Month: October 2021

Arjuna’s Dilemma- Discussion

Today is Monday, Oct. 4.

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I want to talk a little bit about this today:

We have heard about the “dilemma” that Arjuna faces as he stands with his charioteer Krishna between two armies who are preparing to destroy each other. Should he fight in a battle that will lead to the destruction of his friends and family, or should he drop his bow and withdraw from the battle? What is Arjuna’s dharma? What is the “right” thing for him to do?

Have you ever faced such a dilemma? Where the right thing was going to cause pain or hurt or discomfort to yourself or others?

Sports

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Are Sports a Religion?

read the article above.

Whenever a society (or, here, sports subculture) worships a divine form, it is, in fact, also simultaneously worshipping itself.

the post-game celebration and day-after parades, with its feverish outpouring of emotion—all that hugging and high-fiving, those deafening howls and blubbery weeping—might look like chaotic disorder but it is actually a rare moment of social order: a glimpse of spontaneous solidarity, an interlude of uninhibited integration. This is not to excuse the excess of vandalism or violence that often accompanies the effervescence; the same social norms that maintain chilly anonymity in day-to-day modern life also serve to uphold law and decorum.

It makes a convincing case that sports have replaced religion.

  1. It gives people’s lives meanings
  2. It is tribal.
  3. It has totems and rituals
  4. It has holy objects – like Curt Schillings bloody sock or “holy” fields like Wrigley Field in baseball.