Head-to-Head combat

So, what's so great about it?
Almost everything, that's what! Well, except for the extreme cases that lead to sticks and stones breaking heads and bones. But, short of that, head-to-head combat is very good for the brain, where thoughts are moved around from place to place, picking up and depositing bio-chemical and bio-electrical charges rejuvenating the wiring system. It all keeps one nimble-of-thought, although at a functionally low-level but it's better than nothing.

After all, just sitting around all day long, every day, with nothing to say - either to yourself or anyone else - has a real and serious downside. "Use it or Lose it" is one way to say this. And those (all too) many who try to rationalize their inability to think-with-attention more than a couple few seconds, with statements like - "I would rather stop thought, and be in state of 'stopped-thought') - are just fooling themselves. Anyone can "do" that (because there's no "doing" as it is mechanical), but very few can sustain consistent thought-with-attention, because that requires a higher degree of intention and attention and even consciousness.

Also, from one real and specific point of view, it REALLY (he said with emphasis) doesn't matter one damn bit, which viewpoint you put out there, as ANY will accomplish the intended effect. That is, no matter what anyone says about anything, there is always someone within ear- and/or eye-shot who will find REAL fault with it and want to clip your wings right then and there, and gleefully watch as you plummet headlong into the dirt below, tearing flesh and breaking bones.

"God Knows" (well, replacing the placeholder word "God" with their actual human name), defeating other people mentally is a most, most satisfying experience. And, even you know this is correct!

But - as usual, here on this far-edge of the city quite unseen by the city-folk who've never even heard of this place - there is a STUPID way to do this (H-to-H combat), and a SMART way to do this, and wouldn't you just know it, the STUPID way is a losing experience for the participants, while the SMART way is a winning experience for the participants. "STUPID" means both sides (in the sense of "side-takers") lose MUCH more than they hoped to gain, while "SMART" means both sides (in the same sense) GAIN, and the amount of gain increases as the participants acquire this new skill (which none are born with, and none are taught), amounting to what can now be termed, "NON side-taking".

This "skill" starts as 'craft' (of language usage - correct spelling, grammar, syntax, etc., and regularity and consistency of exercise), soon moving into 'talent' (of concept weaving - becoming almost automatic and without unnecessary fits and starts), and eventually arrives at 'ART' (of energy transformation and transmission - merging left & right sides of the brain, merging higher emotional and higher intellectual centers/circuits, ability to channel the "Big Guy", and sometimes all the way to the higher 'ideal', sometimes written as: "Chanting the World".)

NONE OF THIS happens mechanically. It requires the same thing anything useful requires - EFFORT of a certain kind and for a long time, without giving up due to simple-mindedness, and opposite-thinking and negative-thinking and making inane excuses for doing nothing... also called STUPIDITY, and which is the ordinary level of being of the city-folk - all and everyone's "family of man" into which we were born so long ago, and where most are still now imprisoned having long ago lost even the DESIRE to escape.