I don’t know if subsidized is the best word. In Jacksonville the city makes win-win agreements with the Jaguars.
Why do you all continue to respond? He is clearly trolling, he will not change his mind or agree with anything. Everything he posts or responds with is to get the a response he wants.
I mean, come on……
He is probably just bored, angry and sad because his son prefers to spend time with his mom and her boyfriend on the weekend.
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But thats true. Just because its impressive doesnt mean its a sport. The most pure sports are ones that are objective and test basic athletic abilities like track and field. There is probably no sport better than track and field.
And the disqualification of Devon Allen at the World Championships sickens me. Pure sport my hind end.
Again, this sounds like you’ve had some life experiences that have left you shaken and scarred, and you’re trying to extend this to society as a whole as a remedy. Your “arguments” are both theoretically silly and don’t at all align with the reality EVERY other person on these boards has lived through.
Exactly, as this is also a point I’ve also made. You absolutely can enjoy playing a sport simply for the fun of it AND enjoy watching the very best in the world at that sport. No one else on this thread can wrap their minds around this predicament you (the OP) seem to have created in your mind.
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You seem to think that you can just do whatever you want as if society does not shape how we think and live our lives. Look at two different martial arts sports. One is newer and thus does not have as much of an elite level focus, while the other is a long respected olympic sport. BJJ and wrestling. In BJJ the purpose is still in the individual pursuit of improvement. It is a hobby for all ages to enjoy. While wrestling is the total opposite. There is a clear structure moving towards the final level of olympic competitors. Its obvious that you cannot have it all.
Because there isn’t one. He is trolling. It is @castoli just spewing bs and walls of text.
What about tennis? Golf? These have been around a LONG time and plenty of people enjoy them despite a high profile professional circuit. You seem to be more against the competitive team structure. Fine. Then don’t play team sports or watch them. Problem solved.
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Those are good points. There must be something different about them. They are sports that have historically been mainly for the rich, so that might have something to do with it.
One thing great about wrestling was that you get at least 3 or 4 women every time they announce you as having won matches the night prior or that weeken at tournaments.
My body count was off the charts before even getting out of high school.
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The evil rich. Am I seeing Castoli here?
"dont like the gambling industry, dont go to the casino’
I dont find that sort of argument persuasive
I don’t think I’m the only one who believes we need to broaden this discussion to talk about how we detect bots both today and in the future.
We must do this now, before the machines learn our ways better than we know theirs.
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As said in the other thread about social connections and friendship, as a general rule, I tend stay away from psychoanalysis and ad hominem statements when talking to other men, especially men I don’t know, and even more so online. I assume that unless something sounds troubled or nutty, the other person is speaking in good faith. That is, until things start getting nutty.
It seems from both threads that you have serious issues with all endeavors in which others’ excellence makes others feel bad and parents who who have high involvement in steering gifted children, intellectually or otherwise, to success.
You have several times criticized parents for giving their kids false hopes. I am breaking it to you: most parents aren’t this dumb, and certainly not the ones I know. Of the who-knows-how-many parents in my lifetime, I have never met one who was silly enough to think their kids who couldn’t draw a straight line would be an artist, a spastic kid to become a pro athlete, an intellectually-ordinary kid to become a physicist, a lazy kid to become a hot-shot industrialist, and so on. Many of us are well aware of what the world is like. As a matter of fact, many of us quickly learned as kids that there were other people better looking, more talented, stronger, and more athletic than us.
Where are all these children you speak of with devasted self-images resulting from not being able to be part of the world’s cream of the crop?
And, as I said above and the other thread, I usually stay away from lines like, “What has your life been like?” when discussing topics at hand, but I’ll steer away from that code here, because of my aforementioned explanation, but not in a malicious manner as I have no intention of making fun of people. You seem to have resentment and spite towards solid and accomplished people and people who do not have the problems of which you speak. Is this true? If not, I’ll accept that and apologize.
Where is all this coming from? And what has your life been like up til now for you to speak in the manner you have here and the other thread.
The internet is dead, you are the only human in this thread.
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If you dont think that many people suffer from feeling inadequate due to the expectations society gives people, why is having a midlife crisis so common?
I am now leaning toward this being a bot. A human this pathetic would surely have offed themselves by now.
ouch, that stung
Having a crisis isn’t normal in itself. And if one is experiencing such a crisis, he is having a hard time dealing and coping.
Healthy societies—of which the current Anglosphere is not—put expectations on people because they’re necessary for societies to flourish. Those who have problems with such expectations have poor coping skills.
What functional society expects EVERYONE to be of equal achievement?
Why do you avoid my responses and questions?
