"Entry Granted: Hoblin's Door"

"Welcome, come in," Hoblin said to Ahah, inviting him in.

"Are you the master?" Ahah asks.

"I'm the master of this studio," Hoblin answers.

"My name is Ahah, but everyone calls me Ahaas," he answers.

"I've been expecting you," Hoblin says.

"How's that possible?" Ahaas asks, "I just wandered in after noticing these are the two doors everyone in town is talking about."

"You're here, aren't you?" Hoblin asks.

"Yes," he answers.

"Then you are right here right now, as you were intended to be for however long you are here," Hoblin confusingly explains.

"I don't understand," Ahaas admits, "I'm tryna say I down fallayoo." Ahaas's South Slope accent more noticeable.

"What?" Hoblin accidentally slips out.

"Fuel in my self high gas," Ahaas speaks rapidly.

"You have to speak slower, I'm getting old in years," Hoblin tells the boy.

"Can. You. Teach. Me. Kung. Fu?" Ahaas asked slowly.

"I can teach you strength," Hoblin answers, "but inner strength that harnesses your will power, not kung fu to blindly hurt people as if that is why a master invested his time teaching a student. To watch them hurt others with the lessons based on great ancient philosophies."

"Well, I still need to protect myself, so I want to study something measurable; where I can see levels of improvement," Ahaas explains.

"Inner strength fits right into the category you want," the master informs.

"Can you measure inner strength?" Ahaas asks.

"Yes, I can," Hoblin answers, "Strength equals determination plus resiliency minus cowardice. And inner strength is approximately half that value."

"How can that be?" young Ahaas once asks.

"That is how strength is measured," Master Hoblin explains.

"Okay?"Then how do you define determination?" Ahaas wonders out loud.

"The willingness to persist," Hoblin answers.

"But that can't be measured, master," Ahaas argues.

"Then assign a numeric value to the persistence by measuring it in terms of time and percent of task accomplished per time unit," Hoblin explains.

"What about resiliency?" Ahaas asks.

"The ability to quickly recover and repeat the same behavior that had lead to requiring a recovery, measured in units of time," Hoblin answers politely.

"How do you measure that," Ahaas shouts out in disbelief.

"By assigning the recovery time a numeric value," Hoblin instructs.

"But that would be a negative value? Resiliency isn't negative," Ahaas jumped in with an argumentative query, certain that Hoblin would be stumps.

"...and resiliency is the negative values, or reverse, of the values assigned to recovery time," Hoblin finishes his sentence, slightly chagrined by the student's assumptions.

"Okay master, what about cowardice? Can you define that and assign a number?" Ahaas asks.

"Cowardice is the fear of loss; nothing more," the master admitts.

"Certainly that cannot be measured Hoblin, can it?" Ahaas asks.

"It is measured by taking the negative value of the amount of time that lapses before an opponent retreats from battle," Hoblin explains.

"And then what?" Ahaas says with a cheesy grin. {AppLinkComingSoon:[ | young Jeezy sang, "Uh huh! And then what?" palindrome::opposites]}

"Once all those values are assigned, defined, and refined, they can define strength with a quantifiable (measured) scientific value," Hoblin says.

"Wow! That's interesting Hoblin," Ahaas admitts.

"But there's more," Hoblin offers.

"More? Okay, go on," Ahaas invites Hoblin to continue.

"Fractional amounts, which can be converted into percentage values, can be calculated if there is a willingness to retreat but not the action of retreating. As opposed to measuring the time that lapsed. This value includes the measurement of will power," Hoblin continues.

"I'm confused. Do you have an example?" Ahaas asks.

"Perhaps as is the case if an army is forced to stay and fight a losing battle or the case of a lover willing to retreat from a relationship. Both retreat knowing they've been (emotionally) defeated in the battlefield," Hoblin answers.

"And what about will power? Can I measure that?" Ahaas asks.

"In the case of measuring the..." He pauses." ...will?"
"...that will take further examination," Hoblin finishes after his pause was interrupted.

"Then what about how to measure faith as a numeric value?," Ahaas asks. (Coming soon)

"Faith is a true or false value..." Hoblin pauses again.

"Let me guess: 00 for No Response?" Ahaas jokes.

"...or Not Applicable, 01 for No, and 10 for Yes. It's a new spin on the old binary values," Hoblin completes.

"Since..." Hoblin pauses yet again, but this time with a stern look, daring Ahaas to interrupt.

...courage, which is the negative value of cowardice, is increased by the act of staying, even if against the willingness or desire of that person to retreat is greater than the desire or willingness to stay.

"That opens the path to a discussion on surrendering of the will," Ahaas inquires in statement format.

"To surrender in battle most likely leads to the same result as fighting to the death; therefore, there is no value in surrendering if the result is the same. But there is value in courage, which we just assigned, defined, and quantified into a numeric value correlated to strength and directly proportional to determination and resilience." Hoblin explains, introducing the next topic.NT...

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