Viking life

Originally posted by Robtard
Then there's always the chance that two cultures came up with similar ideas, yet completely independant of each other.

Except there are Celtic statues that are very similar to Hindu statues and they depict them meditating. The Celts were Indo-European like the Vkings and were similar.

Originally posted by Robtard

I've honest never heard of Vikings doing some mass meditation as a norm. I know the berserks would work themselves into a craze before battle, but that was likely a combo of mead and insanity.

I have, there was a Viking called Little Bear who was praticing meditation while a battle was going.

Originally posted by Wild Shadow
actually samurai sword blocking is usually done with the back of the sword to avoid chipping and dulling the edge.

in a sword fight it is more then reach but the wielders ability to fight and maneuver.. in single sword fight i give it to the better trained skilled warrior

Against another samurai maybe. It's a stretch to say a samurai would be able to do so against a viking with a long sword that doesn't care.

The samurai would have to be more skilled to get a win I'd say as the long sword more opportunities being double bladed and having longer reach.

Yes, yes I know this was posted like 6 pages back but I reading from the 4th page now so...

Ugh... this thread is just painful to read... iron shirts blocking swords, viking doing astral projection, "master race" shit...

Yikes, it's like a logic trainwreck.

Originally posted by Wild Shadow
what exactly is the indian mediation posture?

the only ones i know are sitting upright position palms on knees or clasp in front of you and laying down or swaying.. if you can be specific i am sure i can find various shamans, priest and monks who do the exact same thing in all parts of the world including native americans,,

Actually some cursory research (that is I put "mediation" into wikipedia) suggests to me that pretty much all mediation in Europe and Asia traces back to India.

Originally posted by King Kandy
Ugh... this thread is just painful to read... iron shirts blocking swords, viking doing astral projection, "master race" shit...

Yikes, it's like a logic trainwreck.

I don't think you read the arguments properly then. For starters im not arguing that people can astral project but you can meditate that makes it seem you are. People can do that today and in the past, meditation is an important part of the highier skills used in asian martial arts.

Originally posted by Deadline
Except there are Celtic statues that are very similar to Hindu statues and they depict them meditating. The Celts were Indo-European like the Vkings and were similar.

I have, there was a Viking called Little Bear who was praticing meditation while a battle was going.

anyways some native americans actually sit indian position pass the piece pipe and take hits eventually swaying and humming or chanting whatever it is they chant. just like hindi and other asians..

they also pad their chest to the rhythm of the drums also point out some africans ppl do this as well as sway..

honestly your trying to make meditation exclusive to one group when it isnt even close to being accurate ..

their is small deviations to the meditation but overall they can be identical depending on the individual person..

anyway at deadline your indo europeans are more often then not ppl that live next to the afghan boarder:

here is the list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East...

either way being indo or having middle eastern descant as well as european like russian doesnt mean one is indian or have a connection to said nation or whatnot..

i'll research little bear later tonight

Originally posted by Deadline
I don't think you read the arguments properly then. For starters im not arguing that people can astral project but you can meditate that makes it seem you are. People can do that today and in the past, meditation is an important part of the highier skills used in asian martial arts.

Oh wait, that's not true. You also said that since vikings are of indo-european descent (like just about every race in europe...), they obviously could use iron shirt.

And of course, missing from all this is evidence that iron shirt itself could resist blows from a sword, as i've seen nothing at all to substantiate it. I've seen people good at iron kungfu be able to resist tons of blunt trama, but nothing ever was shown even mildly hinting that they could resist a sharp cut from a sword, nor any explanation of how this is even physically possible.

SC already showed a lot of the fallacies you used to support that stance as well.

Originally posted by King Kandy
You claimed that berserkers could block swords, and your substantiation for this was that since one astral-projected, he was clearly actually meditating and using the iron-shirt technique.

Um no better read the thread properly.

Originally posted by King Kandy

Oh wait, that's not true. You also said that since vikings are of indo-european descent (like just about every race in europe...), they obviously could use iron shirt.

Nope you haven't read the thread properly.

Originally posted by King Kandy

And of course, missing from all this is evidence that iron shirt itself could resist blows from a sword, as i've seen nothing at all to substantiate it. I've seen people good at iron kungfu be able to resist tons of blunt trama, but nothing ever was shown even mildly hinting that they could resist a sharp cut from a sword, nor any explanation of how this is even physically possible.

SC already showed a lot of the fallacies you used to support that stance as well.

Nope sorry you better read it again.

Originally posted by Deadline
Except there are Celtic statues that are very similar to Hindu statues and they depict them meditating. The Celts were Indo-European like the Vkings and were similar.

I have, there was a Viking called Little Bear who was praticing meditation while a battle was going.

So now you're arguing that the Celts were similar to Hindu-Indians because of a statue, therefore the Vikings are too? This makes sense to you?

You have one Viking out of an entire culture; that's enough to make the claims you are, really?

Can you at least show proof of this "Little Bear"?

Originally posted by King Kandy
You claimed that berserkers could block swords, and your substantiation for this was that since one astral-projected, he was clearly actually meditating and using the iron-shirt technique.

Oh wait, that's not true. You also said that since vikings are of indo-european descent (like just about every race in europe...), they obviously could use iron shirt.

And of course, missing from all this is evidence that iron shirt itself could resist blows from a sword, as i've seen nothing at all to substantiate it. I've seen people good at iron kungfu be able to resist tons of blunt trama, but nothing ever was shown even mildly hinting that they could resist a sharp cut from a sword, nor any explanation of how this is even physically possible.

SC already showed a lot of the fallacies you used to support that stance as well.

No no, logic is a flawed construct created by the western "intellectual" elite. Using is a sign of your foolishness.

Originally posted by Deadline
Um no better read the thread properly.

Nope you haven't read the thread properly.

Nope sorry you better read it again.

Originally posted by Robtard
So now you're arguing that the Celts were similar to Hindu-Indians, therefore the Vikings are too?

You have one Viking out of an entire culture; that's enough to make the claims you are, really?

Can you at least show proof of this "Little Bear"?

Absence of evidence is evidence of evidence if it wasn't there would be no evidence to be absent. Think about it, we know there is no evidence but we wouldn't know there was no evidence unless there was evidence that evidence was absent. So that absent evidence is evidence that we have evidence of the evidence we don't have evidence of.

😕

What's not to understand?

Originally posted by Robtard
So now you're arguing that the Celts were similar to Hindu-Indians because of a statue,

Its not me its what the book said.

Originally posted by Robtard
therefore the Vikings are too?

This makes sense to you?

Yeah it does because celtic mythology is very similar to Viking mythology.

Originally posted by Robtard

You have one Viking out of an entire culture; that's enough to make the claims you are, really?

Can you at least show proof of this "Little Bear"?

I don't know what you mean by at least. I don't have it on me.

Originally posted by King Kandy
Such convincing refutations! 😱

No you didn't even read my arguments properly. facepalm

Originally posted by Robtard
So now you're arguing that the Celts were similar to Hindu-Indians because of a statue, therefore the Vikings are too? This makes sense to you?

You have one Viking out of an entire culture; that's enough to make the claims you are, really?

Can you at least show proof of this "Little Bear"?

Little Bear

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Little Bear

"His feuds with Yasu Fuji & Chati Yokochi"

Clearly there's an Asian connection* there, so it's safe to say he integrated Eastern Indian culture into his fighting and used Iron Shirt on the battle-field to stop spears. Simply, really.

i couldnt find anything on lil bear except the link you guys posted for luaghs

Originally posted by Wild Shadow
i couldnt find anything on lil bear except the link you guys posted for luaghs

Shut up. Act like an adult and stop asking for evidence!

Originally posted by Wild Shadow
i couldnt find anything on lil bear except the link you guys posted for luaghs

I think it should be in the book gods and myths of northern europe. H.R. Ellis Davidson.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Shut up. Act like an adult and stop asking for evidence!

Thats funny didn't have a problem when inimalist was asking for evidence. Oh no maybe I don't have a problem with people asking evidence.

okay i found him on wiki.. his nordic name was bjarki little bear

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6dvar_Bjarki

i guess he is suppose to be beowolf or at least it is disputed