Tough - Page 2

On March 24 2009 01:35 NonFactor wrote:
I agree, nationalism is useless. For example, when Sweden beats another country in hockey for example, why should I be happy? Did I somehow contribute to their win? Am I superior to others because the people who beat the other people happened to be born closer to me? No. We all come from Earth. Imo the whole industry when it comes to World Cup is rather useless, the sport on other hand is kind of fun.

On March 24 2009 02:30 Osmoses wrote:

I usually don't give a crap about soccer, but when sweden plays, I'm fucking pumped. It's MY TEAM is all. No the lines in the sand don't matter, but you are from the same country, they share most of your values and culture, they represent you. When I tell people I'm swedish in the US, they automatically think I'm awesome. Sweden is where the Shortsnout dragons come from, and that other creature Luna was talking about. Yes goddamnit, Sweden featured in fucking Harry Potter, I nearly came, not because I have anything to do with what my country is like or does or thinks, but simply because it's MY TEAM. Humans are pack animals, we care about our pack. If some other pack gets suicide bombed, we shrug and say "thats a shame," but if some of our herd does good in soccer you're damn right we're gonna show pride at being of the same herd as them.

I may have lost my train of thought, but the tl;dr of it comes down to this: humans are teamplayers.

On March 24 2009 02:18 Track wrote:
From a TL.net user in the US Marine Corps, stand tough for your country. It's not about nationalism or ignorant patriotism, it's about defending the men and women next to you; it's about fighting for a cause greater than yourself and knowing that what you're doing is having a positive effect on those you love.

On March 24 2009 00:35 chaoser wrote:
It has to do with a sense of community, humans are social creatures and so when the place where you reside in gets threatened by an outside force, you band together to fight back. You could even scale that feeling back to TL. People feel pride in TL and when other sites (SC2GG, GosuGamers, etc.) challenge TL to showmatches, we show solidarity. Most people don't contribute much to the main parts of the site PX, TLPD, TLFE, LR but we still contribute in small ways that make us feel as if we belong blogs, topics, posting and so that's similar to people in a country doing work or purchasing goods from that country. It's about pride.

On March 24 2009 00:35 chaoser wrote:
It has to do with a sense of community, humans are social creatures and so when the place where you reside in gets threatened by an outside force, you band together to fight back. You could even scale that feeling back to TL. People feel pride in TL and when other sites (SC2GG, GosuGamers, etc.) challenge TL to showmatches, we show solidarity. Most people don't contribute much to the main parts of the site PX, TLPD, TLFE, LR but we still contribute in small ways that make us feel as if we belong blogs, topics, posting and so that's similar to people in a country doing work or purchasing goods from that country. It's about pride.