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- Wed Nov 03, 2021 4:00 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Sinking of Beleriand
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8459
Re: The Sinking of Beleriand
I threw that out because I think of the Silmarillion events as happening in that way. The text seems to indicate a battle of the gods with vast armies of elves/lesser angels attending. Dragons and demons are defeated. Afterward there are a number of events (final treachery of Fëanor's sons) and many...
- Tue Nov 02, 2021 3:04 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Sinking of Beleriand
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8459
Re: The Sinking of Beleriand
It could be both/and: Here's my educated take: Look up Doggerland. Through the long ice ages, Europe was bigger. The North Sea was a plain, there was a big island precisely where Plato says Atlantis was. Very much in the same configuration as well. (Funny how 70s Atlantis enthusiasts always wanted i...
- Fri Oct 08, 2021 3:05 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Catholicism in the Lord of the Rings
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15155
Re: Catholicism in the Lord of the Rings
Ah. Not to mention the last words of the Mass. Yes! But not for most of Tolkien's life -- and he didn't approve of the changes. Vatican II was all about taking the mystique out of the religion. Which is surrendering to reductionist materialism. I'm a thorogoing heathen but I appreciate TradCath and...
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:11 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Cesar's Messiah
- Replies: 0
- Views: 23737
Cesar's Messiah
I'm interested in the implications of Joseph Atwill's theory about the origins of Christianity in the Flavian dynastic house and its use as a social engineering system. I'm not sure Christianity falls apart if Jesus was not a real person. The Gnostic gospels speak of a Jesus who is a sort of Tulpa. ...
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:07 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The spirituality of science
- Replies: 20
- Views: 31924
Re: The spirituality of science
I tend toward an animist perspective, as it makes sense of a range of phenomenon institutional science brusquely dismisses. Science is a tool not a meta theory.
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:47 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Intelligent Design in Schools
- Replies: 15
- Views: 28888
Re: Intelligent Design in Schools
Terence McKenna had some very interesting ideas about this topic. Evolution and science are not incompatible with disembodied, egregorial entelechies.
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:44 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Top 10 Canadian Songs
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12992
Re: Top 10 Canadian Songs
"Take off" by Bob and Doug McKenzie and featuring Geddy Lee must surely be included.
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:42 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Sad loss: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Replies: 41
- Views: 49769
Re: Sad loss: Ursula K. Le Guin
She was a neighbor of mine for a time in Portland. I used to stand in line at the grocer's or the post office with her.
- Sun May 27, 2018 11:09 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
- Replies: 2045
- Views: 605144
Re: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
The entire US ruling class, not to mention that of the UK has been in bed with gangsters and robber barons in Russia since the1990s. Putin is demonized because he refused to acquiesce in the agenda of the Atlantic Council (like the CFR, a direct lineal descendant of the Rhodes-Milner 'Roundtable'). ...
- Fri May 25, 2018 8:37 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: It's Never Just Black or White, Is It?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7693
Re: It's Never Just Black or White, Is It?
Not a contrarian by nature, but in terms of whose interests are served, the White Helmets are a most likely a propaganda operation perpetrated by Gulf States an abetted by British Intelligence, both of which have taken an interest in overthrowing the central government.
- Fri May 25, 2018 8:31 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: The last movie you saw Thread
- Replies: 1886
- Views: 706809
Re: The last movie you saw Thread
I Watched Zardoz again. The line "I have seen the future. And it doesn't work" really resonates.
- Sun May 20, 2018 8:27 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Rivers of Blood
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5698
Re: Rivers of Blood
It's a very interesting question. I took the time to read through the speech several times lately.
- Sun May 20, 2018 8:03 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Intelligent Design in Schools
- Replies: 15
- Views: 28888
Re: Intelligent Design in Schools
Most of the furore regarding intelligent design as a concept that ought to be taught is that western society is still in reaction against the deism that was popular in the Englightenment. Which became compulsory by Victorian times. This is why Egyptology, for example is so blinkered and hidebound. I...