On Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 2:23:56 PM UTC+3, Ion Saliu wrote:
On Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 12:32:28 PM UTC+3, Ion Saliu wrote:
On Monday, June 20, 2022 at 1:16:07 PM UTC+3, Ion Saliu wrote:
Aksiomatika:
I should have added [H] to me reply –
“Spoiler alert! Humo(u)r involved!”
No wonder no native English-speaker reacted to my post the way you did.
I would have expected, though, another type of reaction. Like: “There ain’t no Spanish — it’s Catalan… or it is Basque…”
BBRRRRRRRRAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
The clear majority at 2022, however, belongs to NATO: 13 (out of 30 total members… not far from 50%). Can you spot them, aksiomatika?
After all, soccer is a surrogate for war. Armageddon is coming! Armageddon is coming!
Fortunately, the Pope is against the war. Can you tell the predominant religion at 2022 World Cup? Spoiler alert: it ain’t the host… although they are more numerous than ever.
Spoiler alert: The Pope should award the 2022 Champion…
Ion “Parpaluck” Saliu
Truthful Warrior At-Large
https://www.facebook.com/Parpaluck
Other interesting facts about the World Cup –
You watch a match, say, in the Top-5 European championships, or in UEFA Champions League. You notice religion is omnipresent. The players perform religious acts, especially praying and looking up to the sky (like to the Supreme Referee). Most prayers
are representative of Catholicism and Islam. Which brings me to this fact:
• The Vatican holds the most World Cups: 16 trophies
• Protestantism: 5
• Orthodox Christianity: 0
• Islam: 0
• Buddhism: 0
• Hindu: 0
• Shinto: 0
• Other credos: 0
From another perspective, NATO holds the most World Cup trophies: 12.
• Warsaw Pact: 0 (where art thou Hungary... Russia... Ukraine... ?)
• Other military alliances: 0
Las Vegas is brewing some enticing bets for this edition of the World Cup –
• [(NATO) AND (Catholic)]: (7 titles so far) ?
• [(NATO) AND (Protestant)]: (5 so far) ?
The latter is the most attractive bet to me (the opening line was 13/1). Holland failed too many times in the finals (3 so far)…
BBRRRRRRRRAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Ultra Axiomatix:
This thingy really intrigues me: Religion and World Cup. It is even more intriguing since I am the founder of Mathematical Atheism.
It is this lopsided success in World Cups for a religion known as Catholicism. 16 trophies! The only other successful religion, with 5 successes, is also Christian: Protestantism. What gives?
For the record, I was born religious. Like any child, there ain’t nothing you can do about it. You are forced to belong to a religion from day one.
So, I was born Orthodox Christian. Since the pandemic, I had to watch quite a few football matches in the Romanian championship. The players do the same thing as in any other championship. They perform religious rituals. As the Romanians are
predominantly Orthodox, the footballers perform a specific ritual: Crossing (the sign of the cross from the forehead to the belly, and then from the right shoulder to the left).
Other Orthodox footballers do the same: Greeks, Russians, Ukrainians, Serbs, etc. However, them Orthodox footballers have never had any success. The Supreme Referee has granted them only mediocrity! Why they don’t abandon their ritual is beyond me!
On the other hand, look how grandiosely the Supreme Referee (now VAR) has rewarded the Catholics! 16 out of 21 World Cup titles! The Vegas odds on [Catholik] are a meager 3/5. Of course, it is so easy to win with such a bet!
The Protestants have had some success: 5 trophies. Their ritual is different from the Catholics, though. The Protestants kneel before the match starts. Instead of looking up toward the Supreme Referee, they look down. As if they pray to the grassroots
to be kind to them and make the opponents slip and break their legs!
Why aren’t the rest of the religions successful at all? What’s the matter? The Muslim players pray too, and they look up to the sky as well. The Buddhists, as few as they are, fall on the grass before the match and start short meditation sessions.
I even heard the “Om” chant at times.
What’s so special about the Catholic rituals? As far as I can tell, I only noticed this ritual before and during a football match:
• crossing from left to right, kissing own fingers, and then looking up to the sky where the Supreme Referee (now VAR) is supposed to reside.
Will Qatar finally win a World Cup for Islam? I mean, it was against all odds that Qatar was even selected to host the 2022 World Cup. You’ll be surprised how far the petrodollars can go!
“People who believe in gods
Are mighty frightened by the odds
But I give them software
To beat the odds with fanfare.”
Ion Saliu (royalty-name Parpaluck)
Founder of Mathematical Atheism
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https://saliu.com/almighty_number.html
Gosh! Nothing ever changes! Them Catholics again are favored. They chant loud and clear Brazil, Argentina, France… even if it all happens in the Land of Allah! Why don’t they ban the Pope from attending the World Cup games?! Instead, them Qataris
banned TV people from Denmark, a protestant nation! Ban the Catholics, you fools, if want to win the World Cup!
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