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OP - August 10, 2015, 08:16 AM

Over the weekend, I was away and was unable to watch my football team play. I had it on record, so all was well as long as nobody texted me the score or hinted in any way as to the outcome.

So much was my desire to watch the game on record, replicating the excitement of a live match that I threatened friends not to text anything to do with the match. A number of them decided to wind me up and start hinting that my team actually lost. I denied it all. It's not true, I told myself. They're just messing around. I can still enjoy the game. No matter what they told me, internally I denied it and made any excuse to convince myself what they're telling me is not true.

At one point a screenshot of bbc was sent, at which point I told myself, "fu***g idiot photoshopped it"

This reminded me a lot of the type of belief I held in Islam. No matter what people tell you about it, and how obvious the truth stares you in the face, you don't want it to be true, so you deny it.
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Reply #1 - August 10, 2015, 10:05 AM

I like this thread.

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #2 - August 10, 2015, 10:52 AM

I thought this thread was going to be about a Celtic vs, Rangers match.

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Reply #3 - August 11, 2015, 12:48 PM

Within Islam there are so many mechanisms to protect itself; just like any effective virus.

Questioning God is blasphemous, punishable by death
Leaving Islam is punishable by death.
Adding something new is Bidah and Shirk
..and many more.
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Reply #4 - August 11, 2015, 02:14 PM

As someone who only started getting into football earlier this year, it has always seemed like a religion/cult to me, especially the brainwashed followers, hooligans, etc.
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Reply #5 - August 11, 2015, 08:58 PM

It's an acceptable form of brain washing. Maybe not the hooliganism but that's rare now in the UK.
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Reply #6 - August 12, 2015, 12:09 AM

Quote from: Kodanshi on August 11, 2015, 02:14 PM
As someone who only started getting into football earlier this year, it has always seemed like a religion/cult to me, especially the brainwashed followers, hooligans, etc.

I have only recently started getting into it to. The extreme tribalism still seems really bizarre to me.
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