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Anti- Corporation

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 4:00 pm

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Pretty much just watching football all day, does anyone else here find
themselves engaging in this type of behaviour?

Also, is there anything 'philosophical' about football, or, is it
pretty much cut and dried?

Anti- Corporation

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 6:14 pm

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How long until we are watching third-world illegal immgrants play like
we do with baseball?

What if they start breeding some sort of uber-human in siberia that is
given steroids at birth, then, train them to play football, thn give
them contracts at say twenty rubles a year, a fuck of alivig f you are
from siberia. Do you think ticket prices in the US would drop, or, do
you think the corrupt corprate transnational un-ethical motherfuckers
who have abandoned our culture will just PROFIT MORE?

Do you agree with the concept of sports in the US, that more than
likely any member of a given team, say the Miami dolphins doesn't even
fucking live there, that is just the corrupt corporate headquarters and
the market that they own without any compettion fucking monopolist sons
of bitches, why can't I just get a team togther and start playing?

Don't you all know that economics are FIXED, AND, that economics
control your destiney?

Rules. laws, they are just there to appease those who fucking control
you, you are there fucking apathetc slave. You are a piece of shit to
them, I do not care how important you think you are, they will kill you
as collateral damage, still want to vote for these fucking assholes?

Ok, back to sports, get all the fucking illegal immigrant, non-us
citizens out of baseball/.

Immortalist

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 4:04 pm

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"Anti- Corporation" <anticorporation@webtv.net> wrote in message
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PRELIMINARIES on la fly

General Douglas MacArthur once said, speaking of the value of organized
athletics, "Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that, upon
other fields on other days, will bear the fruits of victory." When he said
this, General MacArthur was speaking of the value of athletics in the
training of future Army officers who might one day command troops in battle.
Now, we pray that our young men here will not have to serve on the fields of
which General MacArthur spoke, but we can draw application from the
general's words.

http://www.adfontes.com/athletics/philosophy.php

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Sun Tzu said: The art of war recognizes nine varieties of ground:

(1) Dispersive ground - When a chieftain is fighting in his own territory,
it is dispersive ground;

(2) Facile ground - When he has penetrated into hostile territory, but to no
great distance, it is facile ground;

(3) Contentious ground - Ground the possession of which imports great
advantage to either side, is contentious ground;

(4) Open ground - Ground on which each side has liberty of movement is open
ground;

(5) Ground of intersecting highways - Ground which forms the key to three
contiguous states, so that he who occupies it first has most of the Empire
at his command, is a ground of intersecting highways;

(6) Serious ground - When an army has penetrated into the heart of a hostile
country, leaving a number of fortified cities in its rear, it is ser ious
ground;

(7) Difficult ground - Mountain forests, rugged steeps, marshes and
fens--all country that is hard to traverse: this is difficult ground;

( Cool

Hemmed-in ground - Ground which is reached through narrow gorges, and
from which we can only retire by tortuous paths, so that a small number of
the enemy would suffice to crush a large body of our men: this is hemmed in
ground;

(9) Desperate ground - Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction
by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

http://www.kimsoft.com/polwar.htm

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On Plato

We must begin by "sending out into the country all the inhabitants of the
city who are more than ten years old, and by taking possession of the
children, who will thus be protected from the habits of their parents"
(540). We cannot build Utopia with young people corrupted at every turn by
the example of their elders. We must start, so far as we can, with a clean
slate. It is quite possible that some enlightened ruler will empower us to
make such a beginning with some part or colony of his realm. (One ruler did,
as we shall see.) In any case we must give to every child, and from the
outset, full equality of educational opportunity; there is no telling where
the light of talent or genius will break out; we must seek it impartially
everywhere, in every rank and race. The first turn on our road is universal
education.

For the first ten years of life, education shall be predominantly physical;
every school is to have a gymnasium and a playground; play and sport are to
be the entire curriculum; and in this first decade such health will be
stored up as will make all medicine unnecessary. "To require the help of
medicine because by lives of indolence and luxury men have filled themselves
like pools with waters and winds, . . . flatulence and catarrh-is not this a
disgrace? . . . Our present system of medicine may be said to educate
diseases," to draw them out into a long existence, rather than to cure them.
But this is an absurdity of the idle rich. "When a carpenter is ill he asks
the physician for a rough and ready remedy-an emetic, or a purge, or
cautery, or the knife. And if anyone tells him that he must go through a
course of dietetics, and swathe and swaddle his head, and all that sort of
thing, he replies at once that he has no time to be ill, and that he sees no
good in a life that is spent in nursing his disease to the neglect of his
ordinary calling; and therefore, saying good-bye to this sort of physicians,
he resumes his customary diet, and either gets well and lives and does his
business, or, if his constitution fails, he dies and has done with it"
(405-6). We cannot afford to have a nation of malingerers and invalids;
Utopia must begin in the body of man.

But mere athletics and gymnastics would make a man too one-sided. "How shall
we find a gentle nature which has also great courage?-for they seem to be
inconsistent with each other" (375). We do not want a nation of
prize-fighters and weight-lifters. Perhaps music will solve our problem:
through music the soul learns harmony and rhythm, and even a disposition to
justice; for "can he who is harmoniously constituted ever be unjust? Is not
this, Glaucon, why musical training is so powerful, because rhythm and
harmony find their way into the secret places of the soul, bearing grace in
their movements and making the soul graceful?" (401; Protagoras, 326). Music
moulds character, and therefore shares in determining social and political
issues. "Damon tells me-and I can quite believe it-that when modes of music
change, the fundamental laws of the state change with them." [Of. Daniel
O'Connell: "Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its
laws."]

Music is valuable not only because it brings refinement of feeling and
character, but also because it preserves and restores health. There are some
diseases which can be treated only through the mind (Charmides, 157) : so
the Corybantic priest treated hysterical women with wild pipe music, which
excited them to dance and dance till they fell to the ground exhausted, and
went to sleep; when they awoke they were cured. The unconscious sources of
human thought are touched and soothed by such methods; and it is in these
substrata of behavior and feeling that genius sinks its roots. "No man when
conscious attains to true or inspired intuition, but rather when the power
of intellect is fettered in sleep or by disease or dementia"; the prophet
(manlike) or genius is akin to the madman (manike) (Phcedrus, 244).

....With minds so freely growing, and bodies made strong by sport and outdoor
life of every kind, our ideal state would have a firm psychological and
physiological base broad enough for every possibility and every development.
But a moral basis must be provided as well; the members of the community
must make a unity; they must learn that they are members of one another;
that they owe to one another certain amenities and obligations. Now since
men are by nature acquisitive, jealous, combative, and erotic, how shall we
persuade them to behave themselves? By the policeman's omnipresent club? It
is a brutal method, costly and irritating. There is a better way, and that
is by lending to the moral requirements of the community the sanction of
supernatural authority. We must have a religion.

The Story of Philosophy
The Lives and Opinions of the Great Philosophers of the Western World by
WILL DURANT
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671739166/

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Philosophy of Football
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Football is not just a sport, it's a philosophy. It's a way of thinking that
is steered by grit and staying power; a state of mind that champions
perseverance and determination. Being a football mom has convinced me the
positives of the sport far outweigh the negatives. And the philosophy of
football is one that I hope my boys carry with them long after they've left
the field.

http://www.memphisparent.com/september2002/other_voices_other_views.asp

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My philosophy is to teach all of my athletes about football and about being
a good person. I hope to instill qualities in my players such as hard work,
perseverance, honesty, trust, responsibility, leadership, and compassion for
others. Most of these qualities can be worked on through certain activities
and expectations in practice. Some will require off the field commitments.
I will hold my players to high academic standards and will not tolerate bad
behavior in school. By holding them to a higher standard I hope to instill
personal responsibility and discipline. I will also commit my players to
some service projects in the community. These will help my team and the
community at the same time. Many high school athletes will never play
football after their senior year, but they will be citizens forever. The
best thing I can do as a coach is teach and model being a good person.

http://www.usd.edu/~mbrenden/football_paper.htm

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1. Overall
Winning is an attitude We must work to establish a desire to practice, play
and prepare with winning in mind. This attitude is mandatory among payers
and coaches. This attitude will carry us through bad breaks; help us
maintain poise in the face of adversity. Fundamentals must not be
overlooked. Ignore them at your own peril. Fundamentals are the cornerstone
to any successful organization. We must do the little things well. Every
team can do the big things; champions do the little things. We must be
prepared for all situations. We must dominate our opponent physically. This
too is attitude. Tough practices, competitive practices will breed a
physical team. We must be better conditioned than our opponents. The fourth
quarter is when we will win the game. We will have the ability to pursue to
the ball and keep attacking when most teams are tired. As a team, we must
utilize our practice time. Everyone gets the same amount of minutes. How we
utilize them will make a difference. No part of the game is too small to
practice, they all are important.

2. Defense
Defense wins championships. A suffocating defense can rip all hope from a
team. We must be strong up the middle. We must pursue and hit violently. We
cannot allow the easy touchdown. We must create turnovers through hustle and
desire. When the ball is in the air, catch it. When the ball carrier has his
back to you, rip it out. We must play great defense in critical situations.
The goal line is the critical area. We can not let them score! Conversely,
you must not let them get out of the shadow of their own goal line. We must
keep the defense simple in order to allow our athletes to play and not to
think too much. We must practice tackling and take-a-ways daily. We must
cover all our bases.

3. Offense
Offense wins games. We must score more than our opponent. We must score on
their goal line and get out of our own goal line. We must use field position
to our advantage. We must make the defense defend the entire field.
Establish a power running game. Minimize the mistakes. Take calculated
chances when it is to our advantage. Hold on to the ball. We will maximize
the number of snaps in a football game. We will attack a defense through
temps, formations and packages.

4. Special Teams
This facet of the game requires as much attention as offense or defense.
Players who are on a Special Team are considered starters. Special Teams
importance lies in field position. In order to take advantage of field
position we can not allow a punt return of more than 5 yards or an average
kickoff return of more than 20 yards. We can not allow a return for a
touchdown or a block. We must make things happen because we are better
prepared.

http://www.lnhs.org/football/philosophy.htm

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The course [should] incorporate the religious, social, political,
educational, and economic factors which have contributed to pervasive
condition of sports in America today at all levels of society. In developing
a uniquely American perspective on both the inherent values and importance
of sports in our daily lives, the course will explore the major themes and
factors which have created this perspective. Some of the major themes would
include: the number and diversity of contributions to our American culture
(including sports) which developed from the customs of many countries and
societies; how sports in our present day culture have come to symbolize the
"good life" as promised in the Declaration of Independence regarding life
liberty and the pursuit of happiness; the development of a social
stratification within sports due to social and economic realities that
created a class system of "wealthy" and "poor" sports relative to one's
social and economic position; finally, the confluence of industrialization,
technology, immigration, urbanization, and racial integration in the
adaptation and development of our sporting heritage from leisure exercise
and games to the professional multi-million dollar industry that exists
today.

http://creegan.washcoll.edu/cnw102-22-2001.html

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The Philosophy of Sports to the Maxx
"Zen and Art of Movement Sports, or the Tao of the Extreme," these are how
people describe their experience with Sports to the Maxx. The difference is
the "Maxx Method" integrates the technique of the extreme sport while
simultaneously doing exercises with personal growth and balance. What
happens after some time is an unprecedented stillness, while moving and the
idea of "being" one with sport.

Through this special form of training, Sports to the Maxx guides people to
build muscle, develop flexibility, and experience the "art" of living the
sport. The training is balanced between physical technique, psychological
games, and spiritual exercises. By understanding the relationship between
the connection of the body, mind and spirit, people begin to develop and
acquire extraordinary distinctions and exceed their perceived limitations
with newly found awareness, balance and confidence. These sports give people
the opportunity to play with other dynamics in an inspirational outdoor
environment, while experiencing the exhilaration of getting in great shape.

Through inspiration, Sports to the Maxx coaches people to work out the body
and transform the inner state of being. Patanjali (a philosopher, second
century B.C.) said,

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project,
all your thoughts break their bounds: your mind transcends limitations, your
consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new,
great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties, and talents become
alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever
dreamed yourself to be."

http://www.sportstothemaxx.com/business/philosophy/index.htm

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But everything is wrapped up in a game; it's a computer to watch, a model
for cooperation in tense situations, a method of testing, a way to root for
a side, and an economic phenomenon evolved superbly to its niche. I guess
thats why some describe it as a microcosm of life itself.

Bleep

Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2003 8:48 am

Guest

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 18:00:36 -0800 (PST), anticorporation@webtv.net
(Anti- Corporation) wrote:

Quote:

considering an opponent more than an ally is what is bred into us and
is our stength as a species.

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