#1 2008-06-30 23:00:01
The government even has to teach their people how to cheer.
At yesterday's ceremony, Li Ning explained that the uniformity of the cheer contained a multitude of variations. It could be "Go Olympics! Go China!" as well as "Go China! Go Yao Ming!" or "Go Brazil! Go Ronaldino!" It will work to give encouragement to every country and athlete in competition.
She said that the civilized cheer "Go Olympics! Go China!" expresses the "Citius, Altius, Fortius" Olympic spirit and is in line with general international principles for cheering, while at the same time possessing characteristics of Chinese culture. Overall, the cheer unites both gestures and words into a smooth, flowing whole.
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#2 2008-06-30 23:35:03
I'm so gonna love this olympics
It's going to be like 24 - Buster Keaton - Triumph of the Will - Brazil mashup. And maybe some sports.
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#3 2008-06-30 23:53:40
A Peking University sociologist, Xie Xueluan, told the newspaper: "Chinese see major calamities as divine intervention … The absence of religion reinforces this trend."
What?
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#4 2008-07-01 00:40:15
tojo2000 wrote:
A Peking University sociologist, Xie Xueluan, told the newspaper: "Chinese see major calamities as divine intervention … The absence of religion reinforces this trend."
What?
When people don't have a codified myth structure to hang their superstitions on, they get creative on their own.
In the old Soviet Union people believed all sorts of crazy shit--UFO's, for example, were an underground national craze, despite the government's efforts to suppress it. Reading the Russian tabloids today, you can still see the remnants of that need for the supernatural.
China has the same situation; the government is down on religion so the people embrace all manner of irrational notions willy-nilly.
I've noticed this tendency in most individuals who were raised without religion. It doesn't seem to matter what religion, or whether the person believes in the faith of his fathers or has rejected it; apparently human beings just need some kind of framework to hang their "spiritual" impulses on. People raised without that framework are plump pigeons for all kinds of scams--they watch for UFO's, they join cults, become furries, take up Amway, etc.
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#5 2008-07-01 01:19:30
George Orr wrote:
tojo2000 wrote:
A Peking University sociologist, Xie Xueluan, told the newspaper: "Chinese see major calamities as divine intervention … The absence of religion reinforces this trend."
What?
When people don't have a codified myth structure to hang their superstitions on, they get creative on their own.
In the old Soviet Union people believed all sorts of crazy shit--UFO's, for example, were an underground national craze, despite the government's efforts to suppress it. Reading the Russian tabloids today, you can still see the remnants of that need for the supernatural.
China has the same situation; the government is down on religion so the people embrace all manner of irrational notions willy-nilly.
I've noticed this tendency in most individuals who were raised without religion. It doesn't seem to matter what religion, or whether the person believes in the faith of his fathers or has rejected it; apparently human beings just need some kind of framework to hang their "spiritual" impulses on. People raised without that framework are plump pigeons for all kinds of scams--they watch for UFO's, they join cults, become furries, take up Amway, etc.
I never realized my very tepid involvement with The Episcopal Church may have immunized me from joining some horrible cult. I must offer a prayer of thanksgiving to my icon of the Sacred Head Of Anne Boleyn and also a prayer of thanksgiving to my icon of the Sacred Head Of Lady Jane Grey.
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