you're a criminal. Or that if you're a Christian, then you automatically hate everyone different than you. I'm of the mindset live and let live, stay out of others' business if it's not hurting you. Wish more did the same.
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Sure. And I'm not trying to imply anything about you, but it IS a two way street though, you know? Relative strangers don't want to hear about/have waved in their face my knife or "potato chips that look like presidents" collection or whatever, while they're minding their own business, and I don't want to hear about/have waved in my face their stuff either.

Honestly, many of the "knife persecution" stories I've heard are more "obnoxious persecution" stories. There. I said it.
 
marcinek said:
Sure. And I'm not trying to imply anything about you, but it IS a two way street though, you know? Relative strangers don't want to hear about/have waved in their face my knife or "potato chips that look like presidents" collection or whatever, while they're minding their own business, and I don't want to hear about/have waved in my face their stuff either.

Honestly, many of the "knife persecution" stories I've heard are more "obnoxious persecution" stories. There. I said it.
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100% agree. And the media does us no favors either. Anyone of the "prepared" mindset are deemed crazy, mentally unfit, government haters, not responsible, rational, self-sufficient individuals, however, yes, there are people on the fringe and that's what the media preys upon to exploit i.e. Doomsday Preppers. Thus, the woman sees this on tv, makes her opinion of what she sees, sees me with "EDC gear", automatically lumps me into the fringe of "doomsday prepper". And it wasn't shoved into her face...a clip from a knife and light on my pants was my business until she made it hers. I use these tools in my job almost daily. It would've really blown her mind if she knew I had a multitool in my other pocket :eek:.

IMO, where I live, men are expected to have knives on them and looked at funny if they don't. Actually imo, women here largely prefer outdoorsmen and men who are into all that "dangerous" stuff lol. At least mine does :D.
 
I know someone that builds and collects Lego dioramas. Now THAT is one sick puppy. Many people that know me and my knife collecting are more wary and scared of him.
 
I bumped into a woman I was working with at the mall. I had just bought a new folder and said so when she asked what I was doing there. The moron asked a friend of mine "is Scott angry? I saw him at the mall and he was buying knives" Actual quote. Now shes no atom splitter by any means but come on! Same with my gun collection. I don't even let most people know I have 12 sks's because of the usual reaction. Sheeple
 
I do come here to share excitement for the most part, and I think most of us are misunderstood. Knives are a guy thing (girls welcome too of course) and guys are naturally attracted to knives and guns at least I am, some think it is weird but it is natural to me and they are cool.
 
I don't talk about knives unless someone else brings it up. What's the point? They're not going to get it no matter how well you explain it and why would they? They've gone their whole lives with cheapo kitchen knives as their only knives and they're doing just fine. Our knives are a luxury and a hobby mainly.
 
I have always been a martial artist since I was young, and REALLY, REALLY got into it after I left high school. Not the Willy McDojo type martial arts. I mean real deal combat arts and tactics of antifascist partisan fighters and serious defense experts.

I am also a gun enthusiast and I can admit that I am a certified gun nut when it comes to knowledge about calibers, ballistics, bullet types, powders, etc... But I am far more indulgent in my studies of knife based combatives and other more primal arts such as archery. WHY? Because the knife is the most basic and straightforward weapon of human history, yet it's effectiveness has never, ever been compromised by new technology. Flintlock muskets used to be the assault weapon of the day. They were outmatched and outgunned by percussion ignition and driven from the field of combat like the Carthagian hordes before Rome's legions. Then, percussion ignition itself was swept into the annals of history by self-contained metallic cartridges.

HOWEVER, the knife has always been one of the most effective tools of combat. Whether it is an escaped Chaldean slave facing down his Assyrian captors in an alleyway in ancient Nineveh, or a Polish partisan facing down against a Gestapo squad in an alley in 1940s Warsaw. Both of these men have knives and both of these men may be using only their knives against an enemy with superior weaponry and numbers. If both of these men know how to use surprise, ambush, and concealment to his advantage, he will win, and fight another day with newer weapons captured from his enemy.

THAT is why I believe that knowledge of knife combatives are so important to the serious martial artist.
 
Plague Doctor said:
THAT is why I believe that knowledge of knife combatives are so important to the serious martial artist.
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That's cool, legitimately, and obviously that is to be respected. Most of us on here think of knives as tools only. We don't use them as weapons or think of them as weapons. It's easy (easier) to justify to Mr and Mrs Sheep that the knives we have are to open boxes, not people. I'm curious to know what you tell people who ask about your knives. I wish no one got questioned for carrying tools/being prepared/defending theirselves. What do you tell those that question you?
 
uofaengr said:
100% agree. And the media does us no favors either. Anyone of the "prepared" mindset are deemed crazy, mentally unfit, government haters, not responsible, rational, self-sufficient individuals, however, yes, there are people on the fringe and that's what the media preys upon to exploit i.e. Doomsday Preppers. Thus, the woman sees this on tv, makes her opinion of what she sees, sees me with "EDC gear", automatically lumps me into the fringe of "doomsday prepper". And it wasn't shoved into her face...a clip from a knife and light on my pants was my business until she made it hers. I use these tools in my job almost daily. It would've really blown her mind if she knew I had a multitool in my other pocket :eek:.

IMO, where I live, men are expected to have knives on them and looked at funny if they don't. Actually imo, women here largely prefer outdoorsmen and men who are into all that "dangerous" stuff lol. At least mine does :D.
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I live in a very "gun-hating" city and state so carrying a defensive firearm is out of the question. But I am NEVER EVER without my trusty Dakota frame lock folder. Sometimes I have my Smith and Wesson SWAT and I alternate between the two. Both are heavy duty tools and extremely effective defensive weapons if they are ever called upon to do that duty. Wherever I go, I ALWAYS have a knife, a lighter and a flashlight on my person. I consider them to be the BASIC tools of everyday necessity.
 
jfalkos said:
That's cool, legitimately, and obviously that is to be respected. Most of us on here think of knives as tools only. We don't use them as weapons or think of them as weapons. It's easy (easier) to justify to Mr and Mrs Sheep that the knives we have are to open boxes, not people. I'm curious to know what you tell people who ask about your knives. I wish no one got questioned for carrying tools/being prepared/defending theirselves. What do you tell those that question you?
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Usually nobody is even aware that I am carrying a knife. And if I need to use it to open a snack package or a carton at work, it is out of my pocket, opened up, done it's work, and back in my pocket in less than a blink of an eye. Not that I fear that someone will see my knife, it is because quick-drawing a knife from concealment is one of my key martial art studies and I practice it all the time to see how fast I can do it, and keep my skills up, like how the great samurai legend Miyamoto Musashi stresses in his Book of Five Rings. My friends and colleagues know that I carry knives and like knives and no one ever batted an eye about it. Probably because I am also a very friendly and social person who does not give off the "creepy" vibes. :) I know people who are not into knives or combat at all and yet, everybody avoids them like they are Jack The Ripper or something because they are downright weird, you know what I mean?

But so far I have never had anyone make an issue of why I carry knives. People tend to think that the Evil Assault Demon Guns are far more deadlier and dangerous than puny little knives or "ancient bows and arrows". LOL if they dabble in the world of true martial arts just for a minute they would find their misconceptions literally, put to the sword :)
 
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