Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Andy Thomas who wrote (11055)	2/21/2002 7:52:10 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 28931

Animal Andy..... >>still, i was a good pass rusher. one guy called me an 'animal' once as i scored about the 9th or 10th sack of the game. we won that one 90-7 or something... we were trying to get to 100 and it really upset them.>> Andy: They used to call me the same thing when I was once active in sports. I never took to sports in a groupie kind of way however. I could care less about leagues, ratings, win-loss records and all that. It was always simply "the game" and "the moment" of simply "being there" and expressing the wind beneath your wings so to speak. When we take the kids to Wrigley Field, for example, if you asked me at any time what the score was or who was winning or losing you'd find me engrossed in the act of simply "being there" which is this strange habit I have of receiving, seeing and sharing things from these different, wacky perspectives. But as I've grown to accept and understand the truth of who I really am more and more I've come to realize that these "different and wacky" ways of "being" and "doing" and "knowing" and sharing are just part of the fabric of the truth that already exists inside every individual's soul. That's why we like to laugh. That's why we like to play. That's why we like to "have fun!!" It's the simple truth of the child and our divine soul expressing this wonderfully infinite truth that we all seek to find and embrace and be in communion with. I've been a rabid spectator-supporter of the Northwestern University Wildcats. And I'm not talking about "traditional/conventional" meanings of the term. No, I'm not a season ticket holder. No, we don't "tailgate." No, I don't hang out in alumni groups wearing purple hats and sweatshirts, etc. Just me. Just our family. Perhaps some invited friends sometimes. 2-3 home games each year. That's all. And when I get there I imagine being on the field again just like back in high school and for the tiniest-briefest time when I walked on Northwesterns' team as a 5th string QB years ago. There's a lot of spiritual energy that gets channelled into sports. I like to channell good, good spiritual energy into the experience. It's as if I can see angels down on the field expressing the energy of our Lord through the players. The incredible rise of the Northwestern Wildcats mirrors perfectly with a vision I had for the team years ago in 1979. I shared this vision of winning the Rose Bowl and playing once again with the coaches and players back when they were starting double sessions that summer. I really believed - quite madly many felt - that I could play again for the team. I was in the best shape of my entire life and I was on this incredible energy rush. But alas, they didn't let me on the team. There were those on the team that agreed with me and then there were those who were incredibly angry with me. One guy, the ring leader of this negative energy - their team Captain middle linebacker - even picked a fight with me and that about ended it. So at the end of their first home game of the season I was called to ride my bike - as if some force was directing me - to the stadium right at the exact time that the game was over and they won.... I simply left my ten-speed unattended and walked right onto the field to congratulate the players. The individuals who were of the positive team-oriented spirit shook my hand and smile, but there were several from the negative side that came face to face with me and told me where I could go right then and there. And for the next 3 1/2 years the Northwestern Wildcats set the all-time NCAA losing streak record which still stands to this day. And years later when the cycles permitted them to be revealed this New Energy from this New Light started to reflect through this New Team. And like bookends of my father's life, in the first New Years after he met my mother here in Evanston here at Northwestern and in his last New Years here on this earth he got to see his alma mater play in the Rose Bowl. And the vision I received in 1979 became a reality. The only difference is that it was conjoined with a win during my partent's time in 1948 over the California Bears and a loss 1996 to UCLA or was it Southern Cal. See the names really don't matter. It's the energy that matters. And there are cycles to this energy which expresses itself through all of us according to the perfect plan of our Father's divine will. My only claim to fame was being on the sidelines as number 13 to a packed house at Dych Stadium against Notre Dame at the same time when, across the field there was this other benchman with the same number by the name of "Joe Montana". And since my entire family on my mother's side is from Montana with a ranch that goes back to 1885 under continuous family ownership I've always liked to reflect on the metaphor. And the thread back to Notre Dame connects for South Bend Indiana for it was the first place I took my wife on the day after I met her at a bar in downtown Chicago. To a circus where my brother was the elephant trainer. And this was on top of telling my future wife the night before that my parents sell garlic for a living and that I sang in a barbershop quarter and gee, "would you like to go to the circus tomorrow?" - all of which was the truth! And then had to also honestly admit that I lost my keys and right then and there the sky opened past midnight - when just previously there was a visible moon - on the tall building I had taken her to where I sang to her... "soon we'll marry you'll be my blushing bride....I will smile all the while you're by my side.....!!" Well after the "lost keys" line Maribeth didn't want to have anything left to do with me and she escorted me to the nearest "L" stop. And for the longest time after here I thought that it was I who was escorting her to the nearest cab - how stupid, shallow and dumb of me!! And there was only the tiniest piece of pink paper which her number on it that I had left to call her the next day.... And she was absolutely amazed that I called for she thought the whole thing was a complete raw dirty joke..... On the tiniest tiniest tiniest of things the future of our entire lives can swing. And it's all perfectly guided, supported, threaded and conducted by Him, for Him, with Him and in Him. Sorry for the long post. But sports is ENERGY!! And I just believe it will be a conduit for a whole lotta of good energy as people come to understand where the true energy really comes from. 119293!!

To: Andy Thomas who wrote (11055)	2/21/2002 9:10:21 AM
From: James Calladine	Respond to of 28931

"it is very humbling. it helps me that way" Being humbled is a growth process, in my experience as well. Namaste! Jim

To: Andy Thomas who wrote (11055)	2/21/2002 9:20:23 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

:-) I don't know if it is a guy thing. I can be extremely competitive myself. I just don't like the mindset when the competition is directed outwards. But maybe that only comes (sometimes) with maturity. I know that children seem totally unable to comprehend competing against their prior level of accomplishments as opposed competing against each other. I find that children constantly measure themselves against each other. Maybe it is an adaptive thing- to insure we get some sort of standardization of knowledge in a human group. I notice that children will even respond to a positive comment about a another child as a potential put down to themselves. I am very careful with compliments, because I KNOW this happens, and I try to whisper them to children, one by one. But my goodness, they are competitive about making sure they are "approved". It may be natural, but there are many things in nature I don't like. I am sorry the whole schema is built upon consuming other life forms, for example. I guess the autotrophs are least "guilty".