And the definition of Severed Conscience. Why be witness to degeneracy that we already have identified for quite some time? The reaction is just another rabbit hole that consumes energy and cancels your own volition.
People ask why I don't cover all the issue like everyone else, but then what distinguishes what I say from everyone else. It's a waste of energy, like stating BREAKING: The grass is green!
This is true in a free market, but the Olympics is funded by force (taxes) and forced onto the world. Pulling your attention away is rather like burying your head in the sand. An alternative is to remain detached, while fully participating in society. There is no reason why everyone shouldn't adopt the progressive tactic of highlighting the offence and calling for specific individuals involved to resign in disgrace, sending a clear message to all cultural vandals in a language they understand (self interest).
The whole point of being detached, aloof and centred in oneself is that it allows one to participate fully and be totally engaged without 'caring' per se.
In many ways the woke mob appear to be more aloof and detached ('playful' if you will) than conservatives and traditionalists who tend to take everything so seriously they have to retreat from mainstream society to not be hurt by it.
We seem to have reached a point where it's all a game and I agree that NON participation on their terms is often the only way to win (eg voting, political activism etc).... but non participation also leaves every institution in society wide open to be run by the radicals - which is the current situation.
A third option would be to participate fully, but our own terms, thus redefining the rules of the game. The whole 'mind my own business' mentality assumes a society which respects your boundaries and privacy ... but this is not the world we currently live in :)
There are those who cannot help but impose their ideologies onto others - and their challenge is to be able to keep their obsessions to themselves and respect other people's boundaries.
And then there are those who just want to be left alone - and maybe their challenge is to get involved and actively participate in society, even though they'd rather go fishing.
I was just talking with someone else about this: about whether it is possible to become so detached/aloof/centered that one can continue to participate without being damaged by it. This, it seems to me at first blush, raises three questions:
1. Is it REALLY possible?
Like, I am sure one could get much of the way there. But I suspect it may not be completely possible to be "in it, but not of it."
2. Is it possible at this point to impact it?
The argument that we must stay engage and fight back is common enough. And I believed it myself at one point. But I am not convinced that it is possible to rescue, reform, or "take back" any of these institutions. And even if we could, it would only be partial and very temporary. Because the other side would keep fighting over them to.
3. Would we even want to?
Is that what we want—to be constantly fighting over who gets to control large-scale institutions? To be locked in a forever-fight over who gets to impose their vision on everyone? I think that might be a big mistake we, as a species, are continually making.
Might it not be better, ON THE MERITS, to opt-out and build new things?
I agree with you on #3 and large institutions - I can't function in that environment, it was so difficult for me in corporate business to participate in what I felt to be just a rich version of high school. I've been at Ford, GM, EDS before the HP buyout. PWC and I never lasted more than 2 years at each. I couldn't friggn' take it.
I have a saying: Favor ability over pedigree. Every. Single. Time.
Think of “you vote with your attention” in this fashion: You’re QB and I am you wide receiver, and yes you are being rushed and bodies are piling up around but if you take your focus from me, you won’t be able to make the pass, I won’t be able to score. Yes, you are aware peripherally that 350 lbs is closing in to crush you, but the greater goal is to keep me in sight and get me the ball.
But I agree with you that we shouldn’t bury our heads in the sand, but for me I decided years ago when I saw all the creepy imagery in the ceremonies that meant bad things were coming. But there are events that we should devote our attention to that if we let slide, we will never have the chance to stop the tax funding, we may not be able to express the outrage publicly.
Build our position of strength first, then come back and sweep away the garbage - my awkward way of prioritizing based on time, energy and resources. I see people getting outraged not yet not concentrating on the changes that are needed as well. So there is a balance that has to be struck like you say.
"Build our position of strength first, then come back and sweep away the garbage"
—Is it possible to simply leave and never come back?
Here is what I mean: As I have written before, the notion that we must create collective solutions and apply them, one-size-fits-all, to large groups of people seems to me to be a pathologized manifestation of our existence as ultra-social creatures. But this collective approach to everything strikes me as damaging. Thus, could we just leave and not try to come back and sweep up everything? I know that they probably won't let us go, but setting that aside, why couldn't we just let them have their madness if they wish it, and simply opt out ourselves?
The John Galt approach while they destroy themselves? Yes. Can we have common interests yet leave it up to ourselves how we build a position of strength for just our families - that's what I favor because I agree with you regarding collective action.
That said, and this is not a rational side of me, I want to come back and purge because they deserve it. If that means we starve them of the funds and withhold our talent, I left a start up to do that.
The question is can we get to that safe place at this stage, or is their large so long that we should stay and fight.
Where attention goes energy flows, what you focus on grows, what you resist persists.
The best part of this post is the idea that we must focus where we want to be, rather than focusing on what we do not want. When we focus on what we do not want and despise it, it is, in another word; resisting it. Resistance always pushes back and we get more of what we do not want
There is a lot of truth to that. If anything what we focus on can cloud our perception of the world, and limits us as to Who we can really be and what we can become.
Bread and Circus to distract the crowds long enough to keep turning the thumbscrews on everyone not in the know . Yes TV is a good place to disconnect first and follow the uncensored news feeds not on the msm . Big change is coming for everyone, be the grandparents telling stories when censorship used to exist not freedom used to exist.
(Grecian ), the term applied in the New Testament to Greek-speaking or "Grecian" Jews. The Hellenists as a body included not only the proselytes of Greek (or foreign) parentage, but also those. Jews who, by settling in foreign countries, had adopted the prevalent form of the current Greek civilization, and with it the use of the common Greek dialect. ( Acts 6:1 ; 9:29 )
Same here. I learned from the 2012 ceremonys these are just rituals designed to harness the collective mind to further their planned agendas. I don't feel like participating, I'm an errant highly individualized soul and I'd rather create my own reality for myself and those close to me.
After seeing the rigged election results on tv we stopped the satellite feed. Before that, for years the only thing I watched was old movies , like really old. Hubs watched a little college basketball in the dead of winter. Haven't missed it a bit. Even the commercials were constantly pushing the lefty agenda. When I go to the Dr or somewhere where there is a TV I sit where I can't see or hear it if that's possible. Most people my age (70's) have a TV on constantly. I think it's the old age version of a "binky". Yet all this subliminal stuff is permeating their brains, hour after hour, day after day.
Well said (as usual). I was with two old “Democrat” friends over the weekend and although we didn’t watch the opening ceremonies, one couldn’t help but read me “the news” on Sunday about the outrage of conservatives. It’s all about divide and conquer and it is now beyond stupid to participate in the outrage on either end. What’s sad is when friends of 40+ years are unable to see through it. C’est la vie.
Right! They don't care what side you align with, as long as you pick a side and hate the other one. The pendulum is swinging now and soon it will be Conservative Christians agains the heathen Muslims. Doesn't matter as long as you be sure to hate and fight. Race, gender, political philosophy, religion, class, there are so many sides you can pick.
Such truth in this post. Mainstream culture is broken, seemingly beyond repair. While I didn’t watch the ceremony, I did read the controversy and allow myself to become enraged and accomplished absolutely nothing of value in my life or anyone else’s.
Correct, why else make the stupidity and corruption so obvious and intrusive, they want people to be angry. Anger implies that one is losing and must fight. Wrong reality!
Yep! You shock people enough and a few of them are just likely to wake up. The awakened ones will be making an exodus from this freak show in the not too distant future.
Didn’t watch - opted out years ago of watching any sports because of the propaganda and agenda being pushed. Kappernick was the straw. Ba-bye Nike…haven’t supported them ever since and am very aware of any of those companies pushing the agenda (North Face) - just won’t buy their apparel no matter how good the sale is. Agree with this article and too many people are unwilling to make the personal sacrifice of opting out of supporting the Olympics, NFL etc etc. It is all a show to keep you sitting on your ass and distracted from living life!
Until very recently, I would have said that the one thing I could not give up is MLB/Yankees baseball. But even that may be on the chopping block soon, and I have been a fan since 1976.
It’s rigged as much as professional wrestling. Same with horse racing and dog racing. Was attempting to handicap a horse race in my socializing days at a local high end bar and the girl next to me said “I’m a horse handler. I groom and take care of race horses . Don’t waste your time it’s all rigged . Straight from the horses mouth . All the teams get a equal cut of the entertainment Leagues revenue. They all play by the script.
I heard that a couple of football players said this about the NFL. But I thought about it vis-a-vis baseball, and it seems like it would be harder to pull off. Of course you can fake injuries to key players, but executing at the plate, on the mound, and in the field is very hard, and it seems like it would be harder to rig…
My late father in law told me when it gets down to the World Series . What makes more money a cliff hanger or a sudden death win and they have to play Mr Ed reruns to fill the time slots ?
Mr. Ed LOL. Just about a week ago, I watched a couple of minutes of a Mr. Ed episode on YouTube. My wife and I had been singing the theme earlier that day, so that' what made me think of it. It was so ridiculous!
Re: The World Series……that would make sense, but haven't there been plenty of series that ended in four game sweeps?
No! That's the only TV we still watch. In our case the Cubs. I love our announcers and we skip the commercials. It means we have to start late, and sometimes my Dad who watches in real time texts me with a spoiler, but we love our baseball.
I feel you! My son and his girlfriend came home yesterday and he said, "Dad, why are we not watching the game?" And so we put it on. I don't want to give it up. But if it gets more woke than it already is, it will make it harder to keep the enthusiasm I have felt throughout my life.
I keep saying as a 55 year Chiefs fan each Fall," I will not spend another Sunday...., I will not spend another Sunday....", but gosh darn, PM makes it too compelling!
I normally see at least a portion of most of the 162 Yankees games each year. Same with this year, until a couple of weeks ago. Something kind of snapped in me, and I realized it just was not making me happy. We'll have to see how this plays out…
I'm thinking to describe the Olympics, the first word that comes to my mind is "moribund." Same for the institutions you reference above, and your guidance is spot on. How can you expect to win in a rigged contest?
Exactly! The only regret I've ever had for not following or engaging with most pop culture activities is that I can't quit in protest of something I never found worthy of my attention.
Awesome. Thank you. I didn't watch but someone at my workplace stood up and said how great it was and that only the French know how to do art right. I knew at that moment, so I am not surprised to see this. I also heard mention of a Last Supper. These people.....I don't want to see their shows anymore, knowing what I know about them and all the "dark stuff" they like to weave into everything they do. Hard pass. This was really well said. I am running off to the dentist. I'll restack it later :) Thanks for saying it so well.
The Olympics award men wearing mascara and ponytails Gold Medals for defeating women in athletic competition. Why would anybody bother watching the mockery of sport, competition and blaspheme of God?
I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that anybody is still watching the abomination known as Olympics in 2024. It's not like we didn't see the farce in 2020's version of the demonic spectacle. Giving it your eyeballs is like watching a pornographic film and then being outraged at the nudity.
Do you think Larry Nassar was Unique, Rare, a Minority or Majority? I doubt Unique. I doubt Majority. Along the spectrum of Rare<--->Minority. He just got caught.
I'm struck by social media responses. So many voices repeating the nonsense that this wasn't a parody of the Last Supper but an enactment of a Greek bacchanal ! There are Christian pastors obediently trotting out this silly argument, but lots more condescending towards stupid Christians who don't know their Greek mythology. Yet, it was obviously a parody of the Last Supper and a subversion of the Eucharist. How can anyone miss that?
I saw this as a meme about how Christianity stole these images from pagans, and they're not wrong. But even that is to miss the point. This was my response: For me, all of these entertaining events now give off Capitol vibes from the hunger games. And yes, she based those materialistic, orgiastic people on the cult of Dionysus because that's what they were into... sexual festivals that would often lead to hysteria in the attendees. See also brave new world. I'm not arguing that this post is wrong, absolutely Christianity borrowed from the past. Just suggesting that not all things pagan were pure and some shit is better left in the past. Hence the reformation, which sought to remove such imagery, leading to what some have called a dry, dead religion. I don't know. All I do know is those in the Capitol will feed the children to monsters for entertainment and I'm not interested in participating.
The allusion to the Hunger Games is entirely apropos in many ways.
One way is the way that rural areas are controlled by (elitist fops) in urban areas and capital cities. They still must produce the food, but they get little say and must be controlled and made to conform to the urban area's wishes and values.
Exactly. And those rural people are the deplorables, whose children don't matter and can be used to fulfill their own needs, whether due entertainment or labor.
Christianity 'stole ' the Last Supper from Judaism: it's a Passover Meal, a celebration going back in some form or other over a thousand years and therefore pre-dating Classical Greek paganism (and especially latecomers like Dionysus) by centuries. Of course, paganism has its sacred feasts too - it would be weird if a religion didn't spiritualise the act of communal eating. What's odd about Thomas Jolly's scene is that the god is being served up as the dinner rather than convening the feast. There's nothing like _that_ in Greek .mythology, but it is once again a distinctively Christian notion being subverted. Or perhaps some sort of comment on consumerism? Or just self-indulgence and transgression for its own sake!
"Or just self-indulgence and transgression for its own sake!"
—Even if it were only that, it is so terribly tiresome by now.
You would think even they would eventually tire of it, and want to be transgressive by trying a return to beauty and reverence for transcendent truths. But they never do.
I didn't watch it but have obviously heard just how bad it was; TBH in this case it exceeded even my low expectations.
However, I'm not surprised as I long ago realised that these people are actively working for Satan; once you accept that fact everything they do starts to make sense.
Their reward:
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
Don't know what the man meant when he said it, but I know what it means for me. I opted out of their culture a long time ago and I'm perfectly content to know that the vast majority of people live lives extremely different from mine. For instance my wife has always been a stay at home mother, 35 years married. If either me or my wife allowed the culture to dictate our lifestyle that would have never happened. I'll give her a ton of the credit because she was the one put under the most pressure to conform. But I do like to think that we were way out ahead of the game on this one, we both refused to buy into the social conditioning.
I'm not sure I really ever fit into it in the first place, so it's easy for me to say ditch your cable, cell phone etc., stay at home and raise your kids, do the home-school etc., but I'd still give that advice because it worked for me and I know it can work for others.
I actually enjoy studying Pop Culture, just not ours, if find it fascinating to see how culture changes over time and how it's influenced by everything from religion and government to the terrain/ climate they live in.
I can't stand to look into our current pop culture because I know it's not anything like an organic process but rather Top Down Social Experimentation.
It seems to me that this primarily started in the 60's, where the huge Push was to force women into the workplace regardless of how it effected their children. Then of course the whole Sexual revolution etc. came about where Hedonism was sold as a moral Value. Living a good life, no longer meant a white picket fence, it meant unlimited sexual partners, which lets face it, men generally speaking like the idea of. Variety is what men look for, they accept marriage and monogamy because it has its own benefits, but many of those benefits go away when you place women in the workforce.
And No, obviously I did not watch this garbage, but did catch the scandal second hand and honestly if you can't see that this type of garbage is an attack on our values, I don't know what to say, they are waging war even if we haven't all woken up to this fact yet, it's a war none the less.
"I'm not sure I really ever fit into it in the first place, so it's easy for me to say ditch your cable, cell phone etc., stay at home and raise your kids, do the home-school etc., but I'd still give that advice because it worked for me and I know it can work for others."
—I think at this point it is good advice for everyone, because it may actually be a requirement for basic mental health, if not survival. IOW, even the people who think they can handle it—that they can be "in it, but not of it"—probably actually cannot. The damage is being done.
I am glad to finally hear somebody say this. I think there was a trend back in the Obama years when there were people saying we should stop consuming all this progressive "art", but there were several conservative opinion writers that were all, "No, we have to engage in all this crap so we can eventually change the culture! If we don't consume their garbage, it will make us all look like a bunch of fuddy-duddy rubes!" We can see how well that has worked out.
And the definition of Severed Conscience. Why be witness to degeneracy that we already have identified for quite some time? The reaction is just another rabbit hole that consumes energy and cancels your own volition.
We vote with our attention.
Well said!!
People ask why I don't cover all the issue like everyone else, but then what distinguishes what I say from everyone else. It's a waste of energy, like stating BREAKING: The grass is green!
Yes! Why rehash the same old same old? It's just gonna be the same old thing.
"We vote with our attention."
This is true in a free market, but the Olympics is funded by force (taxes) and forced onto the world. Pulling your attention away is rather like burying your head in the sand. An alternative is to remain detached, while fully participating in society. There is no reason why everyone shouldn't adopt the progressive tactic of highlighting the offence and calling for specific individuals involved to resign in disgrace, sending a clear message to all cultural vandals in a language they understand (self interest).
The whole point of being detached, aloof and centred in oneself is that it allows one to participate fully and be totally engaged without 'caring' per se.
In many ways the woke mob appear to be more aloof and detached ('playful' if you will) than conservatives and traditionalists who tend to take everything so seriously they have to retreat from mainstream society to not be hurt by it.
We seem to have reached a point where it's all a game and I agree that NON participation on their terms is often the only way to win (eg voting, political activism etc).... but non participation also leaves every institution in society wide open to be run by the radicals - which is the current situation.
A third option would be to participate fully, but our own terms, thus redefining the rules of the game. The whole 'mind my own business' mentality assumes a society which respects your boundaries and privacy ... but this is not the world we currently live in :)
There are those who cannot help but impose their ideologies onto others - and their challenge is to be able to keep their obsessions to themselves and respect other people's boundaries.
And then there are those who just want to be left alone - and maybe their challenge is to get involved and actively participate in society, even though they'd rather go fishing.
I dunno... just thinking out loud really ... :)
I was just talking with someone else about this: about whether it is possible to become so detached/aloof/centered that one can continue to participate without being damaged by it. This, it seems to me at first blush, raises three questions:
1. Is it REALLY possible?
Like, I am sure one could get much of the way there. But I suspect it may not be completely possible to be "in it, but not of it."
2. Is it possible at this point to impact it?
The argument that we must stay engage and fight back is common enough. And I believed it myself at one point. But I am not convinced that it is possible to rescue, reform, or "take back" any of these institutions. And even if we could, it would only be partial and very temporary. Because the other side would keep fighting over them to.
3. Would we even want to?
Is that what we want—to be constantly fighting over who gets to control large-scale institutions? To be locked in a forever-fight over who gets to impose their vision on everyone? I think that might be a big mistake we, as a species, are continually making.
Might it not be better, ON THE MERITS, to opt-out and build new things?
(sorry for the all-caps—no ital. in comments) :-)
I have thoughts, but I will let the Mighty Humanzee reply first, since your reply was to him. Glad you're here!!
I agree with you on #3 and large institutions - I can't function in that environment, it was so difficult for me in corporate business to participate in what I felt to be just a rich version of high school. I've been at Ford, GM, EDS before the HP buyout. PWC and I never lasted more than 2 years at each. I couldn't friggn' take it.
I have a saying: Favor ability over pedigree. Every. Single. Time.
Institutions many times can't foster that.
Yeah, I do not think I could deal with that environment either. I hope I never have to try to find out!
Those are all good thoughts.
Think of “you vote with your attention” in this fashion: You’re QB and I am you wide receiver, and yes you are being rushed and bodies are piling up around but if you take your focus from me, you won’t be able to make the pass, I won’t be able to score. Yes, you are aware peripherally that 350 lbs is closing in to crush you, but the greater goal is to keep me in sight and get me the ball.
But I agree with you that we shouldn’t bury our heads in the sand, but for me I decided years ago when I saw all the creepy imagery in the ceremonies that meant bad things were coming. But there are events that we should devote our attention to that if we let slide, we will never have the chance to stop the tax funding, we may not be able to express the outrage publicly.
Build our position of strength first, then come back and sweep away the garbage - my awkward way of prioritizing based on time, energy and resources. I see people getting outraged not yet not concentrating on the changes that are needed as well. So there is a balance that has to be struck like you say.
"Build our position of strength first, then come back and sweep away the garbage"
—Is it possible to simply leave and never come back?
Here is what I mean: As I have written before, the notion that we must create collective solutions and apply them, one-size-fits-all, to large groups of people seems to me to be a pathologized manifestation of our existence as ultra-social creatures. But this collective approach to everything strikes me as damaging. Thus, could we just leave and not try to come back and sweep up everything? I know that they probably won't let us go, but setting that aside, why couldn't we just let them have their madness if they wish it, and simply opt out ourselves?
The John Galt approach while they destroy themselves? Yes. Can we have common interests yet leave it up to ourselves how we build a position of strength for just our families - that's what I favor because I agree with you regarding collective action.
That said, and this is not a rational side of me, I want to come back and purge because they deserve it. If that means we starve them of the funds and withhold our talent, I left a start up to do that.
The question is can we get to that safe place at this stage, or is their large so long that we should stay and fight.
Just thinking out loud.
Yep. I don't have any for-sure answer either. Starving them of our presence seems to me to be the way to go.
And yes, they deserve to be purged for what they have done. But I would be content to extend amnesty IF they just Let. Us. Go.
Where attention goes energy flows, what you focus on grows, what you resist persists.
The best part of this post is the idea that we must focus where we want to be, rather than focusing on what we do not want. When we focus on what we do not want and despise it, it is, in another word; resisting it. Resistance always pushes back and we get more of what we do not want
Yes indeed. This has been becoming clearer to me by the day.
YES, sister, YES!!!
You got it Girl!!!
My husband once said to me "you become what you meditate on". I took that to heart and it is how I live my life and check myself when necessary.
There is a lot of truth to that. If anything what we focus on can cloud our perception of the world, and limits us as to Who we can really be and what we can become.
Amen!!
I did not watch. Seeing the clips on X was more than enough.
Me too! I glanced at the photo once and was done with the Olympics altogether. I feel sorry for the athletes, but the Olympics has gone to hell.
Bread and Circus to distract the crowds long enough to keep turning the thumbscrews on everyone not in the know . Yes TV is a good place to disconnect first and follow the uncensored news feeds not on the msm . Big change is coming for everyone, be the grandparents telling stories when censorship used to exist not freedom used to exist.
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Same here. I learned from the 2012 ceremonys these are just rituals designed to harness the collective mind to further their planned agendas. I don't feel like participating, I'm an errant highly individualized soul and I'd rather create my own reality for myself and those close to me.
I was going to watch it, but by sheer coincidence, I got distracted and did something else. Nuclear warheads were dodged.
After seeing the rigged election results on tv we stopped the satellite feed. Before that, for years the only thing I watched was old movies , like really old. Hubs watched a little college basketball in the dead of winter. Haven't missed it a bit. Even the commercials were constantly pushing the lefty agenda. When I go to the Dr or somewhere where there is a TV I sit where I can't see or hear it if that's possible. Most people my age (70's) have a TV on constantly. I think it's the old age version of a "binky". Yet all this subliminal stuff is permeating their brains, hour after hour, day after day.
💯 on all of that!
Well said (as usual). I was with two old “Democrat” friends over the weekend and although we didn’t watch the opening ceremonies, one couldn’t help but read me “the news” on Sunday about the outrage of conservatives. It’s all about divide and conquer and it is now beyond stupid to participate in the outrage on either end. What’s sad is when friends of 40+ years are unable to see through it. C’est la vie.
Thanks, and yep!
I mean, I still do make distinctions between actual ideological and philosophical idea-sets. But the day-to-day partisan battle is just a distraction.
Right! They don't care what side you align with, as long as you pick a side and hate the other one. The pendulum is swinging now and soon it will be Conservative Christians agains the heathen Muslims. Doesn't matter as long as you be sure to hate and fight. Race, gender, political philosophy, religion, class, there are so many sides you can pick.
Such truth in this post. Mainstream culture is broken, seemingly beyond repair. While I didn’t watch the ceremony, I did read the controversy and allow myself to become enraged and accomplished absolutely nothing of value in my life or anyone else’s.
Yes! I caught myself before becoming enraged, and remembered what my late friend Sam always used to say: "What do you expect from a dog but a bark?"
Correct, why else make the stupidity and corruption so obvious and intrusive, they want people to be angry. Anger implies that one is losing and must fight. Wrong reality!
The good news is that with each new horror show the collectivists/totalitarians release a new wave of escapees is created.
Yep! You shock people enough and a few of them are just likely to wake up. The awakened ones will be making an exodus from this freak show in the not too distant future.
💯🔥
Didn’t watch - opted out years ago of watching any sports because of the propaganda and agenda being pushed. Kappernick was the straw. Ba-bye Nike…haven’t supported them ever since and am very aware of any of those companies pushing the agenda (North Face) - just won’t buy their apparel no matter how good the sale is. Agree with this article and too many people are unwilling to make the personal sacrifice of opting out of supporting the Olympics, NFL etc etc. It is all a show to keep you sitting on your ass and distracted from living life!
Until very recently, I would have said that the one thing I could not give up is MLB/Yankees baseball. But even that may be on the chopping block soon, and I have been a fan since 1976.
It’s rigged as much as professional wrestling. Same with horse racing and dog racing. Was attempting to handicap a horse race in my socializing days at a local high end bar and the girl next to me said “I’m a horse handler. I groom and take care of race horses . Don’t waste your time it’s all rigged . Straight from the horses mouth . All the teams get a equal cut of the entertainment Leagues revenue. They all play by the script.
I heard that a couple of football players said this about the NFL. But I thought about it vis-a-vis baseball, and it seems like it would be harder to pull off. Of course you can fake injuries to key players, but executing at the plate, on the mound, and in the field is very hard, and it seems like it would be harder to rig…
My late father in law told me when it gets down to the World Series . What makes more money a cliff hanger or a sudden death win and they have to play Mr Ed reruns to fill the time slots ?
Mr. Ed LOL. Just about a week ago, I watched a couple of minutes of a Mr. Ed episode on YouTube. My wife and I had been singing the theme earlier that day, so that' what made me think of it. It was so ridiculous!
Re: The World Series……that would make sense, but haven't there been plenty of series that ended in four game sweeps?
I’m sports illiterate, so , he told me that in the 1980s , it might have changed
No! That's the only TV we still watch. In our case the Cubs. I love our announcers and we skip the commercials. It means we have to start late, and sometimes my Dad who watches in real time texts me with a spoiler, but we love our baseball.
I feel you! My son and his girlfriend came home yesterday and he said, "Dad, why are we not watching the game?" And so we put it on. I don't want to give it up. But if it gets more woke than it already is, it will make it harder to keep the enthusiasm I have felt throughout my life.
I keep saying as a 55 year Chiefs fan each Fall," I will not spend another Sunday...., I will not spend another Sunday....", but gosh darn, PM makes it too compelling!
I hear you!
I normally see at least a portion of most of the 162 Yankees games each year. Same with this year, until a couple of weeks ago. Something kind of snapped in me, and I realized it just was not making me happy. We'll have to see how this plays out…
I'm thinking to describe the Olympics, the first word that comes to my mind is "moribund." Same for the institutions you reference above, and your guidance is spot on. How can you expect to win in a rigged contest?
"How can you expect to win in a rigged contest?"
—well said. And so why play?
Exactly! The only regret I've ever had for not following or engaging with most pop culture activities is that I can't quit in protest of something I never found worthy of my attention.
So much the better, though. Now your mind is not even polluted with the knowledge of whatever it was!
Awesome. Thank you. I didn't watch but someone at my workplace stood up and said how great it was and that only the French know how to do art right. I knew at that moment, so I am not surprised to see this. I also heard mention of a Last Supper. These people.....I don't want to see their shows anymore, knowing what I know about them and all the "dark stuff" they like to weave into everything they do. Hard pass. This was really well said. I am running off to the dentist. I'll restack it later :) Thanks for saying it so well.
Thank you, and good luck at the dentist!
And yeah, I am giving more and more a pass myself. And caring less and less that I am "missing out" on something.
The Olympics award men wearing mascara and ponytails Gold Medals for defeating women in athletic competition. Why would anybody bother watching the mockery of sport, competition and blaspheme of God?
I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that anybody is still watching the abomination known as Olympics in 2024. It's not like we didn't see the farce in 2020's version of the demonic spectacle. Giving it your eyeballs is like watching a pornographic film and then being outraged at the nudity.
I'm shocked—SHOCKED—that there is wokery transpiring!
The porn actress who complained that Ron Jeremy abused her...then recanted so she'd be cast in the next porn film produced by his company.
https://www.scmp.com/sport/boxing/article/3273055/paris-olympics-italian-boxer-offers-apology-imane-khelif-after-trans-controversy
Khelif was that actress?
Metaphorical porn, actress and analogy.
Ah.
Ron Jeremy was a total sleaze.
Who's more of a total sleaze, Ron Jeremy or Larry Nassar? On the scale of total sleazeballs?
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/20/nx-s1-5042289/years-after-the-larry-nassar-scandal-are-olympic-athletes-safe-from-abuse
Do you think Larry Nassar was Unique, Rare, a Minority or Majority? I doubt Unique. I doubt Majority. Along the spectrum of Rare<--->Minority. He just got caught.
US/International Olympics Committee = Ron Jeremy. Total sleazes.
I'm struck by social media responses. So many voices repeating the nonsense that this wasn't a parody of the Last Supper but an enactment of a Greek bacchanal ! There are Christian pastors obediently trotting out this silly argument, but lots more condescending towards stupid Christians who don't know their Greek mythology. Yet, it was obviously a parody of the Last Supper and a subversion of the Eucharist. How can anyone miss that?
Because they want to miss it?
I saw this as a meme about how Christianity stole these images from pagans, and they're not wrong. But even that is to miss the point. This was my response: For me, all of these entertaining events now give off Capitol vibes from the hunger games. And yes, she based those materialistic, orgiastic people on the cult of Dionysus because that's what they were into... sexual festivals that would often lead to hysteria in the attendees. See also brave new world. I'm not arguing that this post is wrong, absolutely Christianity borrowed from the past. Just suggesting that not all things pagan were pure and some shit is better left in the past. Hence the reformation, which sought to remove such imagery, leading to what some have called a dry, dead religion. I don't know. All I do know is those in the Capitol will feed the children to monsters for entertainment and I'm not interested in participating.
The allusion to the Hunger Games is entirely apropos in many ways.
One way is the way that rural areas are controlled by (elitist fops) in urban areas and capital cities. They still must produce the food, but they get little say and must be controlled and made to conform to the urban area's wishes and values.
Exactly. And those rural people are the deplorables, whose children don't matter and can be used to fulfill their own needs, whether due entertainment or labor.
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Christianity 'stole ' the Last Supper from Judaism: it's a Passover Meal, a celebration going back in some form or other over a thousand years and therefore pre-dating Classical Greek paganism (and especially latecomers like Dionysus) by centuries. Of course, paganism has its sacred feasts too - it would be weird if a religion didn't spiritualise the act of communal eating. What's odd about Thomas Jolly's scene is that the god is being served up as the dinner rather than convening the feast. There's nothing like _that_ in Greek .mythology, but it is once again a distinctively Christian notion being subverted. Or perhaps some sort of comment on consumerism? Or just self-indulgence and transgression for its own sake!
"Or just self-indulgence and transgression for its own sake!"
—Even if it were only that, it is so terribly tiresome by now.
You would think even they would eventually tire of it, and want to be transgressive by trying a return to beauty and reverence for transcendent truths. But they never do.
We thought the Paris Olympics opening ceremony was absolutely marvellous. A sterling tribute to horror, decay and child molesters.
Nice </sarc>!
I didn't watch it but have obviously heard just how bad it was; TBH in this case it exceeded even my low expectations.
However, I'm not surprised as I long ago realised that these people are actively working for Satan; once you accept that fact everything they do starts to make sense.
Their reward:
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
"TBH in this case it exceeded even my low expectations."
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Every time you think they've found the basement, they dig a hole in said basement.
A life well lived is the best revenge.
Don't know what the man meant when he said it, but I know what it means for me. I opted out of their culture a long time ago and I'm perfectly content to know that the vast majority of people live lives extremely different from mine. For instance my wife has always been a stay at home mother, 35 years married. If either me or my wife allowed the culture to dictate our lifestyle that would have never happened. I'll give her a ton of the credit because she was the one put under the most pressure to conform. But I do like to think that we were way out ahead of the game on this one, we both refused to buy into the social conditioning.
I'm not sure I really ever fit into it in the first place, so it's easy for me to say ditch your cable, cell phone etc., stay at home and raise your kids, do the home-school etc., but I'd still give that advice because it worked for me and I know it can work for others.
I actually enjoy studying Pop Culture, just not ours, if find it fascinating to see how culture changes over time and how it's influenced by everything from religion and government to the terrain/ climate they live in.
I can't stand to look into our current pop culture because I know it's not anything like an organic process but rather Top Down Social Experimentation.
It seems to me that this primarily started in the 60's, where the huge Push was to force women into the workplace regardless of how it effected their children. Then of course the whole Sexual revolution etc. came about where Hedonism was sold as a moral Value. Living a good life, no longer meant a white picket fence, it meant unlimited sexual partners, which lets face it, men generally speaking like the idea of. Variety is what men look for, they accept marriage and monogamy because it has its own benefits, but many of those benefits go away when you place women in the workforce.
And No, obviously I did not watch this garbage, but did catch the scandal second hand and honestly if you can't see that this type of garbage is an attack on our values, I don't know what to say, they are waging war even if we haven't all woken up to this fact yet, it's a war none the less.
All very well said, Brad Smith.
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"I'm not sure I really ever fit into it in the first place, so it's easy for me to say ditch your cable, cell phone etc., stay at home and raise your kids, do the home-school etc., but I'd still give that advice because it worked for me and I know it can work for others."
—I think at this point it is good advice for everyone, because it may actually be a requirement for basic mental health, if not survival. IOW, even the people who think they can handle it—that they can be "in it, but not of it"—probably actually cannot. The damage is being done.
I am glad to finally hear somebody say this. I think there was a trend back in the Obama years when there were people saying we should stop consuming all this progressive "art", but there were several conservative opinion writers that were all, "No, we have to engage in all this crap so we can eventually change the culture! If we don't consume their garbage, it will make us all look like a bunch of fuddy-duddy rubes!" We can see how well that has worked out.
Yeah. At some point, I might have made that same we-have-to-engage argument. No more!!