Dear,
The Karate Kid

I know it is just a fictional story. Yet, if I had some words to share with Danielson, these would be it.

Karate is a good hobby. Mr. Myagi used it as a way to purge aggression. Meditation is good, and karate is a good tool at purging aggressive tendencies, and cooling down the shadow.

However, brawling as a form of self defense is wrong. Violence begets more violence. The only time one should fight, is in wartime. And in wartime, there must be a complete end of one of the two opponents. As only then can there be a resolution to the conflict.

Law's recourse is to prevent violence from spilling into the streets. And as for Johnny, forgive the man. He needs forgiveness. As I need forgiveness.

The only end to the conflict is to forgive. There can be no other way to resolve this, without bloodshed. And if there is bloodshed, it is no different than a turf war between two rival gangs.

Law begets order. Fighting begets a cycle which, gotten out of control, will end with either of the two sides warring for an entire generation, until one side is finished.

I know you're not real... But your story is real to me. To fight brings a cycle of violence, yet the recourse of law brings order.

Myagi trained only one student. His reason, was because he used Karate as a mentoring tool. Not as a means to make money. Not as a means to teach kids self defense. Each child requires special attention, and he was like a father to you, Danielson. With that, you cannot teach many students Karate. You must only teach one. It is the Myagi way. Which I hope the show teaches.

There needs to be forgiveness. As forgiveness is like a cool water over a hot flame. It makes the soul purged of its anguish. War is to be fought by nations, and declared by law. Which is how our great nation was founded, was through the order of law. Every bullet fired was ordained by the edict of law and self governance. It was not created by rebels, who then fought. It was created by well orchestrated men, whom by recourse of Law gave the precedence for war. And in that, we won our freedom. It was not mobs of men fighting in the street, as that kind of thing can only beget a cycle of violence which would perpetuate, and lo, it does.

I had listened to a sermon
Where it was said that the man at Bethesda had sinned.
And that was why he was a cripple.
And Jesus, asking him, "Do you want to be healed,"
Was really Jesus asking the man whether he wanted
The responsibilities associated with being healed;
As if being a paralytic it could be acceptable
That he lay on his cot all day;
Now he will be expected to work.
It was also taught out of a Bible
Where a verse was removed,
Where it details the angel stirring the water
So the men could be healed.
Hypocrite.

I will give the actual rendering.
Jesus asked, as I will often ask,
"Do you want this good thing?"
Not as a rebuke, not as an underhanded
Jab reminding him of his humble condition,
But because it is perfunctory kindness.
The man, being crippled, wanted in the water
Yet, he could not because men had to compete
To obtain their healing. In this was the Old Judaic Code
And Christ came to redeem man from that code.
Thus, Christ healed the man, and not the Angel
Who would heal a man through strife and trouble.
Finally, Jesus approached the man when he was healed
And the man told the Pharisees that it was Jesus
Who healed him. Jesus, before that, told the man to sin no more.
How many of you, being thrilled to death about something
Will speak of it? To anyone, no matter whom?
Ought this man be damned for his excitement?
Ought he be damned because he was joyful he was healed?
Yes? He told the Pharisees this thing maliciously?
Or, like so many men, in weakness, wish to tell their victories?
The man did not sin in telling the Pharisees.
Rather, we do not have God's omniscience,
Thus we cannot know God's thoughts.
Cease from this idle teaching, for it produces
A sort of doubt most insidious.
There was a man I encountered who was pushed in a wheel chair
With full ability to walk. Yet he would not.
Ought we liken the man at Bethesda a sinner
We will liken him to a man who feigns and illness,
And thereby make Christ less than a miracle worker.
If you can believe this about Christ, then you have no understanding of Who He is.
"The meek shall inherit the Earth," whomever that meek man is.
And being told, "Sin no more," every one of us are told this
After being healed of our infirmities, for what else can be said?
To sin more?

The chapter that best deals with it
Is Romans Chapter 1.
I believe, Christ while teaching His apostles
Verbatim said Paul's teachings.
I imagine Him sitting, and preaching,
And little Jude rebelling because he had not yet sinned.
Saying, "That is the opposite of what your teach!"
Yet, how later on those teachings would be the sweetest.

Homosexuality, in Romans 1,
Is addressed in plain terms.

"26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

"27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."

There can be no equivocation that Homosexuality is a sin.
As, any rendering of the sense of this passage reveals
It can only be talking about Homosexuality.

To Christians, I'd rather you not be Christian
Than teach sin. There is more hope for you in total rebellion
Than there is being lukewarm. Because at least in rebellion
You can find the truth, and it will shut your mouth
And then you will have something wise to teach.

The modern Protestant's confession is as weak as Elon Musk's.
He never said he was a Christian. He affirmed Christ's teachings.
Even a fool can affirm Christ's teachings.
Rather, it is the forgiveness of our sins,
That is why we need Christ.
So we are enabled to follow His teachings.
That is why we need Christ.
And teaching Homosexuality is not a sin
Is counter the example set at the cross
Which is the forsaking of ALL sin
For the purpose of the heavenly kingdom.
That which kills a man is his sin
And Christ's yoke is light because it will unburden us
From our sin, so we no longer are compelled into it.

Therefore, unburden the homosexual
By saying, "Christ can cleanse you of this shame and abomination."
For, that is what they truly want.
Not an excise into committing more lethal shame.

At first, I like a Rabbi, saw her fruit depart
And I thought to myself, "The fruit has departed,"
And thus, "Abortion is a statutory offense."
Then, I read a sinner's article, where she clearly
Tried to refute what I had not known,
"The fruit can survive being expelled from the womb?"
She callously said, quoting I, the Rabbi;
This changed everything. Thus, life for life,
Wound for wound, burn for burn
Applied to the woman's fruit; not the woman.
It made more sense to me,
Thus, it is to be said,
"Call no one Rabbi beside Christ."

Abortion is a crime.
It is not a capital offense.

1. Ten virgins are in the story, to walk through the night---the evil time of the present---and they are going to meet their groom, Jesus.
2. The five wise and five foolish correspond to wise and foolish Christians. I do not believe the number has a significance, other than poetic effect. It is a literary technique, and I had been tempted to draw some sort of meaning from the number, but such is a baseless reading of scripture. Trying to find meaning in numerology is a form of bad method for reading the Bible. It can only bring specious interpretations.
3. As a young man, I used to forget my homework. I could have even done the homework assignment, but I might have left it at home and thereby not received the grade for it. It ought to be evident that I was a foolish man in youth, and the literal meaning of this is to outline foolishness. A very practical observation of foolishness, which is forgetfulness.
4. The wise, again, take their oil. They do not forget. Likely, the forgotten element which the wise virgins do not forget is the Moral Teaching of Christ. Christ likens the teachings he gives in Matthew 5 - 7 as a rock, on which to build your foundation. The wise virgins practice obedience to these commandments, thus their lamps are filled. The foolish, not practicing the moral commandments of scripture, their lamps run empty.
5. The Bridegroom tarries. This is the time of life, the span between birth and death. Jesus tarries between life and death, so that we suffer much, until we slumber. The sleep is a forgetful state. Maybe a loll in the rhythm of a Christian's life. The virgins are tired, they fall asleep waiting outside the door of the church to be married---what this sleep means is a mystery. It cannot be a disobedience, but it may actually mean our worldly lives and the comforts of life, which loll us into a sleep, of sort.
6 - 9. The day of death is upon us, or the tribulation. The Bridegroom is coming to take the virgins to heaven. The virgins are to go out and meet him. But, the foolish virgins have not the law of God with them, so they then ask the wise virgins for their oil. Of course, a man cannot borrow righteousness from another man, so the wise virgins remain vigilant, and tell the foolish virgins to go out into the world and buy their oil. By this, it must mean there is no longer any time to repent. The oil of the world will never suffice---or the oil of the world's wisdom. They must trim their lamps with the world's wisdom, rather than Christ's moral teachings.
10. While the foolish virgins were out, trying to buy their oil---while they were trying to accumulate the knowledge of salvation from the world---the wise virgins, who retained the law and moral teachings of Christ were at the door, ready to be taken home.
11 - 13. The virgins who were foolish then come to the door, after the door has shut behind the Groom and his Bride, and they cry out, "Let us in!" But, it is too late, the wedding has begun. Christ then says, "Watch, therefore, that you know neither the time nor the hour which Christ returns!"

Notes: The issue here, I see, is with modern evangelical Christians who believe that "Works" are apart from God's teachings. The entire teaching of modern evangelicals discounts the clear teaching of Jesus, that we are to add works to our faith. Grace means that a person who has committed sin, like myself, can be saved. Freely, all of my sin is forgiven, past, present and future. But, clearly, the foolish virgins are the ones who take this as an excuse to do what they please, and they forget the clear prescripts of Christ who taught plainly that works were a part of our faith. As, faith without works is dead.

Aphorism 261. The atomic bomb proves Heraclitus was correct.

Aphorism 262, Lucretius gives the argument of Richard Dawkins, and more convincingly. Yet everything we know about physics proves him wrong.

Aphorism 263. The atom and law above atomic forces are Newtonian. Beneath that is fire.

Aphorism 264. Word is a third component of the Universe. There is Matter, Form and Word.

Aphorism 265. Nobody liked Heraclitus, and called him "The Dark One." Yet, his assumptions are proven true.

Aphorism 266. There is an infinite chain of cause and effect---without God's existence---which would unsubstantiate the entire universe.

Aphorism 267. Everyone is so impressed by causality out to the Big Bang. What about subatomic particles?

Aphorism 268. Even if there is a "God Particle", I will ask, "What is it made of?"

Aphorism 269. There will never exist matter apart from the void energy inhabits.

Aphorism 270. Energy is our modern day atom.

Aphorism 271. Energy is best described as addition, subtraction, division and multiplication existing within a vacuum.

Aphorism 272. Words are based on object, or else they cannot be shared.

Aphorism 273. Archetype and Form exist in the sense that they create similar patterns of thinking found in the objects they relate to. If they didn't, then nothing could truly be said.

Aphorism 274. Truth is what's shared by others.

Aphorism 275. A delusion is true only for oneself.

Aphorism 276. Belief in God is simple for me. Nothing seems to make sense without Him.

Aphorism 277. We know there is knowledge because this sentence can be understood.

Aphorism 278. What can be known relates to what is observed.

Aphorism 279. What we observe is a vacuum where, somehow, there miraculously is matter.

Aphorism 280. Whether in time or space, there must be a first cause. Otherwise, there cannot exist anything.

Aphorism 281. It is easy for me to believe the universe existed eternally.

Aphorism 282. It is what's in the universe, which makes me believe there is a Creator.

Aphorism 283. John said, "The Word is God" and Paul said, "In Him all things hold together," I can find no other way to make sense out of this cosmic dust.

Aphorism 284. It is hard for me to believe there is an end to measurements---whether macro or micro.

Aphorism 285. The Planc Length may be the smallest unit of measurement for matter, but matter is formed by energy, and energy exists within the gap of what we can measure.

Aphorism 286. A man, by use of polygons, found Pi to the Planc Length and could go no further with it.

Aphorism 287. Pi past the thirty-sixth digit cannot relate to matter, but must relate to energy.

Aphorism 288. I believe the Higgs Field will be where energy starts to be measured, rather than matter.

Aphorism 289. The laws of quanta are too difficult for modern scientists to understand; moral truths are no different.

Aphorism 290. If a form of math was invented, it could not be called math, could it?

Aphorism 291. The most brilliant man I know, still defies that one can know. This is not praise.

Aphorism 292. If the previous aphorism is true, then how can men rationally disprove God's existence?

Aphorism 293. If the previous aphorism is true, why is faith illogical?

Aphorism 294. By the very fact that even the most brilliant mind cannot know, it makes faith all the more logical.

Aphorism 295. All knowledge requires the bridge to God.

Aphorism 296. There are bad people in this world, and suffice it to say, spend enough time with them you'll question the most basic truths.

Aphorism 297. It is because there are liars and evil people that men will never fully find out the entirety of it.

Aphorism 298. The world looks just like the world would be, if only few men believed in hell.

Aphorism 299. Hell scares me more than heaven attracts me. I don't think this was a mistake.

Aphorism 300. If God did not execute final justice, there would be no order to anything.

Aphorism 201. Of the knowledge on my bookshelf would suit a fool nothing, for he will only see in it his desire.

Aphorism 202. There are beautiful women enough for every man; for every man will find beauty in the woman he loves.

Aphorism 203. Burning desire and vengeance are the cause of malignant wars. Forgive.

Aphorism 204. Had I handed the book of Mozi to a certain fool, he would have only read the chapters on defending a city.

Aphorism 205. I searched over my bookshelf, trying to find a piece of wisdom for a certain foolish man; I realized even in the wisest sage, he would only find his folly.

Aphorism 206. Bad men have reasons for being bad; this does not excuse them from justice.

Aphorism 207. A certain foolish man sought to weigh the scale of justice in his own hand.

Aphorism 208. Sangria and Voodoo work through the causal chains which hate breeds.

Aphorism 209. Prayer can uplift a man, even if he does not know who is praying for him.

Aphorism 210. Black Magic is simply the cause and effect of ill will.

Aphorism 211. When you know someone hates you, you can feel it.

Aphorism 212. Martial arts are worthless, save as a hobby; or, in combat, a lethal strike.

 Aphorism 213. If one man fights two, he shall be beaten.

Aphorism 214. The victor goes to the strongest army; which is summated in numbers.

Aphorism 215. Thermopylae and Gideon are recorded in history because they are not the norm.

Aphorism 216. If two men are destined for combat, the more skilled of the two will win.

Aphorism 217. Do not throw water on a sleeping dog. Rather, let him lie.

 Aphorism 218. Sin causes suffering.

Aphorism 219. Do not believe victory means you are in the right. It can often mean you simply got lucky.

Aphorism 220. I saw a poor man witness the feud of two great kingdoms.

Aphorism 221. Do not believe victory means you are in the right. A wise man will be often killed by a strong man.

Aphorism 222. It is better not to defend, if the defense will create an offense.

Aphorism 223. Lay yourself down, and let the nations walk on your back---heap up treasures in heaven.

Aphorism 224. If men heaped up their treasure in heaven, the Earth would look more like paradise.

Aphorism 225. I saw a foolish man seek counsel from a wise man for self defense; the wise man taught him self defense. It did not stop him from being a fool.

Aphorism 226. The stronger nation wins. It doesn't matter who is in the right.

Aphorism 227. In the end, Christ has possession of the iron rod to rebuke all nations.

Aphorism 228. When a man falls down, even if he is your enemy, pick him up.

Aphorism 229. The sage was a Christian, but his pupil learned idolatry. It is not the Sage who is at fault.

Aphorism 230. Learn to forgive.

Aphorism 231. The war is fought because of aggression.

Aphorism 232. To defend a nation, one must be a belligerent. 

Aphorism 233. If the nations went to war today, there would be nothing left for them to rule.

Aphorism 234. Israel committed genocide---consider who your enemy is and whether he deserves to be slaughtered down to the last child. If not, then there ought to be no war.

Aphorism 235. I speak of war only briefly, it is not my chief concern.

Aphorism 236. Fight the demon within yourself, and not the demon within others.

Aphorism 237. A kingdom's worst foe are the foes who come from within.

Aphorism 238. A Judas turncoats, and in that he creates bitter rivalry.

Aphorism 239. Rich men rule the world.

Aphorism 240. The masculine pronoun in English can be gender neutral.

Aphorism 241. I nearly vomited when I saw the doubt created by a teacher who thought Jesus rebuked the man at Bethesda.

Aphorism 242. Christians have great doubt because they do not know their God.

Aphorism 243. Elven misfits followed Jesus because of His kindness, and Judas, like the world, betrayed Him with a kiss.

Aphorism 244. A man who loves strife will be like a man who fights on either side.

Aphorism 245. The fool sees in wisdom the justification for his own mischief.

Aphorism 246. Do not put the little children in danger; there can be no lesson taught by that, save to make them fearful.

Aphorism 247. Fear is a cause of much strife.

Aphorism 248. Fear leads to rage, rage leads to loathing; loathing leads to shameful deeds.

Aphorism 249. The beginning of lust leads to the end of a shameful deed.

Aphorism 250. Men ought to be forgiven of all, for it is unforgiveness in a man which fetters him to his doom.

Danielson,
No teach karate;
Let go!