en-us https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/ Comments from The Sanctity of Your Mind https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046537363As Jurgy wrote, sports are essentially just entertainment, with the best "actors" paid accordingly. However, one would think that the level of fanaticism and interest should fade over time, esp. once a thinking person reaches 40 years of age or so. I personally always hated the home teams, simply because everyone else liked them. (Even as a child it seemed dumb to follow the herd.) I *chose* my teams: 60's Yankees and Baltimore Colts, 70's Buffalo Sabres. By 1980, most of my interest in sports melted away. Tue, 11 Jul 2017 23:03:23 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046537363 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046534788I'm wondering whether there's any difference between professional sports now and in the Roman Empire when the circus was the big form of entertainment for the masses. The powers-that-be then needed to keep the people distracted/sedated so that they wouldn't rise up in rebellion and perhaps take their positions. Is it really any different in that respect now? Professional sportspersons are paid obscene figures. Yet, what do they really do for our communities? The police, nursing staff, and those working in emergency services are paid trifling salaries by comparison yet they do a wonderful job in the main. How unbalanced we've all become. Tue, 11 Jul 2017 21:27:35 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046534788 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046534530panis et circenses. Bread and circuses: it's at least as old as Rome in its heydays. And then there's this old chestnut: all things in moderation. Tue, 11 Jul 2017 21:18:30 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046534530 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046533616Professional sports is bread and circuses for the masses. Tue, 11 Jul 2017 20:48:42 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046533616 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046530994Strategies to attack a nation are the usual infrastructures, bridges, roads, and runways. If our sport arenas, stadiums, and coliseums were attacked we would loose through insanity. Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:35:28 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046530994 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046527732Your final paragraph in the above article, Robert, says it all. Since we all as individuals CAN control our own minds (and thus much of the results of our lives), while we have NO control over the outcome of any sporting event, our time is much better spent on the former with less attention to the latter. Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:11:17 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046527732 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046525931No difference in the behavior here, and when rabid fans cheer wildly for a politician during campaign season. In a collapse, will pols go too?? I\'d be more than happy to help them go. Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:19:51 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046525931 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046520149"By jumping and screaming "We're number one! We're number one!" people whose number is pretty far down the list can vicariously sharer i their team's triumphal quest for enduring greatness." Dinesh D'Souza, The Virtue of Prosperity Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:49:57 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046520149 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046520009Time for you guys to stop taking yourselves so seriously. I am a lifelong fan of Boston's professional sports teams. Since leaving Boston 20 years ago, I have enjoyed reading the Boston sports page online while savoring my morning coffee. That 10 minutes I spend brings back many fond memories of time shared with my father and grandfather, my brother and my friends. I don't think I'll consider my life wasted for this lifelong interest. Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:46:18 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046520009 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046519625Mindless, wasteful and distracting as sports fanaticism (the long form of the word “fan”) appears, professional sports are a vital safety valve for draining aggression. Pro sports provide a less dangerous outlet for the driving tendency of men (yes, it’s a guy thing) to form into gangs and go attack other gangs over the hill in hope of thrills, power and booty. (World history in a nutshell.) In a nation insanely awash in weapons, this is a critical service. Take a look at all the countries ruined by endlessly warring militias who enthusiastically wreck their own lands with real bombs and guns and you might cheer your local team twice as hard. Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:35:15 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046519625 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046519095I've been a Green Bay Packer fan for 70 years. All this time I thought it was fun to be a fan. Now I realize it is all meaningless and just a way to fill the void in my worthless life. Rather than leaving my season tickets to my heirs, I shall sell them while I'm still alive and buy some excellent single malt Scotch. Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:18:49 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046519095 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046518887Sounds like, maybe, you either never played a sport, or, were any good at it. I, and others, know how it feels to hit a homer or shoot a goal in ice hockey, or... But, I do agree with you. Basically. And yet, I believe that great numbers of people are not congenitally fit to think in highly evolved terms. Yes, Gov't kicking in big dough to build stadiums got my attention a times. I DID wonder, WHY? But, the process maybe has been going on, even if embryonically, since way back when. Something about HOW WE ARE, maybe? Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:13:43 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046518887 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046518638One way to think is that these athletes have made their careers, alright, but watching them does not help in making my career and my life better. In fact it drains my most powerful of all resources namely time. Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:07:29 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046518638 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046518620What is the difference between the sports world and corporate world where management is paid obscene amounts of money without even playing in the game? Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:07:08 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046518620 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046518552Professional sports is nothing more than entertainment, and the athletes at the top of the game are paid accordingly, just as any "A list" actor would be paid for a feature film. I believe that sports evolved as a part of our human nature - a polite means to compete and demonstrate who is superior. In our modern era our sports competitions rewarded with accolades and vast amounts of money are most certainly better than the days where the winner was rewarded with life and the loser - death. Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:04:43 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046518552 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046518197Robert, thanks for the perspective on this national lunacy. Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:55:11 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046518197 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046517890Oh, to be able to judge but alas not to cure yourself.t Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:46:52 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046517890 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046517680And Barbarism is on our doorstep. Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:42:23 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046517680 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046517222Perhaps our love of the sporting contest and the hometown dynamic feeds a subconscious desire to vanquish enemy invaders. Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:31:59 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046517222 https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046514920The mindless primitive lurks in all of us just beneath the subconscious, rational mind. Like a caged neanderthal he yearns to be released. From time to time the handcuffs of reason are loosened and the gag removed. He then paints himself in tribal colors and quickly heads out to the nearest rock concert or sporting event or stupid-ass movie theater. Upon arrival the dull-wit wolfs down a GMO hotdog, some over-buttered & salted popcorn, a bag of M&Ms and gulps down a few soma- light beers. Fed and watered and surrounded by the other members of the tribe the dumb shit is now really in the mood for some barbaric yawp. And if he's lucky, he'll get to see a member of the opposition tribe get injured, bloodied and/or die. ...... .......And just like the infamous Mr. Hyde, the more the mindless primitive is let out, the more he wants to stay out.... Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:40:20 +0000https://mynewsbuffet.com/the-sanctity-of-your-mind/#IDComment1046514920