Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (18 Viewers)

[Juve-Fan-Iraq]

TBH I find the team sports that are always played at the beginning of the Olympics kinda boring. I like swimming to a degree, at least the first day or two, but it also gets boring. Way too many swimming events. Never really saw why the need to have freestyle/crawl, breast stroke, butterfly, and backstroke events across various distances. It would be like having running backwards and running sideways disciplines in track lol

Gymnastics is dope. Amateur boxing is dope. Things like table tennis and badminton are fun. Most psyched for week 2 with track and field, weightlifting, and wrestling.

I was having this conversation at work about the Olympics. Maybe it's recency bias but I enjoyed older editions more. Maybe because it didn't have so many sports in it like how it's evolved recently.

 

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[Alex-444]

 

[Osman]

@Siamak sorry for all the grief we gave you.

Now we see how deprived you been, and understand why you get off on an average butter face like Wanda.

 

[Siamak]

@Siamak sorry for all the grief we gave you.

Now we see how deprived you been, and understand why you get off on an average butter face like Wanda.

Normally Women sport skipped in the Iranian TV or the broadcasters refuse to televise it, or ever report on it per-se. recently these bastards broadcast Women Sport and heavily Censored it.The Islamic Republic media most probably didn't find the Women in shorts or half naked appropriate. Funny but indeed it's sad.
Wanda?
You should know that there is a difference between the person you love and a person you want to fuck!!
women like wanda are attractive for the features they've got you know what i say they might turn into a moth and eat your dick. she is so fucking hot!

 

[Badass J Elkann]

I'm expecting magic from this guy come the track and field events...

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They will get pummeled, this Argentina team, and especially the coach are really not good

I don't think France have been that much better, really didn't impress me vs Guinea the other day.

 

[Ronn]

lol that’s not real.

 

[Siamak]

lol that’s not real.

They even censor Men's sporting events

 

[Ronn]

They even censor Men's sporting events

Not like that though. This is a parody.

 

[Osman]

Not like that though. This is a parody.

Ofcourse it's a parody. It's posted by trolls sport.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

 

[Mark]

wow they showed FEET!!!

 

[.zero]

Fagioli better be on this

 

[kappa96]

And Islam doesn’t have the exact same sort of history? The Islamic Golden Age preserved and expanded upon the knowledge of the Greeks and Romans while Christian Europe was going through the Dark Ages. And then barbarically crusading to the “holy land” to kill Islamic infidels.

Civilizations and value systems (based on religions or otherwise) go through rises, peaks, declines, and falls. The fact some of y’all still think only Christianity and its values could ever have created a modern world is laughably ignorant.

So unlucky of us in Europe that Christianity won in the end.
If Islam had won I would have had opportunity to stone some woman in a public square and beat my 6 slaves , I mean wife's if they don't comply

 

[Al Birdie]

Human dignity, family/community values (instead of individualism which is more a US export product btw), forgiveness, charity, ethics, holiness of life (not sure if well translated, see conservatism on abortion nowadays) are definitely values which are imbedded in Christianity and became core values of Western societies

Want to claim puppies and sunshine in the name of Jesus while you are at it?

 

[U Picciriddu]

Want to claim puppies and sunshine in the name of Jesus while you are at it?

Hey Birdie is probably your third or fourth one liner over the course of this discussion, so either bring something to the table or stfu, right

 

[swag]

Yeah and nobody is claiming what Post Ironic is saying, it’s a false claim. But you can’t ignore that Christianity did indeed play a huge role in the foundation of Western societies, after all it has been the dominant religion since Constantine adopted it.

I find it interesting though to see that Europeans here are up defending Christianity, and overseas you see more frustration towards it. Interesting fact in this thread. Shows how different they’re there

I think the challenge here is causality. Is it Christianity that caused the West, or was it the West that caused Christianity? Or really did either meander with loose couplings of mutual influence over the centuries...

If there is one trait of Christianity that was fundamental to a lot of the progress we saw in the west over the post few centuries, it is puritan work ethic. It sits at the very root of capitalism.

Yes and no. Puritanism is a bit of achieving Godly heaven through the honor of work. That's not unique to Puritanism. But it was contextually convenient for the growth of capitalism in the Netherlands and England.

I'm expecting magic from this guy come the track and field events...

Is his first name "Supplies"?

So unlucky of us in Europe that Christianity won in the end.
If Islam had won I would have had opportunity to stone some woman in a public square and beat my 6 slaves , I mean wife's if they don't comply

I don't think it's neither here nor there. After all, if it wasn't for the Arab world, Europe would still be eating gruel with their hands, living in dank huts, have the mathematical competencies of eight-year-olds, and would be drinking milk mulled wine for breakfast.

You really need to brush up on your history of Islam and its influence on the world. There was a time after the fall of the Roman empire where Europe was little besides knuckle-dragging brutes and the Muslim world was an honorable civilization to escape to.

 

[Al Birdie]

Hey Birdie is probably your third or fourth one liner over the course of this discussion, so either bring something to the table or stfu, right

Hmm... Don't know how this statement corelates with your values. Especially these ones: "Human dignity, forgiveness." Maybe the dignity is only meant for you and i should "stfu"?

Anyway. Let's try to move things along, if you want.
I'll try to translate my "one- liner", so it would be obvious what i mean. There are many issues with what you said. The values you offer can't be just asserted to be Christian like you did here. What makes them Christian specifically and uniquely? If these values are shared between Christianity/ Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism- how can you claim them to be Christian? Would all Christian agree with your values? Would the book itself agree with your values? Where exactly you get these values from? Is it written somewhere or you just get a funny feeling for these specific values?
I guess we could start here.

Btw, I'm European, not American. I don't know why are you making that distinction though. People in the US is waaay more Jesus crazy than Europeans.

 

[kappa96]

I think the challenge here is causality. Is it Christianity that caused the West, or was it the West that caused Christianity? Or really did either meander with loose couplings of mutual influence over the centuries...



Yes and no. Puritanism is a bit of achieving Godly heaven through the honor of work. That's not unique to Puritanism. But it was contextually convenient for the growth of capitalism in the Netherlands and England.



Is his first name "Supplies"?



I don't think it's neither here nor there. After all, if it wasn't for the Arab world, Europe would still be eating gruel with their hands, living in dank huts, have the mathematical competencies of eight-year-olds, and would be drinking milk mulled wine for breakfast.

You really need to brush up on your history of Islam and its influence on the world. There was a time after the fall of the Roman empire where Europe was little besides knuckle-dragging brutes and the Muslim world was an honorable civilization to escape to.

Bro all I see is WAS.
The only thing that IS, is stuck in 14th century.

 

[swag]

Bro all I see is WAS.
The only thing that IS, is stuck in 14th century.

Well apparently Christian/Western society is in the crapper now, so time to jump ship.

 

[U Picciriddu]

Hmm... Don't know how this statement corelates with your values. Especially these ones: "Human dignity, forgiveness." Maybe the dignity is only meant for you and i should "stfu"?

Anyway. Let's try to move things along, if you want.
I'll try to translate my "one- liner", so it would be obvious what i mean. There are many issues with what you said. The values you offer can't be just asserted to be Christian like you did here. What makes them Christian specifically and uniquely? If these values are shared between Christianity/ Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism- how can you claim them to be Christian? Would all Christian agree with your values? Would the book itself agree with your values? Where exactly you get these values from? Is it written somewhere or you just get a funny feeling for these specific values?
I guess we could start here.

Btw, I'm European, not American. I don't know why are you making that distinction though. People in the US is waaay more Jesus crazy than Europeans.

Im sure that the values I wrote are findable in the Bible, some in the Old Testament and some in the New. Given that the book was written centuries before Christ (out of my head the first parts at least 1000 years, then over the centuries the rest came) I think that in fact they could be inserted to Christianity. Even if some of those doctrines are to be found within Islam, that book really came way later on the stage. For Hinduism and Buddhism I’m not able to answer, I don’t have enough knowledge about that, and it’s probably valid to discuss wether there was enough contact besides commercial trade over the Silk Road to genuinely copy some of their doctrines, wouldn’t surprise me though of parallels are to be found. But again I’m sure if you Google same of the core values up and do a search wether they’re in the Bible and if Christian’s agree with it, you should be able to find confirmation about that without too much difficulties.

Btw bro I didn’t knew that you are from Europe. Where are you from? I feel a bromance growing now