Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports

[Orruar]

Originally Posted by Formshifter [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I.. I dont watch anything really. star trek is neat, but hey, no ships capable of interstellar flight irl

Watching Star Trek is for people who are too fat to become an astronaut, but want to live vicariously. Affiliate themselves with fictional characters so that they can experience accomplishment in their otherwise pointless existence. Go become an astronaut if you like outer space.

[theaetatus]

Originally Posted by MrSparkle001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Guys are into sports in some capacity. That's all there is to it. Don't care if it's football, baseball, basketball, tennis, cricket, jousting, fucking frisbee golf, they're into sports in some way. It's been that way for thousands of years and it's still that way.

So very wrong... I have loads of friends who couldn't give a shit about any sports. There are better things out there. Music, literature, etc, etc...

[Schwing]

Originally Posted by theaetatus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So very wrong... I have loads of friends who couldn't give a shit about any sports. There are better things out there. Music, literature, etc, etc...

Man, it looked like you were going to hit it out of the park. Then you had to go and miss the ball completely.

[Glenzig]

Originally Posted by theaetatus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So very wrong... I have loads of friends who couldn't give a shit about any sports. There are better things out there. Music, literature, etc, etc...

But I like football and baseball and also music and literature. Liking sports doesn't preclude you from having other interests. Some people have the intellectual capacity to follow several forms of recreation as hobbies and not have their heads explode.

[Glenzig]

Originally Posted by Formshifter [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I.. I dont watch anything really. star trek is neat, but hey, no ships capable of interstellar flight irl

What do you do besides eat, poop, and play eq?

[theaetatus]

Originally Posted by Glenzig [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But I like football and baseball and also music and literature. Liking sports doesn't preclude you from having other interests. Some people have the intellectual capacity to follow several forms of recreation as hobbies and not have their heads explode.

My point still stands. Not everyone likes sports of some kind. I can almost understand the appeal of playing sports yourself but enthusiastically cheering on this year's corporate assortment of hired thugs and rapists is quite baffling.

[myriverse]

Meh. It's like any form of entertainment. Nothing more; nothing less.

I may not understand what anyone sees in watching sports, but I understand why they do. From time immemorial people have gotten a thrill at watching other people do stuff. Some people even like to watch people play chess. I'm a nerd, and I don't get that, either.

Add to that the social aspect of grouping together to watch sports, and I understand it a lot more. It's fun to get a group of friends together to do something... even (perhaps even especially) if that something is dull as dirt.

My illusion about professional sports was shattered waaaay back when the New Orleans Jazz moved to Utah. Until then I was naive enough to think teams' connections to their cities actually meant something. It was then that I realized that sports teams are like soft drinks. Nothing interesting about watching a glass of Coke fizz.

I still ask myself WTF Utahns know about Jazz.

[Glenzig]

Originally Posted by theaetatus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My point still stands. Not everyone likes sports of some kind. I can almost understand the appeal of playing sports yourself but enthusiastically cheering on this year's corporate assortment of hired thugs and rapists is quite baffling.

Now you're getting into a totally different subject. If you object to organized sports on moral grounds you're going to have a very very very hard time finding any form of entertainment. Hollywood is full of rapists, pedophiles, drug addicts, drunkards, and outright thrives. Video games glorify death, violence, and occultism. Music is full of violent themes, drug use, pedophiles, murderers, racists, etc. Not just modern music either, all the classical composers were real pieces of crap too. Literature is the same. What would be a form of entertainment that has a clean record of all participants and producers?

[theaetatus]

The difference is that being a thug and a rapist is condoned and even seemingly encouraged within the world of professional sports.

I am very curious as to why you include drug use and occultism among those activities.

[Glenzig]

Originally Posted by theaetatus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The difference is that being a thug and a rapist is condoned and even seemingly encouraged within the world of professional sports.

I am very curious as to why you include drug use and occultism among those activities.

Occultism and drug use are things that are found to be morally offensive to most people. All of the forms of entertainment that I listed have in the past and continue to glorify thugs and rapists. Along with all other manners of morally reprehensible conduct.