On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:28:38PM +0200, Moti wrote:
And there is no comparing Sumo to Western sports (chess???) in any way,
when it comes to the dignity factor. I feel that if you don't get that,
you are missing the whole essence of Sumo.
KaioU participates in a sport that has certain standards for promotion,
which are being bent in his honor. Those standards were centered around
two straight yushos or the equivalent, like it or not. And if he can't
cross the lowered threshold, forget it.
So either a) 'the whole essence of Sumo' changed sometime around 1990,
or b) the current promotion criterion is not, in fact, immutable and
integral to same. (I vote for b.) It ought to be possible to discuss a
sensible 'rule' without drifting off into these semi-mystical reveries
(or at least to keep them under separate cover). I mean, it's not as if
the YDC is hanging on our every word here, anyway...