"No such thing as a life that's better than yours, no such thing – no such thing…" - German-born American rapper Jermaine Lamarr Cole, alias J. Cole (b. 1985). Here is BEYONDISM PREMIUM Premises for SELF-ACTUALIZATION (Soulfully Signing a Therapeutic Treaty with THYSELF) in regard to: REAPING the PRUDENCE for DIMINISHING DEVOTION to your favourite football team.

"No such thing as a life that's better than yours, no such thing – no such thing…" - German-born American rapper Jermaine Lamarr Cole, alias J. Cole (b. 1985). Here is BEYONDISM PREMIUM Premises for SELF-ACTUALIZATION (Soulfully Signing a Therapeutic Treaty with THYSELF) in regard to: REAPING the PRUDENCE for DIMINISHING DEVOTION to your favourite football team.

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It may seem odd, to equate religion with sport entertainment. Nevertheless, it must be understood that, prior to mass communications, religious ceremonies were a source of entertainment, for ordinary people who rarely attended a theater, or travelled to a sporting event. Sports and religion may get categorised separately, but their intersection is difficult to miss. Psychologists are closing in, on the conclusion that, sport has many of the same effects on spectators, as religion does. The similarities between sport fandom, and organised religion are striking. Consider the vocabulary associated with both: faith, devotion, worship, ritual, dedication, sacrifice, commitment, spirit, prayer, suffering, festival, and celebration. But the greatest irreconcilable discrepancy is that, while religious feeling is soul-nourishing, fandom is spiritually enslaving. The current trend of fandom, abetted by gambling related to football betting, has become an 'electronic cocaine', which numbs people's responsibility, in their pursuance of naturally available avenues for HAPPINESS.

Reverentially REAP your deep desire to DIMINISH DEVOTION.

  1. SOBERLY, the PLEASURES of the affections are greater than the simple PLEASURES of the senses.
  2. UNDENIABLY, the PLEASURES of the intellect are greater than the PLEASURES of the affections.
  3. MEANINGFULLY, there is no natural PLEASURE whereof there is no satiety of our spiritual thirsts.
  4. MOST critical, it is knowledge alone, that does clear the mind of all rogue desires and disturbances.
  5. ACTUALLY, we imagine many things that are not, and esteem and value things more than they are.
  6. REALLY, these 'VANITY of VANITIES' are clouds of error that turn into the storms of perturbations.
  7. YEARN for those things that give you an enduring HAPPINESS, but shun FOOTBALL FANATICISM.