Souper Bowl

02/02/2014
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This day is the forty eighth annual performance of The Super Bowl, the season ending championship
game of professional football in the USA. Because of the physical punishment, ever growing amounts of
money involved and ensuing controversy, we ask The Committee about the ingredients in the "souper
bowl" of professional sport.

Q: What purpose, benefit or attraction is served by professional sport?
C: Performance, expansion, competition and dominance. The physical forces of Earth, in the illusion
of reality your "holodeck" provides, seem indomitable. Foreboding, uncontrolled and even deadly. Efforts
to survive, prevail and control provide confidence. Competition supplies this sensation where the
appearance of threat is absent.

Q: Humans need a challenge and sports provide it?
C: Yes, however competition amongst humans is only one small way to create challenge. It is a
simple and fleeting challenge, as it is easily joined or abandoned. Distaste for the challenges is easily
erased by ignoring it, however some enjoy irreverent criticism of competition, and this another purpose is
served.

Q: The injury and money are favorite aspects criticized.
C: Yes and the criticism of money placed in these competitions speaks about the critic's attitudes and
ideas of money, not sport. Many things require and even more involve finance, portable, common
resource allocation, so the critic of sport for the money it involves dislikes the role of money in society.
We suggest a critic of sport would be less or even disinclined to criticize medical treatment and practice,
an activity also involving much money.

Q: What about the injuries? Are they a specific function within?
C: Sometimes for some participants, who have chosen injury for a life purpose, their own or a role
for the injured to play in society.

Q: I have heard sports criticized as a metaphor for war.
C: To alleviate an urge for bellicose action? That war is the natural state of humanity? No. No to
both ideas.

Q: I'd think sports as a method to reduce war-like tendencies would be a good thing.
C: If war you wish to discuss, we shall yet sport is not related.

Q: If sports do not provide an outlet, escape or refuge from militaristic behavior, how is war
stopped?
C: Do not start them. It is that simple.

Q: One strong argument says wars result from unprovoked attacks, unjustified acts against which the
target must defend itself. World War Two is an example.
C: Deterrents can hold back such action yet the need for a deterrent must be examined. What does
the target perceive such that it believes deterrence is prudent? The potential attacker perceives gain. The
answer lies in the worth of the gain. This is a great challenge of your physical environment and density of
existence, a large reason you go to Earth. The illusion of material wealth is strong and consuming in some
cases. The finite aspect of the environment creates a need to seize and control, where the reality of your
existence is diminished, discounted, distracted and denounced.

Q: How would you suggest greater appreciation for the permanence of our souls, the ability to have
what is required and to recognize it?
C: Give it up, give it away. Stay away from gain, wealth and possession and into perspective it shall
fall, alternatives emerging. Alternatives and options unseen or considered backwards, regressive,
undeveloped and primitive now, would not later be seen this way.

Q: What is the future of organized sports on Earth, and especially professional competition?
C: It shall fade and nearly disappear. The decision to not invest will curtail its offering and interest
will fade in proportion. This will be not so noticeable, as many activities, products, services and efforts
connected to them will fade, many disappearing. Sports will be seen as another victim of the changing
times, yet no victimhood view need there be.

Q: There will be great celebration in some quarters about this, major league disappointment
elsewhere. What might come about to replace the function served by sports, the creation of a sense of
control and dominance?
C: Understanding. Much frustration occurs now regarding cold and drought in this nation of the
Super Bowl contest, and others. Controversy about causes of climate variation speak to a human need to
see activity as possibly controlled. No illusion exists regarding earthquakes or volcanoes; the functioning
of these physical aspects are accepted as outside human influence. We suggest the proponents of sport, of
professional competition are motivated by the same ideas behind desires to name and manage global
warming.

Q: From where will this understanding come? I don't see it penetrating deeply enough to either
support or contradict ideas about climate change.
C: The current approach arises from the final stages of Earth limited views prevailing among
humanity. The instantaneous communication and ability to produce volumes of information and data are
the final chapter in the physically limited illusion; much attention can be placed and drawn in a way
impossible very recently. This ability is simply a preparatory stage for true transfer of information as done
by all of your physical cousins around the galaxy and universe, and certainly by all of you in your true
homes of Heaven.
The views and ideas raised and offered are merely the chaff, not the wheat. The ability to communicate in
volume and with speed are the purpose and objective. The finality of the environmental debate will come
quickly as changes on Earth begin to occur in unmistakable ways. These upon you now, yet not generally
recognized.
The low solar activity of the current moments is related to the aberrations in rainfall and temperature.

Q: As we watch sporting contests and performances, what advice do you have?
C: Enjoy them. Be well, we wish you all.


Comments
Denis 03/02/2014 7:48am

Souper Bowl = The Last Supper

"changes on Earth begin to occur in unmistakable ways "
Is this the year, if not The Commitee seems to point at a very close location. Enjoy them, the last days of
predator/victim times.

garrett 05/02/2014 2:00pm

Hello Patrick and Committee! I'm going to guess the fade away of professional sports has a bit to do with the
changing weather, which in turn affects long distance travel, which sports rely upon to compete. How will the existing
infrastructure tend to get used once sports pass away? Will major cities just have huge swap meets every weekend
or does it get more interesting? Will the olympics cease to be as well because of weather and travel? I know you and
The Committee always cautious us not to worry, but it seems the future weather and travel constraints are going to
be rather far reaching. Despite the obvious negative impacts that jump to mind given how we're used to the world
working, there then must be some awesome positive effects or silver linings that are going to be breathtaking, right?

Patrick 05/02/2014 6:46pm

Economics. Most of the stadiums, arenas and other facilities will be abandoned. I suspect anything requiring
long distance travel will be cut back, not just sports.
Yes, enormous benefits are coming, dependent on how circumstances are seen. A reposession is loss of
debt, not commonly seen that way. Understandable but still, losing debt isn't negative. What our calculations
of net loss/gain include will always be a choice and possibly offer great advancement.