Real-World Context

It was written that we should make use of the subconscious to achieve idea's about what we write, I am trying to develop this beyond merely the martial arts so I begin with the words, "real, world, and context."

What is real? What is reality? Isn't is a subjective reality built by each individual in response to their personal perceptive filtering systems which has grown out of their time, their place; their contemporaries; their sources of information; their sources; their traditions as built along the path they travel; their intellect; their economic situation; their aesthetic climate; their background materials; their customs and their societal membership.

What is a world? What is a real-world? Isn't it a subjective world that is directly created, like a personal story, by the individual from the same influences that make up our reality or real world. Do we have more than one world in which we live?

What is context? What is our context? What is the real-world context? what is the real-world context for each individual human? Isn't it also subjective to all the influences previously presented for your review, analysis and final results?

This particular term or set of words were first presented to me through my filter of martial practice, study and training. It referred to how we unique and individual humans perceive violence in its various forms, i.e. sparring, fighting, and predatory violence. In our attempts to live with the violence of the world in its many forms humans have to find something to allow us to accept it for what it is even if that means burying it in some story that allows us to be comfortable and functional as we travel through the many stories of life.

If humans and their minds are susceptible to suggestions and we are susceptible to stories and imagination turning into a belief even if not true then how can we truly find "real-world context" that protects us from violence?

Then when presented with "real-world context" for training how do we know that it is "real-world context - true, factual and verifiable by three sources?" Then ask the question if those three sources are within "real-world context" without stories, fantasies and perceived belief of its reality to non-reality?

Then we have to ask, when is it time to stop and believe in "real-world context" as it is dictated by each unique personal perceptive filtering so we protect and defend ourselves, our families and our neighbors?

From Iain Abernathy Seminar via Samurai Girl blog entry:
There are three contexts Martial Arts can be used in. When practicing, you should always set the context and practice in that context.

    •    Martial Arts - a formal setting, this is done because it is fun, we like it, it is fun, it feels good, etc. Martial Arts and a hobby.
    •    Fighting - a fight to a conclusion. This is a mutual decision to fight, whether a sparring setting or a monkey dance/bar fight.
    •    Self Defense - practical. I DON'T want to fight, but since the situation is absolutely unavoidable,  the FIGHT is totally MINE. If someone jumps you, you can't hesitate, you have to take the fight to them. Their limbs, their jaw, etc, its MINE.