Ah, you're one of those "attaining zen through martial arts" folks! Years of martial arts training will grant you wisdom and grace eh? If you are practicing hard for many years with that in mind, then I suppose it is possible to attain that. I know that several koryu schools as well as most kendo stresses that.If you believe that practicing a martial art will make you a better person, you would naturally expect more from a senior practitioner.
My school is NOT one of those, nor do I practice kendo. It is my firm belief that there are benefits to long term practice of the sword arts. Automatically becoming Tesshu is not one of those. Martial artists, even long term practitioners, are merely people. They have exactly the same problems as any other group of people. They just have a different knowledge set than the norm.
I have met a couple of long time practitioners that would qualify as much better people than I, but that's because they conciously pursued that as part of their training. I know many more that are just regular guys with lots of knowledge of esoteric arts. Beware trying to paint other arts with your art's brush!
And finally (about time eh!) I never mentioned anything about "pretending". What I said was, if it offends you just go away! Don't bother to whine about it.
Cheers,