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The Frauds Are Getting Nervous
6 year(s) ago • 1198 views • 24 replies
DBBlack belt 3rd degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
No training. So we're back to investigating.
Wheels are being set in motion.
Evidence is being gathered.
Frauds beware!
Wheels are being set in motion.
Evidence is being gathered.
Frauds beware!
SVBlack belt 1st degreeVerified
WMBlack belt 5th degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
I've been a fraud my whole life, and I am not nervous.
Except when I eat really questionably old leftovers.
Which I do frequently, it's part of my Dad duties to eat the leftovers nobody else eats in the fridge.
Except when I eat really questionably old leftovers.
Which I do frequently, it's part of my Dad duties to eat the leftovers nobody else eats in the fridge.
RDBlack belt 4th degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
I've been a fraud my whole life, and I am not nervous. Except when I eat really questionably old leftovers. Which I do frequently, it's part of my Dad duties to eat the leftovers nobody else eats in the fridge.
I think everyone is a fraud. Lol
I believe what is written in the photo I am posting on here.
I believe what is written in the photo I am posting on here.
WMBlack belt 5th degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
I think everyone is a fraud. Lol I believe what is written in the photo I am posting on here.
Then there is a fourth face, that no one sees, not even ourselves.
JJBlack beltVerified
MGPurple beltVerified
JMBlack belt 2nd degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
I think that's bollocks :D I've been a terrible liar whole my life, keeping up facades is way too tiring waste of energy. Playing with open cards all the time you never have to worry about someone finding out something and then you can focus on stuff that really matters to you.
Figuring out some inner fears and complexes that's a bit different matter of course, it's about getting older and realising what kind of an insecure idiot you've been - for me that's been a constant ongoing realisation since teenage years basically but hey, at least that's an interesting trip...
Figuring out some inner fears and complexes that's a bit different matter of course, it's about getting older and realising what kind of an insecure idiot you've been - for me that's been a constant ongoing realisation since teenage years basically but hey, at least that's an interesting trip...
WMBlack belt 5th degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
I think that's bollocks :D I've been a terrible liar whole my life, keeping up facades is way too tiring waste of energy. Playing with open cards all the time you never have to worry about someone finding out something and then you can focus on stuff that really matters to you. Figuring out some inner fears and complexes that's a bit different matter of course, it's about getting older and realising what kind of an insecure idiot you've been - for me that's been a constant ongoing realisation since teenage years basically but hey, at least that's an interesting trip...
It's the lies we tell ourselves that are the most troublesome.
Sometimes, we even manage to get others to believe or act as if they were true.
Humans, including ourselves, are such excellent liars.
Sometimes, we even manage to get others to believe or act as if they were true.
Humans, including ourselves, are such excellent liars.
JMBlack belt 2nd degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
Humans, including ourselves, are such excellent liars.
One of the hypotheses is that lying and detection of lying is one of the arms races that drove the increase in intelligence / abstract thinking in the social leap ~100k years ago.
At the same time we are gullible and kind and gentle to our perceived kin giving all the benefits of doubts...
At the same time we are gullible and kind and gentle to our perceived kin giving all the benefits of doubts...
CBBrown beltVerified
6 year(s) ago
Humans, including ourselves, are such excellent liars.
I honestly disagree with this completely. There is a difference between being a "good liar" and being very good at convincing yourself of something that is not true or finding someone in a desparate sitution who will believe everything that gives them hope. Unfortunately most of the serious cases of the most successful frauds are examples of the latter and not the former.
Perfect example would be the Yellow Bamboo Group or honestly any of the Ki Masters you see on McDojo Life. Claiming to repell people with Mystic Energy is the definition of a terrible lie, but when you look at the videos in YouTube, they always draw large groups. But People Desprately want to believe this stuff and they'll cling to anyone who tells them it is true, regardless of how rediculus the lie is.
Perfect example would be the Yellow Bamboo Group or honestly any of the Ki Masters you see on McDojo Life. Claiming to repell people with Mystic Energy is the definition of a terrible lie, but when you look at the videos in YouTube, they always draw large groups. But People Desprately want to believe this stuff and they'll cling to anyone who tells them it is true, regardless of how rediculus the lie is.
WMBlack belt 5th degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
I honestly disagree with this completely. There is a difference between being a 'good liar' and being very good at convincing yourself of something that is not true or finding someone in a desparate sitution who will believe everything that gives them hope. Unfortunately most of the serious cases of the most successful frauds are examples of the latter and not the former. Perfect example would be the Yellow Bamboo Group or honestly any of the Ki Masters you see on McDojo Life. Claiming to repell people with Mystic Energy is the definition of a terrible lie, but when you look at the videos in YouTube, they always draw large groups. But People Desprately want to believe this stuff and they'll cling to anyone who tells them it is true, regardless of how rediculus the lie is.
What about the old, "most fights go to the ground"...?
That was a great lie.
It got us a lot of members, and rolled off the tongue quite easily.
That was a great lie.
It got us a lot of members, and rolled off the tongue quite easily.
CFBlue beltVerified
6 year(s) ago
Then there is a fourth face, that no one sees, not even ourselves.
"The Fourth Face"
Sounds like a suspense thriller/horror movie about a mental hospital in the styling of something like Inception.
Sounds like a suspense thriller/horror movie about a mental hospital in the styling of something like Inception.
MBrown beltVerified
6 year(s) ago
I think that's bollocks :D I've been a terrible liar whole my life, keeping up facades is way too tiring waste of energy. Playing with open cards all the time you never have to worry about someone finding out something and then you can focus on stuff that really matters to you. Figuring out some inner fears and complexes that's a bit different matter of course, it's about getting older and realising what kind of an insecure idiot you've been - for me that's been a constant ongoing realisation since teenage years basically but hey, at least that's an interesting trip...
Well written Matsi!
RRBrown beltVerified
6 year(s) ago
The four faces can be compared to the four stages of competence (knowledge).
1. Unconscious incompetence (The things you don’t know that you don’t know).
2. Conscious incompetence (The things that you know that you don’t know).
3. Conscious competence (The things you know that you know).
4. Unconscious competence (The things that you don’t know that you know).
My experience is that most BJJ people are in all of those stages of competence. And it’s really dynamic. It all depends on who I’m rolling with, and how my shape is at the given moment.
The beautiful thing about BJJ is that sometimes I feel like a genius wizard, other times like a complete idiot.
“If you don’t roll, you don’t know"
My point of posting this in this thread is that in some cases I believe that the guys who’s claiming some kind of belt in BJJ (or any MA) don’t realize how bad they’re BJJ actually is.
The beautiful thing about BJJ, compered to other MA is that it can be tested in a safe way.
I believe that BJJ is the most honest MA.
If you are a fake BJJ blackbelt, living in a bubble, not questioned by anyone. You will be shocked the day you roll with a legit black belt.
"The difference between knowledge and skill is training. And the difference between skill and mastery is time"
-Roger Gracie
1. Unconscious incompetence (The things you don’t know that you don’t know).
2. Conscious incompetence (The things that you know that you don’t know).
3. Conscious competence (The things you know that you know).
4. Unconscious competence (The things that you don’t know that you know).
My experience is that most BJJ people are in all of those stages of competence. And it’s really dynamic. It all depends on who I’m rolling with, and how my shape is at the given moment.
The beautiful thing about BJJ is that sometimes I feel like a genius wizard, other times like a complete idiot.
“If you don’t roll, you don’t know"
My point of posting this in this thread is that in some cases I believe that the guys who’s claiming some kind of belt in BJJ (or any MA) don’t realize how bad they’re BJJ actually is.
The beautiful thing about BJJ, compered to other MA is that it can be tested in a safe way.
I believe that BJJ is the most honest MA.
If you are a fake BJJ blackbelt, living in a bubble, not questioned by anyone. You will be shocked the day you roll with a legit black belt.
"The difference between knowledge and skill is training. And the difference between skill and mastery is time"
-Roger Gracie
SLBlack beltVerified
6 year(s) ago
What about the old, 'most fights go to the ground'...? That was a great lie. It got us a lot of members, and rolled off the tongue quite easily.
This can be contextually true however....
WMBlack belt 5th degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
This can be contextually true however....
Sure it can.
Then again, almost all fights start standing,
and a shit load of them are sucker punches,
many of which end the fight before it really begins.
Then again, almost all fights start standing,
and a shit load of them are sucker punches,
many of which end the fight before it really begins.
ARBlack beltVerified
6 year(s) ago
I'm a fraud.
WMBlack belt 5th degreeVerified
ARBlack beltVerified
JJBlack beltVerified
6 year(s) ago
For some reason in my head when you said Canada I was listening to "Were not going to take it" and heard it as "Were not aboot to take it...noooo were not aboot to take it anymore.".
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ARBlack beltVerified
6 year(s) ago
For some reason in my head when you said Canada I was listening to 'Were not going to take it' and heard it as 'Were not aboot to take it...noooo were not aboot to take it.'.
That's so strange. Especially seeing as how I've never ever heard anyone in my entire life (45 years), having live all of it in Canada, say aboot...
JJBlack beltVerified
JMBlack belt 2nd degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
So... Birattari is yet to answer my message in weeks about Sharkawa... maybe disputes would grab his attention faster :)
PDBlack belt 3rd degreeVerified
6 year(s) ago
What about the old, 'most fights go to the ground'...? That was a great lie. It got us a lot of members, and rolled off the tongue quite easily.
I am a former kickboxer... I always said cool most fights may well go to the ground but they all start on the feet... When I knock you out you go to the ground
