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Exactly right Kron, I knew that European countries had some similar sayings, but I didn't know any of them specifically, so thank you for sharing that one with me 
. Based on the phrasing, I would almost think that one to be Scandinavian in origin. Do you happen to know where it originates from?
Cul, it has been my pleasure to have had the opportunity to spend time with practitioners of many different arts. I have loved to learn what pieces they are able to teach me. I endeavor to learn something new every opportunity and I have been very fortunate in my life that I have had a plethora of opportunities in my life. Sometimes it amazes me when I think back on the fact that a black woman born in the 1940's in a Southern small town has been able to see all the things I have seen and learn what I have learned. And believe me I have worked hard to learn everything I could because it fascinates me (and scares me a bit) how little we know about other cultures yet how we allow that little bit to influence so much about how we interact with each other. My favorite thing when traveling is to get to know the people of the places I visit. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy museums and architecture, and visit those as eagerly as anyone. But I actively work to have the opportunity to meet and interact with people in their normal everyday activities, that is what I enjoy the most. So translating that to the Arts, in my opinion the Traditions and Philosophies are more important to each Art as the movements and the katas. The Traditions and Philosophies directly effect how the Art was created, is taught and even how or why it is USED. Without understanding those, you will never truly understand the Art.
It always amazes me how many similarities there are between the various cultures, but how different we believe everyone else to be from our own culture. I wish more people were interested in the sorts of things I have loved learning in my life, I believe there would be a lot less angst in the world if people took the time to understand each other at this basic level. For instance there is not a single language in the world that does not include a word that means foreigner. Generally, the common usage translation is closer to "non-person", because a person is someone who is in my group and acts like me. <sigh>
. Based on the phrasing, I would almost think that one to be Scandinavian in origin. Do you happen to know where it originates from?Cul, it has been my pleasure to have had the opportunity to spend time with practitioners of many different arts. I have loved to learn what pieces they are able to teach me. I endeavor to learn something new every opportunity and I have been very fortunate in my life that I have had a plethora of opportunities in my life. Sometimes it amazes me when I think back on the fact that a black woman born in the 1940's in a Southern small town has been able to see all the things I have seen and learn what I have learned. And believe me I have worked hard to learn everything I could because it fascinates me (and scares me a bit) how little we know about other cultures yet how we allow that little bit to influence so much about how we interact with each other. My favorite thing when traveling is to get to know the people of the places I visit. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy museums and architecture, and visit those as eagerly as anyone. But I actively work to have the opportunity to meet and interact with people in their normal everyday activities, that is what I enjoy the most. So translating that to the Arts, in my opinion the Traditions and Philosophies are more important to each Art as the movements and the katas. The Traditions and Philosophies directly effect how the Art was created, is taught and even how or why it is USED. Without understanding those, you will never truly understand the Art.
It always amazes me how many similarities there are between the various cultures, but how different we believe everyone else to be from our own culture. I wish more people were interested in the sorts of things I have loved learning in my life, I believe there would be a lot less angst in the world if people took the time to understand each other at this basic level. For instance there is not a single language in the world that does not include a word that means foreigner. Generally, the common usage translation is closer to "non-person", because a person is someone who is in my group and acts like me. <sigh>
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john of salisbury was an anglosaxon/norman bishop (from salisbury) who wrote a lot. a contemporary of thomas beckett, he wrote about his murder by some of the king's knights*. he apparently took a lot from the works of others. sir isaac newton made another reference to standing on the shoulders of giants. giants of course were northern mythical beings for the most part (except goliath). the angles and saxons were german tribes, the normans were sacdiwegian vikings that settled in france. i gather they were given normandy as a bribe to keep them away from paris, and acting as a buffer against future viking raids. norman = northmen, normandy - the province of the normans.
*thomas, a good friend of the king who was appointed to high office by him, was also critical of much he was doing as king to take power from the church. on one particularly wrexing day the king shouted 'why do you let this priest treat me so?', a few of his knights, to ingratiate themselves, killed thomas. the king was not amused as it got him in big trouble with the pope, the killers were excommunicated, later being forced to fight in the holy lands for 14 years. thus we can blame them for ISIS.
*thomas, a good friend of the king who was appointed to high office by him, was also critical of much he was doing as king to take power from the church. on one particularly wrexing day the king shouted 'why do you let this priest treat me so?', a few of his knights, to ingratiate themselves, killed thomas. the king was not amused as it got him in big trouble with the pope, the killers were excommunicated, later being forced to fight in the holy lands for 14 years. thus we can blame them for ISIS.