if religion didnt exist (Page 3)

ProfCandyRivers: i think if religion did not exit we would find something else to fight about.

Geoff: Football, for instance.

Hyenablood: guys already are fighting about football, in london and elsewhere, sheesh, men and their agression.

LiptonCambell: I assumed Geoff was talking about Football, not Football....

Hyenablood: what the hell is the difference ?

CoIin: What if football didn't exist?

Hyenablood: women the world over would be dancing in the streets, lol !

CoIin: We dogs also enjoy pursuing spherical objects while salivating heavily

Geoff: Hyena, the difference is that one is a game played using the feet and involves a spherical object called a ball. It is a game of skill enjoyed around the world and results in fierce tribalism between rival groups of fans. It's players have become bywords for the only way in which the average stupid person can become rich and sleep with silicon-enhanced models.

The other is a game played using the whole body, which has to be armoured (or, I suppose "armored" ) for safety reasons and involves an egg shaped object referred to as a ball. As it is largely ignored outside of it's homeland I can't really comment on the qualities of its players, not of the attitudes of its fans. However, I really do not think that matches between teams result in the sorts of tensions you'd see at the average 'old firm' derby.

I personally sneer at both of these sports and prefer rugby, where the rules are incomprehensible to the layman. Cricket, where the rules are incomprehensible to the layman, and Formula One - which has been making great strides in implementing rules that are incomprehensible to everyone. Even those charged with enforcing those rules.

Still a better way to spend a Sunday than prostrate in a big draughty building being spoken to like a child.

//Edit - correcting for an inadvertent emote.

StuckInTheSixties:

American football is perhaps the most complex of those team sports. The Super Bowl last Sunday gives an indication of this.

Ahman Bradshaw scored the winning touchdown even though he tried not to do so. After that, he was sick with regret because by doing so, he almost caused his team to lose the game.

Are there other games in which such a strange thing could take place?

Geoff: Rugby and Formula One are that complex.

Cricket at least, despite its incomprehensibility, tries to make sure the best team wins. In Formula one, this has been positively discouraged.

calybonos:
What if God was one of those rotten kids that like to pull the wings off of flies,
or put ants from different colonies together just to watch them fight?

ProfCandyRivers: Then it does not deserve worship.

Geoff: Thank you, that's been my argument for years.

Either God is good and doesn't demand our worship.
Or God is a jealous, selfish, abusive father, who in a modern society would be locked up.

calybonos: My point being....what if God couldn't care less about our worship.
How would we react to learn that we are only an amusement?

CoIin: It does seem just a wee bit petty for an omnipotent, omniscient being to demand worship from us. Shame on you, YHWY!

Geoff: @Caly - I try to live my whole life as if I'm entertainment for some invisible bystander.

StuckInTheSixties:

That dovetails pretty well with my conviction that Wireclub exists solely to amuse and entertain me.

Geoff: Wow! Did SITS just claim to be God of Wireclub?

I think that's pretty fair actually...

//Edit - He's certainly got the beard for it.

CoIin: He has a nice Tetragrammaton too

Geoff: I don't think Jack's going to be very impressed though.

CoIin: Jack?

StuckInTheSixties:

I need a white robe and a pair of sandals to go with my beard.

I could use some omnipotence, too.

** gets busy on Google **

Hyenablood: I always knew that sits was special ! I knew that there was a reason he stood out !!!

StuckInTheSixties:

(laughs)

I'm a fashion trend-setter! Beards, robes and sandals are IN this year!