#tvila

[thomasjfo]

Futebol de Várzea, é a pauta de hoje. #futeboldevarzea #tvila (em Sapopemba) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpNQWRaFHTeBMcMsAZAS_PDWLSCuqxgvh2NsU40/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=y32w6r41967e

[northernmoments]

36 and 39 love your music recommendations

36. A place I’m sad to return to would be Frøya an Island of the coast of Norway. I discovered it as a teen and fell in love with it. I planned to move there after I got my degree, but my fiancé couldn’t move out of town because he works in his small family business. I still go there every year though and plan on getting a tattoo with the seaside view to celebrate my love for the place.

39. Current favorite song lyrics is from the song “me to er en evighet” It says summarized that the two of us are an eternity, this is for life, when you doubt I shall believe. When things get difficult close your eyes and hold on.

“For det ska vel vare live ut, når du tvila, så ska eg tru

Hold fast i hverandre for å holde ut

For me to er ein evighet, auga lokka når det e vanskeleg

Hold fast og løft blikket og sjå meg stol på deg”

[tomadaconteudo]

Várzea – Paixão pelo futebol

Por Sandra Campello Imagens: Crica Campos

Que o futebol é a grande paixão esportiva dos brasileiros, não temos dúvida, porém tal sentimento vai muito além dos grandes clubes e estrelas futebolísticas, que faturam milhões. Acompanhamos um amistoso de várzea, entre o Esporte Clube Jardim Camila, de Mauá e o Grêmio Esportivo Jardim Utinga, de Santo André, no Campo Mané Garrincha, sede do Jardim Elba Esporte Clube, apelidado carinhosamente por A Cobra da Leste. Ali presenciamos o que é o amor pelo esporte da redonda nos pés.

Times em campo

Chegamos num domingo, por volta das 10h30 e já acontecia o primeiro jogo. Enquanto isso, batíamos um papo com o presidente do E. C. Jardim do Camila, o motorista de ônibus Rodrigo Rodrigues Alves, mais conhecido como Bochecha, que preside o time desde 2015, mas ajudou a fundá-lo em 1990, como também teve participação na criação da torcida organizada, a Torcida Máfia Azul.

Bochecha, o presidente

Para Bochecha, que é corintiano, o amor pelos times de várzea se dá por conta da proximidade da torcida com o clube, time e diretoria, já que em sua maioria, são da mesma comunidade e se conhecem há tempos. Ele dedica seu tempo livre inteiramente para o time, afirmando, muito emocionado, que o Esporte Clube Jardim Camila é sua paixão e sua segunda família. Para ele, outro fator também que aproxima os times e suas respectivas comunidades é o lazer na ‘vila’, já que assistem ao jogo, encontram os amigos e no final ainda rola um churrasco. “Esse é o momento que temos para nos divertir junto com a família, amigos e perto de casa”, afirma o presidente.

Parte da diretoria

Quem acha que o futebol de várzea é só diversão, está muito enganado, já que são muitos campeonatos para disputar e todos querem levar as taças para suas sedes. Só em Mauá, a cidade do Jardim Camila, são 5 campeonatos durante o ano: Copa Lourencini, Copa Neycar, Campeonato Sub 15, Campeonato Sub 20 e Campeonato Veterano.

Alguns membros da torcida

O time de Bochecha conta com 12 diretores, 3 membros da equipe técnica e 24 jogadores, sendo que a maioria tem outras ocupações durante a semana, porém alguns jogadores são os profissionais da várzea, ganham para jogar e se dedicam a outros times também. Este ano o Jardim Camila não poupou esforços e contratou o técnico Bingo, que traz na bagagem a conquista de 4 campeonatos. Um exemplo de que a várzea corre séria e os times se mexem para melhorar a cada ano.

Bingo, o técnico

Vale lembrar que tem mulher na jogada também, como a analista de RH, Kelly Ribeiro, a única na diretoria da equipe, exercendo o cargo há 5 anos. Para Kelly, a chegada das mulheres nos times colaborou muito para que a violência diminuísse durante os campeonatos, já que hoje quem frequenta os campos são famílias inteiras.

Kelly, diretora financeira

Uma prova de que os campos são frequentados por famílias, Fabiano Conceição Pereira da Silva, torcedor do Astro Vila, outro time de várzea de Mauá, contou que acompanha o futebol amador há mais de 20 anos e que hoje tem a companhia durante os jogos de sua filha, Laury, de 11 anos. “Ela conhece todo mundo, canta o hino, torce...”, nos conta o apaixonado por futebol. O torcedor é categórico em falar que assiste mais aos jogos do seu time de várzea do que do time que torce desde criança, o Palmeiras.

Fabiano, apaixonado por futebol

O E.C. Jardim Camila é mantido por patrocínio de 5 empresas, festas promovidas na sede, loja de produtos com a marca, mensalidade de torcedores, além do esforço de uma galera que ama o futebol raçudo, que brilha para eles mesmos e conquista respeito dos outros por meio do suor de cada um.  Conheça a página do time no Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/EC-JD-Camila-1800127520209830/.

Para os que curtem ou querem conhecer mais sobre o futebol de várzea, segue o link da TVILA, que acompanha de perto as competições: https://www.facebook.com/tvilatvweb/

[please-dont-pet-the-okapi]

The Gospels were not copying any other religion or ancient mythologies.

I’m making this post because I keep seeing the Christ Myth argument everywhere on the internet and I am rather tired of it.

In order to even remotely resemble the biblical account of Christ’s life, the myths held up as evidence must be described in such general terms that they no longer resemble the actual myths. In some cases, the content of different myths is outright lied about.

The examples I keep seeing are Horus, Dionysus, Krishna, and Mithras, so let’s talk about them.

In Greek mythology, Dionysus was not born of a virgin. He was born of Semele, one of Zeus’s many human mistresses. Well, sort of. After Semele saw Zeus in god-form rather than man form thanks to some trickery from Hera, Semele burst into flames. Zeus saved the unborn Dionysus from this inferno and sewed Dionysus into his thigh. So technically Dionysus was born from Zeus’s thigh.

In Hinduism, Krishna was not the son of a carpenter, he was the son of a nobleman who was in prison. Krishna’s mother was also not a virgin; Krishna was the youngest of seven children (All of his older siblings were killed soon after birth). 

In Ancient Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Isis and Osiris. Horus has at least two origin myths, one of which involves Isis being struck by lightning. The other involves Isis turning herself into the form of a bird. (I highly recommend Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt by Rosalie David, an egyptologist from the University of Manchester, if anyone’s looking to learn more about this myth.) Either way, he was not born of a virgin. Furthermore, while he did restore sight to the blind, it was only once and it was his own sight because he lost one of his eyes in a fight. Here’s an article that dissects this claim further.

Also, while we’re discussing Horus, let’s talk about how the anointing of statues of the Egyptian gods has nothing to do with baptism. (Note: I have only found mention of this practice in one YouTube video, and this video was really reaching in order to make the Christ Myth argument as it was. However, in case I’m just not looking hard enough for other sources on this, let’s discuss it.)

The biggest problem I have with this is it assumes that in the early days of its history, the Church preferred to practice baptism by affusion (pouring) or aspersion (sprinkling).

According to the Didache, the Early Church preferred to practice baptism by immersion. This makes a lot of sense when you consider that the word “baptism” comes from a Greek word meaning “to dye” or “to plunge”.

However, the early church was heavily persecuted, so it wasn’t always safe for the whole congregation to go down to a large body of water and immerse people. Therefore, another option was affusion. Baptism by affusion involved pouring water over someone’s head three times. This would only become the preferred method (at least in the West) in the twelfth or thirteenth century.

Even so, historically most Christians in Egypt are not Catholic. They are Coptic Orthodox, and the Coptic Orthodox Church practices baptism by immersion, not affusion or aspersion.

Also, I’m pretty sure baptism is related to the Jewish practice of tvila, which also involves immersion.

In Mithraism, it is generally stated that Mithras sprung fully grown out of a rock. Another myth involves him emerging from a cosmic egg. Also, I’m having a hard time finding a reputable source that describes Mithras as having twelve disciples, although it appears to have arisen from pure speculation, as Mithras is depicted several times with the twelve symbols of the zodiac. This article goes into more detail, and it includes references to books you can find on Amazon if anyone’s interested in researching this further.

I also keep seeing people on the internet insist Christianity borrowed its practices from Mithraism, particularly in regards to the Lord’s Supper. This, however, is unlikely at best.

Practitioners of Mithraism were extremely secretive about their rituals. They didn’t talk about them or write anything down. Most of what we know about these cults are from the artwork they left behind, but even that is subject to interpretation. Hence, historians call their practices “The Mithraic Mysteries”. 

The early church, however, wrote extensively about its practices. As early as c. AD 53, we have descriptions of the Lord’s Supper in 1 Corinthians. We get more descriptions of it as time goes on in the Didache and in Justin Martyr’s First Apology.

Historically, it doesn’t appear there was a lot of overlap between early Christians and Mithraic cults either.

Yes, the Mithraic meal was a thing, but historians believe the meal consisted of the raw flesh of a bull rather than wine and bread. This is in part because Mithras is often depicted slaughtering a bull.

The Lord’s Supper is another Christian practice descended from Judaism. It comes from the Passover, AKA the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This is why it is generally observed with unleavened bread. (There are exceptions to this however, usually because the leavening is seen as a reminder that Christ, like the bread, rose.)

There are other myths referenced when this argument is used, but upon closer inspection, it generally turns out the alleged similarities are not similar at all.

TL;DR, the Christ Myth Argument (and the related argument that Christian practices are derived from Mithraism and/or the Ancient Egyptian religion) is poorly researched at best and an outright lie at worst.