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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by Godel_unicode on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:16AM (#17538934)
> There is zero level of relationship between the players and the rest country.

Oh I so dare you to go to Brazil and say Neymar doesn't matter. Actually, don't, I don't want to be (indirectly) responsible for your maiming...

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by sametmax on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:08AM (#17539103)
Yes, it's very efficient mechanism to control the population.

People have a strong illusion their connection is real

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by Godel_unicode on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:10AM (#17539112)
To make my point plainer, who are you to say it isn't?
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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by sametmax on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:34AM (#17539873)
"who are you" implies I should have some special status to give my opinion.

But the fact remains that they don't run after the ball themself. They don't make any effort in this competition. They don't even have any personnal relationship with the players.

I don't deny it's fun.

You should have fun.

But it's no more real than a movie.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by moretai on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:20AM (#17541973)
We are all connected.
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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by sonnyblarney on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:16PM (#17544704)
But we are connected to some much more than others.

See: mother + newborn.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by moretai on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:34PM (#17550919)
Do you remember coming out of your mother's vagina?
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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by sonnyblarney on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @01:32PM (#17551443)
Is that relevant?
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