Hi Aria. It is wonderful to hear some points on this. I've been hankering for a good chat about something worth chatting about for a while.

This post might be longer, and i can garunteed it will be more abstract.

This would be a great thing to chat about on the live-chat. My post often barely scratch the surface of what i could bring up.

Thanks for the info to Choi. Unfortunately, i had never seriously researched him. That point i made was just conjecture between myself and a "wap" friend of mine (wap is like wigger, only the white person is in love with japan rather than black street culture). Wow, if Choi lived that long, that means is i can use the flight-or-fight reponse (as i said, i can consciously summon it) alot without worrying about dying very young. Whew. Means fun for me.

Thing is, i have a hard time seeing the japanese creating a myth of a woman warrior like that, and for it to survive this long. It is understnadable that the myth, no matter which story theory, seems unlikely though, but most societies have the occasional person who is like this is some fassion, kinda realy good and realy unusual. Created or largely modified myths are usualy quite preachy. Any of the Tomoe stories lack that, some less than others.
From what i've come to understnad about the motions and movenments of hte world, usualy people like Tomoe, in the sense of being exeptional but very odd in one way or another, slowly develop BS-ridden myth around their myth, but mostly-true stories are their if you dig deep enough.
My understanding on this is that people change the real story for one reason or another, may it be bashing, disbelief or fitting it into pop-culture, though (sometimes preserved by small groups of people) the mostly-real story still exists if you dig deep enough. If you take a look, this tendecy prevails in all walks of life. It's what people do when thier faced with something unusual, yet extraordinary.
I suppose i've developed a feel for human tendecies, but it's sometime hard to word what exactly i mean.

I also feel that, along with presentation of philosophy and an exelent story, the Roruni Kenshin OVA's have crypic references to Tomoe's life, being in the facts that the story "Although based on historical accounts, this story is fictional" , that kenshin's consort is Tomoe. who has no last name mentioned, and Kenshin is "A demon, in human form," and if my theory on the huge size of Tomoe is true, this would obviously have to be left out of the Kenshin story.
If you take a look into things, storys and texts with great depth are often riddled with clues and riddles, that both offer informations, if you can see it, yet keep it vauge and crypic in another sense. I think this practice originaly began with Chuang-Tsu, creator of the Chuang-Tsu texts, Tao Te Ching and Lao-Tsu myth. Don't ask me though how these people know much on the history of this, like how that dr. masaasaki hatsumi knew to draw Tomoe as 200+ Lbs. I'm just a teen in a basement with no resources other than a computer and a dail-up connection.

I guess you'd have to add up every point i made here to get what i'm trying to say. Typed words are so often insufficient.

I look forward to further posts or live-chat conversations.
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