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  Problems with Soccer (Football) from an American Standpoint

  by RubaDub in

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  so as not to hijack another thread, just a few comments on why we (americans) find that soccer is generally a boring game to watch.. 1. lack of scoring: american football adjusts the rules periodically so that each team averages around 3 touchdowns per game.

  basketball added the three-point line to encourage more scoring.

  even traditional baseball has tweaked the rules to encourage more scoring.

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  Rub a Dub I actually think that would almost destroy scoring in soccer, since then almost the only way to advance the ball would be dribbling it yourself, and from watching the world cup it looks like that is nearly impossible, since if you go anywhere near the box dribbling you are swarmed by at least three defenders. Since there are no end boards you can't dump and chase like hockey.

  But if they could combine your idea with the existing offsides rules, like...you cannot cross the offsides line before the ball has been kicked towards the zone, that way the linesman can watch the line instead of the players, that would be pretty good.
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  Problems with Soccer (Football) from an American Standpoint

  by RubaDub in

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  so as not to hijack another thread, just a few comments on why we (americans) find that soccer is generally a boring game to watch.. 1. lack of scoring: american football adjusts the rules periodically so that each team averages around 3 touchdowns per game.

  basketball added the three-point line to encourage more scoring.

  even traditional baseball has tweaked the rules to encourage more scoring.

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  Don't they already have another official on the sidelines, who is talking to the refs on the field via the headset using technology, cofty? So if that's FIFA's argument I think they are kind of talking out their ass on that one.

  I don't think anyone wants replay for offsides - but on goal calls...how hard would it be to give that other official a monitor, and he can just watch the game and talk in the refs ears....."Hey guys, stop play, that was totally a goal"...
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  God is not a good Samaritan

  by peacedog in

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  i don't start threads very often, but yesterday i had something of an epiphany as i was doing some work in the yard.

  deep in thought, as i usually am when doing mundane tasks, it occurred to me that while jesus encouraged us to be "good samaritans", god himself is not a good samaritan.

  in the parable by jesus, a traveler is left beaten and robbed on the side of the road.

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  The PERFECT Translation...for Churchoids!

  by theMadJW in

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  http://www.themadjws.com/thercvbible.htm.

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  Well, SP; I've lived in 2 states these last 10 years- and not ONE has EVER come to our neighborhoods.

  Wow. 2 whole states?

  I'm just saying, they're out there, lol.
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  The PERFECT Translation...for Churchoids!

  by theMadJW in

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  2. bible

  http://www.themadjws.com/thercvbible.htm.

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  For, example, the Adventists know the Truth about Death- but nothing else- AND no longer preach to the public!

  Someone should mention that to the SDAs in my area. They come around more than the Dubs.
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  Problems with Soccer (Football) from an American Standpoint

  by RubaDub in

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  2. physical

  so as not to hijack another thread, just a few comments on why we (americans) find that soccer is generally a boring game to watch.. 1. lack of scoring: american football adjusts the rules periodically so that each team averages around 3 touchdowns per game.

  basketball added the three-point line to encourage more scoring.

  even traditional baseball has tweaked the rules to encourage more scoring.

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  Donovan's goal against Algeria is probably the greatest American sports moment of 2010. The World Cup has fascinated me, really captured my attention. Bill Simmons wrote a fantastic article on it today.

  http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100701

  A few things I agreed with (Let me mention that I am an American Football fan through and through, followed by hockey. I play semi-pro football, I love that game more than any other)

  I love the Cup because it stripped away all the things about professional sports that I've come to despise. No sideline reporters. No JumboTron. No TV timeouts. No onslaught of replays after every half-decent play. No gimmicky team names like the "Heat" or the "Thunder." (You know what the announcers call Germany? The Germans. I love this.) No announcers breathlessly overhyping everything or saying crazy things to get noticed. We don't have to watch 82 mostly half-assed games to get to the playoffs. We don't have 10 graphics on the screen at all times. We don't have to sit there for four hours waiting for a winner because pitchers are taking 25 seconds to deliver a baseball.

  The World Cup just bangs it out: Two cool national anthems, two 45-minute halves, a few minutes of extra time and usually we're done. Everything flies by. Everything means something. It's the single best sporting event we have by these four measures: efficiency, significance, historical context and truly meaningful/memorable/exciting moments. You know … as long as you like soccer.

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  I hate how teams milk leads in the last 15-20 minutes by faking injuries and taking forever to sub players. When that Ghana player had to be carried off on a stretcher at the tail end of the America game, then hopped off like nothing ever happened as soon as the stretcher was out of bounds, I thought that was appalling. Actually, it made me want to go to war with Ghana. I wanted to invade them. I'm not even kidding. That's another great thing about the World Cup: Name another sport in which you genuinely want to invade other countries when you lose.
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  Service is mathematically and logically pointless.

  by confliction in

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  so, i was thinking today about the point of service, other than the proclamations the king and his kingdom (bs :p ) and i kind of had an epiphany... but i'm sure somebody has already thought of this.

  first, for people who never hear the 'truth', or never come to a true accurate understanding of it, they will most likely have odds in favor of them surviving into the paradise earth to get a second chance.

  let's say the odds are 99% survival.. .

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  "It was about a church that decided someone needed to go preach to the Eskimos. So they sent a missionary to go live with the Eskimos and preach to them. When he's done preaching, an Eskimo elder says: 'Before you leave, let me ask you something. If we had never heard of Jesus and sin, would we have gone to hell when we died?'
  
  "The missionary said, 'Well no, of course not, not if you hadn't heard.'
  
  "And the Eskimo said, 'Then why did you tell us?'"

  ~Phillip Gulley
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  A sad thought

  by dgp in

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  yesterday afternoon, the sad thought popped into my mind that, apparently, some witnesses could be made to believe anything provided it appears on the magazines.

  if they said that accepting blood is now ok, many would take transfusions, and that would sort of make sense.

  but if they also said that hell is a physical place after all, many would accept that, too.

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  Somehow they trained us not to use our brains.

  "Meditate and use your thinking abilities" meant "Look up tough to answer questions in the WT Library and unquestioningly accept those answers". We never noticed, until we noticed, then we left.

  You're right, they could tell them anything and most of them would buy it, either willingly or under threat of reprisal and punishment. And that is a very frightening thing....although the WTS seems to me to continually become more mainstream, so there is probably nothing overly sinister to worry about.
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  Biblical Creation vs Darwinism vs Young Earth "Creationism" - "Remain Close to Jehovah"

  by losthusband in

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  don't know if anyone has seen this....... .

  biblical creation vs darwinism vs young earth "creationism" - "remain close to jehovah" - youtube video posted by a jw from the recent convention.. it might just be me, but in the middle section does the guy say that jws should seek out knowledge.

  and then say that jehovah has given them all the knowledge they need in awake magazines.. not much seeking required there.....try going to library......ooops forgot... they would find out the real truth then!!.

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  Especially when the people you are talking to actually made up their own language.

  I think you're referring to The Pure Language, dude. Show some respect. ;-)

  (also please tell me how to do the quote thing. I think people have told me before but I always forget)
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  Are their d2d presentations good enough to convert?

  by highdose in

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  i remember asking a uber dub i was on the fs with " if you were the hh would you want to know more after listening to your presentation?

  " she addmitted that no, she wouldn't have wanted to listen further.. so basicly the fs is really quite useless?

  the jws doing it mostly have neither the skills nor interest to make a hh want to listen.

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  Let's put it this way...

  The overly-simplistic, menial presentations are meant to reach their intended audience.