greencom wrote:Hi Gang,
Personally I don't give a rat's ass if I or anyone on this forum offends, insults or otherwise puts down jocks or sports fans no matter how nice or civilized they seem, they all have a similar mind set. I will show them the same amount of courtesy they show toward others not of their ilk..zilch! It's like saying "he's really not to bad for a NAZI". Go get em Fatman, you've got good reason.
Greencom
Thank you very much Greencom.
Yeah. Both Andy and Tony may be very polite, and probably were never bullies. But they both came in here with an authoritarian attitude presuming to be forum moderators. It's like, who died and made them God?
Now, only Skul or Earl have a right to issue warnings to any of us if we get too far out of line, because they are, after all, the board moderators.
But if either Andy or Tony don't like my posting style, then well . . . if they don't like it, they can lump it, and take it on down the road and dump it!
You right! We don't have to be polite to Nazis. I don't care how polite they are. Usually when Fascists sound all nice and polite, it's because they are smooth talking scum!
Oh I'm quite sure some of the Nazis officers at Auschwitz sounded very nice and polite when saying to some of the newly arrived prisoners "welcome ladies and gentlemen, please follow me this way" as they were being led to the death chambers.
Yeah! I admit it! I'm prejudice! I'm prejudice against jocks. When it comes to jocks, and sports fans, I'm a bigot! I'm worse than Archie Bunker when it comes to jocks and sports fans.
It's because most people in sports are of the more authoritarian mindset.
Games like football, or basketball, or hockey, etc. etc. have rigid rules to follow in order to win the game. There is no room for free thought or creativity in sports.
Oh, I'm sure Andy will do well in his nursing career. One can be authoritarian and still be a good nurse or a doctor.
But when I was in school, my main interest was in Astronomy, and anyone with an authoritarian mindset would not make a very good astronomer. If one reads up on the history of Astronomy, you'll read how scientists like Galileo had to go up against the established authorities of their times.
Astronomy has done far more to knock us off our central pedestal and put us in a more humble position. It has shown us we are not the center on the universe, that in the cosmic scheme of things, we are nothing.
In an educational setting, the sciences can only exist where academic and intellectual freedom are encouraged, and art can only exist where creativity is encouraged. But both run counter to what is required in sports.
Therefore, academics and athletics can not coexist together in the same institutional setting, because sports is authoritarian and dose all it can to discourage free thought.
Of course, jocks are free to disregard the laws of the land and they can have their way with our sisters and daughters with impunity.
There is no freedom of thought, so jocks don't think with the big head, but only with the little head!
Therfore, I believe that having both academics and athletics in the same institutional setting is a contradiction.
Earl wrote:Fat Man, your heartfelt reaction to the You Tube videos is commendable. You identify with these poor children because of your own teenage trauma.
But you are not being rational. There is absolutely no connection between sports and the abuse of children in such institutions. These children have not been abused because of sports. They were not put there because they were lousy at sports. This man does not go around saying that heâ??s going to teach them the beauty of sports. Sports donâ??t even come into it. These children were put there because they have problems, and this man is an evil man. These children are not abused because theyâ??re in a liberal state like Massachusetts. Theyâ??re not abused because the man has a Jewish name. Theyâ??re not abused because theyâ??re in a northern state thatâ??s not as friendly as some of the other states in the Union. These children are abused because this man is evil, pure and simple; and he needs to be strung up. He has chosen to do evil, and he is the one responsible for the abuse of these children. Sports has nothing to do with it.
I count you as a friend. For that reason Iâ??m very concerned about your well-being. This rage you have is eating you alive. By becoming hysterically enraged, you are not helping anyone. In fact, youâ??re butting your head against a brick wall. You will only hurt yourself in the long run by doing this. You should send an e-mail to Amnesty International or some other organization that would be expected to be sympathetic to the plight of these children, but you must be calm and factual in your presentation. Profanity and violent images will not be effective.
Would you please read my topic in the Off-Topic forum entitled â??a Holocaust survivor who forgave.â? I wrote it straight from my heart, not as a self-righteous jerk who lacks empathy.
Hello Earl.
You're right. The abuse of these children in the boarding schools is not caused by sports.
But this is something that will never happen to athletes. We don torture athletes with electric shocks. We only torture the disabled with electric shocks while athletes are given all kinds of special privileges.
I'm merely pointing out how we live in a two-tiered society where the athletic elite lives at the top socially and economically while people who are physically or mentally handicapped live at the bottom both socially and economically.
I am showing how, even in our regular schools, students with physical disabilities are more severely punished for any minor indiscretion than the more able bodied students, and how athletes are not even punished at all for their behavior.
This is what is ripping me up inside.
But it is because of sports that I was suspended from school when I was in the 4th grade, and that was because I failed to climb a rope in a gymnasium. The principle of the school gave me one of two choices, (1) to either have my mother pick me up and take me home, or (2) be locked up in a closet over-night and having the authorities come in the morning to take me to the juvenile detention facility in Red Wing Minnesota.
So, yeah, I could have ended up in a kind of boarding school because of sports, the juvenile detention home in Red Wing.
When I was 13 years old, I scored 150 points on a standard IQ test, and I was treated like trash.
Yet, these monkey-boys who's collective IQs are far exceeded by their shoe sizes get all kinds of special privileges and get paid millions of dollars just for chasing balls.
In the USA, sports is held in much higher esteem than science.
If a cure for cancer or diabetes is ever found, it won't be here in the USA, it will be in some other country overseas. Here in the USA, in our high schools, they only teach how to fold paper footballs.
Yeah, in the good ol' USA, Galileo is still under house arrest and Bruno Giordano is still burning at the stake!
No, not in physical actuality since both died in the 1600s, but rather, in the collective mentality of the USA.
all names are racial in a way, if u take the time to think about it. in fact, u r the racist one, believing that your name somehow deserves respect whereas no others do.