Anthony Cassar: "Cael keeps you grounded in your faith"

[ugarles]

3 hours ago, MPhillips said:

If you change your mind about debate subtleties of any kind, this gem of a forum awaits you...

https://intermatwrestle.com/forums/forum/11-non-wrestling-topics/

haha no way man. the wrestling forum's off-topic subforum is no place for an atheist brooklyn socialist. let's just talk about wrestling.

[MPhillips]

10 hours ago, ugarles said:

haha no way man. the wrestling forum's off-topic subforum is no place for an atheist brooklyn socialist. let's just talk about wrestling.

I hear ya brother...

[ionel]

5 hours ago, MPhillips said:

I hear ya brother...

... get on it ...

[Wrestleknownothing]

16 hours ago, ugarles said:

haha no way man. the wrestling forum's off-topic subforum is no place for an atheist brooklyn socialist. let's just talk about wrestling.

An atheist brooklyn socialist with no sense of adventure

[ionel]

19 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

An atheist brooklyn socialist with no sense of adventure

Its a scary place over there on the other side.  Some folks are even sacrificing smoked offerings to their various gods.  

[ugarles]

15 hours ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

An atheist brooklyn socialist with no sense of adventure

A road i went down too many times on the Old Site. I'm trying to change.

[PortaJohn]

On 9/1/2023 at 4:13 PM, ugarles said:

haha no way man. the wrestling forum's off-topic subforum is no place for an atheist brooklyn socialist. let's just talk about wrestling.

Never realized Bernie Sanders is a wrestling fan

[ionel]

16 minutes ago, PortaJohn said:

Never realized Bernie Sanders is a wrestling fan

wrestles with hating millionaires and being one every day

[ugarles]

3 hours ago, ionel said:

wrestles with hating millionaires and being one every day

this is what i'm trying to avoid you monsters

[1032004]

Dustin Plott:  “David Taylor encourages us to be…better Christians”

 

 

 

[Hammerlock3]

On 8/30/2023 at 4:54 PM, ionel said:

How do you know?  

because brooks bashed taylor for it after he beat him

[Hank]

you guys must be bored.  why are we even talking about psu.  they're not even that good.

[Pinnacle]

13 minutes ago, Hank said:

you guys must be bored.  why are we even talking about psu.  they're not even that good.

If you love wrestling the uniform does not matter.

If you love the uniform the wrestling does not matter.

[666]

On 8/29/2023 at 3:17 PM, PortaJohn said:

Penn State is not a state school and I might not be religious myself but I don't see any harm in what Cael is doing in terms of connecting with his wrestlers through "faith" even if it seems foreign to me

I wouldn't care if the coach was converting the kids to Islam, or Satanism for that matter, if he could make them wrestle like Cael does, as long as he does it on his own time. 

[666]

13 minutes ago, Pinnacle said:

If you love wrestling the uniform does not matter.

If you love the uniform the wrestling does not matter.

Half right! The first sentence was correct, the second wrong. I've always appreciated cool looking singlets even if that is just secondary. But I'm the kind of guy who wears different watches every day and shirts like this: 

 

[666]

13 hours ago, 1032004 said:

Dustin Plott:  “David Taylor encourages us to be…better Christians”

 

 

 

Super cringy. 

[TylerDurden]

On 8/31/2023 at 1:00 PM, Husker_Du said:

you're allowed to talk about Jesus just like you're allowed to talk about the weather...or anything, for that matter. 

here' my two cents...

a lot of wrestlers - particularly good ones, particularly on good teams that have a proven track record - 

subscribe to religion or a 'religious way' not because of the allegories or stories, but because wrestling is tough both mentally and physically and in pursuit of being the best you can be, making the right decisions is crucial.

i.e. - you want to be good, do the right things. and it works. or at least doesn't hurt.

just a theory. 

I agree with this line of thinking. 

While I have no doubt that many PSU and other wrestlers truly believe in God, studying religion/religious ideas/spirituality is also a tool that can help with self discipline and help people achieve a certain balance in their lives that might be beneficial to challenging endeavors.

It's not the only way and it's not for everyone, but these ideologies come with ready-made material that make it easier to follow.

Ever meet someone who is really into Yoga? A Buddhist? CrossFit enthusiasts (I kid, I kid, kinda).

[666]

1 hour ago, TylerDurden said:

I agree with this line of thinking. 

While I have no doubt that many PSU and other wrestlers truly believe in God, studying religion/religious ideas/spirituality is also a tool that can help with self discipline and help people achieve a certain balance in their lives that might be beneficial to challenging endeavors.

It's not the only way and it's not for everyone, but these ideologies come with ready-made material that make it easier to follow.

Ever meet someone who is really into Yoga? A Buddhist? CrossFit enthusiasts (I kid, I kid, kinda).

Religion as a force multiplier. I could see that as a mental tool.  How about the effects of farming and other things on wrestlers? First off,  I know several guys who were raised by cockfighters. All those guys' kids who wrestled were all- state wrestlers with several state championships amongst them. My theory is all those guys were responsible for feeding and watering hundreds of chickens a day. Dragging that damn water hose, or worse bucket, and buckets of chickenfeed twice a day. Unloading hundreds of pounds of chickenfeed at a time from the truck. Scraping 2 inches of chicken crap with a snow shovel out of the henhouses and putting that crap, oh so carefully, into the empty paper sacks of the chickenfeed saved from earlier. Catchng mice out of the chicken feed barrels. 

God damn it makes me tired thinking of it. 

Imagine how good our wrestlers would be if Cael was a cockfighter. 

Edited Wednesday at 03:16 PM by 666

[bnwtwg]

4 minutes ago, 666 said:

Imagine how good our wrestlers would be if Cael was a cockfighter. 

Undefeated. Carl's BDE is off the charts.

[666]

3 minutes ago, bnwtwg said:

Undefeated. Carl's BDE is off the charts.

What's BDE? Bald Dude Energy? 

[AgaveMaria]

Wow. Maybe Cael helps by giving them advice about how many Cows to pay for a wife? Mormons are big on the guy who paid 8 cows to buy a wife even as Mormon Apostle Heber C. Kimball said "'I think no more of taking a wife than I do of buying a cow."

 

[666]

On 9/2/2023 at 7:09 AM, Wrestleknownothing said:

An atheist brooklyn socialist with no sense of adventure

Sounds like you are describing Bernie Sanders. He was an AAU champion back in the 50s. 

[666]

9 minutes ago, AgaveMaria said:

Wow. Maybe Cael helps by giving them advice about how many Cows to pay for a wife? Mormons are big on the guy who paid 8 cows to buy a wife even as Mormon Apostle Heber C. Kimball said "'I think no more of taking a wife than I do of buying a cow."

 

I thought it worked the other way around, that farmers traditionally gave cows to men so they'd marry the farmer's daughters? Maybe I'm thinking of a different culture. 

[666]

11 minutes ago, AgaveMaria said:

Wow. Maybe Cael helps by giving them advice about how many Cows to pay for a wife? Mormons are big on the guy who paid 8 cows to buy a wife even as Mormon Apostle Heber C. Kimball said "'I think no more of taking a wife than I do of buying a cow."

 

If you have 10 wives I'm sure they are probably regarded as about on par with livestock! 

[Wrestleknownothing]

6 minutes ago, 666 said:

Sounds like you are describing Bernie Sanders. He was an AAU champion back in the 50s. 

In a two minute span you pulled a quote from 2023 and a quote from 14 minutes prior. Evelyn Wood would be proud.