i think it was bull****. the Barrera guy seems to be the only religous one of the group. the rest just read it because they look up to hughes and don't want to **** him off. Mac is the man for not wanting to bend his beliefs just to please Hughes. you could tell most of them were uncomfortable with it. i really think he was pushing, in a subtle way, and i think he proved it when he went after Mac.
this is a hoot this year..the coaches, matt sera and mat hughes detest each other......and last nights episode seen the best quote iv heard from a defeated fighter.....the guy was submitted by rear naked choke and after the fight quipped..." i was so dissapointed in myself that i tapped, i should have let myself go to lala land and had a nice dream about fat hookers and a latino midget".....you cant write that ****!!
You are obviously, like many Christians I have met both articulate and intelligent. Heck, I'm going to google "Sophists" later to find out more about those folks. However, intelligent and articulate people can also be delusional in some of their beliefs. I'm sure you've run across folks who seem very bright and well-read but adamantly believe earth is being visited by aliens in UFO's on a regular basis. You might wonder how can this guy perform well in life and seem so rational in so many ways and yet believe this UFO tripe. That's how alot of us agnostics and athiests view religious people like yourself. I don't believe in an invisible God, a supernatural Jesus any more than I believe in the existence of elves or fairies. No objective evidence of either. Anyhow Matt Serra is the biggest creep of the two coaches. He banned GSP from his jujitsu training facility because he took offense at something the classy George may have said. Unbelievably childish and petty.
You see us as mostly logical, intelligent people with a single irrational belief? Yeah, I can live with that. Pretty much what I was getting at.
Honestly i don't see the big deal about the subject. So what Matt Hughes asked his team to read the bible. I am not a christian but if he asked me to read a particular story i would read it and out of curiousity anyhow. If someone didn't want to read it thats fine but it is not a big deal that Hughes asked his members to read the Bible its been blown out of proportion.
Because they are fighters? They need training and not a reading class. Hughes' personal believes get in the way of their preparation for the fights. Some guys get as little as few days of practice before they fight. They NEED every minute of little training they get.
What if your coach was Muslim and he asked you to read a few chapters of the Koran? I say, keep your god-damned religious **** to yourself and do what you're SUPPOSED to be doing...training.
I guarentee Hughes was pushing those guys harder than they ever had been pushed before, he's known for really pushing the guys he coaches to the breaking point.
Yea, I'm sure he has, but thats not the point. You can't make up in training time that they lose regardless. Those guys did NOT come there to read books. There are other ways to inspire people. Either way, that was complete waste of time whether you are christian or not.
Trying to look at this objectively.... What if Hughes asked them to read a Greek myth for inspiration?
Not sure if it's directed to me or not but that is missing MY point. I don't care if he made them read Dr. Seuss. It is waste of time. If you want to inspire them, talk to them. That should be one of the characteristic of good coaching - ability to motivate the coompetitor. Reading inspirational stuff should be done by fighter at his OWN will at his OWN time. What this ends up doing is Hughes is trying tomotivatethem to read. Do you really think these guys give a f**k about who's Hughes in the book? What is this, critical reading class? There will be one or 2 guys tops out of 10 who are actually interested in this. For other's its waste of time.
It was a general question rather than being directed at any individual. But I would disagree with you on this one--stories and other types of literature can be just as inspirational as pep-talks, and are usually less cliched. There are many books, short stories, and even a few poems that I find inspiring, but I can't call to mind many great speeches that have changed my way of thinking.
I'm actually a deformed midget with halitosis, who has developed an internet personality after giving up hope of normal human interaction. Good guess, though.
