The ancient Olympic games and their role in society

The ancient Olympic games and their role in society

As we might know, the Olympic games had a much deeper meaning in antic Greece than just games. They offered a place for the discussions about peace and alliances because they were a natural place, where also kings can visit. So there were many other things, which were done around those games, and the sports were not in primary reason, why some kings visited in that area. Hot weather kept people inside or seeing the games, and that caused that the kings could discuss like outsiders didn't hear, what they spoke in their tents.

The ancient Olympics of antic Greece was hosted by the city named Elis, and those games were done in the holy area of Olympia. Those Olympic games were five days of competitions, where athletics race against each other, and then the winner got glory and money. Except in the horse race, where the money was given straight to sponsor, and the driver of the horse got the payment from the sponsor.

Or officially that money was given to a horse, but of course, they were used by the sponsor. And, of course, officially the athletics were private persons when they participated in the games. But those athletics gave gold and glory for their hometowns, and that is one reason, why the loss in those games was a shame.

Even if those athletics were private persons, the city offered them to change to practice for the Olympics and that means that those persons had coaches. When we are looking at the historical texts, the sportsmen gave a small gift to the statue of Zeus, when they won those games. The thing is that those gifts were cheap, and they were symbolic gestures for the gods, that they allowed that man to win the games. And as you might know, that those athletics were trained by professionals. Those gifts were the marketing merchandise, what the coaches used to offer their services.

And training of those athletics was expensive. I don't know did those athletics themselves know that there was big money behind them. So if the sportsman was caught for deceit, that person must buy the small statue of Zeus for the god, and that statue was the mark that money and time, what those athletics were cost must give back. But there is one question in those Olympics, and that is, why they were hosted by Elis?

That is because those sportsmen must dare to try hard, and that means that the place of Elis or the Olympian holy land was chosen for the place of the games, which was kept in the hottest time in summer at every fourth year. The reason for that was that there was a break in agriculture, but the hot weather kept people in order. But there was one thing, why those ancient Olympic games arranged.

That thing might be ancient eugenics. In that time noble families of Greece lived in total isolation, and marriages were allowed only at the same level of people. That means that those families were sharply marked in the family trees and the bloodlines were very important because one handicapped person might risk everything. So the new blood or genetic material, as we would say in modern times should be best what can get. And the Olympics were the perfect place for selecting that new blood.

The thing was that those sportsmen were perfect fathers for the children of the princesses. They brought fresh blood for the royal families of Greece, and that's why they were used for ancient eugenics. The Greeks were known that wealthy people gave wealthy children. In ancient Greece, those people knew, that also things like personality traits are descending. So that was so-called ancient eugenics. And in that time the noble families were living in total isolation, which means that they must get the new genetic material, and that thing was given those athletics. So this kind of thing is a very good way to explain things like DNA manipulation.

When criminal meets victim, that person, who makes wrong wants to keep distance to the victim

When criminal meets victim, that person, who makes wrong wants to keep distance to the victim

If we would compile the stories of the drug dealers, pedophiles and the guards of concentration camps, we are facing the thing, that those people, who have made crimes, have ever used names about their victims. Those people are always using the "nicknames" or "codenames" or just numbers of the people, who they use and who they would violate or humiliate.

This thing is a common way to act in places and situations, which is not commonly tolerated. Those people, who make multiple crimes against their victims are always believing, that they are above their victim. When those people are making things, what would be crimes, they always want to show other people, that they believe things, what they are doing.

Some concentration camp guard believed, that if they are humiliating their prisons, they would just save them from the things like rapings in the hands of "Dirlewanger". Or they just told that they wanted to push prisoners working harder, that they would not send to the gas chambers. The thing is that those people were criminals, who were supported by the government. And that makes them superlative in the field of crimes.

But when we are thinking about attitudes, what the criminals use to excuse their actions, those people would always believe, that they make good things. When pedophiles are calling children to their home, and then use them to please the willings, they might believe, that they made a good thing for some street youngster.

During the interviews or interrogation, those people have explained the things, what they are doing by telling that this kind of thing would serve the child because in this kind of cases the offer could come from the person, who might be the serial killer. That means that for the child would be better to be with "normal pedophile".

This kind of things is normal thoughts in the mind of serial criminals. When we are thinking about the people who would humiliate and steal everything from the people, who would trust them at the first could believe that making disgusting things with that person, would be right. In the mind of those people is only one thought and that is that the weaker people are living for satisfying their willings.

And this thing would make those people dangerous. A normal person knows the limits and knows, how to handle them. People who have normal psyche would understand when the limit is crossed. They would also regret things, what they are done.

Social conscience is the thing, what makes us humans. And if some person would make murder, what that inmate can keep inside, that would tell that the victim has done something bad to the murderer, or that that person has sociopathic personality. The thing what tells that person doesn't regret crime is that person would not come to police for confessing the crime.

But serial criminals ever regret things, what they are done. The thing what makes those people dangerous is that they believe that the other inmates are only objects. They don't care anything if they hurt somebody, and in the worst cases, those people are serial killers, who would lose their self-control if their victim could not satisfy their willings.

Hierarchy of needs and the purpose of life

Hierarchy of needs and the purpose of life

We are all heard about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and how it is connected to the marketing. The thing is when organic needs like food and getting clothes are satisfied, the needs are replacing by another need, what are luxuries and merchandise. But if we would not want to think about that kind of things as the materialistic way, we must think that, when we are facing person, who has been in the bad condition in the life, we might think that when the basic needs are satisfied and that person would stand in the own feet, that thing would turn to will to help other people, who have been in the same conditions.

The "Lucifer-effect" what is the will to become like an idol or the person, who has used power to the individual has many times negative mean. The person who has faced violence in childhood would sometimes turn to violence while getting the same position, what the violent person has got to the victim. But there is a so-called "mirror effect" of that terrifying effect of psychology. That opposite effect is that when a person faces a good thing and meets an inmate, who helps people, would that cause the will to become a good person, who helps other people. So the name of the opposite version of the "Jesus-effect".

If we think that the "Lucifer-effect" of psychology would get positive meaning or effect in that kind of cases when the alcoholic would be helped, and have success to find the own room, and get out from streets, that means that this kind of positive experience would turn that person will help other people, who have been in the same condition. So in the "positive Lucifer-effect" or "Jesus-effect", the need to get everyday needs satisfied would expand to need for influence entire society.

And maybe that person would take the third step, and get the level where an inmate could turn to make an effect on the entire society.  I always have written about needs of motivation in every kind of situation, and when we are talking about education and disappointments, we might remember some cases, where we have faced the "cold reality" that our boss doesn't like us.

That kind of things is very embarrassing situations when some person would start to yell that person, who is ranked under that boss, and then the attitudes to the new workers in those places are something else than nice and supportive. In those cases, the negative experience creates a will to take the proper training, and higher education seems nice in the eyes of other people.

So in those cases, the motivation of returning to schools is very high, and that means that the person would want to take the position, what is higher than the field boss, or whatever those people are called. The negative experiences would give the motivation for becoming something, what is bigger and better than just being below some wise men.

When we are thinking about the situation, that somebody would give revenge for those bosses, I must say that let them be. The worst punishment, what they can get is that in someday, those people are playing with wrong cards, and then they must fail some close friends of them. That means that when the henchman, who has given a couple of bottles of booze to the boss for a job must kick-off because the work is not done, that thing could cause terrible problems in private life of those people.