Cosmic Tuesdays

Here’s a guy who’d be a tikkun olam poster child, except… if you’re constantly doing repair for others, you’re gonna burn out.

Someone needs to whack him over the headwith this:

The lack of a family, for someone of his generation, would also be good and complicated, especially if we decide to see the Pitt and his coworkers as the place he’s put that energy. Even if he weren’t traumatised and burning out, that would already be a disastrous way to live.

Robby knows full well what it means but he’s stubborn and the last fucking thing he wants to do is slow down and really self-examine.

But the rabbi, who’s wise to the resistance thrown up by Robby and countless congregants like him who she’s worked with over the years, just shakes her head.

“Please secure your oxygen mask before assisting other passengers,” she tells him, her voice deadpan like a flight attendant giving the safety spiel for the fourth time that day.

Robby glares at her, but the rabbi cocks her head and glares right back at him.

I don't smoke so the function of an irl pipe to me is 100% to look like a pipe. This painting also 100% looks like a pipe. If it looks like a pipe and acts like a pipe ("acting like a pipe" here meaning that it looks like a pipe) then it's a pipe

In the realm of realistic paintings it is a pipe. If I painted a woman in the same canvas then she could smoke that pipe because they'd both be in the MPU (Magritte Painting Universe)

In the book, Frodo does this to Gollum on the slopes of Mount Doom, and curses him to "yourself be thrown into the Fire" if he ever touches him again.

I feel Peter Jackson didn't understand that -- as he also didn't understand why Gollum, having sworn on the Ring not to harm Frodo, couldn't (personally) harm Frodo (and therefore had to lead him into Cirith Ungol for Shelob to kill him instead).

"Smeagol promised!" "Smeagol lied" was never how it worked.

Which is why Jackson had Frodo still apparently be drawn to the Ring after it was bitten off him and attack Gollum and push him over, because he thought Gollum just "randomly fell off the edge" in the book. It wasn't random, it was the effect of Frodo's curse using the Ring's power.

Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”