[47MartialMan]

Originally Posted by JadeDragon

47Martial....are you referring to my post? If so, why do you have a problem with it?

Originally Posted by JadeDragon

Actually most of the ninja's back then were renegade Samurai that fled to the mountains to try and live in peace. Thats all the ninja wanted to do was to live in peace but they were constantly being attcked by various groups of people.

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Some of the ninja did do assisnations for various war lords but it was not a common thing. The ninja did more intellegence gathering, survellence, and espionage, than anything else. They would relay false information to different war lords to start a war between the two and minipulate info so that the side they wanted to win would win. The ninja would use myth and rumor to put fear in their enemy so they would have an advantage over them. Hence the rumor that ninja can run up walls and walk on water and disappear at will.

Per some of the posts below;

Originally Posted by complete

I'm no expert in Japanese martial arts but little history lesson I learned over the years tells me that Samurais and Ninjas are indeed different. Samurais live by certain code that they value more than their life. Ninjas were trained assasins who killed people for money.

I don't know about the actual samurai combat technique difference from Ninja techniques, but I don't think you can actually say that samurais were actually ninjas.

Originally Posted by MrPickles

No ninjas were not honorable. They put survival before service to the emperor. Not all ninjas were purely assassins. Most probably weren't. I think you have been watching too many movies.

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