***2024 Olympics Thread***
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My head explodes a bit listening to Wade call other basketball and soccer players floppers. Guy sold fouls, worked refs and was given more questionable free throws than any player I’ve ever seen, he shattered ft records with it.
From Rev. Mary Elizabeth Hatchney
"Baptist preacher here. If you are interested in my thoughts on mocking God...well, I can probably offer some more interesting reading suggestions than anything I will say. Like the project that has been set forth for next year and is widely available to you online. But here goes.
1. People do not need to defend God. People do often feel the need to defend the religious practices they have centered - and the ways they have chosen to behave because of what they believe to be true about God. But that is not the same thing as defending God. The accusation that one is mocking God begs questions about what precisely the accuser is defending.
2. Treating an Italian painting of white Jesus as sacrosanct is most certainly honoring something that is not God. The accusation that one is mocking God begs questions about what exactly the accuser is honoring.
3. A depiction of Jesus welcoming table guests that others shun is Biblical. The accusation that one is mocking God begs questions about which Gospels the accuser is reading.
4. "Mocking God" is a mean-spirited critique. The accusation that one is mocking God begs questions about the intention of the accuser.
But more than any of this: the fact that American Christians so wildly missed the celebration of the Greek gods is stunningly and embarrassingly a result of the anti-intellectual tragedy into which the far right has invited evangelical Christians.
Listen. There is no shame in not already knowing something. It is ok to not readily recognize the Feast of DIONYSOS (Dionysus). I have to look up how to spell it every time I write it.
But the Greek gods are at the heart of the history of the Olympics.
And the opening Ceremony in Paris was about things deeply rooted in French culture and in Olympic history.
Artwork from the Louvre was highlighted.
And though there are depictions of the last supper in the Louvre, the particular painting in question is not at the Louvre because it is in a church in Italy. It has nothing to do with France-or the Olympics and it would have been wildly off topic.
It makes much more sense for the bawdy scene in question to be a depiction of the Feast of DIONYSOS (Dionysus).
I hope you will stop spending energy being angry about the opening ceremony mocking God.
And.
There are things that dishonor God.
Policies that make it harder for children to eat dishonor God.
Policies that strip dignity and self-determination from those whose realities you do not understand dishonor God.
The dismantling of public education dishonors
God.
Racial injustice dishonors God.
Centering heteronormative relationships dishonors God.
Championing women who are able to birth live children as virtuous or honorable dishonors God.
Using tricky words to herald a society where freedoms and safety-nets are taken away in the name of some false nobility of suffering dishonors God.
Lying dishonors God.
Cheating on your partner dishonors God.
Destroying ecosystems dishonors God.
Filling the oceans with plastic dishonors God.
Hoarding wealth dishonors God.
Choose, then, whom you will serve."
Holiday, white and booker heavy minutes over Tatum shows they’re just focusing on defense I think, removing our cyclone bias. If that’s the case neither Hali or Brunson would’ve been great additions.
On the subject of synchronized diving caught the shortened version of women's duos on NBC.
China crushed first but US was battling Australia and Great Britain for silver. GB didn't have scores to beat US and Australia had a horrible last dive.
They weren't in sync and didn't even do the same dive.
China crushed first but US was battling Australia and Great Britain for silver. GB didn't have scores to beat US and Australia had a horrible last dive.
They weren't in sync and didn't even do the same dive.
Did he take another step with pivot foot after pivot? Or is that a travel and I’ve watched enough nba I don’t think it is?
Yeah that last one for the Aussies was crazy. The girl on the right side somehow got off kilter during the first spring and on the second spring her right foot didn't even hit the board, so she went way off to the side and only got about half the height as her partner. They were the same dive, the girl on the right just wasn't able to get everything in before hitting the water. Crazy.
Halliburton is either hurt or Kerr is an *******. One of the two.
To me, lifting a pivot foot and then jumping off the other foot is travel but it’s never called.
That was one of the more dominant games for USA given competition and the slow start especially. Serbia probably 3rd or 4th best team, Jokic has a little more help than Gianis.
Devil’s advocate in a rematch, US has a B/C game and Serbia replicates first half, that’s a game for sure.
Devil’s advocate in a rematch, US has a B/C game and Serbia replicates first half, that’s a game for sure.
