Bravo Archpriest!
About the Olympic Games
Archpriest Elisey Eliseev in one of the groups of Russians wrote such a review about the Olympic passions:
Let me and a few words about the Olympics!
I never look at it, I do not sick there for anyone and generally consider all this big sport artificially grown and absolutely useless thing.
Honor of the country athletes are defending?
Honor of the country, this is when pensioners can afford to retire to the sea, and do not err in the industrial zones of stalls selling cheap delay. These are new schools and kindergartens. These are roads and hospitals. Affordable housing and decent pay. This is the honor of the country.
And when one skier ahead of another skier for three hundredths of a second - this, I'm sorry, of course, some shit, not honor. I do not need such an honor. I'm just skating on skis, not proving anything to anyone.
And who in general is attacking this honor all the time, if it is constantly defended? Have you seen? Me not.
Our team proved to the whole world. What does it prove? You prove to the whole world that we have the best medicine and education, and the prices for housing and communal services are the lowest. That's the proof! All ohrenet, I guarantee! Will come to see and envy! Emigration to the country will be unprecedented! Americans and Europeans will break off the phones in the embassy in ours. Visas begging and residence permits. And when four big foreheads sit down in an enamel basin and ride in it from the mountain - what does that prove? What theorem? What four healthy foreheads have nothing to do so, that they are running around like this is a sport?
In general, this bobsled is what kind of sport? What does he develop? Well, the fourth there in the team, which is the last one. He at least cuts all this code and then jumps up himself. Here, any basics of skill are needed, all right. And the first three? They just sit down and sit. From them there does not depend on anything at all. They do not twist pedals, they do not row oars. They just sit in the basin and go. And at the same time, and why did they stop eating dope! Well, here's why you? Where are you going !? Are you more comfortable from it or what? You're still ballast, stupid for weight. What's wrong with that?
What does this prove to anyone? Our so good in the pelvis slid down, your never dreamed! We are cool! So what? Well, it's nonsense.
Athletes sorry - many write. They trained and trained, and suddenly this. They have something to do with it.
Well, it does not happen like that, guys. Such all sportsmen are honest-honest, but cunning officials are so cunning-cunning.
And nothing is unknown to anyone! On, drink this thing! Oh, coach, what is it? It's just a vitamin! Yes? Okay!
This already in the kindergarten does not roll, excuses such. I did not know, I did not think, I was told and I did - well, laughter is the same.
That's the sport they have - the meaning of life. What is the meaning of life - to overtake everyone in the running on skates? Guys, life was created for another. If its meaning was in the running on skates, there would have generally looked different, believe me! And if people laugh at your meaning of life, try to find a less ridiculous meaning. Life is great. It has a lot of things. And skating is fine, but not fundamental.
And such are all cordial. Here - people tried, trained, and them ... Here people all life from a call to a call have fulfilled at factory, and to them bats - I retire eleven thousand and in what to myself do not refuse! Run, there in the pyatyorochka for the shares he wants to give lepal! And nothing, no one is indignant. Do not write wrathful posts, about the fact that people have all their lives tried, and now they are like.
So there is less drama. Practice normal sports. For myself. And not to protect the honor of the country and prove to the whole world.
The world is much older than you and does not need your proofs.