[sumo] Effect of jungyo

[Charles Beauchamp]

--- Keri Sibley <kerisib at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- Charles Beauchamp <beauking1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > The only people who claim Sumo is more
> > then
> > interesting entertainment are total fanatics. 
> That
> > doesn't make you right.  It is entertainment. 
> That
> > remains all that it is.  The kyokai have badly
> 
> I'm sorry but how I will not allow you to speak
> about

You can stop right there.  You aren't in a position to
"allow" me to say or post anything at all Keri.  Who
do you think you are?  

> what sumo is or what it should mean to me. It IS
> different to different people and I present a quote
> as
> an example:
> 
> "I would, however, like you to understand that sumo,
> whose chinese characters mean 'to give thanks for
> the
> blessings of nature and the fruits of the earth,' is
> spiritually linked to Shinto, Japan's native
> language."
> 
> It's a quote from Ryo Hatano from  Sumo World March
> 1992. It's very telling in that sumo has a very
> different meaning to the Japanese

Nonsense.  It is simply the opinion of one person. 
Also irrelevant to the conversation.  This isn't a
debate about whether or not there are a lot of people
who like to pretend there is something beyond a
controversy between an organization and their most
prominent employee.  What does Ryo's silly
mythological view have to do with Jungyo vs. charity?

 and I'm sure to
> other cultures as well. I don't pretend to
> understand
> it all but it has brought peace to my mind over the
> course of the past few days as I have been a
> participant in these discussions. I tried to pull
> myself out a few days ago and I am I now am trying
> to
> play peacemaker. All I can do now is ask that all of
> us try to understand each other and cease this
> interminable argument.  This list is full of
> different
>  cultures and we are all trying to understand this
> events of the past week, whether we agree with it or
> not. It is very likely that no matter how rational
> you
> think you are, on either side,  you may not ever
> change anybody's opinion. Let's step back, take a
> deep
> breath and chill.
> 
> Hinerikeri
> 

Nah..I'd rather launch into a tsuparri attack on
everyone and then go drink a Pepsi.  <G>



       
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