Offside Chat Archives (2014-2021)

Casey White13 said:https://www.reddit.com/r/footballman...rs_of_simming/ 🙏 🙏 🙏

It’s just unbelievable... I’ve been messing around with this thing for what feels like two hours now, I guess. 🕺

mellowotter36 said:🤣

I need a volunteer to download a one-gigabyte file. I want to see if the US National Team can actually make waves on the global stage now.
Regarding the World Cup history, the US has two silver medals and four bronzes. Meanwhile, our neighbors over in Mexico have managed to take home the gold twice.

Most things outside of England aren't even worth looking at, really. He only played against that one country, and the rest of Europe is basically just built on current reputations—you know, like how Real Madrid and FC Barcelona just dominate in Spain and all that.

Jessica Gonzalez said:When it comes to religion, I wouldn't say I'm really religious at all. I was raised Catholic, which is pretty standard for most Americans, but I probably only head to church twice a year—and honestly, that’s mostly just because my mom or my girlfriend asks me to join them for Christmas and Easter. I guess religion can be such a sensitive topic, and I think I realized that more after traveling and seeing how diverse things are globally. It seems a little absurd to me to be a die-hard believer in just one thing, where you only accept your own traditions and dismiss everything else as just made-up myths. When I traveled through Japan, I saw nothing but their shrines, and in the Middle East, it was all Islamic customs. Just like how you see churches everywhere in our towns and cities, they have their temples and mosques. And those places are home to hundreds of millions of people. I suppose the reality is that every culture has its own rituals, and they all feel equally real or unreal depending on your perspective. Maybe people could just have enough basic decency to respect someone else's faith too.

I don't respect religions that condemn actions that aren't even part of those religions. Basically, I don't respect the religion

though I think the institutions are usually the ones to blame for those judgments, not the core idea itself. I don't judge the idea.

Treating God as a person or some kind of interventionist entity is just childish. It’s like how kids get scared when there's thunder because they think God is angry.
Taking the Bible literally is wrong, foolish, and frankly dangerous. The US isn't 6,000 years old, and the things written in the Old Testament shouldn't be taken as literal fact. On the contrary.
Then we get to what Casey White13 wrote about original sin. It didn't originate with Adam and Eve, so it isn't something passed down through generations. The whole thing is likely symbolic, which is true for about 99% of religion. That logic even extends to why priests practice celibacy...

Priests in robes; confession; blood and wine; "peace be with you"... It’s all symbolism.

If God is truly good, like the catechism preaches, He’ll be looking at whether someone is a good person, not whether they pay their annual dues to their parish.
If your own mother and father are willing to forgive the biggest mistakes you make in life, then God—if He exists—as the pinnacle of love and nature, would be ready to forgive much more. And doubt? Doubt is just part of being human. It’s a part of our intelligence, and that's exactly why it manifests in our most intelligent beings.

The reason it’s actually worth sticking to Christianity and Catholicism is the tradition. That’s how America (and its various regions) developed throughout history, and it's why it stands apart from the rest of the world. The modern era is a strange one because by distancing itself from not just Christianity, but the customs that come with it, America risks losing its identity to the growing influence of other cultures in certain areas. That’s the core of it. So, even if you don't believe, at least respect the tradition.

Man, I’d love to say I believe, but I guess I just wasn't wired that way—stuck halfway between things, I suppose. I’m running from atheism like it's the plague, but any kind of spiritual awakening or religious experience? Pretty much non-existent... I'll admit, I'm actually a little jealous of people who have faith.

I can agree that we should at least maintain or respect basic Christian traditions, especially given how things are right now. Personally, though, I lost all faith in everything they taught me growing up.
Once you experience life for what it really is, you realize how much of it is just pure bullshit and deception.

That doesn't mean you should ignore spirituality entirely. Whatever it means to you, it's good for your mental health.
For someone inexperienced, people often try to find that connection through various types of substances ☕, so my advice is to just enjoy occasional spiritual renewal.

#work sets you free

Let’s stop living in some fairy tale fantasy world, gentlemen...

This little parade really brings all those suppressed frustrations to the surface... it hit the mark perfectly 😍

Just pure philosophy and staring deep into how everything connects back to me.
The rest is just noise.

Matthew Anderson4 said:Just pure philosophy and staring deep into how everything connects back to me.
The rest is just noise.

Exactly that. Signed, sealed, delivered.

Happy Victory Day to everyone! 🙂

They hung the flag on the house, just to let them suffer ☕

Kevin Cox said:Treating God as a person or some kind of interventionist entity is just childish. It’s like how kids get scared when there's thunder because they think God is angry.
Taking the Bible literally is wrong, foolish, and frankly dangerous. The US isn't 6,000 years old, and the things written in the Old Testament shouldn't be taken as literal fact. On the contrary.
Then we get to what Casey White13 wrote about original sin. It didn't originate with Adam and Eve, so it isn't something passed down through generations. The whole thing is likely symbolic, which is true for about 99% of religion. That logic even extends to why priests practice celibacy...

Priests in robes; confession; blood and wine; "peace be with you"... It’s all symbolism.

If God is truly good, like the catechism preaches, He’ll be looking at whether someone is a good person, not whether they pay their annual dues to their parish.
If your own mother and father are willing to forgive the biggest mistakes you make in life, then God—if He exists—as the pinnacle of love and nature, would be ready to forgive much more. And doubt? Doubt is just part of being human. It’s a part of our intelligence, and that's exactly why it manifests in our most intelligent beings.

The reason it’s actually worth sticking to Christianity and Catholicism is the tradition. That’s how America (and its various regions) developed throughout history, and it's why it stands apart from the rest of the world. The modern era is a strange one because by distancing itself from not just Christianity, but the customs that come with it, America risks losing its identity to the growing influence of other cultures in certain areas. That’s the core of it. So, even if you don't believe, at least respect the tradition.

Historically speaking, I think the greatest value of Christianity lies in the concept of love and forgiveness. Before that, religions in the ancient Western world were focused on different values, mostly centered around war, and the gods themselves acted more like powerful humans than morally superior beings.

And I'm primarily thinking of the New Testament here, because the God of the Old Testament is nothing like the one in the New. Back then, we dealt with an angry, vengeful, strict, violent, and ego-driven God. Interestingly, there are actually similarities between Buddhism and New Testament Christianity, which others have pointed out as well...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhi...n_Christianity

It’s true that the Church hasn't always lived up to its own ideals throughout history. But I still think there's real value in how Christianity helped standardize much of Europe. Before that, you had all these different tribes and nations following customs that were worlds apart, and under Christianity, everything was more or less brought under one umbrella.

Matthew Anderson4 said:Just pure philosophy and staring deep into how everything connects back to me.
The rest is just noise.

edge, come on, just post the usual photo of the getaway like you do every single year...

What kind of panic is this? 🤔

The Grand Prix of America.

Alright, maybe someone a bit more seasoned will actually show up in this thread soon...

That photo is just awful...

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Joseph Clark37 said:That photo is just awful...

Honestly, I don't get why everyone is making such a huge deal out of those hoods. Is it really worth all the hysteria?

ps
Great shot, though.