If there was ever a sports event that fooled people into believing the "good" that is sports(besides daily exercise) it has to be the Olympics. Interestingly enough my history professor just showed us this half hour special on the "original" Olympics about a week ago.
There are many differences including not clothes while you compete, choosing death over disgrace(this had happened alot), women never competing and alot more but I covered the good stuff. But the ONE thing that has not changed the hero worshiping of the victors. My main point is the selfish desire to become almost a god in the eyes of others is still there. We all want fame and we all know it has its prices, especially if you let it go to your head. And at the end of the day after all those "Olympians" are done competing, its not the "spirit of the competition" that keeps them going. Peace out all.
"We believe in Vader, the Darth almighty, destroyer of Alderaan and the Sith. We believe in Luke, his only son, our Jedi. He was concieved by the power of the Force, and born of the senator Padme. Suffered under Darth Sidius, electrocuted, survived and partied with Ewoks. He descended to the Death Star, on the third hour he flew out in an Imperial ship and landed on Endor. He is seated on the right hand of Obi-Wan's ghost. He will come again to train Leia to be a Jedi. We believe? in Yoda.........
Awesome quote, "If all the entertainers and all the professional athletes in the world were suddenly abducted by aliens and disappeared, on the whole the world would be a better place. A world without dogs would be a dim and lonely wasteland, by comparison. (Note: the aliens could have all the politicians too, if we could keep Maria Sharapova.)
Found this on a discussion about how people treat animals but it was just too good to pass up.
"We believe in Vader, the Darth almighty, destroyer of Alderaan and the Sith. We believe in Luke, his only son, our Jedi. He was concieved by the power of the Force, and born of the senator Padme. Suffered under Darth Sidius, electrocuted, survived and partied with Ewoks. He descended to the Death Star, on the third hour he flew out in an Imperial ship and landed on Endor. He is seated on the right hand of Obi-Wan's ghost. He will come again to train Leia to be a Jedi. We believe? in Yoda.........
I was looking at the most recent letter by two-dog. Hilarious and decided to do some googleling. And found this interesting site about the Olympics. http://www.olympicssuck.com/ The title speaks for itself
"We believe in Vader, the Darth almighty, destroyer of Alderaan and the Sith. We believe in Luke, his only son, our Jedi. He was concieved by the power of the Force, and born of the senator Padme. Suffered under Darth Sidius, electrocuted, survived and partied with Ewoks. He descended to the Death Star, on the third hour he flew out in an Imperial ship and landed on Endor. He is seated on the right hand of Obi-Wan's ghost. He will come again to train Leia to be a Jedi. We believe? in Yoda.........
