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Skorzeny · August 12, 2001, 08:55 PM

Oh, boy, here we go again...

Hate to be tangential here, but "Ninjutsu" of Feudal Japan has not survived to modernity (nor would it be appropriate even if it has), DESPITE what Saturday afternoon Ninja movies show. In fact, a Ninja (if such a thing were actually real) was nothing more than a trained swordsman acting as an assassin.

Next someone will be telling me that "only a Ninja can kill a Ninja" and that you will have to go to a mountaintop in Japan to find a real one, except for a low price of $250 per month you can learn from "the only Gaijin ever to step into the secretive world of Ninja."

Skorzeny

August 12, 2001, 08:55 PM	#5
Skorzeny Senior Member Join Date: May 29, 1999 Posts: 1,938	Oh, boy, here we go again... Hate to be tangential here, but "Ninjutsu" of Feudal Japan has not survived to modernity (nor would it be appropriate even if it has), DESPITE what Saturday afternoon Ninja movies show. In fact, a Ninja (if such a thing were actually real) was nothing more than a trained swordsman acting as an assassin. Next someone will be telling me that "only a Ninja can kill a Ninja" and that you will have to go to a mountaintop in Japan to find a real one, except for a low price of $250 per month you can learn from "the only Gaijin ever to step into the secretive world of Ninja." Skorzeny __________________ For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence. Sun Tzu