Last thing you Watched/Read.

[Ray]

the World Series is actually a pretty big event.

I wonder how many regularly scheduled television programs across the country were slaughtered to make way for that abomination. How many millions of people were disappointed?

[Earl]

Just participating in the thread. I don't put down what you guys watch.

Well, he does have a point.

[Fat Man]

Well, I had hoped that I would get some responses to my last post describing a science fiction novel I had finished reading titled NOAH II by Roger Dixon.

I was up late in the night describing the story I read about a futuristic "Noah" a thousand years in the future, building 20 ships to take 10,000 people off of the earth while God punished the people left behind with a long drought.

My recent post is on the previous page. Please do check it out.

It is my most sincere hope that Polite24 one day grows up and learns that there is much more to life than sports.

I have never seen him talk about anything else but sports.

He reminds me of one among the masses of people living in the decadent society described in the science fiction story, NOAH II. He would fit right in with them. All they cared about was their own selfish pleasures. They did not care about knowledge or exploration. They didn't read or study anymore. They had advanced robots and machines that provided everything for them for their own comforts and selfish pleasures.

Mr. Polite24, you're just like the decadent masses of people described in the science fiction novel, NOAH II.

You really should read that novel sometime, or at least read my post describing that novel.

True, it's only a work of fiction, but it contains many truths. Many deep and profound truths.

It was written 39 years ago. The book has a 1970 copyright on it, and my copy is yellow with age.

But it is relevant to our times. Our society is becoming decadent, just like the society described in the novel. To me, it serves as a clear warning of what we are becoming.

Please, do go back to the previous page in this topic and check it out.

That's all I have to say for now.

Thank you and may God bless.

[Polite24]

I do realize there's much more to life than sports. However, sports have been my biggest interest and passion ever since I was a little kid. As I've gotten older, I've realized that the world isn't as nice and pleasant as it seems growing up. To not think about stuff like that I focus my attention on something much less serious and that I enjoy, sports. Movies and music as well.

[Earl]

I have no problem with that. I have no problem with people liking sports (within reason). You have sports; and I have Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and MST3K (among other diversions). Who wants to be depressed all the time by bad news of whatever sort?

[Fat Man]

I do realize there's much more to life than sports. However, sports have been my biggest interest and passion ever since I was a little kid. As I've gotten older, I've realized that the world isn't as nice and pleasant as it seems growing up. To not think about stuff like that I focus my attention on something much less serious and that I enjoy, sports. Movies and music as well.

Well, as for me, the world was never very nice and pleasant when I was a kid. In fact, I lived in a violent and hostile environment just simply because sports was not my passion when I was a little kid. I was into "sissy stuff" like books, science, and art. Those were my passions. And I suffered because of it.

Now then, I have noticed that you never mention any movie or book titles.

It's always, the last thing you watched was sports, sports, sports, sports, and more sports.

I seriously doubt that you can watch a movie with a complex plot in it. You probably would not understand it.

Sports is simple.

Football. The object of the game is to score a touchdown, getting the ball to the opposite end of the field.

Baseball. The object of the game is to hit a ball with a wooden stick (a bat) and send it flying far enough so you will have enough time to run around all 4 bases making a home run.

Hockey. The object of the game is to hit a hard round puck across the ice to your field goal.

Basketball. The object of the game is to get a round ball into a basket and score 2 points for your team.

Like, whoopee! Big fucking hairy deal!!!

And every game is alike. The only thing that changes from one game to the next is the names of the teams, the color of the uniforms, and the name of the city where the game is being played, and the scores at the end of the game.

All I have to do is watch one single football game, or baseball game, or hockey game, or basketball game from start to finish, and I will have seen every game that has ever been played in the past, and every game that will be ever played in the future. It is all so predictable! Like, ho hum! Boring!!!

The games all look alike to me.

If you have seen one, you have seen them all.

Just once, I would like to see a football game played on AstroTurf that is shocking pink instead of green, or basketball played with a bright red ball instead of light brown, or they can change the color of the balls and the playing fields with every game so the games won't all look so much alike.

No, fuck that! I still won't watch them.

I also seriously doubt that you have gone back to the previous page in this topic and read my post about the science fiction novel NOAH II, which depicts life about a thousand years in the future.

When ever I read a story, I sometimes come across a character in the story that reminds me of myself at some stage in life. In this story, Preston as a young boy reminded me of myself when I was a kid. I was different from the other kids and was teased because of it, and young Preston was teased by the other kids because he was different. He was the only kid in his community who cared about what was in the ancient text books. He was the only kid who liked to read books while all the other kids just played stupid games. That was all almost everybody else ever cared about, just playing stupid games, or doing nothing at all, while the machines provided for their every need, comfort, and pleasure.

The machines brought Preston ancient books, because Preston had requested them, and the machines were programmed to provide for his every pleasure, and since reading the ancient text books was his pleasure, the machines provided that pleasure to him, which would eventually prove to be to their own detriment, because Preston would learn how people use to build, how people use to study and explore, how men and women use to get married and raise their own children, and how the children were not taken away from them by machines to be raised by machines, and mostly, that people use to think for themselves! The ancient knowledge had been lost, because people had let self-maintaining machines do all their thinking for them. The machines were both, servant to the people AND masters over the people.

Then 30 years later, Preston as an adult had a wife named Sarah and three sons, Jem, Ham, and Jacy, and Preston and his followers build a stockade where 10,000 people would take refuge for safety in preparations for a coming planet-wide drought.

And when the world wide drought came, and began destroying the planet, and food was in short supply, the power quit, the machines quit when their batteries could no longer be recharged, and people began to panic, and kill each other off for ever-dwindling resources, and they were so stupid they could only fashion crude spears and knives for weapons from scraps of metal, and they organized crude make-shift Armies and used primitive wagons to haul their supplies. Only their self appointed "General" was barely smart enough to break a horse for his own personal use while everybody else had to walk.

But in the stockade, people would learn how to raise farm animals again, how to grow crops again, how to become parents and raise their own children again, and how to maintain and repair machines, and how to think again because their machines didn't think. They were just machines.

Now, I love my computer. It is my servant. But if a day ever comes when my computer is able to tell me what to do, or what not to do, then I will pull the plug on it!

Yes, my computer is much faster than my brain. It can do a lot of complex calculations much faster than I ever could. But it does not think, and can not think. I'm the master, and my computer is my slave, and that is how it should be. Machines are made to serve us. We are not made to serve machines, other than maintaining them and repairing them. The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the squeaky wheel does not issue commands to me. So, fuck that!!!

No, I'm sorry Mr Polite24 but I still maintain that you are like one of the many people in the decadent societies as depicted in the story NOAH II.

We all remember back when sports rox1234 use to be an obnoxious Sports Bore, but even back then, when I posted my topic titled Awesome And Humbling depicting how small the Earth is compared to the sun and the other planets, and how small our sun is compared to other distant stars, even back then, he thought my post was really cool, even though he didn't like me at the time. He still respected the topic I had posted, and thought it was cool.

Then eventually sports rox1234 became a Reformed Sportsman and no longer had the ranking of Sports Bore.

Yes, my dear Mr Polite24 you were never as rude and obnoxious as he once was, and is no more, but you still carry the title of Sports Bore and you're still dressed in pink.

In the meantime, please do check out my topic Awesome And Humbling! at:
http://www.sportssuck.org/phpbb2/viewto ... ?f=7&t=881

I would like your opinion of my topic.

And I would also welcome your opinion of my book review on NOAH II on the previous page of this topic.

Please prove to me that I'm wrong about you, that you are not as shallow-minded as one of the many people in the communities depicted in NOAH II. Prove to me that you are not as shallow-minded as I believe you to be. I challenge you to prove me wrong.

I admire Preston, the futuristic "Noah" in the science fiction novel. Although he was a leader on a divine mission, he was not a rigid authoritarian. He was always ready to forgive mistakes, and when one of his own sons, Jem, and his followers mutinied against Preston, he was able to convince the mutineers to lay down their weapons, and willing to allow Jem and his followers to break away from the mission to settle on their own planet. He allowed them to make their own choice and to live with the consequences of their choice. Preston and his loyal followers, a mere 200 out of 10,000 continued on with their mission, and they would never know what happened to Jem and his 10,000 followers, and how they all died as as result of the consequences of their choice.

So, please, please, please, Mr Polit24, I would like your opinion on my book review, and on my topic titled Awesome And Humbling.

Thank you.

[Fat Man]

Well, I could see that Mr Polite24 was at these forums today, but still no response to my book review on NOAH II.

I guess he just doesn't give a fuck about anything else but sports.

When God was passing out the brains, Polite24 thought they said trains and he missed his!

[Ray]

Detroit Tigers baseball, followed by a Detroit Red Wings game

Ho hum! Boring!

Don't you ever watch anything else besides sports?

That is soooooooooo retarded!!!

Yeah --he is one narrow-minded, one-dimensional type personality, eh? No wonder he's defending sports so hard --it's the ONLY thing he knows!

[Sergey]

I have read "Tales of Heresy" and "Eisenhorn"

[Polite24]

Fat Man I'm going to get to your post

[Fat Man]

Fat Man I'm going to get to your post

THANK YOU!!!

[Fat Man]

I'm still waiting!!!

[Fat Man]

Still waiting!

[Fat Man]

Hey Mr Polite24, I'm still waiting!!!

[Fat Man]

Hey Mr. Polite24!!!



STILL WAITING! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

STILL WAITING! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

STILL WAITING! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Ya really don't wanna get my bunny all pissed off at ya!

He'll beat you over your head with his big drum sticks!!!