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Jo Machin✝️🐣

@LeHobbitFan

HE IS RISEN ✝️ ⚜️ Writing aspirant. God's silliest Tolkiensplainer. Breakfast enthusiast. Petrichor enjoyer. Novalunosis appreciator.

A comfy hole on a green hill Katılım Mart 2014
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Jo Machin✝️🐣
Jo Machin✝️🐣@LeHobbitFan·
Can you feel it, boys? It's Easter Friday. Which means, #FrodoFriday is BACK Have a laugh, eat some meat, share a drink with frens, the night is young and so are we for all things are made anew!
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Jo Machin✝️🐣@LeHobbitFan·
Can you feel it, boys? It's Easter Friday. Which means, #FrodoFriday is BACK Have a laugh, eat some meat, share a drink with frens, the night is young and so are we for all things are made anew!
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Remy Dushine
Remy Dushine@RemyDushine·
Zatoichi's Flashing Sword (1964) was again, another good entry into the series. SEVEN movies in and I've yet to see a mediocre one, truly impressive stuff. The way the action in the final fight is shot is great and the visuals on display really do make it a memorable one.
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Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964) is the second potentially great film in the series already. No surprise Tomisaburo Wakayama shines, and that final showdown was just explosive, great viewing. Considering my love for Samurai Jack, no surprise this series is delivering so far!

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Become A Saint
Become A Saint@BeSaintly·
Pray for the dead. Nobody else will do it except us.
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Rosie Gamgee@Rosie_Gamgee_·
If you could pray for me, I would appreciate it. Just feeling a little blue today. Thank you
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Abigail Falanga
Abigail Falanga@AbigailFalanga·
Popular fiction assumes that religious people are either a) superstitious and ignorant b) dogmatic, puritanical, and/or bigoted c) only in it for the power of religious leadership Never is there room for a genuine, intelligent belief in the gods or tenets of the religion!
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Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card on the problems with how religion is portrayed in current fantasy and science fiction: "In our culture, intellectuals have become so uniformly a-religious or anti-religious that our fiction, with few exceptions, depicts religious people in only two ways: the followers are ignorant and stupid and easily fooled, and the leaders are exploitative and cynical, manipulating others' faith for their private benefit. I know some people who fit those descriptions. But they are in a tiny minority. Most religious people I know are smart, well-educated, independent-minded, stubborn, honest, and generous -- at least as much so as the average intellectual, and usually more. The hostility toward religion among American intellectuals arises, I think, from a clear awareness that it was against a publicly religious culture that their own culture rebelled. Now that rebellion is completely successful in terms of capturing control of all the public instruments of transmission of culture -- the universities, the media, and the literature and art -- but it has become such a shibboleth of intellectual life to snipe at religion that, like the aging "revolutionaries" of the old Soviet Union, they mindlessly continue to "rebel" in order to defend their tight grip on the establishment. Indeed, those intellectuals are the establishment. And what was once a daring and rebellious stance is now just another example of lockstep conformists mindlessly echoing ideas that they haven't examined. That's when contemporary fiction mentions religion at all. Most of the time, in and out of speculative fiction, religion simply doesn't exist. Characters don't believe in God or even think about believing in God. Nobody talks about religion. Nobody belongs to any kind of church. Religion simply doesn't exist. ... This is, I think, a serious lapse, a dishonesty in our contemporary literature. It is most seriously dishonest because in fact, even the supposedly a-religious intellectuals behave exactly as religious people always have. That is, the behavioral and cultural patterns that we have always associated with religions are indistinguishable, except by vocabulary, from the behavioral and cultural patterns of the a-religious intellectuals. They band together with fellow believers, feel sorry for or hostile toward unbelievers, immediately punish heretics -- intellectuals who, having once been accepted in the 'faith,' dare to question its premises -- anoint their priests and theologians (psychologists and therapists being their ministers, scientists and, more usually, science popularizers being their doctors of atheology), and insist on their absolute right to put forth their religious ideas with public funding and the authority of the state behind them, while doing their utmost to silence or marginalize the beliefs of others. Most fiction has become, in short, an instrument of propaganda for the established religion of our time, which differs from other religions only in the particular content of the faith and the vocabulary used to describe it. Naturally, the true believers are sure that the real difference is that their beliefs are objectively true. But then, true believers have always believed that. This is not what distinguishes them from other established religions, but rather what makes them fundamentally identical to them. The honest depicter of human life will include the religious aspect of that life. This is not to say that stories need to be about religion, any more than stories about our contemporary culture need to be about cars. But the cars need to be present, at least by implication, and if a character doesn't know how to drive, we'd need to know why." Is this why Hollywood stopped adapting his books into films?

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Tomics Comics@TomicsComics·
You are who you Jews to be.
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Free Sea Elf@TheFreeSeaElf·
It's Friday gamers
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Become A Saint
Become A Saint@BeSaintly·
We should all be indulgence maxxing to get souls out of purgatory. I’m going to aim for one a week, and I’m partly posting this to hold myself accountable. Including the manual for indulgences in the replies for anyone who wants to join
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ABoyNamedSue🇻🇦@Takeyerswing·
Top: Christ Bottom: my imitation of Him
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Manlet Thorin@ManletThorin·
“How about another joke, Sonic? What do you get when you cross a 300-IQ scientist with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash?”
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