Posted by Ex-Instructor on October 06, 2003 at 10:46:45:
In Reply to: Help! I went to the 'WRONG KARATE SCHOOL' and it wrecked my life!!!!!! posted by HF on October 06, 2003 at 07:38:22:
Howdy All,
I haven't posted on this site in over a year. Haven't really even read it too much. I see that the same pointless arguments are continuing to occur, and that HF/Sonic/Puck is continuing to perpetuate his pointless rhetoric.
I wanted to respond to his statement:
For example:' I practiced for 5, 6, 10, or more years at this school I paid 300 dollars a month and taught classes. I can tell you it's no good. I now know real kungfu and can recommend something to others.'
This one is so funny! If you expect anyone to believe this, then you have problems that I doubt can be overcome in one lifetime. Hahahaha!
If it IS true, then you have some issues going on that are beyond the scope of this paper except to laugh at you. If you have wasted that much of your life and resources already on what you claim is bogus, you certainly aren't anyone that I would go to for advice on anything. Chnances are, that you're still doing something stupid.
As I posted a long time ago, I spent six or seven years in the moo, and most of that time was spent teaching (after about 1.5 years). HF asks the question, 'how can you be so stupid as to spend that much time in the organization, and then suddenly wake up and realize that it's all a fraud.' Good question. It's simple.
I'll relate it to my own story. I wanted to believe in something positive for myself. I've always wanted to have 'good things' in my life, and to 'do good' for others. A lot of us have that longing/striving. The moo offered that in a physical manner (which is, by the way, the easiest form of development). The moo taught us that we could make ourselves better, connect to a higher learning source (who wouldn't want that), and help others in the process (what could be better than that!). Questions to the contrary were frowned upon and dismissed as 'weakness'. Since we're there to learn and NOT be weak, we immediately stop questioning in such a manner. Afterall, you don't want to lose your opportunity, or be known as a dingy.
The reason most of us that were in for some fashion of time explode when we leave is that we realize how repressed our true feelings were when we were in the cult. Once we leave, the release is so, well, releaving, that we tend to expound upon how lame OYD trully is as a martial arts training facility.
To give another example:
How can people spend half their life believing in no God, and then suddenly wake up one day, and convert to Christianity? It's happened millions of times, and it happened to me. Granted, it's a slow process sometimes, but it happens all the time. I don't want to get into a debate over whether or not Christianity is true or false (though I'm sure the pundits will attack this point, rather than the crux of the argument), but I spent 25 years incorrectly believing that there was no God, that I was in control of my own destiny. I was a fool, wrong, and I humbly ask my God, Jesus Christ, for understanding and forgiveness for my past transgressions. Am I stupid for having not seen Him everywhere? Yes, but I'm only human, and weak at that. So, am I to be condemned for my stupidity? No. Was I mistaken not to see the Moo for what it is, an insidious idolistic cult designed to remove your 'true self'? Yes. Am I stupid? No? I'm just human.
Oh, and you can bring up the 'Ex-Instructor said he wouldn't be posting on this board anymore,see what a liar he is' line now. I eagerly await your replies, though don't expet too many from me. It's been a while, and I do not intend to get sucked back into this stupid argument. I have too much life to live.