Contribution

[Richter]

Here's something.
It's creative, funny, off the wall, and entirely NOT what you'd expect.
It's meta.
It's outside the box.
It's not for critics, mocking the mockery.
It's purposefully bad, simplistic, and recursive JUST to prove how good it is.
The points it makes about life and the inferences you draw from it are so deep and well hidden that only a fool would superficially denounce it. 
Too short for a holy book, to long for a meme bomb.

This anemic piece of shit, without design purpose or forethought, there's not even a punch line.
I wrote it because I'm bored caffeinated and on hold.

As Mushashi said, you can only go so far into the mountains before you come out on the other side of them.

[Jasper]

Unless you die of pneumonia.

[Cramulus]

 

metatate on THAT

[Richter]

 

Musashi DID die living in a cave in the mountains after all.

[Jasper]

Sounds like a tosser if you ask me.  Published a quote about coming out the other side of the mountain then died on one.

[Richter]

By most accounts, the man was an asshole.  (Though quite pragmatic)
One of his claims was killing a famous swordsman with a wooden sword.
Some say this meant his opponent was offended at Musashi's use of a practice weapon, and got sloppy in his anger.
One take on it is Musashi beaned him with an oar while his back was turned.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

As Mushashi said, you can only go so far into the mountains before you come out on the other side of them.

Unless, of course, you're crushed under tons of falling boulders.

[Richter]

Or get mauled by a bear.   

[LMNO]

By most accounts, the man was an asshole.  (Though quite pragmatic)
One of his claims was killing a famous swordsman with a wooden sword.
Some say this meant his opponent was offended at Musashi's use of a practice weapon, and got sloppy in his anger.
One take on it is Musashi beaned him with an oar while his back was turned.

To be honest, that's how I'd fight a trained samurai.

[Cain]

Musashi was much less of an asshole then he could have been.  He was Japan's greatest swordsman, after all, and he gave up using a sword after the age of 30.  That's pretty fair.

Also, rant is LOL

[Richter]

One thing that's always impressed me about him is how much his ideas paralell those of alternative warfare.  Compared to the cultural precedents of formalized combat and traditional swordplay, he was (In tactics, swordplay, and mindset) doing very direct things his opponents would least expect.  Granted, there's just as much myth to the samurai as to "Old West" gunslingers, but even by rough and dirty fighting standards he was quite shrewd.     

[Cain]

Indeed.  There are some stories of his more famous fights in Greene's The 33 Strategies of War and the main theme of his seems to be surprise, agititation and pragmatism.  I'm down with that.

[Jasper]

It's what works.