It’s not necessarily about the average person. Depression is a bitch and different people have varying reasons for hanging on while under its weight. Just because there aren’t readily available studies about what reasons people didn’t commit suicide because of doesn’t mean these aren’t reasons. I can assure you they are. Someone’s favorite show has been their only light on more than one occasion I’ve known personally.
Or even just a board game night.
Maybe it just means boring guys. Drinking is a secondary activity, not a primary one.
There’s a lot of deeper calculation to consider there. Is it a full production show, or someone’s YouTube project? Is the podcast a single person, or many? If it’s many are they in the same location? How much electricity is used to deliver your chosen medium to you?
Ultimately though none of that matters. If a podcast is what entertains you and makes your human condition livable that doesn’t mean it does the same for Jack.
If electricity is such an issue than you using whatever electronic device to relay data to a server where my electronic device retrieved it from another server with who knows how many hops in between each for both of us is not a good use of your time.
If instead, as I suspect, you see value in harm reduction you need to realize that not everyone can reduce harm in the same way.
Right now, somewhere, someone is getting by because they can’t wait for the next part of their favorite TV show or movie. Chances are you may even know one such person and not realize it. If that’s gone their tenuous grasp on life may slip away. Even if you are ok with that, and I hope you’re not, what positive impacts might that person have had that they will be unable to because they just can’t take it anymore.
Life is hard. Stop trying to make people feel guilty for not living it the same way as you.
Probably. We need something to get through the day to day of being a person even before we get into all the horrible things all around the world. If we avoided everything we do that has unacceptable ramifications we’d pretty much have to crawl into a cave and die.
Use the modern tools you have access to to improve lives, not try and make others feel guilty for not having done enough.
Yeah, Martin learned the “cribbed from history” trick from Tolkien
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Florida attached to Europe looks mildly like a penis.
So more Gmail than G+
Might Bluesky be doing the same?
In fairness, Gmail had a similar invite system when it launched and that’s been way more successful than G+
Frodo ate a Nazgûl?
We can read the same words and take something different from them. That reads to me like he was able to pretty easily dismiss the temptation. Maybe he would’ve been tempted like Boromir was, maybe he would’ve had the resolve of Frodo, maybe he could’ve held it for much longer like Bilbo.
His Hobbit-sense saved him there. The only one who can tell us with certainly where it lies in relation to Frodo is no longer able to.
Sure, we’re told that, but we’re not shown it. I’ve heard that a given person is the only one that can do a thing and it’s rarely true. While these are not ordinary circumstances by any means, just being told such is just that. And if we want to get very technical we would need to acknowledge Tom Bombadil.
Sam was tempted, sure, but Frodo was already being tempted before they left the Shire. Hiding behind a tree with a Nazgûl leaning over I don’t believe for a moment it was Frodo wanting the ring on and I think the way he snaps back supports that. The Ring grew stronger as they grew closer. It’s like chronic pain. If you deal with a certain kind of pain every day it’s tiring but you get accustomed to it. If someone just going about their life gets sudden pain to the same level it might bring them to their knees. It doesn’t mean anything accept that you’ve had time to adapt and they have not.
Do you honestly believe that Frodo’s sense of sense of goodness, humility, and self-sacrifice is greater than that of Sam or really most of the fellowship? If that’s what it comes down to then he would need to be far more advanced in those than everybody else. I think Sam easily demonstrates as much if not more of most if not all of those. If you think about it Frodo isn’t shown to have much holding him to the Shire apart from Bag End. Sam has a life, hopes, and dreams. He left all that to go with Frodo, and was prepared to drown to continue to do so when Frodo was going to set off on his own. If there’s not mountains of goodness and self sacrifice there I don’t know where there is. And I really don’t think I need to give examples of humility in Sam.
If goodness and self sacrifice are such a huge part of it too then how was Gandalf so readily susceptible? He may not be as humble as a Hobbit but he was clearly prepared to give his life for the fellowship.
I think we are to accept that there’s a quality to Hobbits and the lives they choose to lead. I think, in fiction, the biggest part of Frodo entering the journey is the fact that he inherited the ring. As we know the ring chooses who carries it I think it’s not unreasonable that it could have had some influence on moving to Frodo. Bilbo having second thoughts doesn’t change that. Bearers from Isildur to Gollum didn’t want to give it up. If anything the fact that he could may demonstrate the ring’s influence. Surely it wouldn’t choose someone it thought could destroy it. Without Sam I think it’s pretty clear to say that’s accurate. Frodo nearly fails more than once but Sam gets him back on track. The Ring cab choose its bearer, but not the people around them.
To me Frodo being the single most important part of success is a lot like so many people who think Romeo and Juliet is a romance. We’re not shown that Frodo is unique or special in his ability to carry the ring to Mount Doom (especially since he clearly couldn’t on his own) but that we can accomplish great things by working at them together. Tolkien’s life before he wrote it feels like an important piece of support for that idea.
I see what you’re saying, but Frodo literally couldn’t have done it without Sam. We see that directly.
We don’t know if it could happen the other way around or not because that’s not the story we were told.
I’m not trying to diminish what Frodo did but it seems to me the statement “Frodo was the only individual in the world that could do what he did” does so for Sam’s contributions.
Honestly all of it wouldn’t have worked without all of the surviving Fellowship’s (plus Gollum) actions, but Sam’s are the most direct.
It seems to me there’s a reason that Aragorn didn’t bow to Frodo, but all four of the Hobbits. They were all simple folk, not warriors who achieved great things with plenty of sacrifice. Elevating Frodo does a disservice to the others.
I suspect something else is going on there. I made that switch years ago and haven’t found a site that doesn’t play nice with Firefox in that time.
Nah. I’ve had a domain registered with them for years and I just got the email too
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Fair point. I failed to consider specs
It began with the forging of the Great Rings.
Three were given to the Elves; immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings.
Seven to the Dwarf Lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls.
And nine…Nine rings were gifted to the Race of Men, who above all else desire power.
For within these rings was bound the strength and will to govern each race.
But do you recall… The most famous one ring of all