I really like the way you showed how important it is to know the difference between reverence and respect. It is something that has bothered my for some time and I couldn't really vocalise it effectively. The area where I am most concerned is the military in many countries. Over the last 20 years or so the attitude of many countries has move from respect to reverence when it comes to the military and that worries me because that is how coups happen and how countries turn more militant or become more dictatorial. We should definitely respect the military, and those in our past that enabled us to have the freedoms we have now, but it should never cross over into reverence.

Awesome!

Damn good. I’m here for more.

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I watched, I learned, I liked and subscribed. I realised I needed to watch again and pay more attention as I forgot what the third thing was. Good video, can't wait to see more.

Well, something a tad different: that's good. So, I've subbed for more, and I am hoping for the best. Good luck to you.

Think of all those "You're doing it wrong' videos. A thumb nail that ensures I don't click on it.

I love this discourse. In the Army, I learned a definition of respect that I’ve always maintained and have only in the last decade or so interrogated precisely why. Respect: Treat (all things) others as they should be treated. Note how intensely subjective that is. It requires that I apply my own subjectivity astutely to determine precisely how it should be treated. The should statement then, the ethical aspect of this injunction, is itself subject to personal contingency and therefore remains existential (rather than static.) Respect is therefore contingent, existential and thus historical. Reverence on the other hand is static-we might revere the dead. To revere a living thing is to ossify it, mummify it, museumify it. Reverence suits nothing and nobody except for whatever power dictates its terms. Reverence is philosophical death, or philosophical suicide as Camus would call it.

I agree with this! A similar approach, but in a different field, is Bruce Lee's approach to martial arts. He said there's no one greatest martial art. Learn as much as you can from a variety of sources. Take what works for you from each, and make your own style. I have that same approach to woodworking, and I use both Japanese and Western style tools. Thanks for this!

The Studley Tool Chest suffers from reverence. It is good, but not that good. Fans attribute unknown deep reasons for what were probably minor mistakes...

The no nails thing is a falacy. We have dated nails in temples from japan going back at least a 900 years. Not to mention Tansu chests which use a lot of metal hardware and... nails. For anyone who disagrees google "oldest metal nails in Japan" and see what comes up. There is a great schollarly article from Japan on thr subject that dates nails in various temples.