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World Cup Final
The World Cup final is over; some ludicrous number of people watched some team beat the other team. The next tournament will be held in Germany in 2006. If you haven't watched the game for whatever reason, obviously you might want to avoid clicking through (or reading any other news site, or talking to anyone...). Neither of those two links should be a spoiler, though.
And for those that did click through, the final standings are up, as are lots and lots of reports about the game.
I have been a brazil fan all my life, but I was extremely disappointed in seeing all those fantastic bazilian players with "Jeesus loves you T-shirts" and praying. I mean, they took their national team t-shirts off and put the gold medal on their back just show the jeesus crap more.
;))
Mixing politics and sports is worse enough, but mixing religious yada yada with anything is far worse...
(Slayer released 11/9 an album which said it well enough : "God hates us all"
1 Earth is warming, 2 It's us, 3 it's royally bad, 4 we need to take action NOW
> And here I was thinking hard work and practice is
> what gave them their "gifts", thanks for setting
> me straight.
If I worked as hard and practised as hard as, say, Lucio does, I would still not be as good as him at football. And I don't know if I'd have the qualities to work that hard anyway.
Among the gifts he's been given are great footballing skill, but also determination and drive.
> Maybe if I pray a whole lot I will suddenly learn Java,
If you had a relationship with Jesus, and believed in your heart that learning Java was something he really wanted you to do (for some good reason), and prayed about it, you may well find you found it easier to do than otherwise.
For example, I wasn't at all stressed about my final exams at the end of three years of University, despite being diagnosed a few weeks before with a malignant cancer. I believe this is because I asked God to help me and give me peace and reassurance, and he did. Here's the full story.
Gerv