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re: Does football really matter to you anymore?
Posted on 9/16/20 at 10:00 am to TrendingRight
Posted on 9/16/20 at 10:00 am to TrendingRight
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I'm gone
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Posted on 9/16/20 at 10:09 am to TrendingRight
Everyone has a right to peacefully protest and kneel, lay down and I guess even moon the American flag if they want to. But as a Veteran I will stand at attention for a flag whose countrymen of all races and ethnic background have died to give all of us the freedom to protest however we want to. I love football and all sports but when our country's flag is disrespected for all the world to see, well count me out. Y'all don't know what you have to you lose it. Just my two cents.
Posted on 9/16/20 at 11:59 am to rbvol
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rbvol
32 posts in 5 years? i'd respect your opinion if you were willing to make it on your primary account.
Posted on 9/16/20 at 12:11 pm to Beessnax
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I was mostly done with the NFL before this but now I'm completely out.
I will always watch LSU play though.
Do you actually think that anyone with two brain cells to rub together believes that you'll never watch Joe Burrow play an NFL game?
Posted on 9/17/20 at 9:53 am to BearBait09
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32 posts in 5 years? i'd respect your opinion if you were willing to make it on your primary account.
Well I agree with him, so thank you for respecting my opinion.
Posted on 9/17/20 at 9:58 am to TrendingRight
Still watching some, not so much the pros though and I was a die-hard Saints fan. I won't buy tickets for LSU even if I could but I'll probably watch all the games
Posted on 9/17/20 at 10:31 am to BearBait09
"32 posts in 5 years? i'd respect your opinion if you were willing to make it on your primary account."
Sometimes it is better to just read to find how fricked up some of you frickers are
Posted on 9/17/20 at 11:35 am to TrendingRight
Probably as much to do with age but I am not as interested as I used to be. I got pretty excited about having games to watch last weekend but after flipping between them for about an hour I was bored and went out to the shop and tinkered around all day. Just not interested.
I will watch UGA but I am not as invested as I was even 5 years ago. When Tua ripped our heart out and stomped on it with a hobnailed boot I didn't even react....other than to say "thats that....great season". My wife and son were astonished....they have seen me lose my mind when we were playing Middle Tennessee State or someone similar and they scored or something. I get the feeling I am not alone in this. I think the playoffs and the rendering of bowl season as obviously irrelevant instead of just irrelevant is going to make it that much worse. Ticket sells have dropped across the country with of course the exception of programs who may be contenders. I think the political issues being introduced will drive even more people away. When you think about it football is about the lone survivor of things that haven't changed significantly since the old days that is able to attract folks. Considering most kids can't be beaten and forced out of the house and it has been that way for some time now its amazing there is as much interest as there is....
I will watch UGA but I am not as invested as I was even 5 years ago. When Tua ripped our heart out and stomped on it with a hobnailed boot I didn't even react....other than to say "thats that....great season". My wife and son were astonished....they have seen me lose my mind when we were playing Middle Tennessee State or someone similar and they scored or something. I get the feeling I am not alone in this. I think the playoffs and the rendering of bowl season as obviously irrelevant instead of just irrelevant is going to make it that much worse. Ticket sells have dropped across the country with of course the exception of programs who may be contenders. I think the political issues being introduced will drive even more people away. When you think about it football is about the lone survivor of things that haven't changed significantly since the old days that is able to attract folks. Considering most kids can't be beaten and forced out of the house and it has been that way for some time now its amazing there is as much interest as there is....
Posted on 9/17/20 at 11:59 am to Craig86
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Isn’t it funny how you can always tell how old somebody is as soon as they start throwing around words like Karl Marx and Marxism and socialism and communism as if all of these things are somehow the exact same thing. As someone who loves history, some of these people really need to educate themselves. Just because some tyrannical governments called them selves socialist or communist or follow the tenants of Karl Marx does not mean it’s some big scary boogy man. I think most of these people are more than likely religious and I think that they feel like if religion goes away then somehow it takes away from their beliefs and their comfort in the afterlife and I feel like they feel that, it’s being infringed upon.
For someone that enjoys history as well can you show me a socialist country that has been extremely successful?
No, Marx's theories weren't inherently evil at face value. It is the way most every government that has followed his tenants have employed them. It creates an opportunity for a lunatic like Stalin to have absolute power under the guise of "socialism".
I can't think of a country that is full blown socialist that hasn't either mutated into a dictatorship or just flat out bankrupted the country.
And don't bring Nordic/European countries into the discussion as they aren't full blown socialist and actually practice capitalism with some social policies. We also do these things we are just a tad more conservative at the moment than the Nordic countries.
I think you are off base on connecting this to religion. That may play a small part but I believe the larger reason for the issues is that pure socialism just doesn't work period. People see states run like California and it rightly worries them.
Posted on 9/17/20 at 12:07 pm to OleManDixon
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I think most of these people are more than likely religious and I think that they feel like if religion goes away then somehow it takes away from their beliefs and their comfort in the afterlife and I feel like they feel that, it’s being infringed upon.
So you’re saying people feel like if their religion is taken away it takes away from their beliefs and they feel like their beliefs are being infringed upon? Astute observation. Astute. I remember when my bike was stolen as a kid. It felt like it somehow took away from my bicycle riding. I’d go so far as to say it felt like my bicycle riding was infringed upon. Little did I know I was just an ignorant old man before my time.
A bike is a material possession...faith is possessed in the heart and the mind of the faithful. That can not be taken away or infringed upon in any manner. Expressing that faith can but it can not be removed from the heart and mind of the faithful.
History is replete with examples of attempts to strip people of their faith and many people whose faith was wonting have seen their faith destroyed....but may never succomb to it and many find their faith strengthened by it. This is why I, and many people like me I would bet, suspect the faith of someone who would suggest that their God can be banned from a public school, for example. It is not possible to beat the faith out the truly faithful. You can't prohibit a God from anything if there are people allowed because people of faith carry their god with them in their hearts and minds. They simply can not be shaken in their faith. I am certain they can experience crisis of faith but it can not be forced out of them....they may well give up on it....but that is their doing, not anyone else's. Suggesting otherwise cheapens faith to a human level, a tangible, physical possession of no more importance at the end of life than a cadilac or a gold bar, the the dead. I am an agnostic who does not believe in God (I am not arrogant and do not state I know there is no God as an atheist does only that I have no faith there is) and I find true faith about as admirable a quality in a person as anything I can imagine....but faith that is akin to a material possession and is held with facts is no longer faith, it is a truth.
Posted on 9/17/20 at 12:16 pm to TrendingRight
What's the point of this post?
You must be trying to solve the fart paradox:
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If you fart and nobody smells it, did you really fart?
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You must be trying to solve the fart paradox:
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If you fart and nobody smells it, did you really fart?
Discuss
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